Has been a tumultuous quarter. Plus, a rough quarter for ipo shares of ab inbev and Bernie Sanders corporate tax, the 2020 president ial hopeful out with a new plan calling for a tax on companies that pay their ceos way more than their workers it has been a roller coaster ride for stocks in the Third Quarter as we enter the final trading session of q3. Dow and nasdaq aiming for a Third Straight quarterly gain. Mike, awe kn mike, as we know, we went into the month thinking big, bad and scary. I think thats actually the story for the quarter too, the market held itself together and preserved these levels it was at, just about at old highs. Without really a ton turning for the better the way you can look at it is the cost of two and maybe a third fed rate cut was not that steep in the way of suffering through really bad growth or any real stress in the Financial System just yet. So but it does feel tenuous, feels as if the market is sort of maximized what it had to work with to get to thi
Also, i am looking for tour conversation about our primaries and what they all mean to us because in a few weeks well be in the midst of it all. One one of the real questions i think is whether it will be a rare instance where this is a form policy election or an election that is driven in a large part by Foreign Policy rather than domestic issues. We have a number of experts with us today. Opens, charlie cook editor and publisher of the cook report, a colleague of mine, sam feist was senior vp of cnn who can entertain us with stories about organizing debates. , jim lindsay who is chair of the council. His long time partner. Well have an initial period where i lead a conversation but we will have ample time for you to ask your questions and make comments. I will get you out of here at 930 a. M. , as promised. I would remind you this is on the record, well simulcast of my casting this. This is not a typical cf our event where it is on what we call house rules. Let me start off by asking