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from the washington post. what did the president and trump administration announce today? they announced major changes to the corporate tax system and the individual tax system. they lower the corporate tax rate, the rate businesses pay from 35% to 15%. they also allowed small businesses that pay through the individual income tax system to use that 15% rate as well. they think that will create more hiring, investing, and more money to slosh around in the economy to create more revenue. on the individual income tax side they proposed eliminating tax brackets that currently exist, replacing them with three brackets. and incentivizing people to no longer itemize their deductions and a host of other things they think will help the middle class and low income people. charlie: do most people think this will stimulate economic growth? a lot of people believe if you cut taxes, inevitably people and businesses will have more cash to spend and invest. but if you cut them by t ....
mike murphy. he is a gop strategist and the host of the podcast radio free gop. and from austin, texas, matthew dowd, chief political analyst for abc news. i am least to have them both on the program. we have a lot of people around this table talking about 100 days. let me start at the beginning from a political standpoint assess donald trump and his political performance and future. mike? mike: i would say on the plus side, we conservatives are happy with the supreme court outcome. and he has continued to set the agenda, which is what a president has to do. himselfot positioned where he has any popularity or strength in the country, either who are the core of support. he talks to the base with the same campaign rhetoric he used. and on the legislative side, he boxed himself out of working with them regrets becoming so radioactive, you are a democrat who helps them, and you will has not done a lot of what a president tries to do out matthew: if i were grading his fi ....
look at consumer technology space, you re talking b about amazon, which is over 2% waiting in the s&p 500. the next closest company to them is less than 1%, so, a money manager, you have to own amazon. the same thing for google, which is close to 3%, only apple dwarf that, close to 4%. so these are must owns for money managers. as far as for the retail investor, okay, there s nothing about these quarterly reports that would encourage you to excel, except if you said it s rich on evaluation basis. weiss? there s nothing you have to own, but i agree with joe in terms of how money managers look at this. when you look at amazon, you take a look at it, i said, wow, 40 bucks, that s an unbelievable move. but you know what, you look at capital as return on your capital. percentage returns. so, i m looking at that up 4% last night, i m look iing at western digital up 10%. it is which is a lot more than, even though it was only up $8, so the only thing that s got to be owned ....
this year, and coming up, whether now is the time to get back into it. tomorrow marks president trump s hundredth day in office, and tom cole says how close congress could be to getting a deal done on both taxes and health care. amazon, alphabet, race to $1,000 a share. we are tracking the action. first to you on amazon. hey, sara, will. if you are looking at price targets, the streak thinks amazon gets there first. just shy 1500, that s $25 above alphabet s. after the quarterly results yesterday, it is getting closer to the milestone. amazon launched double digit revenue growth, and now heavy investments, and push in the indian market, drone delivery, to the recent nfl deal. shares surged more than 50% over the last year, and about 25% since january alone. by the way, guys, once shares get $990, jeff besos is the world s richest man of the it s worth noting what spoils the party, and not everyone is on board with the thousand-dollar plus average target. after ear ....
writer on the erosion of the liberal order and politics known as ill liberalism. also at nationalism, goldman security and identity politics impact elections in the united states and abroad. well, thank you brad for the kind introduction. and let me start by thinking my friend robbie george and his james mattis program on american idealism and institution for bringing to princeton. it s my first time, beautiful campus. let me extend and warm welcome to all of you for coming. i want to start with a personal story about my birthday. i happen to have been born on february 1, 1985. but the february 1 is the point of interest. because on the persian calendar i was born and raised in tehran iran, it s a date on which the ayatollah khamenei, is the anniversary of the day which the ayatollah khamenei in 1979 return to tehran from his exile in paris to help the islamic revolution and found the islamic republic that took over after the shah was toppled. i mentioned that because ....