Pandemic mass protests demanding change economic recession and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter of a looming election join me Steve Clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u. S. Politics and society on aljazeera. Theyre welcome to my home in Fairfax Virginia im josh rushing sitting in for the irreplaceable for me ok and this is the stream today were asking is to dan on the path to democracy still now look if youre watching this on you tube you see that box over there yet right there that is the live you tube chat help me out get in the conversation we have a producer in there thats going to get your comments or your questions to me and im going to try to get them in the show now let me catch you up on whats been happening in sudan were just over a year from omar bashir is government being toppled the new government set a goal of elections in 2022 so thats what everyones watching some of the problems as they were deadlines
Be worrisome. Arestors seems that they looking to a lot this great Second Quarter in, david. David the consumer board came out with good numbers on positive consumer confidence. We are going to get fedex after the bell today. What are we looking for . Abigail relative to the earnings, micron put up a Strong Quarter and boosted the outlook carrying the outlook boosted the outlook. That wasto the quarter a stunning quarter, i wonder break it down. 18 this quarter. The best quarter since 1998. Treasuries after a huge quarter in the First Quarter relatively flat, but where we saw huge gains, investment credit, highyield credit, this of course on that fed support buying outright Corporate Bonds and those etfs. Gold having a strong day. Not just today but it was the quarter up 14 . The best quarter since 2009, so it will be interesting to see if this will continue into july, whether the Third Quarter can be a strong as the Second Quarter. Probably unlikely, but right now, there is an optimis
Nasdaq is leading the way again. 9,996. Will we get to 10,000 again before the quarter and the half year are over . Its a 1. 25 gain today. Its the only of three majors to be positive year to date ill start that there, josh brown. The nasdaq is reminding everybody how we got here in first place. Thats right. It continues to be a tale of two markets despite those days where it looks like were about to have this massive mean reversion for the rest of the market it really is these names that are getting the job done day in and day out. Ive highlighted the fact the nasdaq equal weight is doing as well or better on some days than the regular market cap weighted triple qs. Thats indicative of broad strength not just five stocks dragging the whole market higher. Then the coronavirus losers are doing what think have been doing for quite a while. Each day were getting new names added to the list. This is just another casualty of this two speed economy that were going to have. If you focus on wh
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Your question widgeon at the bottom, you can see more people are really ask questions. And you can answer questions and you can those on the questions that you are most interested in hearing your author sensor. And lastly, just a reminder to everyone that you busiest but cannot see you. So feel free to relax and accountable. So without any further ado, is my daughters to introduce stephanie kelton. She said that State University of new york right and columnist. Modern terry. Tonight were also lucky to be joined by Patrick Carter who is a senior reporter. It was congress, the white house and economic policies. Tonight will be discussing his book, the crisis piece, money democracy and the life of john. Without any further ado, heres zachary and stephanie. Hi everybody it is really nice to be with you and i want to start by talking to stephanie about her book which is called the deficit myth. Stephanie la care about is when i listen to the commentaries and talk about debt and deficits. Th