To address the economic fall out from this and what the fed is looking forward to more greatly address the mainstream issues here the fed is focused on trying to get trade going smoothly markets functioning smoothly especially in the treasury and fixed income markets but bringing rate dous down to try o help where it can. Theres very little Economic Activity lower rates will not be of tremendous help. The best the fed can do is try to make markets function more smoothly what the white house can do, what the fiscal side can do is address more in a detailed way, in a more pinpointed way the economic pain that individual industries and individual workers will feel. All right well be looking for those, the targeted and targeted measures this afternoon thanks thats going to do it for us lets get to the judge in the half thank you. Welcome to the Halftime Report so good to have you with us today. Were trying to make sense of all of this. Our show will look differently in the days ahead. Our
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Generalize to the american population. We asked questions about the sources people use, how reliable they think they are, how they think the liability of news has changed over time. The liabilitys changed over time. We tried to look at the intersection between consumption and reliability. We found one third of people report the sources they use that they rely primarily on are less reliable than other sources. That is interesting because it adjusts they recognize the sources they are using are not that reliable, yet they continue to use them instead of other sources they see be more reliable. So that was very interesting and a puzzling finding that came out. Host defined for us what we mean by reliable. Does it mean they believe the information they are consuming is not correct or they think it is correct but biased . What do we mean . Reliable could include either of those things. The idea is that they trust that information to be credible, accurate, balanced all of those things are in
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