Stuart good morning, everyone before we go anywhere let me tell you about nvidia it started out this monday to the upside again. Not quite the Huge Movement that were used to but the giant a. I. Chipmaker is close to 800 a share and evaluation of 2 trillion thats how we start the monday morning, little change the dow industrial will be up a little 13 points and nasdaq out maybe 22point Interest Rates the ten year treasury right around four and a quarter percent, 424. The twoyear is well above 460 right now for 69. Bitcoin trying to hold onto the 50000 level its 512 as of now. Hardly any change for enterprises, gas 3. 26 thats average for regular 4. 7 on diesel. That gas way down close to a twoyear low, 172. Politics, Ronna Mcdaniel will walk away from her job as chair as a Republican National committee she lost the support of donald trump, the former president said he lead a united unified Republican Party he won the South Carolina primary by 20 points over nikki haley but the wall str
Host nathan bomey is with us. Nathan boehm he is with us. Is this reporter and coauthor and here with us this morning to talk with us about the United Auto Workers strike entering day five. Welcome to washington journal. As the strike continues in detroit, what is the latest on negotiations . They are still prfar apart. The uaw just last night threatened to expand the strike on friday if they dont make serious progress with ford, general motors, insta lantus. And the strike started on friday. They are asking for a wage increase of 36 percent. They have only offered about 20 . The uaw wants traditional pensions, healthcare, and a whole host of other things and the automakers are not willing to budge on those asks so at this point it feels like we could be headed toward an expansion of this strike later this week. This is what has been termed a standup strike. Tell us how this approach is different from previous auto strikes and other strikes in general. The best way to think about it is
Host you are no stranger to cspan viewers, author, columnist, president ial advisor, Economic Advisor to the Trump Campaign back in 2016. Do you have any role in the campaigns this season . Guest i am working with President Trump on the 2024 campaign. Its a long way to go. He has to get through this primary and the general, but it is the honor of my life to work with trump in 2016 and its exciting, as you know, working on a campaign. We will be fulfilling that same role with a lot of other really top people, larry kudlow, who chief Economic Advisor, and others. So hes got a great gang of Economic Advisors. Id say this trump understands the economy very well. A very successful businessman so i always found that he has the sort of streetsmarts and we have the more academic views on the economy. You think he is talking about the economy enough on the campaign trail right now . Is there space for him to talk about the economy . Effect that hes facing four or five indictments and 500 years
Host you are no stranger to cspan viewers, author, columnist, president ial advisor, Economic Advisor to the Trump Campaign back in 2016. Do you have any role in the campaigns this season . Guest i am working with President Trump on the 2024 campaign. Its a long way to go. He has to get through this primary and the general, but it is the honor of my life to work with trump in 2016 and its exciting, as you know, working on a campaign. We will be fulfilling that same role with a lot of other really top people, larry kudlow, who chief Economic Advisor, and others. So hes got a great gang of Economic Advisors. Id say this trump understands the economy very well. A very successful businessman so i always found that he has the sort of streetsmarts and we have the more academic views on the economy. You think he is talking about the economy enough on the campaign trail right now . Is there space for him to talk about the economy . Effect that hes facing four or five indictments and 500 years
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