john berman, no aliens. that s good, too. they keep saying unsuspicious. i don t know that s the word i would use. i suspect something when it s blue. it looked like ghostbusters. did you expect 138,000 volts? i suspect zol. i like the split screen. on the right is yeah, that on your left. look at the two. it s the same thing. can you tell which one is ghostbusters this is a serious question? are you color-blind? i know one is purple. i was just checking. i feel like we re good. that was well worth it. the wild ride on wall street this month leaving many with a lot of questions, but the volatility, though, likely here
basis does maybe desensitize us a bit. i think on the progressive side, though c th though, this is getting to be a bit too much. every other day or every day, really, we seem like we re dealing with the president dealing with a different crisis of his making. shutting down the government, even if it s a partial shutdown, there s a serious deal. hundreds of thousands of americans will be impacted by that whether they are being furloughed or just the sort of uncertainty that it s going to cause the market. and we saw what has happened to the stock market the last several weeks. it s not good. it s going to hurt our economy. it s not good for our workers. and it s just overall not good for the positioning of this country globally. abbie, matt, thank you, doug, always good to have you. thank you as well, sir. the wild ride on wall street continues after that historic selloff last week. we ll take a look at the markets and take a look at the volatile
could this bess the mission accomplished moment? and how about the wild ride on wall street. the fed raises interest rates for the fourth time despite the president s public lobbying against it. political considerations have played no role whatsoever in our discussions or decisions about monetary policy. but that expected announcement does nothing to calm a very turbulent market, with predictions of an impending recessi recession. a move even took some inside hi own administration took people by surprise. some are calling this a huge mistake that the president will come to regret. i have a graeme team to break it
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good morning to you. it is thursday, august 11 now. this is american morning. lot going on today. let s get right to it, folks. good morning, good morning. so much for comeback. haven t seen these kind of wild swings on wall street since the darkest days of the financial meltdown. the dow diving 520 points yesterday. this time fueled by fears or at least triggered by fears. that france is on a verge of a credit downgrade. every day it seems to be something new trying terg sell-off or the buying. that s because this is a global economy. your investments feel it here. wild swings. take a look at the week. monday the dow dropped 635 points. tuesday, it rebounded. picking up 430 points. yesterday the dow took it all back and then some with a drop of 520 points. drop of the s&p 500 has a percentage was greater. well, far from over, too. because this morning u.s. futures are weighing up and that had asian losses at a minimum. nikkei and shanghai closed down. markets in german