Spending. Current funding levels expire on september 30. All of the senate live on cspan2. Joining us is rick tyler, now stillh a new book, right. What is the message in the book . I think i wrote it for two reasons, and to different audiences. Lets say its too left and right audiences. A large part of it is a misunderstanding of what conservatism is. A, i wanted to create rational defense of conservatism as write about conservatism an attractive governing philosophy. In the same way that other writers can and have written as about progressivism. Because progressivism and many countries have progressive forms of government are a rational form of philosophy. It is not mine. My philosophy is conservatism. I would like people, at a minimum, who take the progressive point of view, to understand what actual conservatism is. If i think about it, i wrote it for the right for the exact same reasons. I hear a lot of people pronouncing policies often repeated by the president and it gets labored
Two reasons and two different audiences. Lets say it is the left and right audience. I wrote for the left because i often hear conservatism denigrated as a philosophy. Part of that is a large part of it is a misunderstanding of what conservatism is. A, i wanted to create rational defense of conservatism as write about conservatism an attractive governing philosophy. In the same way that other writers can and have written as about progressivism. Because progressivism and many countries have progressive forms of government are a rational form of philosophy. It is not mine. My philosophy is conservatism. I would like people, at a minimum, who take the progressive point of view, to understand what actual conservatism is. If i think about it, i wrote it for the right for the exact same reasons. I hear a lot of people pronouncing policies often repeated by the president and it gets labored labeled as conservative. Will espouse philosophies that are not conservative. I think trade is one of t
Under valued it sounds crazy. We had a remarkable blitz up we just came after that brutal sell off all the buyers vanished. Now suddenly were back dow surging 328 points and s p jumping and nasdaq pulled 1. 87 . Why . Why did it happen . Why was so great today because today is merger monday monday used to be the day we always came in and merged and stopped. Guess what its back and bigger than ever so i bought out the merger both. Merger. Merger merger. Yes i havent used the merger both, i dont know, four or five years and its back. All right, all right, all right. Back and bigger than ever. We spent a lot of time trying to figure out what stocks are worth, right the price to earnings. Price to sales and book value. All that stuff we try to do. There is another way to value this business. You look at what another business might be willing to pay for that business and today we got a wave of huge mind numbing deals that suggest there are many real bargains in mna. Merger. Merger merger. L
In the Company Canteen or something but as you know im a big fan of yours and a huge fan of your first book on google, now to come back at this particular moment and talk about facebook, the inside story couldnt be more timely and am going to start off we have lots of places to go with this, im going to start off with something timely, as we came to do the show you heard about the hacking of twitter the fact that trump is going to facebook to get the message out, facebook has had a lot of criticism for a lot of things over the years and i actually wrote a column recently questioning why Mark Zuckerberg has not fact checked the president. Kalisher take on this, what is this relationship between facebook and the white house between facebook and free speech, im gonna throw your big question along to off. Thank you for doing this now and its good to connect with you again. Like a lot of things, you cannot tease that one problem of facebook from the sea dna in its origins in the case of tru
Good Tuesday Morning welcome to squawk alley. Were with you for the hour, what a fascinating market day, john walmart and home depot tickiki things off then for awhile there a bit of a tumble the dow briefly at its biggest loss plenty of dynamics to watch as we watch the retail earnings and the progress on stimulus big stocks and big tech in particular apple is fractionally higher amazon perhaps riding that retail news overall. Up better than 2. 5 . Alphabet up about a percent. Microsoft lower, and then there is oracle. In the news because of this tiktok bid, perhaps, carl. I dont know if there is anyone not bidding for tiktok lets start off with exactly that as a source tells cnbc that oracle has entered the race to buy tiktoks u. S. Operations. Walt, you know what my first take was on this microsoft was telling this story about their focus on the enterprise now theyre bidding for tiktok and oracle, how does it facility them at all . Does everyone just have to have a look microsoft ba