Policy. Even if the tax policy was equal, they are going to have lots of great choices about where they can get a great workforce. We need to make sure every single day we are Getting Better because we know other countries are investing heavily in that. You make a great point. This issue is only going to get worse. Right now, as we sit here, they are doing Prostate Cancer surgery robotically. They are doing health care equal, they are going to have checks of our bodies. We have sensors all over the machines talking to machines. That will mean fewer jobs. Is everybody ready for that . Obviously not. We dont have the skill sets. At the same time, these technologies will create new jobs, the kind of jobs we never thought about before. Absolutely. The biggest economic choice place. You are facing . The honest answer is the one we dont know. Who would have envisioned a downturn the likes of the Great Recession a few years before it took place . I would say there are challenges that we curre
Stay one step ahead of illegal migration on the southern border and to stay one step ahead of our weather conditions, to closely monitor our weather conditions in a very harsh winter. If we shut down, that staff is cut back to a skeleton. Third, approximately 80 of femas permanent appropriated workforce, 80 is for load is for load furloughed. Fourth our ability to grant money to state and local Law Enforcement which they rely upon for their own missions grinds to a halt, either because there is no money or the ability to process payment has been furloughed. Fifth, Service Providers and suppliers of this department did not get paid during the period of the shutdown. Again, because theres no money or our ability to process payments have been furloughed. I could go on and on. Overall, a shutdown of Homeland Security would have serious consequences and amount to a serious disruption in our ability to protect the homeland. To those in congress who may be contemplating hunting or kicking the
Its deal with nokia makes sense. Alibaba is looking to invest in micromax with negotiations under way. Good morning. Welcome to the show. We have the norwegian central bank. 7 out of 13 economists expected a 25 basis point cut but we didnt get that and as a result of that were seeing the norwegian crown rising. The developments in the norwegian economy have been wrongly in line with the march projections. The krone strengthening after that position. Also saying from the info received recently still prospects, the key policy rate will be lowered so still maintaining a fairly dovish bias here. Of course this is norway western europes organization. Its been hit by the fall in oil prices we have seen. The rebound in oil prices reducing the chance for the central bank to cut rates. Rates leaving at a hold and potential rate cut in the month of june. You can point out that norway has been not just hit by the drop in oil prices but dealing with unemployment very high and surging house prices
Always love having dan on, we will get to him in a moment, plus adam shapiro at a store that is selling pot legally today. Top of the hour, the stock taking a breather after a record year. At the New York Stock Exchange with more. Lauren at one point the stocks are down in the triple digits, believe it or not that is not unusual. In four of the past five years, so seeing a little bit of that today. Down as well. Take a look at apple at the huge part of the nasdaq and the s p down today. A lot of pieces on news of apple. The alice downgrading the stock to market perform from outperform concerned about the growth margins going forward. Apple a loser in a down market today. Back to you. Dagen the first legal recreational pot shops are open for business in colorado due to long lines of customers and Strong Demand in the new year. Adam shapiro from denver, colorado, with more. Adam this is the largest in denver. I am in one of their burrows. 20,000 square feet in which they grow marijuana l
As well as your backyard. It is monday, so they will try to stump me with my mystery guest. We will see if they can do so. But first, headlines from carol massar. The big headline today was the continued drop in u. S. Stocks. The s p 500 losing more than one percent. The index now at a three week low that has erased the benchmark game for the entire year. Coke Industries Run by the Koch Brothers and Goldman Sachs are near buying flickr group for cvc from cvc capital partners. Deal may be announced as early as this week. And consumer borrowing in the United States rising more than forecast in the month of february. The 16. 5 billion dollar credit exceeded all estimates in a Bloomberg Survey of economists. Back over to you. Mergers and acquisitions. Over 400 billion so far this year in the United States. Today, five deals each worth more than 1 billion an ounce today. One of them involves a group that agreed to acquire alabama gas from energen. About 1. 3 billion in cash. Joining me now