This comes as regions across the country allowed for more businesses to reopen and with an increase in Consumer Spending well President Trump wasted no time celebrating the government report and took a victory lap as he said the recent number proves the countrys economy is roaring back todays announcement proves that our economy is roaring back its coming back extremely strong its all coming back its coming back faster bigger and better than we ever thought possible these are the numbers these are not numbers made up by me these are numbers and as i said you are going to have a fantastic 3rd quarter it will be the 3rd quarter the likes of which nobody has ever seen before in my opinion. And the good thing is the numbers will be coming out just prior to the election so people will be able to see those numbers the 4th quarter like was will be extremely good and maybe most importantly from the standpoint of our country itself next year will be. Historic year next year is going to be an in
Up the latest job numbers are out but actually show where the economy is today. That would take a lot of. Catching up to the global market. Its thursday and the numbers are in for u. S. Unemployment well according to the Labor Department the country saw a job gain of 4800000 for the month of june while unemployment fell to 11 percent this comes as regions across the country allowed for more businesses to reopen and with an increase in Consumer Spending well President Trump wasted no time celebrating the government report and took a victory lap as he said the recent number proves the countrys economy is roaring back todays announcement proves that our economy is roaring back its coming back extremely strong all coming back coming back faster bigger and better than we ever thought possible these are the numbers these are not numbers made up by me these are numbers. They said youre going to have a fantastic 3rd quarter itll be the 3rd quarter the likes of which nobody has ever seen before
Here joining us is chief Investment Officer of the Minnesota State board of investment. Good morning. Good morning, john. How are you . Im doing pretty well i hope you are, too. So, a lot of people trying to figure out what to do with this market your philosophy is to buy the market and not individual equities but this market has been kind of funky i wonder does big techs increasing waiting say in s p 500 concern you . How do you get as diversified as you want to be no. As i said, i mentioned before, we dont look at sector by sector weve been longterm investors and for the most part we buy the market you know, domestically we own the russell 3,000. We do have active managers, but the vast majority of our portfolio is passively managed our equity portfolio is passively managed, same on the International Side so we probably have most stocks that are available to us. Thats done pretty well for you. I wonder with this disconnect between the economy and the market that were seeing does that
This comes as regions across the country allowed for more businesses to reopen and with an increase in Consumer Spending well President Trump wasted no time celebrating the government report and took a victory lap as he said the recent number proves the countrys economy is roaring back todays announcement proves that our economy is roaring back its coming back extremely strong its all coming back its coming back faster bigger and better than we ever thought possible these are the numbers these are not numbers made up by me these are numbers and as i said you are going to have a fantastic 3rd quarter it will be the 3rd quarter the likes of which nobody has ever seen before in my opinion. And the good thing is the numbers will be coming out just prior to the election so people will be able to see those numbers the 4th quarter like was will be extremely good and maybe most importantly from the standpoint of our country itself next year will be a historic here. Next year is going to be an
I was starting research for my book and i was able to go down to College Station to my grandfathers library and they have the archives there. My coauthor and i are like, we are here for a day and a half, lets do it. We walk in and mary finch who works at the library was like, where do you want to start . She opens the door and it is millions of different scrapbooks and videos and things. We are like, what . We only have a day and a half. We started in her scrapbook. My grandmother had kept scrapbooks from every part of their life together. While at the george h. W. Bush library and museum, director warren finch showed us one of Barbara Bushs scrapbooks containing mementos from their life together. We are here in the research room. We are going to take a look at one of about 120 scrapbooks that mrs. Bush began keeping shortly after she and president bush became engaged. She was an avid scrapbooker and documented their entire history and his political history and their lives together for