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Commerce and the national associate to manufactures, that matters when members of congress go home to their districts. against it, the home builders don't like property tax changes. independent businesses, small businesses mostly. the national farmer's union. members of congress go home and that's who they see. those are the people who organize their district and raise money for them. we are in a bit of a quagmyre here. >> because of the changes in the tax bill, we have increased standard deduction. that's to try to incentivize the economy. parts of them are disincentivized and that's why you ...

Some slight semblance of certainty and we haven't had anything like that. consumers want to think long term and budget but trillions of dollars and hundreds of millions of people waiting to fined out what president and congress do at the last minute. not only is the indicator numbers down but the dow took a dump on friday and it's been down for five straight days. >> arthel: something i touched on the intro. current economic conditions rose to the highest since 2008. what is driving that part of the equation? >> i think producers are trying put money to work. unfortunately they are battling te...