closely. on this morality police issue, with the state department official, the senior official was telling me, that they do not see that the top leaders, including the supreme leader, none of them are talking about the morality police in this context, so it is not at all clear that they re letting down. this could just be sort of a head fake to try to stop the protests, the three-day protests that are about to happen. and to try to get people not to show up. this is what was said. speaking of protests, extraordinary protests, really have never seen to this extent, not in 2009 either, to what extent do you think it will actually need to change? because the iranian women, whom i speak to, they believe there is no turning back. yes.
this so called special announcement. my reporting today, my colleague kristen holmes reporting today is that lots of people were trying to a talk him out of running. so there is still a possibility, i believe, that this could just be a special announcement, not for the presidency or some kind of head fake or saying i m going to announce later. we don t know what this is, and in terms of wanting to get the attention back, that s what this is about. but we don t know we still don t know what it is, and so, you know, we don t know. i can predict what s happening behind the scenes right now. every prominent republican is begging him not to do this, they have been for weeks. are they actually calling him? i m certain, i m certain. especially if there s a georgia senate runoff for control of the senate. even as i closest advisers are telling him this is not the time to do it, it s going to look reactionary, he as of now is definitely planning to do it but with donald trump nothing i
you on this, the anniversary of the october 1929 stock market crash. i discovered that, i remember it so well no, i did not. some of you are thinking, yeah, you look old enough to have covered that. scott martin, a puff of parent s eyes and even the 87 crash and we ve also got emily roland with us, john hancock management. both combine their ages and they re not close to me, but anyway, i have to move on. [laughter] scott, october, what it s telling us thus far. because, it s putting in heady advances here, now, i don t know if they last and i don t know if this is a head fake or what they call a dead cat bounce. what s going on? markets are heading off, let s say, neil, that negativity and i think it goes to show you sometimes when sentiment gets so bad and so negative and so clear, the market s going to take another dive down, usually it does not.
in this case, you know, they deserve it. here is why. when you ve got 8% 9% inflation, bill and you have workers getting 5% pay raises they re falling behind. so you ve got the situation now where the unions want higher wages to keep up with inflation, which they deserve. the problem is when they get that pay raise then what do the companies have to do? raise prices. we re in this death spiral right now of what is called wage/price inflation. bill: i understand the point you re making. maybe other unions pile on. is this a head fake, austin? were we led to believe a deal has been struck and it is really not? i don t think it s a head fake. i think it s a little weird to view it as mainly a fight about wages. really a fight about being forced to work and being able to take sick leave. if we have a rail strike, i