Slapping tariffs of 106 on imported aluminum foil. Beijing has hinted at a response. Li na the markets in the u. S. Tumbled today in reaction to the fed chairman jay powells testimony today. But if you look at several pieces of data, indicators and a buy signal relative to other markets in the u. S. G btv 672 which shows you the breadth of the market. Still of s p70 stocks are trading above their 200 day moving average. If you look over into europe, for instance, where you and i talked to a lot of investors, there is a lot of value in europe. Only 59 of stocks on the euro, the stoxx 600 index are trading above their 200 day moving average. , itn that smaller breath goes to show the european markets or others outside the u. S. Still have a bit of work to do before they flash a buy signal. Yvonne a great chart there. Given the turbulence we did see in february, were seeing more of a bounce back and the like the u. S. Compared to europe and asia. The breadth of the market in china not a s
A video released on twitter thanked his supporters but he also expressed regret for the many journalist inmates hes left behind did germany strike a secret deal to get him released. But im Christopher Spring a good to have you with us day two of the Munich Security Conference is just getting underway around five hundred senior government to military leaders from around the world meeting to deliberate on pressing security challenges d. W. News well be bringing you live coverage of the event throughout the day among the highlights today british Prime Minister to resume a jew to address the conference and set out a vision for Security Cooperation between britain and the European Union often breaks it germanys foreign minister cigar gabrial is also about. To deliver a speech so lets cross now to munich mckayla coup for our Political Correspondent standing by for us mikhail as mentioned were waiting for gabrielle to speak to address the security conference we have any idea what to expect fr
Your apples are ripe. It is time to harvest them. What is the best way to harvest those apples . Do you pick them from the tree or do you chop down the tree . Apples are income. The trees are capital. The reason we want a socalled, consumptionbased tax because we dont want to mistreat capital. But to understand why it is so foolish, dont think about marxism, socialism, free market theories think about it this way, if you chop down the tree or more accurately what the current tax system does if you harvest apples by sawing off branches of the tree, what does that do for your longrun prosperity, your longrun income . You obviously will have fewer apples next year. It doesnt make sense to quadruple and triple tax capital. On this issue marxists and socialists are right they agree with sensible economist. You need capital for long run growth. We should have a tax system treats all income equally. No longer tax income saved and invested. You want neutrality in getting rid of all the loophol
Of these tax changes. So no net cost to the government over time. And you have peoples income up about 10 and additional jobs so more people are working. Now that is close to a free lunch as you can get. And thats the damage done by the current tax system. All the neutral tax systems are a means of getting the three layers of tax. Some are collected at business level. Some collected only at retail. Now my favorite, the personal expenditure tax is put down your income subtract your savings pay tax and whats left . That way each year you sit down and fill out a form and you say, they took what . And then you dont vote for them again. Where laz the retail sales tax might be nickelled and dimed and you may not save all your sales receipts and realize what has happened to you. But there are conveniences of doing it one way or the other. We have to take a look at those. These are all efforts to get away from the horrible horrible effects of the income tax and moving to a more sensible neutra
Prosperity. And you heard alvin just say over and over again, consumption based tax. My job on the panel is to try to explain why thats important. Its important because the current tax system treats income that you sai and invest much much worse than the income you can consume. Think about it in this very simple fashion. You make some money. You pay tax on that money. Whats left . Disposable income. Aftertax income. You have two choices of what to do tw the aftertax income. You can consume it right away, or you can consume it in the future. Whats consuming in the future . Its saving and investing. Now, lets think about how the federal tax system theets though two choices. If you consume your aftertax income right away, the federal government, by and large leaves you alone. Yeah we have a federal excise tax on gasoline. We have a federal excise tax on bows and arkansas rowrows, but theres really no federal tax on your income. What happens if you save and invest your income instead . Bet