Researchers involved in the usc dornside day break poll. Thank you for inviting me. Before we get into the experimental polling method, tell us, using that method right now, who would win the popular vote and who would win the Electoral College and hence the white house . We are actually part of a Research Team partnering with usc. Were skrg a panel of participants for their own intentions to vote and using several new methods were hoping the shed light on the election. In particular were asking people who they think their friends will vote for. According to this, biden still wins popular vote by a more narrow margin than most polls predict. When it comes to electoral votes, although our poll was not designed to do statelevel predictio predictions, there is a possibility that trump could win electoral vote or at least what were seeing is a very close race. All right. So i understand that unlike other polls where they kind of get at who would you vote for, youre asking, hey, who do you
Carefully and pay a lot of attention to precedent. That is something professor barrett focused on a lot in her scholarship. She cares deeply about precedent and about the institution of the courts. I dont think she would be inclined to move the law very fast . Me a very david in some of the writings i have gotten a chance to look at, she has some skepticism about majority rule. She thinks when Congress Passes look at ithould because if it interferes potentially with individual rights. Tara that is right, but that in and of itself is a very commonly held view by a lot of individuals. Depending on who we are, we care about different rates, let all of us would like a federal judiciary to protect our individual rights from interference. Which things should be left to the political process. This apply to statutory rights as well as Constitutional Rights . We have the bill of rights to protect us. But when it comes to the statute that the congress has passed . Tara i think many members of th
And the recent peak last week up more than 80 . Some investors taking trips off the table. The 10 year yield down. It does not feel panicked. It seems more orderly. If below that, it could get disorderly but right now, orderly selling. You mentioned froth the market when it comes to tech. Any indication that comes out so far question mark they are still so far . They are still relatively high. Relative to technicals, it seems the buyers are trying to step in even with the sellers at work. Nasdaq 100 holding its moving average. Apple has not touched that support line. We could see some selling pressure but we are likely to see the market hold up so long as they are in place. Tech has taken the spotlight away from oil. Oil is down today more than a percent. It is something to keep in mind. It is risk off but oil is very sensitive to the economy. This is one time investors may be nervous around the economy. But overall, orderly and risk off. David lawmakers return to washington with a ful
Betting. Carol and we have amtraks turnaround plan. You may not like it. Jason here is joel weber on the issue. Lets start by talking about trains. A big travel week. Maybe some people taking a train, flying, but amtrak is in a bit of a pickle. Joel amtrak has been a money loser for years. It has a new ceo who came from the airline industry, and they talked about his plan. A lot of people who are amtrak fans dont really like this plan of his. But it could lead amtrak to be profitable. Carol delays, delays. Never on time, right . Jason it is Richard Anderson, the former ceo of delta, not making a lot of friends out there. Maybe some people making friends, or at least feeling better about the economy, is almost everyone. Peter coy talks about this 180 folks have done looking at the economy. Joel just a couple months ago, it was like rain clouds out. Now it is winter, and suddenly the sky seems to be opening up and everybody is like, it does not seem to be so bad. A crazy time for the eco
Betting. Carol and we have amtraks turnaround plan. You may not like it. Jason here is joel weber on the issue. Lets start by talking about trains. A big travel week. Maybe some people taking a train, flying, but amtrak is in a bit of a pickle. Joel amtrak has been a money loser for years. It has a new ceo who came from the airline industry, and they talked about his plan. A lot of people who are amtrak fans dont really like this plan of his. But it could lead amtrak to be profitable. Carol delays, delays. Never on time, right . Jason it is Richard Anderson, the former ceo of delta, not making a lot of friends out there. Maybe some people making friends, or at least feeling better about the economy, is almost everyone. Peter coy talks about this 180 folks have done looking at the economy. Joel just a couple months ago, it was like rain clouds out. Now it is winter, and suddenly the sky seems to be opening up and everybody is like, it does not seem to be so bad. A crazy time for the eco