Stocks of companies with obviously great fundamentals but a Battle Ground with fire. And madness. Count me out too much effort. Sometimes though you have to take a stand and in a market like this one where the bullish animal spirits can bowl anybody over. Including today the dow inched up 30 points s p advanced and then some battlegrounds, even for me, too tempting to ignore thats why i have been taking a stand with tesla i might have gone back and forth, two of the biggest hornets nests of our time what separates the tesla a battleground stock that i feel compelled to champion from the netflix which i lost conviction in championing it for years at lower levels okay, all my career i have been fascinated by companies with vociferous bulls and ferocious bears if only because theyre so entertainling. Three things distinguished the stocks from regular run of the mill equities. First, theyre cult like the house of pleasure. People buy them because they love the product and the product trans
We will share some of the details. Is itr in afghanistan, still worth it . Our phone lines are open at 202 7488000 free democrats, 202 7488001 for republicans. If youre an independent, 202 7488002. Join us on social media. We will read your tweet at cspanwj. Also taking your Text Messages. Tell us your first name and where your texting from. Here is that number, 202 7488003. If youre driving, dont text and drive. Front page of the Washington Post, the latest installment in a multi part series on afghanistan and reporting of craig with law focusing on opioids. The headline is unguarded nation question ma we also unguarded nation. From the website and news. Com, the Trump Administration intending to announce the drawdown of about 4000 troops from afghanistan as early as next week. The withdrawal will leave between 8000 and 9000 troops in afghanistan. The u. S. Has between 12000 and 13,000 troops in afghanistan today. Officials would not say when the drawdown would begin. A combination of
Looking over my right shoulder up the hill that is knickerbocker lane thats where the investigators are in fact we just saw 2 more investigators in suit and tie arrived to the scene so this is far from over even though it happened about 8 hours ago, lets show you the video once again. This was a party that was advertised for people to come. And you can see the wounded the ambulances rushed to the scene many people taken away on stretchers some helping each other down the hill at this particular point. He talked about the people who were killed 4 confirmed, we t dont know how many others. They were injured from the shooting, no arrest in this case, no motive. We dont even hear we dont even know if this is a random shooting whether they knew the the victims or they just started shooting. But we do know that more and more investigators are arriving to the scene this is a very are into by itself is a quiet community. But this is. Away in or where it is hard to even negotiate their navigate
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Back with a discussion on the economy and how its going to affect the 2020 election. Joined by the president of the Economic Policy institute and joe griffith, research fellow, finance and regulations at the heritage foundation. For both of you economy what do we see the economy playing into the 2020 elections. Lets start with you. Jesse. K you, i think in the past, the economy has been a pretty good predictor the outcome of president ial elections. In other words, in the economy is trunk the incumbent tends to reelected or the incumbent party and if the economy is weak, the opposite tends to be case. I think this year might be a little different for a couple of reasons. One is the economy is kind of quite ased, its not cut and dry like its good, its bad. News from such different places best for two bill clinton, defeating an incompetent, bush. S george h w he had won the gulf war. We entered a mild recession. President clinton want. 1996, bill clinton one despite having a lot of havin