It looks at how much your asset appreciated and the fact that you can only pay tax on what remains. David you will pay a Capital Gains tax, but it will be inflationadjusted. The president says that will create a lot of jobs. Why would it . Laura economists dispute that point and say it does not do much for Economic Growth and incentivizes old investment, not new investment. In terms of the jobs and when economists model this out, it is mainly. 1 for the long run. David how does congress feel about this . Congress gets to decide about taxes. Is there support for this move at least by republicans on the hill . Laura there are some republicans that supported this. Ted cruz has been putting the Trump Administration to do this. This is not political really viable this is not politically viable in congress. You look at joe bidens tax plan, it would double the Capital Gains tax rate. The president saying he is seriously considering this. If he has the power, why doesnt he just do it . Laura i
Ritholz. Very excited to have you here today. Im pretty excited about all of the interesting crosscurrents going on in the market. On the one hand, you have a group of very local bears talking about every pullback as it this is it, this is the top. And then on the other hand, there are some fairly relentless bowls who are just quiet relentless bulls who are just quietly eyeing stocks wer continuously. We will talk about that, but lets get to the newsfeed. Bank of america posted a First Quarter loss, a mere 6 billion in costs linked to mortgage disputes. Resolving issues over home loans and foreclosures have cost be of billion have cost bank of america more than 50 billion big ones. Shares have fallen three percent so far this morning. Ann shares of yahoo are trading higher today. Ceo Marissa Mayer can thank jerry yang. I say, alibaba is preparing to go public and it reported a 66 jump in their overall sales. Yahoo owns one fourth of the company. Company again and trading today, opening