We have been in normal sample to be throughout my time on the Armed Services committee. They know pretty much everything is good at some of his nose of the things we can ask questions and learn and its a very, very complicated world. It is noble and unsettling the first time about how long ive been for group of people that we actually the budget deal. Normally that is what dominates all my thoughts. The only caveat i will throw out is have that money for two years. Eventually you do get a debt and deficit that are so high that you put in a very, very bad place. And that is going to happen. I cant say when exactly but when that happens all aspects of government and the military will not be excluded black to figure out how do we live with a lot less money than we thought we were going to have. I think that is one of the most important conversations that we should be having, that the pentagon and the government level is how can we make the most of this to your gift that we been given, and
Laventhal, josh brown. Jamoof has views on a whole number of Popular Companies and ones you might not have heard of yet but soon will. Its good to have you here did this go as you expected . It went way better than i thought it could go, quite honestly our whole goal was to fix a liquidity problem we see in Silicon Valley, which is employees are churning out of companies at faster and faster rates because they dont see a path on being compensated on what they believe is a fair mechanism. Its a bunch of issues with the traditional ipo process creating this log jam when we see that, as entrepreneurs tend to do, they try to unpack and fix it being able to reverse merge a lot of these companies fixes a lot of whats wrong in the ipo process. So it was oversubscribed by a lot, right from what we were told from Credit Suisse, it was the most oversubscribed spac in history. And there have been 20 to go public this year and thats the highest number since 07 why are these back in vogue and so po
Welcome to the Halftime Report. Bull run, more records with the dow looking to post its best week of 2017 with us for the hour today, josh brown, stevewise, carrie firestone, the ceo of asset manage president and with us from minneapolis today is Pete Najarian lets begin with stocks, the intraday report high for the dow, s p and nasdaq. Energy is a big story as it puts in its big week since september of 2016. Josh, its been a reflation kind of a week. Materials, industrials, financials. Yeah. Is this the way its going to be now big week for the qs risk off got killed this week. Tlt down 1. 7 . Gold, gld down 2 bost , and in meantime you have a huge breakout in Semiconductors Take a look at the smh this tells you everything you need to know about Companies Spending money, not just people, but but projects and r d, and well get to some of the bigger winners later on. I just think when you look at the advance and declines, scott, thats what i want people to focus on not just the fact that
Narrator tonight on frontlinthe fish on my plate. Frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontliis provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional support is provided by ford foundation, working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. At fordfoundation. Org. The park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The john and Helen Glessner family trust. Supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. And by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from john and Jo Ann Hagler and Additional Support from chris and lisa kaneb. Major support for this program is provided by the kendeda fund, investing in transformative leaders and ideas. Well, thank you, everyone
Narrator tonight on frontlinthe fish on my plate. Frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontliis provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional support is provided by ford foundation, working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. At fordfoundation. Org. The park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The john and Helen Glessner family trust. Supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. And by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from john and Jo Ann Hagler and Additional Support from chris and lisa kaneb. Major support for this program is provided by the kendeda fund, investing in transformative leaders and ideas. Well, thank you, everyone