General james holmes, commander of air combat command, discussed the future of the u. S. Air force during a virtual conversation with the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. This is an hour. Good afternoon, everyone. Warm welcome to all of you. Im dave deptula, dean of the institute for Aerospace Studies and would like that thank air combat command general commander james holmes for joining us today. After so many years of service and in key positions throughout our air force, needs little introduction. Simply summarize by saying hes excelled in operational, staff and academic purchase suits at every level, and as a result, hes brought an unsurpassed degree of competence to his current job. As commander of air combat command hes responsible for organizing, training and equipping air force aerospace cyber and Intelligence Forces for Rapid Deployment and employment. With that mobile, id like to turn it observer ver to you to what are at the top of your priority lists these days esp
Up for the season that starts next month with all the teams playing in phoenix. The cdc and National Institutes of health are supportive even espn. Even though there wont be any fans, it seems like we might return to some semblance of normalcy well, dont take me to the ball game, but have a ball game i think thats the perfect metaphor for today the market started strong, kind of excited about the baseball season dow up at 1. 900 points i think the metaphor is actually wrong which is why we sold off hard in the afternoon. Dow ended up closing off 26 points s p dipping. 16 it was quite a reversal. Were supposed to be in one of the saddest moments in history while we slow the spread of covid19, the death toll keeps rising the darkest is just before dawn. What do they think dawn looks like if you judge from yesterdays action, investors are buying on a vshape recovery boom, boom, business comes back, everything comes back to normal. A v says we have this virus whipped in no time id love tha
Are being led by an outrageously bullish combination of stocks, that should not be going higher at the same time. Nobody wants to say it, but i dont know if i can recall a moment where we had such disparate stocks climbing together to new highs. You asked me a few weeks ago, i would have told you this combination today is not conceivable. That is what has happened. Dow getting another 350 points today, s p, record close. Nasdaq, you guessed it, record close. This actually defies the whole nature of the conventional wisdom of what can happen when we are at this part in the cycle. For the old days, crashing in 2008. We would be celebrating daily today, so now in a certain respect, they just try to ignore what is happening, so they can o back, go back to talking about how the consumer is tapped out, or something we learned about from some incredibly weak retail Sales Numbers just this morning, or how inflation is still raging, and it is frightening the budget deficit, a Consumer Price ind
All right, america, youre so money and dont even know it, maybe you do because your Stock Investments hitting record highs yet again. Look behind me, all three major indexes higher for a fourth straight day you see, mr. President , somebody is talking asht ining about it. Surprise one of the big winners this week, ge, up 6 in the last five kays were going to chat with an analyst sthat says the beaten u ge could go 50 higher from here check out other movers this hour, cvs health, xilinx, underarmour, up, leading the s p 500. Welcome, everybody, im Tyler Mathisen we kick off the day with the jobs report, first of the new year payrolls for december missing the mark the jobless rate hitting a 17year low. Wages rising not blowout pace, but nice Steve Liesman in philadelphia breaking down the numbers and looking at what it all means for rate hikes this year steve reporter hey, tyler, thanks. Yeah, it was a weaker than expected jobs report, but economists said it didnt really change their vie
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