Concerned with it. Heroin is cut with that in order to increase the addictive nature . Increases potency. People go back to it. That is kind of the tragic part of it. Word gets out it is strong, and traffic rules to have traffickers will do that. It will spike something hot so you the wild Overdose Deaths and verbal travel. There will be a desire for that product. It is mixed with heroin, other substances and really can be mixed with anything just to kind of expanded in its commercial viability. Adding that to some other products, as dangerous as in our products might be, adding that to it is almost tantamount to knowing youll be committing a certain amount of murders as it is distributed amongst the populace. That is unavoidable. A significant quantity in the hands of the population can result in a certain number of deaths. Yes. We have had success with this Death Investigation overdoses. How difficult is it to prosecute . You are speaking earlier. The Biggest Challenges reactive. Our
Course, the uk down ever so slightly. 10year note yield hanging around what has been and continues to be that lets call it 1. 58 level. Crude oil down after a move up a bit over the last couple days. Although yeah, weve been around the 46 level for a little bit. Its been a level where when we get to 50, a lot of the Oil Producers sell a lot of futures and thats because they can thats a lot of debt payments. They sell futures and capture. Get back to 40. And then you see more cessation of rig count but rig count up 30 this year. Low base. But rig count, its very big since the oil took out the 50 level that one day. Im sure well get to more on oil and gas a bit later in the program. Our road map starts with the last trading day of august, thats today. Its been a flat month. Things could be ramping up in september. Apples 14. 5 billion tax bill from the European Commission is stirring up a lot of global concerns. Were going to take a look at what may be far reaching ripple effects and the
Again, as you probably know currently 49. 60. Tenyear yield below 2 . Apple making history once again. First u. S. Company to close with a market cap above 700 billion. Hours from now, greeces finance minister set to meet with eurozone counterparts in hopes of striking a debt deal. Pepsi beating the street. Pepsicos Financial Officer hugh johnson will join us in a few moments. Apples making more history, becoming the first u. S. Company to close with a market cap above 700 billion. Two, exxon mobil, 385 billion. Apples ceo tim cook attributing the success to rapid growth in china. Also announcing partnership with first solar to build 850 Million Renewable Energy farm in california, jim, in monterey county, where theyre going to power not just own headquarters at data centers, retail outlets. Ive always liked first solar. Glad hes teaming with them. Used to be high cost producer loes cost producer. Tim cook making a good engineering move. A lot of different things. The companys doing gr
All business outside the United States. There are some provisions like the r d credit and the production deduction that are part of u. S. Tax law. You would then add some back in for state and local taxes. At the end you come up to 29 . I just am curious why it is that you would pay even with the overseas profits, you would still pay a higher effective tax rate than motion other corporations. We do think that is significant, especially considering 65 of our business is or more than 65 is outside of the United States. When and how often since 1999 has the Internal Revenue service cadetted caterpillar. We are under continual examination, the irs literally sits outside my office in that time frame we have closed 99, two 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, five what havent you closed, what year . The 2007 and later years are still under exam. Theyre still under examination. Uhhuh. You are under constant auditing from the irs. Yes, we are. And they have not claimed you were in violation of irs regulati
Fourth year and the future years, they can actually utilize what is already being used in a local property tax or sales tax for these low income people. For these low income people. So, what i would ask, if the state chooses not to expand , what wouldto 138 you think the department would plan to handle be states rick states request to continue with business as usual . Senator, with regards to the specifics of the discussions thaten hhs and the state, is something in my current role i am not familiar with. What i can talk about is the philosophy of how to think about these issues in terms of medicaid and medicaid waivers. There are a couple principles. I think it is important starting the conversation to be clear about what the fundamental Core Principles that are essential to implementing our, whether that is the Affordable Care act or state waivers other states may be applying for. I think the second thing that is an important principle is flexibility. Differentates have situations an