Kansas citys economic symposium titled, navigating the decade ahead. Implications for Monetary Policy. Name is esther george, president of the kansas city fed. Im pleased to be joined by Federal Reserve chairman jay powell as well as many of my colleagues from the Federal Reserve and by other central bankers, academics, public and private Sector Economists and members of the news media. Foras been our custom nearly four decades to welcome you to beautiful jackson hole, wyoming, part of the region served by the kansas city fed. Returning forward to to that setting next year. Format, instead of expressing my gratitude to those who travel around the globe to attend the symposium while managing jet lag, i will offer my appreciation to those attempting to manage local time zone where the current time now ranges from 6 00 a. M. Thursday to 1 00 a. M. Friday. This year has been an extraordinary one for Monetary Policy and central banking. Many of the issues that weve talked about for some tim
Laura. Jim, one of those every now and then we get a day that is truly consequential and that certainly fits at least the expectations for powells speech. I wish that we hadnt come in so hot when you have a company that gains 50 billion in one day, salesforce, when you have a tremendous number of nasdaq stocks that have just kind of out of control to the upside you dont want to have anything that could disrupt that i think its heightened, im glad were covering every minute of t david, you know that this is a day that we would normally be talking about abbott labs and talking about the mysterious tiktok mayor issue which are both huge stories but we have to defer to jay powell. We do we have to defer to powell we have to continue to understand what the fed Balance Sheet will look like with that 3 trillion thats been added to it which is a staggering sum, guys jim, your point is well taken. Yesterday salesforce i have rarely seen anything like that move, yes, they were extraordinarily st
The auto sector. Ford and nikkola news coming your way just about to flat line with 59 minutes left in the session. We have a big lineup of ceos coming up on todays show. Dan rosensweig on the back of cheggs earnings it is a moon shot. Then the head oof another stock that has been on a terror, henry ji, ceo of Sorrento Therapeutics and its a huge earnings news, disney, nikola and well speak with the ceo of ww right after the numbers hit. We have 58 minutes left of trade. Mike san totoli is tracking act and phil lebeau. B mike, start us off with the Broader Market it is flat. We alternate the days between when the indices look better than the majority of stocks and days like today when the indices are doing nothing but holding near the highs take a look at the s p 500 here we are on a year basis. You have the pop and turn pattern. You pop above the highs and then chops around right now were above that june high 3350 or so would be a 50 rally off the closing low for from 23rd that is 19
A downturn and why im going to divide my explanation into 3 parts and im going to you know what lets do this i want to go over to the wall so i can do this for you let me go over here so i could show you what it is that were seeing as far as some of the trends go right theres a theres a debt burden in our country right now we talked about this before its like no other ever experienced in our nations history Household Debt is above 14 trillion dollars thats how much the average american someone like yourself may owe right so let me try and break this down for you into 3 key parts that many of you may find well relatable thats why we put this line graph up here for you and i want to start with auto debt its been going up now for about 3 straight years thats the blue line that you see right there look at that line look at the trajectory thats taken you know what this number represents right here that number. Its 1. 00 trillion dollars now i want you to look at Student Loans thats represen
Economy is the worst behind us fair question when will we see a downturn and why im going to divide my explanation into 3 parts and im going to you know what lets do this i want to go over to the wall so i can do this for you let me go over here so i can show you what it is that were seeing as far as some of the trends go right theres a theres a debt burden in our country right now we talked about this before its like no other ever experienced in our nations history Household Debt is above 14 trillion dollars thats how much the average american someone like yourself may owe right so let me try and break this down for you into 3 key parts that many of you may find well relatable thats why we put this line graph up here for you and i want to start with auto debt its been going up now for about 3 straight years thats the blue line that you see right there look at that line look at the trajectory. Thats taken you know what this number represents right here that number represents 1. 35 tril