Tom keene, Jonathan Ferro off today, both playing hooky as we get ready for the long Labor Day Weekend in the United States. Im lucky, though. Paul sweeney, my former cohost on bloomberg radio, joining us today. It is so telling that we are showing an image of washington, d. C. Because it was too cloudy in new york city, and perhaps that is a metaphor right now. Very cloudy in new york city for the future for a lot of things. Very much the focus on washington, d. C. As people wait for some signs of fiscal support , as people wait for some signs of just how contested this election in november is going to be. Paul i think all eyes are going to be turning towards washington. This is then thetion, more nearterm fiscal stimulus. The question is, does this economy need more . A lot of folks are saying yes, but we need to get congress back at the bargaining table. They seem to be pretty far apart at this point. Lisa we will find out. Right now, markets unfazed. They are indicated to open at n
Return. Cellent huge samestore sales beat at home depot. Now walmart out with a digital 97 at theirup online stores. Granted, it is a different a different mix than home depot. A stunning statement from the traditional of england, where i believe one and in will be shown the door. Anna they are hoping to do this through voluntary redundancies and retirements and the like, but they got to get to that number. Food was a bright spot at marks spencers. Obviously, the online shift on all of these retailers has structurally been dealing with prepandemic comes with costs as well for retailers. They need to reposition their businesses for a new world. Tom it is a really complex tuesday here on our simulcast. We welcome all of you on Bloomberg Radio and Bloomberg Television. Futures up eight. The vix is a stunning 21. 22. Unimaginable weeks and months ago. Really noting dollar weakness at 92. Ith the dxy give us the themes that you see this morning. Get to the week as well. Weve got an fx voice
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Wrong, democrat in north carolina. Good morning. Democrat in north carolina. Good morning. Caller good morning. How are you . Host doing well. What are your thoughts on this campaign in 2016 . Amazing. T is i walked in last night and watched cspan and you are running the previous conventions to 1996. As i watched those conventions and what was going on, i started thinking to myself the same issues that were going on then ,re still here today, and i did after he lost his bid for bysidency, i got to meet him chance. Sometimes, we watch the news and we listen to the people that run those campaigns, and as i talked to bob dole, i thought, wow, this never came out during your campaign. If this part of you, the person i am talking to here and now, would have came out, it would have been different for you. Look at the Campaign Today and we went to talk about donald trump, Hillary Clinton, and, yes, everybody, even myself, we all have issues, but today, we do not have the candidates running be
In my case its a republican distri district. Fortunately thanks to some of the efforts in this room, and thanks to the efforts of rand paul and another pieces of legislation. I campaign on that. It was obviously, it worked and im here. Extremely frustrating. It was stripped behind closed doors from the appropriations bill bills there was nothing left of it. That was very frustrating to see. Ill get into that little bit. Let me describe my colleagues and myself as well. When i came to congress, im an engineer. I thought if you had all of the facts on your side you could win the day. And your case would be a closed case. Open shut. What i discovered is that were all were not voting algorithms. Were soft mammals that go there and press buttons and we possess all of the faults that the general population possesses. No additional intelligence to speak of and a greater degree of humorous. Some people think they got a chip that instructs them on how to know everything better than their congre