Won an olympic bronze medal. I got it like what . It hasnt even its one of those things where youre like is it true . Is it real . Let it sink in clayton murphy. Olympic champion. Didnt care if i was eighth or first, i was honored and excited to be in the finals. In the mens of the 2016 summer games, murphy became the First American to medal in the race since 1992. As hes coming around the curve, im like hes right in perfect position where he needs to be. Track coaches from university of akron watched from the stands of the olympic stadium. Im like wheres that kick . Wheres that kick . I got to 80meters. He made the kick, get to the middle of the race, he can do anything. As clayton crossed the finish line in third place back home on the indiana board her border, the tiny town in ohio burst with pride. I cant wait to be back home to ohio, akron, dayton, madison. See everybody and thank them for amazing support leading up to this. For now he celebrates with family here in rei owe and st
But were holding down the fort. Japans nikkei reopening after yesterdays Public Holiday and it plunged. 4. 8 . It closed at its lowest level since october 2014. The index is down in seven of the last eight sessions. That is coming as the yen has been rising against the dollar and it comes after yesterdays big selloff in the u. S. This years lowses have erased nearly 1. 8 trillion in value for investors just on that index. The s p is down 10. 5 since the first trading day of 2016. But u. S. Equity futures are rebounding this morning. Part of that is because of firmer oil market. Take a look at what crude is doing. It is bouncing back today following Late Afternoon comments by an opec Energy Minister from the United Arab Emirates that sparked hopes of a coordinated production cut. And though weve heard this story before and havent gotten anything out of it, the markets are interpreting that as a positive. Wti he crude currently up nearly 4 . 27. 21. Brent is sitting above 31 a barrel, up
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martha: we could all take a little advice from jimmie buffett, right? gregg: sure. martha: you ll need a little margaritaville when you see the home numbers, folks, down for the 4th straight month in a row, this year on track to be the worst year for the housing market on record, and that goes back over the course of 50 years and it continues to be a huge drag on the u.s. economy. gregg: meanwhile he says he knows what it takes to get americans back to work. the focus of my effort right now is to make sure people understand that president obama and i could not be more different. he spent his life in politics. i spent my life as a business person, i know what it takes to get jobs again in this country. gregg: mitt romney set town veil his economic plan, but, what is in it? martha: and, there is a new twist in the case, folks, this missing american woman in aruba. now, there is a person who is close to her who has some new information about all of this, that it raising more doubts, in
from it in your newspaper, telling buffett to stuff it, essentially. quote, before the government asks for more from the rich it should tax everyone more fairly. then spend that money more wisely and you ll need less of my money. that is the point, isn t it? congress has a recent history of absolutely squandering and wasting the revenue. of course, look at what happened in the last two-and-a-half years we have seen the federal budgets almost double in size because of these enormous stimulus plans that have not created jobs and so, spending is the problem, it is amazing to me that here we are, a year nearly a year after the republicans took over the house and still, there are no spending cuts. all the left is talking about is raising taxes and maybe what barack obama has to do is, maybe has the wrong buffett and should be getting advice from jimmie buffett, not warren buffett. gregg: stephen moore. chief economics writer for the wall street journal, good to see you, as always.