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Officers and members. Both Hillary Clinton and donald trump head today key swing states today, clinton shifting her focus to the millennial vote. That plus the candidates reaction to the terrorism threat coming up. Tension between black lives matter take to go court. One Dallas Police officer suing organization and president obama for unsighting antipolice violence. Gas stations across the southeast running out of fuel in the wake of a pipeline spill, how it can affect and prices you pay. Market this is morning will see a higher opening. Take a look at dow jones. In Europe Markets are higher, ...

A concern and we have less scope than i would like to see or would expect us to have in the longer run. I think we go play in addressing should they come. I mentioned specifically automatic that is an important way in which fiscal policy serves to send shocks to the economy. It would seem to me without getting into specifics that there are ways in which responses to policy to shifts in the economy could be which would help take some burden off Monetary Policy. New york times. In the runup to the brexit vote earlier this year, policymakers cited it as a reason they were reluctant to raise rates...

Formust be asking why, and that we turn to the statement, where there are some important changes in the language that the policymakers are using. The fed is explicitly pointing to external factors as potential drags on the u. S. Economy, and i will quote directly from the statement. Economic activity will expand at a moderate pace and labor market indicators will continue to strengthen. However, Global Economic and financial developments continue to pose risks. That is tom, michael, the immediate reading from the fomc policy state. We can go into more details. Scarlet we are looking at stocks ...

The back story to me, the bank of japan couple of weeks ago, mario draghi, and those her bombshell announcements. Point, as Steve Stanley said, the fed will need to stand up and punched the markets in the mouth, and tell them to stop bullying them because every time they told him to do something, the markets have a reaction. We have that in january and now all that has passed. Scarlet and the fed has a dual mandate, all in placement and price stability. With the labor market approaching of full employment, 4. 9 , is the fed putting more weight on the inflation mandate . A key question, and i d...

Also, we have had a strong run of gains for the major averages. Five straight weeks of gains. So now we are sort of hovering. There is a positive momentum as the s p and dow gained slightly. The nasdaq down very slightly. If you look at the s p 500 over the past week, it is not just today that we have seen this. There has not been that much of a change. Down about 10 about 7 10 of a percent. Even take a look at volume again today. If you look at the bloomberg, volume versus the 20 day average for all of the groups in the s p 500. All of these bars are down particularly energy. More than 40 dro...