You were going down. 401 k s right now, i met last week in new york city with a very, very fine group of policemen. They were all so happy about their 401 k s. They feel like they are geniuses he said, im up 39 . I see all the guys carrying the booms are smiling. Are you up too yes, he is he has the one thats the highest and the closest. He is a good boomer but he has a big smile on his face, right thank you. Thats very nice they are usually with the press. They wont admit it but he does, because he is beyond the press i just want to say that people are up 30 , 40 , 50 depending on whats in there they are very, very happy. We think we are going to grow that a lot more. We think the economy has a long way to grow. It needs the tax cut and all that money is going to be spent on expanding businesses. We have so many Different Things in this bill that are going to create jobs. For me, this is a bill very simple it is a massive tax cut for the middle class and it is about jobs the jobs are
Low. And its projected as the population continues to age in the baby boomers retire that that ratio will continue to rise in an unsustainable fashion. So, the addition to the debt taking what is already a significant problem and making it worse is it is of concern to me, and i think it does suggest that in some future downturn, which could occur just for whatever reason, the amount of fiscal space that would exist for fiscal policy to play an active role it will be limited, it may well be limited. Sam fleming with the financial times. Couple of longer term questions, first of all, midway through the year, hot weather inflation targets might need to be raised. Obviously been a lot more debate and have had systems since then about this it may not be an imminent issue, it may be something the feds may be discussing over the coming years. Some sort of change to the inflation target second of all, the amount of stimulus tools that the fed may have at its expo sal are fairly limited. One of
And welcome to power lunch. The dow is up above the 25803, holding on to 26,000, up by. 9 of a percent and big games in ibm and boeing. More ahead and Goldman Sachs shares taking a hit on the back of the earning. Well take a deeper dive into the numbers in a few moment. Thank you. Welcome, im tyler mathisen. And here is what else is happening at this hour facebook, google and twitter fold up to capitol hill and are telling congress they are going beyond screening and removing extremist content from their services they are actively fighting against that content and terror. Senate Banking Panel voting again to approve j. Powells nomination for the next fed chairman the vote advances his nomination to the full senate floor and home builder confidence slipping this past month but still hovering near an 18year high melissa. The dow back on the upswing after yesterdays selloff. Bob is at the New York Stock Exchange tracking the action so bob, is it back volatility i mean . There are a lot of
Our top story this morning, the dow is continuing to rally, up more than 150 points as all three major indexes hit another record high earlier. For more on this, joined by chief investment strategist jim paulson. Good to have you back. Thanks for having me. We have been wondering why equities are rising in the face of rising yields some economic release disappointment clearest explanation is that even the bears are afraid of missing this train thats leaving the station. What do you say . I disagree with that in part, it is an incredible market, incredible price momentum. Maybe it is simply the resulted weve never had just breakout of optimism in all sobbiectors of economy, everything from main street to wall street looks good it is so rare in this recovery to have that feeling, it is just an unbelievable up side price momentum it is not that the markets are going up dramatically, up maybe 25 in the last year certainly good, but not like a 40 meld up run. It is more the fact it never go
Missing estimates and comcast dividend boost well go through the report and tell you everything you need to do the Big Bank Ceos are speaking out on everything from taxes to bitcoin, well hear from jamie dimon. First up, ge missing its Fourth Quarter results of weakness and Power Division its cash flow is improving this is John Flannery on the Conference Call talking about some of the early challenges that the company has faced you heard a lot from us since i came ceo in august i recognize the news we share in that time, power and insurance have been tough. We have moved to tackle the issues our responsibility is to reshape this company and ensure that ge matters as much in the next century as it has in the past. They did say we expect more challenges to continue at least for power right, the relevance of ge is largely going to be aerospace and power is a disaster. Sometimes you wonder whether what did they do to make you feel that power is good. You know who seems to be as interested