Out of congress as opposed to just these executive orders from the president that are taking quite a bit of heat over the weekend. Yeah, look, david, i think that there is a sense initially that it was a white house grab and it kind of went through the weekend, there was a recognition that, wait a second, maybe it is a grab if youre going to give 400, 100 has to come from the states and many of the states including red states are in trouble. The thing that is most compounding people is that 12 of the people who make 80 to 100,000 get this bizarre payroll tax cut when the problem is not the people employed but the people who are unemployed. I think that its arer so counterintuitive our old friend larry kudlow always believed in that. We have secretary mnuchin right now, which is terrific lets do it lets do it. Go ahead, jim. Mr. Secretary, always good to see you on squawk on the street. We get a little bargaining done on the show. How have you been . Good morning. How are you . Im doing
Listen, i know this market is going crazy after another fabulous day, the dow gaining 378 points i know it gets a little much as it is a 1 record high and Nasdaq Record high there are extreme valuations everywhere i see the mceldercloud stocks ad another incredible rally as few stocks are participating nasdaq is up 26 but a huge chunk of that is facebook, amazon, microsoft and alma bphat that gets the g in the acronym niece stocks are not that expensive if everything goes right for them everything that could go right has gone right the notion that apple supports a 2 trillion valuation is decemb disturbing for many people and there is skepticism that tesla up 390 for the year could be worth more than 375 billion. These are what people talk about. And theyre staggering moves when so many commentators said its absurd that tesla had a big market cap than ford and toyota, even though it makes fewer cars, its bigger than all of them combined everybody that fought them, they have thrown in th
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Portfolio . Then there is this. President trump i thought it was a very divisive speech, extremely divisive. We have tremendous amount much enthusiasm for my campaign. Charles President Trump pushing back against former First Lady Michelle Obama who declared him in over his head. Well get reaction from Katie Pavlich on that. All that and much more on coming up on making morn any. Making money. Charles golly, folks, monster quarters for two of the bigger names in retailing. Walmart, home depot posting results well ahead of expenses. Mindboggling increases in samestore sales. Wall street is anxious what happens next with additional stimulus. That is stuck in limbo. We are erin sikes and kristin benz. Let me start with you. Walmart was initially up 6, 7 in the premarket. Home depot, again, surge, surging, folks kind of wondered can it be reflip indicated, can it be replicated without stimulus . Where do we go from here . Is certainly can, charles were . A walla so no economy. Home depot w
Remodeling bigtime during the lockdown. Profits went straight up, sales straight up. Those tools, wallboard and paint, just ran off the shelves. These two companies are economic indicators. They are doing well. The economy apparently recovering nicely. As for the overall market, well, the dow, thats close to the 28,000 level this morning, up about 40 points at the opening bell. The s p, thats just a couple of points away from an alltime high. The nasdaq, already there. By the way, apple is only, what, 10 shy of a 2 trillion valuation. All right. Lets get to it. The Virtual Convention. If it wasnt clear before, it should be clear now. This is Bernie Sanders Democrat Party. He laid out a far left platform and its been adopted by joe biden and kamala harris. Socialists wrote the party platform. Im calling it the Biden Harris Sanders ticket. Its the most progressive t campaign of any Political Party in recent history. Tonight, alexandria ocasiocortez will be a featured speaker. We heard fr