Democrat who remained loyal to the union during the civil war. In 1864, Abraham Lincoln at a johnson as Vice President to his take it to bolster his reelection chances and johnson ascended to the presidency following lincolns assassination in april 1865. The radical republicans in Congress Found johnsons reconstruction policies too lenient. As a response, they put forth the sweeping 14th amendment which included provisions to ensure former slave citizenship and equal protection and due process of law. Good morning. This is constitutional history of the United States. Today we will be talking about Andrew Johnson, reconstruction and the origins of the 14th amendment. The 14th amendment is an amendment to the constitution, one of the three civil war amendments that is so important and so scrutinized because of the role it played place in deciding whether the federal government has the right to protect individual rights, economic rights, corporate rights. That even judges and scholars who
Nobody wants a second wave. The market starts the week on the upside again. Investors like the get back to work trend and there are several forecasts of imminent recovery for the economy. Secretary mnuchin says there will be a rebound july, august and september. The dow is looking at a 200 point gain first thing this morning. Thats close to 1 . A nice gain for the s p, close to 1 . The nasdaq will be up over a half percentage point. Now, the reason the nasdaq is up, because of this. This week, many Big Tech Companies report their financial position. Strong results expected because the virus lockdown has a more limited effect on these companies. Premarket, most of them are up. But look at oil. No joy for the drillers. They are looking at 12 a barrel and the worldwide glut shows no sign of easing. Over the weekend, the price slump claimed another victim, diamond shamrock. The drillers declared bankruptcy. The price of gas still falling, albeit slowly, about one cent down a day. The avera
We start with the 1. 1 trillion countdown, amazon, microsoft, apple, all reporting next week and the stakes couldnt be higher guy, we kick it off with you, which of these tech titans will you be most focused on hello, mel. And when carter worth is back you know fast money, its almost back 100 . Its great that cbw is back. For me its amazon next thursday this is something weve been talking about for a while and while you were away and one of the things we talked about collectively is how well amazon was trading and amazons rallied 50 from the load we made seemingly a month ago. Well see if it bores out and i think you own it into earnings on thursday. You pull the rip cord ahead and you look to reenter the position at 2170 which if you recall was the high we topped out in february. Thats how im looking at it, and thats how i think you trade amazon next week. Amazon is a microcosm, tim, if you will, of the trends going on right now in this pandemic when we have the work from home trend w
Winning streak since december. Pete, im going to begin with you. I hope you and your family is well its been a while since we have seen you im thrilled to have kwyou balk im really surprised by what i see. I have the most exposure to stocks and the least exposure t options you have had in two years. Tell us why. Its something we talked about a while back a cup of months ago. When the volatility starts to spike and you see it in high level, i never interpreted this going towards 85 high levels being in the upper 30r 30, the low 40s. That move from 13 to those levels greats a great opportunity. The reason you have gone to the up side is people are selling off stocks which is what was happening. Not only are they selling off stocks but give you a great opportunity to look for those stocks that you havent owned for whatever reason. I hadnt owned certain names for Different Reasons. Some of them is because i thought they were too high i didnt like their pe levels. It gave mean opportunity t
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