Ofodollar getting a bit traction. The dollar is going down. This is part and parcel of the yellen trade, which seems to be getting reaction now. It will be interesting to see how she works handinhand with the fed chair. Minutes,e last few crude went through 45. This is wti. We are backing off the little bit, but that line in the sand is the highest level we have seen since march 6, which gives you an idea of the turnaround we are seeing. The big question, is it running too far, too fast . Alix some analysts starting to scratch their heads a little bit, particularly as they look at the curve. President elect joe biden said to announce his selection of former fed chair janet yellen as secretary of the treasury. Joining us as michael mckee, Bloomberg International policy and economic correspondent. What about this appointment is giving confidence to the markets specifically . Theael janet yellen ticks most important box for investors, she makes them money. Take a look at what happened whe
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Back at some of the weeks big moments in this weeks edition of the weeks talkers. Watch. Maria you have a scenario that you believe took place here. Tell us what you see. Oh, definitely. They framed general flynn because he was the cornerstone of the insurance policy to destroy President Trump in the event he was elected. Maria youve been talking about this, something was to come, for some time. If you take a look at this hard drive and youre an fbi agent, youre compelled to do something about it because there are things on it that havent come out yet that if any fbi agent sat by and watched it, they shouldnt be an fbi agent. Maria the fbi was leaking stories to web sites, and then they would use those stories that they leaked as evidence to renew the warrants to spy on the trump campaign. This is a scandal, and it stinks. If you look at what the Obama Administration did, it politicized the fbi, the department of justice, the cia. It used them, essentially, as a political Oppo Research
Amendment rights until there is no freedom at all. They will put the Great Republic on the trashy but history if they have their way if our government does not act and act immediately. Facebook and twitter this week censoring the New York Post bombshell reports linking joe biden to his son Hunter Bidens corrupt business dealings in ukraine and china. Facebook censored the stories, twitter censored the stories, facebook saying they needed to be fact checked and twitter called the stories potentially harmful. Whatever in the world that means. Within minutes, both social media platforms had put in and to the free flow of information in this country, the free flow of information that underpins our very democracy, they blocked millions of their users including myself to simply slow down the distribution of the New York Post exposes of the bidens. Twitter said their decision to censor the New York Post links fell under what they call the hack material policy, it is a policy to twitter ceo ja