to investors. you still see the wild ride on wall street is that when you have this rhetoric, it provides all this uncertainty. and then when people and businesses are taking the hit. let s not pretend that s the case. some businesses are winning but there are businesses like farmers that are getting hit hard and that has an effect to consumer spending and how jobs are being placed. and not only does white house trade adviser peter navarro deny a yield curve inversion even happened last week, he also told cnn that the trade war with china is not having an impact on the u.s. economy. fact or fiction? well, i mean, what he had said, and i saw that interview, you know, he just stuck to his talking points saying, well, that 10% of $300 billion is nothing. sure, yeah, it s nothing in the gdp percentage. but what he failed to state in that interview was, what about all the other tariffs that have been in place? you mentioned the spin job.