Blow you off and keep going. He lives in his own world. I think people take his aloofness for rudeness which is not that at all. He used to be a darius outgoing guy and then had a traumatic brain brain injury and it changed his body. I think its evolved and you see in the fall and that my wife is funny, she read this book and she said i finally like him. He reached his humanity level. At the core. It took me four books to get there but i like complicated guys and hes complicated. Host thank you for being with us for our indepth program and in this special series we sit with authors for three hours talking about their life in their work. David baldacci will spend the time with us today and we hope very much for both of us as we enjoy your interaction that you will be a part of the conversation. As we continue along here we put the phone numbers on the screen and our facebook and twitter handles so you can join in on the conversation and we very much would like to from your questions abo
Reopening. What is it like to go out to dinner well let you know. A buffett solomon breakup. Well focus on another berkshire breakup making waves ahead of the open. Tsa temperature checks and massive lines out of the industryway . Some of the ideas being floated with more than a dozen out there to get the American Economy and airports going again it is monday, may 18th and youre watching Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc good monday morning, good afternoon or good evening and welcome from wherever in the world you may be watching us thank you for starting off your monday on cnbc im Brian Sullivan we have a fair amount of green on the screen and a little optimism to start your week. We can all use some of that. Certainly we can and the markets are reflecting it. Many countries are starting to reopen and there are some positive virus trends. Fewer cases and, more importantly, a slowdown in fatalities, at least around the world. Dow futures are up about 300 points right now perhaps th
Or was it the real economy rearing its increasingly ugly head every day that the average goes down, the dow slipped 102 points, s p shed 7 p. 8 , are we having Great Depression style unemployment 38 million jobless claims or another garden variety sell off in the wake of another major rally . Ill give you a hint its not the economy driving the bus. I know the markets incredible rebound the last two months seems totally out of sync with whats happening in the rest of the country. Wall streets become divorced from main street and were told thats unsustainable the thing is im not so sure this morning on squawk on the street, i kicked this idea around with david faber and carl quintanilla. David was incredulous i thought we were seeing a garden variety selloff, not some reckoning mass sell off in unemployment. Another 2. 4 Million People filing for jobless benefits this very week. Remember we get those claims thursday morning lets start with the positives that help stem the bleeding today
Ideally, we keep everything closed until the federal government massively ramps up its testing and Contact Tracing capacity that would be my preferred outcome. But what if were waiting for nothing . Ive got to tell you without more aggressive action from the federal government, we may have no choice but to reopen as the economy spirals into a depression what does reopening the economy even mean, though . The market is one reason the dow slipped 457 points today nasdaq was down 2. 6 theyre waiting for any direction from the government, the federal government aside from a handful of people who have the situation figured out. I have been pounding the table its mad money, not mad depression ive been pounding the table on amazon for months because it has convenience, scale and low price to take over the market. I think walmart stock, too cheap. Given that its got a big Digital Business with 4,769 warehouses along with the brick and Mortar Stores that serve as warehouses, of course. Fabulous
Bullishness as manifested by a huge part of the market, i call it the 11 11. 5 trillion portiono the market, which is related to the cramer covid index you cant get enough of these stocks these are the companies that do best when you stay at home whether it with General Mills, a surprise preannouncement that was extraordinary yesterday or a lot of the apple number bumps today. Even just out of the woodwork abbvie put on the recommended list why . Now you can stay at home and go get your botox there is just absolutely a level of bullishness about this stay at home, work at home market then theres the rest of the market, which is just awful. And astonishing. Well get to calhouns comments on the today show in a moment i know you have logitech on tonight. Sales up 13. Theres a lot of web cams, mice, and keyboards that are being bought right now if you want logitech. Its so interesting because soi. They have a particular mouse that is almost as good as a wired mouse. People want that becaus