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Soon, that he is getting more negative attention when things go badly. santa had a 401(k) that took a hit this year. and if you are someday looking at the fang stocks, facebook, apple, amazon, google, all of the tech companies, they have had a rough go as well. >> lisa: that is an important point, the treasury secretary called their stocks all down this year, and typically in a rising rate environment, much to the chagrin, it should be up. most of them are experiencing low stock. >> jessica: this is not a political point, we should all be able to agree that there is a competency issue that wen...

Why exactly this call was held on a sunday right before holiday break. the other big concern for the market is not only the recent turmoil but how investors and consumers are going to respond to the rising rate environment after the federal reserve raised rates last week. the other topic will drag onto at least thursday. last week was a wild week for wall street. the s&p 500 is down 17.8% and the nasdaq is lower than 25% of its perspective highs. the climb are significance as investors are trying to understand what the federal reserve will do next and what the call between mnuchin with the ceo...

[laughter] this has come up again and again that maybe the federal reserve is looking to get back to normal, whatever that is, and because rates even with the uptick we have seen we are still half where they should be, i'm told. to double them where they are now i mean, that will not go down well. >> it seems to me the fed and jay powell is blindsided by trying to normalize rates and get back to the neutral rate environment so let's say we have a december rate hike and they move in this lockstep which could be dangerous for the economy and dangerous for companies and forward guidance which boo...

>> remember the date almost. neil: okay, good. >> almost. neil: this is looking good for all of us here -- >> honestly, i'm looking amazing. not forgetting an anniversary. >> doing so well with my wife meredith until you asked me that question. neil: in my case, it was before electricity. [laughter] what do you worry about going into the weekend? >> the long-term problems. i don't think we have an offramp with china. china's gdp was up july, august and september, so they're not seeing the effects of these tariffs -- neil: oh, so they might have less incentive -- >> they're not going to feel th...

Sell low. that's what they're doing. they look at the 401(k) returns and they'll be happy with them. if they have that perspective, they won't have a panic. there's real head winds. the rising rate environment, woe need to be normal rates. we don't have the shock absorber. the worry is the trade tariffs. we don't have an off ramp with china right now and we're both dug in. >> chris robinson, what is it about october? it's famous for the shocks over the years. 87. go back to 1929 and of course 1997 and 98 with thailand and later on, the russian ruble evaluation. it's not the worth month of the ...