Point out the historic nature of that. Watch. That number, that is a sacred number, 30,000 but doubly thought they would ever see it. That is the ninth time since the beginning of 2020. And is the 48th time that we have broken records during the trump administration. Kennedy now that is fantastic news if you have money in the market or a 401 k , was just over for 2 of americans do. Theres other reasons to be optimistic. The vaccine means things will soon return to normal, whatever that is. But heres the problem. If your company is dead or dyin dying, or you are out of work and about to lose your home, the stock market and vaccines seem totally irrelevant. So what is the story and how can we emerge from this like a phoenix from the ashes . Or are we on the precipice of something worse than a right riddled pandemic. Joining me tonight professor of business, he is a Fox News Contributor it is brian brenberg. Welcome back. Hey kennedy good to hear your voice. Before we lets have some bran
Point out the historic nature of that. Watch. That number, that is a sacred number, 30,000 but doubly thought they would ever see it. That is the ninth time since the beginning of 2020. And is the 48th time that we have broken records during the trump administration. Kennedy now that is fantastic news if you have money in the market or a 401 k , was just over for 2 of americans do. Theres other reasons to be optimistic. The vaccine means things will soon return to normal, whatever that is. But heres the problem. If your company is dead or dyin dying, or you are out of work and about to lose your home, the stock market and vaccines seem totally irrelevant. So what is the story and how can we emerge from this like a phoenix from the ashes . Or are we on the precipice of something worse than a right riddled pandemic. Joining me tonight professor of business, he is a Fox News Contributor it is brian brenberg. Welcome back. Hey kennedy good to hear your voice. Before we lets have some bran
At the Manhattan Institute where he is also director of legal policy and you have read his work all over national media, youve seen him on television youve heard on radio and, by the way, he holds the jd and mba from yale where he was an owen fellow in law and economics, also a ba in economics from none other than unc chapel hill where he was a morehead scholar. Jim, so glad to have you with us here for our shaft spirit society. Thank you for joining us thank you for having me, donna, always a pleasure to speak to the good folks at the John Locke Foundation. Ive said it before, as someone who has worked many years at a National Think tank, so much policy happens on the state level and John Locke Foundation is really a Gold Standard think tank that has helped to reshape North Carolina and such a positive direction and lot of the strength and resilience right now and sound fiscal ain the midst of a pandemic is really due to the great work of the John Locke Foundation has done. Thank you
Vacation go when they cant leave the house . Nowhere just sleeping in and hanging out with the family. You look over, 3 50, those losers are up. Is this me this is me. Good. I finally rattled you. Difficult to you i rattled you watch the silliness. We are hearing a lot of things sharing you were twerking, i figured i better get back quickly. Nobody wants to see that. You cant unsee that u. S. Equity futures at this hour, lets tell you quickly things are down for the markets. The biggest decliner is the nasdaq no surprise because of the hearings happening today for the big four the nasdaq off 1. 257 . The s p indicated up by 9. 5. There is so much happening today. Well hear from boeing General Motors General Electric and others before the bell. We are keeping a look at whats happening from the treasury yield this morning the fed conference the 10year at 0. 589 . Andrew is going to tell us about one of the big things we are watching today the big one, the nasdaq will be an historic heari
Edition of squawk box, which is starting right now. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to squawk box on cnbc. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Weve been watching with the u. S. Equity market and things are under pressure dow was down by 600 points on friday and adding to those losses today dow futures right now down by 273 points earlier this morning we were down by 350, so this is some improvement from a half an hour ago. The s p is down by 28 points the nasdaq off by 61 lets get rightto our big stor of the morning that is, of course, the Berkshire Hathaway meeting that was health over the weekend. Warren buffett speaking out about the Global Pandemic and his recent investment moves. This was a little different this year no crowds. Usually theres 40,000 people there. This time it was just buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Vice President on stable but his message was still received loud and clear. Buffett made the case that you should never bet against america, b