hands to another. the warriors will be playing without a crowd. but basketball games in the pros have been played without fans before. the clippers did it for many years. [ applause ] and in part, in part because of all these cancellations, a lot of people don t seem to know what to think about the coronavirus, what to feel. should i be scared? are people overreacting? what s true, what s not true? it s totally normal to feel that way. many have the same thoughts. so i thought this might help. these are the five stages of coronavirus, so first you have denial. i m not going to get the coronavirus. only old people, chinese people and people on cruise ships get that. second, anger. why isn t there any toilet paper at target? is everybody nuts? then bargaining. there s no purel, maybe i ll make my own sanitizer with jergens and vodka. next comes depression. i can t believe they canceled coachella, i m not going to get to see carly ray jepsen for a year now. and finally, acceptan
major events are being canceled, postponed. the tax deadline may even be postponed. they re thinking about pushing tax day past april 15th. jeff bezos heard that and said, wow, what s tax day? the ncaa announced that march madness will go on but with no fans. there will be no spectators, outside of the players families. they should also consider playing without a ball. that s just a petri the warriors will be playing without a crowd. but basketball games in the pros have been played without fans before. the clippers did it for many years. [ applause ] and in part, in part because of all these cancellations, a lot of people don t seem to know what to think about the coronavirus, what to feel. should i be scared? are people overreacting? what s true, what s not true? it s totally normal to feel that way. many have the same thoughts. so i thought this might help. these are the five stages of coronavirus, so first you have denial. i m not going to get the coronavirus. only old p
globally and the prospect of her weakness overseas coming a drag on the us economy. doesn t work that way? it certainly does. at the world is catching the ammonia, at best we are going to catch the sniffles if something not a little bit worse. the fact remains gdp growth will still be positive next year, probably in the ballpark of 1.3% or 1.4%. assuming we get a trade deal i think you ll see acceleration earnings to mid single digits. a lot of business owners we talked to say their decisions have been put on hold until he understand where the goal posts are, which keep on moving. once a understand exactly what they re dealing with with respect to trade, i think they loosen their purse strings. i think we can extend the economic cycle longer. what you make about the dollar move today, we saw treasury selling, we saw stock trailing, risk and day. but really substantial gains for the bloomberg dollar index. its pretty weird. if you look at s&p 500, biggest game biggest
hunt, because they can t beat us at the ballot. they can t beat us at the ballot. and they are not going to win the presidency. e have internal polls from ohio, iowa, pennsylvania looking good, north carolina. we just won two races that a lot of people thought we were going to lose both races. one was down 17 points three weeks before the race, and he ended up winning by a substantial margin. dan bishop. and then we had a second race, as you know, and he was up one or two points and he ended up winning by 257 points or some incredible number. i will ask you folks. i don t want to be inaccurate. otherwise it will be a front page story. breaking news, trump exaggerated. he was leading by two or three, but he won in the 20 s. so we are looking great in north carolina, looking great in florida. and you had one or two congressmen, democrats saying listen, we can t beat them at the elections, so let s impeach him. al green, that is a beauty. he is a real beauty, that guy. but he sa
ago. i told him the best thing i think to do was to pull this bill and he agreed. i will not sugarcoat this, this is a disappointing day for us. covers: kelsey snell congress for the washington post. welcome. what a week. kelsey: it has been a whirlwind. we started out thinking we would be ending with the first appeal of the affordable care act n.l. it has gone up in smoke. charlie: what does that mean? for the future of the president, the speaker of the house, the freedom caucus and democrats? kelsey: we have heard the president say this is because of democrats. this did not work out because democrats would not help them out. what happened is the republican party could not coalesce around a single message. they cannot decide what they wanted to do once obamacare was repealed. they agreed that repeal was the goal but the finer details wound up being them. there is a request and of what kind of governing coalition exists within the republican party and how republicans in the h