Lets get straight into some of these burning issues. With me, bloombergs allison, lisa, and jason kelly. Lets start with allison. Investors have debated about how to invest in this years piling debt, given the u. S. Economy is ok. Lets hear what marathons Bruce Richards had to say. Bruce we are starting to see a negative quarter, this past quarter of Earnings Growth being negative, and i think we will see a couple more quarters of that in the early part of 2020. And when earnings go down, that is going to be a very key point for some of these companies that are so over levered when they have lower earnings and meanwhile, have to service this heavy load of debt. Lisa you have been covering the distress we have been seeing. Talk about how much there has been so far this year. So in november, we saw the supply distress debt hit 126 million, the most since august 2016. And really, the highest of this cycle. Historically speaking, that is really not that much in the grand scheme of things c
Lets get to our market reporters. What are we watching . The index watching cryptocurrencies including bitcoin and either. If we look at a chart of the global strength indicator, we can see it flashed a buy signal with the index getting it percent since tuesday. That is good news for crypto fans who have seen crypto come under pressure in the last few months. Your look at bitcoins performance, we can see it rose 277 through june, lost half of we valley since then, but have some analysts coming out and saying 2020 be better for crypto prices. Say bitcoin could rise as much as 10,000 in 2020. That would be quite the rise for bitcoin appeared on the rise this year, the s p 500 up really 29 . Santana clearly visiting stocks this year with the s p 500 climbing that wallow worry. The official santa claus rally pens on january 3. Lets look at a chart that may give some clues. Lets take a look at a threemonth chart of the s p 500 and the dollar. A risk on period with dollar yen and the s p 500
Hello, im Robert Mackenzie and welcome again to the fine old Harper Library in the university of chicago. A group of guests have come together to see and to discuss the latest film by Milton Friedman in his series to choose. In this, he examines working of the labor market and the role of labor unions. And again comes up with some controversial views. In answer the question, who protects the worker. People who earn their living in a modern, heavy industry, seldom engage in the kind of back breaking toil that was the everyday lot of most workers a century ago. And yet they far more what has produced these improvements. The offhand reaction of most people is likely to be that labor unions are largely responsible for the enormous progress that workers have made in the past two centuries, but clearly, at least for the United States, that cannot be true. After all, in 19th century, when workers very well, there were hardly any labor at all. And even today, no more than one out of four or fi
Welcome again to the fine old Harper Library in the university of chicago. A group of guests have come together to see and to discuss the latest film by Milton Friedman in his series to choose. In this, he examines working of the labor market and the role of labor unions. And again comes up with some controversial views. In answer the question, who protects the worker. People who earn their living in a modern, heavy industry, seldom engage in the kind of back breaking toil that was the everyday lot of most workers a century ago. And yet they far more what has produced these improvements. The offhand reaction of most people is likely to be that labor unions are largely responsible for the enormous progress that workers have made in the past two centuries, but clearly, at least for the United States, that cannot be true. After all, in 19th century, when workers very well, there were hardly any labor at all. And even today, no more than one out of four or five workers is a member of a tra
Welcome again to the fine old Harper Library in the university of chicago. A group of guests have come together to see and to discuss the latest film by Milton Friedman in his series to choose. In this, he examines working of the labor market and the role of labor unions. And again comes up with some controversial views. In answer the question, who protects the worker. People who earn their living in a modern, heavy industry, seldom engage in the kind of back breaking toil that was the everyday lot of most workers a century ago. And yet they far more what has produced these improvements. The offhand reaction of most people is likely to be that labor unions are largely responsible for the enormous progress that workers have made in the past two centuries, but clearly, at least for the United States, that cannot be true. After all, in 19th century, when workers very well, there were hardly any labor at all. And even today, no more than one out of four or five workers is a member of a tra