2. 3 trillion gauntlet against the economic catastrophe caused by the pandemic it was remarkable move coming within seconds of the devastating news that 6. 6 million more people filed for Unemployment Insurance last week the averages were actually able to rally including the down and out stocks dow gaining 286 points s p climbing 1. 54 nasdaq advancing 7. 7 . Without powells extraordinary i was blown away extraordinary announcement, the hideous jobless claims would have pancaked the stock market. Weve gone from the strongest labor market in a half century to one of the weakest in no time flat it didnt matter to wall street because the fed is buying all kinds of distressed debt you dont see i keep saying its so important. Buying municipals. Some of those are hurting. Buy high yield Corporate Bonds thats fabulous news because those were two big pressure points in this rapidly deteriorating economy. What a difference from the old days between the 2. 2 trillion rescue package from congress
Homegrown terror. And joining me this morning for insight and analysis are veteran journalist and author of a new book about cyber terrorism, ted koppel. Helene cooper of the new york times. Molly ball of the atlantic and jerry seib of the wall street journal. Welcome to sunday, its meet the press. Good sunday morning. 50 days until voters start expressing their opinion. We have two new polls on the republican race for president. According to what may be developing into a threeman race, lets get to these numbers. Donald trump is back on top in our new national nbc news wall street journal poll sitting at 27 . Up four points since late october, the highest number hes had in our poll so far. Ted cruz is surging, now in second, sitting at 22, more than double where he was in october. Marco rubio also on the rise. And look at old ben carson, the onetime leader. Believe it or not, he led in the last nbc news wall street journal poll. Hes dropped dramatically to 11 . Heres the rest of the ca