Supreme court nomination, stimulus talks, and last night, dueling banjos of town halls, one for President Donald Trump and the other for joe biden, the democratic president ial nominee. To get us started and talk about this is the Washington Post White House Reporter ashley parker. Ashley, thanks for being here. Ashley thanks for having me jonathan. Jonathan on the town hall, these dueling debates, did the Trump Campaign achieve its aim, scheduling the trump town hall at the same time as biden . Ashley if the aim in some ways was to compete with biden for airtime and overshadow biden, i think, yes, anecdotally, more people seem to be watching the trump town hall in real time then the joe biden town hall. If real question to me is, knowing in hindsight how the townhall went, his the Trump Campaign happy that potentially so many people watched that trump town hall in real time . [laughter] jonathan im glad you pointed that out, because earlier in the day, i sent out a tweet saying, lets
Extinct him investor fixed income investors interested. They are crushing yields. Joining us now is jeff rosenberg. Its fantastic to get you on the show for this topic, the role that treasuries play in a portfolio, from 2020 looking out. Its a huge topic at blackrock. How are you thinking about this question . This i wrote a piece on and continue to write under the theme on investing without a parachute. This september is a really good example. We wrote pieces on it and everybody is talking about it and its like ok, what does the new world look like that we are going into . In september, equities are down 8 and treasury yields are highlighted by all of those comments. Barely budging. Its the combination of the low yield makes the income relatively unattractive, a couple of comments in there about taking credit risks. And it will come around to that question in a second. But another thing that is difficult about the investing outlook now and where treasury yields are is that they are no