Welcome to the willis report. Your show, your money, your voice. And tonight your calls to the irs, well, theyre going unanswered. Over 61 of the people trying to talk to a Customer Service representative at the irs actually got through to somebody last year. Thats according to a watchdog report. That left millions of us to figure out how to comply with our complex tax code ourselves. With more on this, scott hodge president of the tax foundation. Welcome back to the show, scott. I went on the website; right. Here is what they say. They say call us with your questions. Right. Gerri available monday through friday. Not so true; right . Not so true, gerri. As the [laughter] as the Taxpayer Advocate found when you call the irs, youre not only not likely to get through and get a real person on the phone, but youre probably going get a wrong answer. Thats part of the problem. The real root cause of this, erri, is the come complexity of the tax system. We handed the irs an Impossible Task of
Bob pisani, hot july, despite some selling at the end of the day. Secondbest month, bob . Yeah, you cant yes. You cant get any better. We waited all month for the pullback that was supposed to come for the summer swoon that everyone and it didnt happen. All we did was go sideways. We didnt even have a 4 correction. Look at the major sectors and ill get to the s p in a minute. Small caps led the way. Theres the russell 2000. The dow jones industrials, we hit an intraday historic high today. Not a closing high. But good enough. I tell you why i like this so much. When you get healthcare stocks and materials stocks and discretionary and finances, all moving within a point of each other, thats a broad rally. The s p up about 5 . And in the subgroup, going into july, three, four major groups doing particularly well. We had biotech, airlines, retail, housing. And three of the four turned into a very good month. We know about housing, a little bit of a downturn as the higher rates put a crimp
Italy and in spain. Our road map begins with a search for a major retailer, any major retailer who didnt miss on november comps. Gap, macys, target, all disappointing. Is it all due to sandy and what does it mean for the holidays. Tiffany is not a statement on lucksy, but Rather Company specific. Quite near meets with the president today. And we have another upgrade for research in motion. This time at goldmansachs saying the blackberry 10 will not only beat expectations but also put the company in the black by fiscal 14. Target, macys and kohls reporting unexpected declines. Number of retailers blaming sandy for the lackluster results, david and jim. They say the second half of the month wasnt so bad, but still a lot of White Knuckles as somebody said about the holidays. I think that one of the Untold Stories may still be exactly how bad sandy was. Sandy is going to turn out to be a 100 billion storm. But i think its a shutdown. It was the shutdown of a major part of the infrastructur
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