I think it is a mistake that because we helped the wealthy we shouldnt do it. The reason they did it is because of that. If you dont lift up the economy, the people who suffer the most are the poor. The fed is thinking about how do we lift up the economy they shouldnt hurt a wealthy person to make them feel good. They are doing the right thing now which is to let them get through this there are going to be serious situations thats kind of a secretary dairy problem right now. We should get through this and kind of unwind some of this stuff wisely there are huge incomes you could have negative imcome tax, fix education there are a lot of things we should be doing to help the poor federal policy is not the thing they should focus on letting the economy grow they dont focus on Growth Strategies they have policies that dont help growth. If you had 1 growth in the United States over 10year period, that would be 4 trillion gdp thats like 10,000 a person extra. That pays for a lot of social sa
Budget set to be outlined in parliament today. Tesla takes the trade war in its own hands. Suing the u. S. Government and Robert Lighthizer over the tariffs over imports from china. A warm welcome lets kick off the show with fresh numbers out of germany the Business Climate for the eve owe since september has come in a touch light. Current conditions 89. 2 for spent versus 89. 5. So just a touch light of expectations in terms of the expectations component, came in at 97. 7 versus forecast of 98. Slightly weaker but generally similar to what was expected the august numbers have also been revised we have the Expectations Index at 97. 2. These september figures and the forward looking part of this index has come in at 97. 7 for the month of september as business morale rises. This comes after data yesterday. The pmi flash for september showing that manufacturing in germany continuing to improve. Services contracted. Dropping below the 50 Mark Services trends in the economy we are going to
Chairman. Lets get you started with a quick check of how markets are trading. U. S. Futures continuing to add to gains after u. S. Stocks rallied in the regular session. Vaped tech shares leading the gains. Alphabet optimism about the experiment of drug coming from Gilead Sciences. U. S. Futures gaining ground at the moment. This after the s p 500 rose in the regular session. We have some negative data when it comes to u. S. Fourthquarter gdp seeing the biggest fall since 2008. We did get the fed decision. We have policymakers holding rates steady. Wti also continued to add to gains after we rose in the regular session, rebounding from almost 30 of declines in the last two sessions. Haidi of course one of the big headlines, the Trump Administration putting together this Manhattan Project style effort to drastically cut the time it takes to develop a coronavirus vaccine. Operation work speed hopes to have enough warp speed hopes to have enough doses available by the end of the year as g
Best performing index in the s p and that is more than get that going to is sending the likes of las vegas sands, caesars, and all of the gaming stocks higher. The volume, as well, is massive in those stocks. The 10 year yield at 1. 88 following the ecb this morning. That is a pretty good incline in. Ields we were at 1. 85 just a couple of days ago. Definitely selling in bonds with more positive outlook for the economy. The dollar index repairing some of its declines. Guy stocks here in europe off their highs, but higher on that trumped week. Bonds selling off, yields higher. The pound is trading lower. We are down by 0. 6 percent. The polls close at 10 a click p. M. London time tonight, 5 00 p. M. New york time at 10 00 p. M. London time tonight, 5 00 p. M. New york time. President trump indicating that we have a very big deal on the way, getting very close to a big deal with china. They want it and so do we. It is that last bit that is important. The s p leading an alltime high a lit
Improve the quality of both monetary and fiscal policies and in particular the public understanding of them. Under the under the very able leadership of david wessel, weve worked to promote analytical rigor but also to make complex questions relevant. Today one of the most vexing questions for people who participant in markets, but thats a different part of the world, is that inflation has refused to rise, much less persist, at the 2 targets. Key question is, why . While history will be the judge once the data has been interrogated, we dont have time for that, because todays policymakers and investors need to act and to do so require at least a rudimentary answer to this puzzle. Today we have gathered some of the leading experts in the world. Inflation didnt fall as much during the Great Recession as the models anticipated and hasnt risen as much lately. Is it dead or just dormant or has the death been much exaggerated. In my experience, wiped capitulation is the first sign of the bott