Tu clr welcome back. We are talking about the rise of culture. Joining us is ben, founder of homemade mod earns, a business, teaching consumers how to create products. Welcome to the stream. Your company was born out of a bet much what was the wager . My background is in design. I was talk to to an Architectural Design friend and he was saying its impossible to make affordable americanmade furniture out of real materials. Everything is outsourced and you cant compete with factory production. I bet you can produce furniture. Get it to people. That was cheaper on ikia. We did that, we shared diy media constent. Where is your company at now . How has it gone for you . Its been a lot of fun. Still slowly transitioning into a fulltime thing, but the feedback from our users has been incredible. So motivating. Thats great. We have two big sponsors, and its become an effective means of creating advertising consent. Ben mentioned an idea of made in america. It feels like theres a wave of this d
Happens in ukraine, given that its on its border and given its historical ties, but ultimately its up to the people of ukraine to make their own decisions, that Russian Armed forces annexing pieces of a neighbor is illegal and violates International Law and the kinds of destabilizing activities we now see funded and encouraged by russia are illegal and not constructive, and that there is a path in which russia has the capacity to engage directly with president poroshenko now, he can take it. If he does not, if he continues a strategy of undermining the sovereignty of ukraine, then we have no choice but to respond, and perhaps hes been surprised by the degree of unity thats been displayed. I do think the fact that he did not immediately denounce the outcome of the may 25t 25th election perhaps offers the prospect that hes moving in a new direction, but i think we have to see what he does and not what he says. With respect to the future of the United Kingdom, obviously ultimately this is
But david cote will be rolling out its plan phenomenon honeywells futures to us. Good show this morning, guys. If you change the world, you have to get all spruced up. Everyone is wears coats. Spruce goose. A lot of money were going to talk about. There is. Weve got a whole becky back there, a lot of private equity guys, fat cats. It will be okay. Were going to take a look at the markets this morning before we get started. Check out the u. S. Equity futures. After that huge gain from yesterday with the dow up 127 points, you can see the futures are flat, unchanged this morning. Of course, yesterday everything happened because of the easing tensions in ukraine. Russian president Vladimir Putin said he would use force only as a last resort. They gave no sign of pulling back military forces from ukraines crimen peninsula. Yes, joe, finally, finally, finally. It was there and it pulled back. Nobody likes ukraine. But lately, the market has gotten back more than its sold off. When we have a
Spending. Then Consumer Sentiment. We will hear from bill dudley along with eric rosengren. Est, Esther George told an audience the size of the michelle taper may not matter all that much. She argues that the key thing is the clarity with which the fed communicates about where its policies are heading. Maybe not surprising, 10 billion, 15 billion, as long as they get it started, thats what the market will be watching. Say something yesterday, becky, that someone predicted it will be next year and it will be the next chairperson in the fed that starts the tapering. Did you see that . Theres only two meetings left. It was october and december, youre right. Is bernanke going to on be in a position where he did it someone said it yesterday, itself his prediction is that nothing happens until theres a new fed person. Because they tied it to Economic Conditions, i think it would be difficult to say that Economic Conditions have changed all that drastically in a month or two. You know a week
He calls it, they pulled a congress. Waiting for goodow, and a lot of others said sticking their heads somewhere else. Its trough. Jim, thanks for coming on. Well see you on the set in pebble. Thank you for having me here. I appreciate it. Thank you for coming. Join us tomorrow. Squawk on the street is next. Good wednesday morning. Welcome to squawk on the street. Im melissa lee, with carl quintanilla, jim cramer and david faber here at the new york Stock Exchange. Take a look at u. S. Futures. We should note the dow is posting its bst january in 17 years. We are looking to go higher on the dow here. Investors are awaiting the house vote this afternoon on postponing the debt ceiling. News in europe, David Cameron vowing a referendum on whether britain remains in the eu. In japan, longest losing streak in two months. China awaits data, thats out tonight. The road map in the u. S. Starts off at the golden arches. U. S. Samestore sales up 9 for mcdonalds, helped by the dollar menu and mcr