Former team in the nba finals. And history being made in the nfl with women coaching on both sidelines. Its monday, september 28th. Big weekend in the sports arena. I cant say i know much about basketball, but i can say once that man goes to a team, that team goes to the finals. Right. As someone whos had the pleasure of seeing him at the nba finals when cleveland went, i will say hes so fun to watch, and its great for l. A. And i noticed that on the twitter, where i dont know why i keep doing it to myself, going to that thing, twitter. But in cleveland, in miami, everybodys talking smack. Smack, really . Yes, can you believe it . Oh, that man. They need to give him his roses while hes still here. Yes. Celebrate him. Lebron james, hes the king. Well talk about all of that in just a moment. We begin with the flat denial from President Trump dismissing an explosive report on his taxes as fake news. The New York Times is reporting that donald trump paid little or no federal income taxes f
Investors trying to decide what is going on. That is showing a little but of haven assets. Bonds not doing much. With the kind of volatility we have seen, you would think there would be a big bid. Today there is a small bit, and we also have the dollar, which is seen as a haven. If the fed is successful with their framework shipped from august, which they will want to try to create is a strong dollar signaling and improving or a Strong Economy instead of hitting into risk assets. Today is a pretty solid day for stocks overall, but the week is more difficult. David september looks like in equities maybe we gave back some of the froth we created in august but we are always looking for longterm trends. You and i talked about how about high yield. Is that giving any signal . They do seem to be moving . Abigail highyield today not doing too much, but as you are just mentioning, and i love you are talking about the erasing of the froth in august, and then september right back down. Highyield
And were back this week. Bar we continue the washington with journals series on battlegrount states with this election this Election Year with ged political reporters and analysts on the ground. Were examine whats changed since 2016, what issues are motivating voters this year and take a look at recent Political Trends that could give us clues on how the state might vote in. November. We talked about wisconsin. Today florida. At nor and then pennsylvania on wednesday. On thursday, well take a look at north carolina, then friday , michigan and saturday arizona. Today our focus is florida and joining us is rick, director of the Public Policy institute at jacksonville university. Ound lets begin with what makes florida a battleground state. F d it is the big prize, the path of the white house is through the l state of florida. Its 29 electoral votes. If you look at the four biggest in the country, we already know that california with the big prize of 55 is going to go to joe biden, texas
Whos to say out the gate that new ideas are not needed in our debate and finally i want to echo needas concluding words about people , its about democracy and id introduce the term resiliency. To kind of complete the thought that i opened earlier. One of the most exhaustively written about and i think also exhausting in effectiveness policy lanes is that of punishing bad guys. We have been in search for a quartercentury or more of tools that will work to punish bad guys, whether that bad guy Vladimir Putin or al qaeda and we go back and forth between overuse of sanctions and overuse of diplomatic finger wagging and what is enormously refreshing and if i may say so fundamentally george s kennan about what nina has written is that it is selfcritical about the way that we are not resilient in the face of challenges that are going to be there whether theres a Vladimir Putin behind them or there isnt so i find that very refreshing. Its an unfortunate description of an unfortunate reality bu
Law and postponed elections. India again reports the worlds biggest single day jump in coronavirus cases as its death toll passes 70000. And japan is battered by its 2nd powerful typhoon in a week the Korean Peninsula forecast to be hit next. And it will begin in better reuss where Security Forces have beaten and detained dozens of protesters at a massive antigovernment rally in the capital minsk tens of thousands of people defiant warnings from president Alexander Lukashenko holding protests across the country and demanding he step down they accuse the authoritarian leader of rigging an election last month a correspondent ballot smith isnt allowed to enter the country because of reporting restrictions imposed by the government but is following the story from neighboring the few ania. There is still some safety in numbers for the 10s of thousands of protesters on the streets of medscape. The ministry of interior in valorous has warned them that demonstrations are illegal closing off ci