that is now on the radar screens. as you said, shannon, we re worried about this bad jobs report. it s likely to be bad first thing tomorrow morning, and all the indicators recently have pointed south for the economy. investors do not like the word recession, and when it surfaces like it has recently, there is a big selloff. right now we re down 280 points on the dow meaning that we have dropped more than a thousand points just since may of this year. but, shannon, i want to bring something else to your attention. there s something else on the table here, and that is a policy vacuum. what can president obama do about this? what policy options are available as the economy maybe teeters on the brink of recession? answer, he s got very few policy options available. congress is in recess, not much going to come out of congress. so in a policy vacuum investors ask, what are we going to do about this? the answer is, we don t know, probably nothing. down goat the stock market. sha
screens. as you said, shannon, we re worried about this bad jobs report. it s likely to be bad first thing tomorrow morning, and all the indicators recently have pointed south for the economy. investors do not like the word recession, and when it surfaces like it has recently, there is a big selloff. right now we re down 280 points on the dow meaning that we have dropped more than a thousand points just since may of this year. but, shannon, i want to bring something else to your attention. there s something else on the table here, and that is a policy vacuum. what can president obama do about this? what policy options are available as the economy maybe teeters on the brink of recession? answer, he s got very few policy options available. congress is in recess, not much going to come out of congress. so in a policy vacuum investors ask, what are we going to do about this? the answer is, we don t know, probably nothing. down goat the stock market. shannon: already, you mentio