Opportunity. And what a week it has been for the cryptos. No, those are not superheros and they have not been performing this week in any way like a superhero. What happens now after this bitcoin plunge well talk with a head fund emergen manager who is sticking by his opinion. A boxed power lunch starts right now. Tyler, maybe we should call it tales from the cryptos. Youre welcome america is staring at a Government Shutdown but investors taking it in stride, because you smart cnbc viewers know it doesnt hold stocks. They are down, but they are on track for another winning week three dow stocks in focus for the opposite reason, however, ibm down 4 . Despite breaking a 22 quarter declining revenue streak and amx down 2 and ge could not get out of its own way and now the stock is at sevenyear lows on the pace for the worst week since 2009 oh, ford sinking again ford dropping to the lowest level in four months and sound the alarm, adt sinking on their first day and that is even often a lo
Warren here to talk about it. They are pointing out that bonds and stocks are in sink again which question as reflation trade and i kept asking that last week. 235 . What is going on with the tenure. Were going to blow out the deficit and military spending and infrastructure and tax cuts and all the greeowth, all the stuff. Maybe warren knows why. But u. S. Equity futures at this hour. Hes shaking his head. Were going to ask him. I wanted to surprise him with that. I got a lot of well, to eo late. The futures are indicated a little bit low. But nothing that significant yet. Overnight in asia. It was kind of quiet. Overall, we can see japan was down less than a percent and in europe, sort of the same thing. Were almost in a wait and see mode. Now im going to formally introduce you, becky. Time now for our special guest this morning. Becky quick. No, wait a minute. Becky quick is in omaha with our special guest and i love god, i love some of the stuff im reading about warren today. Money
Program might be used to or result in some way a crowding out of a significant portion of the economy shortterm private credit liability. And then it goes on to consider this is where i got into trouble. Such a Development Might conflict with the fifth Monetary Policy octave i got confused i will tell you i was on an amtrak south of washington behind a Freight Train when i read that section. That had something to do with it. But ting that section and one or two others could have been simplified a little bit and then clarified. I probably said enough by now to signal my high regard for this book, i can do it. I can do it. [laughter] but in closing let me salute that the very strength of the book for me actually highlights if the fed and the fdsc needs strong and essentially discretionary Emergency Powers to prevent or confront o runs how do we reck are sile such powers with legitimacy requirements of a democratic society. This is a Critical Condition in today political environment with
Have the same expertise. I think its regrettable and a what youre saying but i think there are tools for pushback and they need to be used. Its hard to go to the public and say to the people are buying houses and pretending to flip them, we will take away your credit because we dont think buying a home is a good idea. I think it would have been a lot of political support. Now there is but not back i mean, the public is basically saying, as we all know, people who speculate in the middle of it and thought they were doing the right thing. Based on what we discussed this morning, what is the one recommendation you would give to each of the following participants, the government, Financial Service providers and consumers . Give a sort of a short, snappy response to that question if you can. May i go first. Sure. Well on the government, balance the budget. Simple. There you go. One other one of the reasons why balancing the budget is so important because that would give us more room to fina
Are not dozens of them around the world. And i suspect that in many cases the discipline thats been applied to risk control and Risk Management are some of those clearinghouses and related organizations probably is not what it should be. I suggested, for example, that for all of those mechanisms there should be, among other things, minimal standards whereby using stress tests and related techniques, you should have a standard that would say that any one of those organizations anyplace in the world showed, among other things, have the capacity that at a given business day they could survive the simultaneous default of their two or three largest artist events. So thats pretty draconian stuff. But i think it is symptomatic of the fact that weve got a lot of work to do to get our arms thoroughly around the shadow system. Keeping in mind, above all else, that it is in my judgment a twoway street. I would agree with that. I think doddfrank try to deal with issues associated with basically tw