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Difficult to put forward these projections now given the uncertainty over the fiscal cliff . How plastics are these . Are you talking about the ions . Roject and stac clearly the fiscal cliff is having an affect them, even though we have not reached the point of it kicking in. It is already affecting business and hiring investment by creating uncertainty or pessimism. We saw what happened recently to Consumer Sentiment which fell in part because of concerns about the fiscal cliff. Clearly, this is a major risk factor and a major source of uncertainty. I would suspect although, the participants dont always make this explicit i would suspect what they assume in their projections is that the fiscal cliff gets resolved and in some intermediate way where there is still some fiscal drag but not as much as implied by the entire fiscal cliff. I think that is probably the underlying assumption that most people talk when they made their projections. Youre absolutely right that there is a lot of
60s on the temps or 50s. A stronger sea breeze. Today was hardly anything. Today is 22 to 25. Thats a big difference. Some of that cloud cover is Still Producing a little bit of rain but a lot of it ending up towards lake county and the hire clouds push out of the area. Were not done yet. We will go mostly sunny but then the clouds pop up later this afternoon. Temperatures, they will be in the 60s, 70s, and 80s and one more day of the 90s. Not as hot as yesterday. San jose, were going to start there. There is a crash on 880 north at Stevens Creek. Its blocking all of the northbound lanes. Now, some cars are getting by on the far right shoulder. However, this is an area for you to avoid. Its a significant alert. A person was trapped inside one of the overturned vehicles and san jose firefighters had to get her out. Traffic is going to be a little bit slow. It is still light. If youre trying to get to the airport, i suggest using 87 or 280 instead. 280 is wide open for you in downtown jo
Are we entering another week where we think a deal is soon on the table but by the end of the week it wont be . And what do you as we understand it, Mitch Mcconnell is trying to pass something regarding taxes. Raise rates on upper income americans, as Many Americans are willing to do, and agree by setting that up, that in the new year they will discuss these spending cuts. Of course, the problem is House Republicans are saying no, we dont want this. You could see a deal on the table that puts them on the spot. Puts the pressure on the table. Yes. The house was forceful in their opposition to this, and i think it will be interesting to see, one of the things, you know, back in 2011 when they were dealing with the debt limit, it was Mitch Mcconnell that came up with this concept for how they eventually dealt with the debt limit. It is interesting we are getting to hear these rumblings of Mitch Mcconnell trying to float that idea. And it could be difficult for these days of reelection in
Send deceased agents to college and help fbi families in need they said on social media. Over the weekend, the editor of the legal news website law fare called for donations in the names of Andrew Mccabe and james baker after Congressional Republicans and the president criticized them, former cia director john brennan tweeted he had personally donated this as republicans continued their attacks including Frances Rooney of florida. In this exchange yesterday with Halle Jackson here on msnbc. Im very concern thad the doj and the fbi whether you want to call it deep state or what are off the ills rails. You look at the strozic texting and the Clinton Research people. This mccabe guy takes donations while running for state senator. Congressman you called the don and fib football off the rails. Fundamentally how is that something that are you okay with here. How does that not undermine the work these agencies are doing . I think the American People have high standards, to see those examples