countries, two americans among them. a far right rebuke in the world s fourth biggest democracy. brazil s bolsonaro beaten in his re-election runoff. what could be a big blow to diversity at colleges. today the u.s. supreme court considers ending affirmative action. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans. the death toll is now at least 154 in south korea s crowd surge. making it one of the country s worst ever disasters. this morning south korea s president and first lady laying flowers at a memorial alter in front of seoul city hall as the nation begins a week-long period of mourning. senior international correspondent ivan watson is live for us in seoul this morning. are investigators making progress on figuring out what sparked this crowd surge? reporter: we re not hearing any conclusive details about that. i do think that the shock of the scale of this tragedy is still sinking in. i m here just basically a few step
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and wrong. and make it nine weeks in a row the dow hasn t been on this kind of a terror in nearly a quarter of a century when bill clinton was president so what is this all saying about this president? from rallies that won t stop to a second big north korean summit that is about to start. we ve got you covered, from beginning to end, with a whole lot of other news, tucked in between including the latest on a new england patriots owner now in a super legal mess and a prominent democratic senator in a super beef with kids think candid camera just with an edge, and adorable kids built with a sharper edge, but what if i told you the kids weren t the ones getting a bad rappin this video , the senator was not for caving to what they wanted but precisely for not caving to what they wanted? the story behind the senator seening red over very young constituents who prefers she spend a lot of green. remember what i said about jumping on a story too soon? we played that back again and again and
the tax cuts took effect. by the end of reagan s term, i don t know what it was, 3 1/2 or 4,000, 5,000. it was way, way up. we have lots and lots the dow hasn t doubled since trump has been in office. if it went up threefold, it isn t close to that growth. bill: i will give you 30 seconds to give us the worst case scenario. key piece of legislation have unintended consequences. i don t think much can go wrong with the tax bill. what can go wrong politically. something that could happen with mueller and reagan when he got shot. wild out of the woods sort of contingencies that can happen to an economy. i don t think those will happen this time but you always have to worry about something coming out from left field. and that s what i worry about for the u.s. economy. bill: if your growth projections are close to being right, that would be another bull market. a really big boom.
the dow hasn t done this well since clinton was in the white house. alison kosik joins me from the stork stock exchange. almost no one predicted the kind of boom we saw in stocks this year. is this going to last? that s a really good question. you think about if we saw this coming a year ago today, we were about to fall off the fiscal cliff. we probably didn t expect this to happen. there s a champagnemaker ringing the closing bell here today. traders certainly have good reason to pop the cork. it s the last full trading day of 2013. i ll tell you what, what a year it s been on wall street. if you re invested in the market, you ve probably made a lot more money than if you re just let s say parking it in your savings account. you look at the dow up 26% for the year, the nasdaq up 38%. the s&p 500 which is what most of our retirement and mutual funds track is up 29%. remember, in a typical year, you re looking at a gain closer to 8% on the s&p 500.