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Companies gave shareholders $384 billion of buybacks. investors can thank the economy and the tax cuts. that doesn't mean the businesses are not investing. business spending is up 19%. the buybacks are growing faster. in fact, goldman sachs predicts 2018 is the first year in which shareholders receive over $1 trillion in stock buybacks. spacex ceo elon musk is announcing the japanese bi billionaire yasaku maezawa will take part in the first lunar launch in 2023. >> ever since i was a kid, i loved the moon. it filled my imagination. it is always there and has continued to inspire humanity. th...

Closed lower as the trump administration escalates the trade war with china. the losers are facebook and google which rely on chinese electronics. the u.s. futures are up. asian stocks closed with shanghai. companies are spending more money on stock buybacks than job creating investments. during the first half of 2018, s&p companies gave shareholders $384 billion of stock buybacks. up 48% from last year. investors can thank the economy and tax cuts. business spending is up to a lesser degree. 19%. buybacks are growing faster. in fact, goldman sachs predicts 2018 is the first year shareholder...

Year than last year. it's going up. certainly not the coming down rapidly that larry kudlow claimed. that is going to continue. in february the white house office of management and budget estimated that the deficit will keep rising. it's expected to reach $984 billion in 2019. as for kudlow's caveat that he meant future deafficits. it's expected to rise from colon current level to 9.5%. this is a different way to measure it. my point is that there's no way you can calculate this and get to a different conclusion. even factoring in economic growth, by the way, which is what kudlow likes to do, ...

He is a secretary. he has done so it some great things at the v.a. the president wants to put the right people in the right place at the right time and that could change. steve: what i have heard in washington people close to the president is that he would like to fire him today but he doesn't have a replacement. >> i have not heard that but, again, when the president wants to make a change, he will make it he doesn't have to try. he doesn't have to guess. he has the power to do so and whether he has a replacement or not, he can still make a change. the president wants to put the best people a...

>> thank you so much for that. we'll see if it actually happens. we have been promised these sanctions f sanctions for a long time. all right. a deal has been reached that will take west virginia teachers off of the picket lines and put hundreds of thousands of students back in class. >> we'll find out the exact details f details. first, 2018th forbes billionaires. i was in audit, were you? >> i didn't make it. >> man. bezos with 112 billion. >> bill gates is worth about 90 billion. warren buffet down one spot to number three with a cool 84