I am not surprised. Bitcoin is a wild and crazy digital asset, but it is absolutely not money. Anyone putting real dough into this thing should tread very lightly. All those stories and much more coming up in the kudlow report, beginning right now. Good evening, everyone. This is the kudlow report. We are live at 7 00 p. M. Eastern, 4 00 p. M. Pacific. Lets start in with the markets. A lot of people worried how we would start off with the week following 500 points of near losses last week. Sheila is here with the details. Good evening, larry. We did have another down day in the markets, a carryover effect from last weeks selloff. Investors still concerned about the emerging markets we were just talking about and of course the fed and the tapering decision. Heres the things the decline wasnt as bad as you might have expected. Dow jones industrial average falling 41 points or just a third of a percent. S p 500 falling a half person today. Technology was the worstperforming group. Industr
Obama, that was also sort of an implicitly a shot at the first lady. One of the interesting things is the first lady, herself, was not in the room. Mr. Romney was there with his wife, ann romney, but the president was there without the first lady. Michelle obama was not in the room. I think that is what made mr. Romneys joke more awkward than it otherwise might have been. Campaigns can be grueling, exhausting. President obama and i each very lucky to have one person whos always in our corner, someone who we can lean on and someone whos a comforting presence without whom we wouldnt be able to go another day. I have my beautiful wife, ann, he has bill clinton. Which is a funny joke, but hes also a little bit mean to the first lady, right . Mr. Romney did go on at the end of his remarks to say very nice things, very nice and serious things about the whole obama family. That sort of softened the blow there a little bit. Michelle obama was also the subject of a selfdeprecating joke from pre
Congress ron barber. Meanwhile on capitol hill, Cruise Control or controls. Its House Republicans versus the Senate Conservatives as the tea party drive to defund the president S Health Care law hits Speaker Boehner against the texas senator named ted cruz. Plus with the senate set to consider Caroline Kennedy, a look at the intersection between policy and how it compares. Good morning, its thursday, september 19th. Well begin with more that were learning about the red flags surrounding the alleged gun map aaron alexis and the days and weeks before mondays massacre at the Washington Navy yard. Map aaron alexis and the days and weeks before mondays massacre at the Washington Navy yard. The investigation is complete on site. Building 197 is mostly reopened. But the probe into alexis background is just beginning. He sought help as recently as august. He visited two va hospitals and complained of insomnia and was given a generic antidepressant. When questioned, he denied depression. The do
Lady. One of the interesting things is the first lady, herself, was not in the room. Mr. Romney was there with his wife, ann romney, but the president was there without the first lady. Michelle obama was not in the room. I think that is what made mr. Romneys joke more awkward than it otherwise might have been. Campaigns can be grueling, exhausting. President obama and i each very lucky to have one person whos always in our corner, someone who we can lean on and someone whos a comforting presence without whom we wouldnt be able to go another day. I have my beautiful wife, ann, he has bill clinton. Which is a funny joke, but hes also a little bit mean to the first lady, right . Mr. Romney did go on at the end of his remarks to say very nice things, very nice and serious things about the whole obama family. That sort of softened the blow there a little bit. Michelle obama was also the subject of a selfdeprecatie ii joke from president obama, himself. Tomorrow its back to campaigning. Ive
I have my beautiful wife, ann, he has bill clinton. Which is a funny joke, but hes also a little bit mean to the first lady, right . Mr. Romney did go on at the end of his remarks to say very nice things, very nice and serious things about the whole obama family. That sort of softened the blow there a little bit. Michelle obama was also the subject of a selfdeprecating joke from president obama, himself. Tomorrow its back to campaigning. Ive been to cities and towns across our great country, and i hear the same thing everywhere i go. Honestly, we were hoping to see michelle. That was not president obamas funniest joke of the night, but it turns out that what he said there is actually kind of true. At least the underlying point of it, which is that people apparently really, really like to see Michelle Obama out on the campaign trail. This is mrs. Obama today speaking at a Campaign Rally in racine, wisconsin. There were Something Like 2,500 people, capacity crowd crammed in to see mrs. O