trying to do, which is he s trying to take the focus of the market drop off of his actions and try to put it on oh, no, the fed, somebody else created this market drop. i don t know if he can do that. if i m right, that that trade war component is some part of the thing that is freaking out investors and businesses, that is going to become clear over the next three weeks, months, what have you. i don t think it will be hard to blame someone else. neil: there might be something to that given the fact that china, we talk about our own market that is still up on the year, up significant through since this bull market began, the historic long bull market that began under barack obama and continues under this president. i m wondering what you make of the length of that being questioned and that that s what is what is concerning a lot of investors. i know bull markets don t die of old age but they can get wounded and picked apart. like the trade war coming into
if you look at consumer sentime sentiment, business sentiment, large and small. if he wants to play politics, wouldn t a better strategy be to say look at the markets, clearly people are afraid that democrats are going to win. and if democrats win, you re going to see the market drop again. don t you want to protect your money? wouldn t that be and whether or not that s true or not we can put to the side. in terms of political strategy, wouldn t that be a significantly smarter one then going after powell and calling him crazy? well, this is a president who has time and time again gone after the same people who work for him. he said, oh, yes, a safe country, we re all about law and order, but by the way, i hate the attorney general and i m probably going to fire him soon. there s this idea the president, while he likes to talk about all the things his administration has accomplished, he has a tendency to go after personal people if he feelings as though they re not doing exactly wha
a slew of new polls coming out showing republicans are probably in the worst position politically they have been in w. president trump address approval rating has been remarkably stable, in the low to mid 40s. the latest washington post abc poll published today shows a market drop down to just 38% among registered voters. the president s supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh is surprisingly unpopular. receiving the lowest numbers from 30 years ago. meanwhile the generic ballot is looking brutal. two new polls showing democrats with a 14 and 11-point lead. it was at 7.9 before the democratic sweep in the 2006 mid-terms. we have new data on two of the most high profile races coming up in november. the blalt battle in florida for
market drop down to just 38% among registered voters. the president s supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh is surprisingly unpopular. receiving the lowest numbers from 30 years ago. meanwhile the generic ballot is looking brutal. two new polls showing democrats with a 14 and 11-point lead. it was at 7.9 before the democratic sweep in the 2006 mid-terms. we have new data on two of the most high profile races coming up in november. the blalt battle in florida for governor and california s 50th district, home of indicted duncan hunter who was back in court today. ahh. summer is coming.
were to be impeached, the market would crash. history would tell you, yes, you d see a huge market drop, like when nixon was impeached. the volatility and stability would royal the marketil the ma it is a big part of 1973 and 1974, the embargo, interest rates were high. there was a lot from a machiko p macro perspective going on. you can t tell me the faith in the institutions, which this president trampled all over, it will weigh on consumer confidence. it ll weigh on what consumer confidence is way up. you ve got robert mueller chugging along, indictments and guilty pleas, and consumer confidence is killing it. it is not the thing right now that, i think, is in the forefront. going back to the nixon scenario, it wasn t until the summer of 1974, where he really lost a tremendous amount of his