Im melissa harrisperry. After weeks of republicans making a series of desperate plays to score wins, the democrats unwilling to give a single inch of ground and with the clock running down on the United States deadline to repay its financial obligations, game over, an 11thhour vote in the house of representatives wednesday approved a senate plan to raise the debt ceiling and finally reopen the government after 16 long days of being out of business. President obama made it official with his signature just after midnight on thursday. And waking up the morning after the news of the nights big event, everyone really just wanted to know one thing whats the final score . Because if americans understand nothing else about the events of the last few weeks, weve all been watching a big bill penalty kill game. Now that its all over we want to know the answers to the two biggest questions on everyones mind after game day who won and who lost . Unfortunately, these political news guys do love noth
Ecb holds rates steady saying the risk of deflation have not decreased. The markets set to edge lower after a jump in claims. Plus, more trouble for citigroup as u. S. Authorities open a criminal inquiry into the banks mexican unit, so should you be worried about the companys stock price . A long legal battle starting up between tesla and the state of new jersey, well tell you how the hek carmaker is fighting back against the garden state. A lot for the markets to digest ahead of the jobs friday after the s p closes for a record high for a second consecutive session. The jobless claims are up to 326,000 and as we said the ecb does keep its key Interest Rate unchanged at a quarter percent despite all the concerns about deflation rinks. In a News Conference mario draghi said the drcentral bank will use all methods needed. They say if a 0. 5 cpi doesnt get your attention, what does . This guy is really on a mission to get that economy restarted. I think hes managed to be able to dodge the
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For what the trading range is. Bigger picture, we never broke that downtrend from the january peak and the rally off the lows got a lot of credence to it. This is where the trenches are dug between the bulls and the bears here, right around these levels now, take a look at highyield debt part of the message from jay powell seemed intended and making sure that Financial Conditions dont get too loose, the markets dont get too generous in financing risk heres the highyield bond etf right here what you see is by the way that was the first fed rate hike in march. Here you had the june lows in the stock market where basically when we had that big stagflation panic and you saw real weakness and widening of credit spreads they really now have come back its widening out again this gap between these two. It shows you more anxiety is filtering into the financing markets although were well off those worst levels the gap between the two is not at a high stress level lets talk about all this and bri
But one of the many things that we can look at as legislatures and governors is licensing as a barber or a mechanic you have to get licensed and you cant get a license if youve been in prison. Its just seriously broken trying to help these people when they get out. Why should the fact when youre prison years ago prevents you from being a barbers license. What about the permanence of guest as many of you point out, you go away from five or 10 years, and you missed the digital revolution. You may not know how to use the web, any things all of us take for granted. The world has passed you by. It is it it is a difficult thing to try to gure out how to catch up. Host what is available in the prison system, it goes to that idea. To help that transition out. Guest a lot of the money being spent to build new prisons could be spent on helping these people get back into the community and earn a job. Points. E some good i was in the womens prison a few months ago. The woman i was in there with, s