Windows were classmates at dartmouth come classmates at Harvard Business School but we were also roommates at Harvard Business School our first year alone with our good friends and classmates steve who grew up in darien, lived nearby and know he and his wife sue are plugged in tonight. Ill never forget that first week we were at Harvard Business School together thrown in his roommates. We lived in that awful peabody tariffs across the river from Harvard Business School, and back then Harvard Business School was as you member run by fear and intimidation. Us it was a case method, three cases ati day, 50 of Class Participation, 50 ip of the gret was Class Participation and 10 of the class was flunked each class. Theres a lot of pressure to succeed. Ill never forget the first few nights studying with you and steve. We had her own Study Group in that awful apartment and they couldnt keep up with you and steve. You guys were light years ahead of me in every case. We got to the right place.
shellady and moody s economist john lonski. welcome to both of you. scott, what do you make of what is happening right now? maybe because of stormy weather, folks expected to participate in online shopping more than otherwise would be the case. how do you sort of look at that? the shocking numbers, online shopping still has not eclipsed bricks and mortar. depending who you read about 20, 25%. what do the malls look like when there is 50/50? there is a still room to have online shopping area. i think bets, ultimately death knell at some point in time but right now it is small. we need to see 10 billion, the market would love. that would be something good to underpin we see what happened today. u.s. economy, u.s. consumer, the way they feel, it is a good recipe. stuart: john, you ve been telling me the consumer is the key to this recovery and even when ceo s, cfos, sort of dialed back expectations or not hired as many or ratcheted down their plans, the consumer had none of th
erected days later. now senate democrats are planning a vote next week to codify abortion rights into a federal law. here s what you may have missed in the leaked opinion. in a footnote, justice samuel alito notes that supporters of abortion rights really just want to suppress the size of the african american population. justice samuel alito goes on to suggest that because of roe v. wade a disproportionate percentage of fetuses is black. the man who helped get a voting rights and uphold white racial innocence is now moved to protect a black lives. he offers no context here because while brevity is the soul of what it is also clearly the soul of the dim-witted. we will offer context and a second. shout to the republican voters who paved the way for this very thing to happen. do not mind us. we are still here cleaning up this mess. the mess on our hands now is the trump appointed judges who helped create the conservative majority. now, they are empowered and emboldened at a tim
massive $1.9 trillion bill. amanda, catch us up to speed on the latest border crisis. reporter: the department of homeland security has instructed fema to begin to get involved with the unaccompanied migrant children coming over the southern border and trying to mitigate and shelter and move them into other facilities to help the influx we re seeing. to note the data points we have so far, about 3200 unaccompanied children being held at cvb facilities it comes as a 28% increase. this is all coming both with the biden administration trying to tackle the immigration issue but it s taking notice here among lawmakers within capitol hill. keep in mind, the influx we re seeing of this of the migrant children coming through across the border is due in part to a couple of factors including devastation from hurricanes in the last year as well as the covid pandemic impacting where the communities are as well as looking forward to anticipating more relaxed border protection and en
meanwhile, tragedy in louisiana. the death toll rising to seven. as floodwaters began to recede and the national weather service warns the danger is far from over. a strict curfew helping calm the tense situation in milwaukee. the latest is the community struggled to move forward. a guantánamo bay shocker. would you need to know is the prison prepares for the largest transfer under president obama. more trouble for the affordable care act is another major insurer pulls back. why aetna is pending exposure in all but four states. trouble behind the wheel of the new court in significant financial penalties for vw. a wild night in rio, how it two separate stumbles to gold away from the u.s. searching for direction following record closes for each of the major averages in yesterday s session. in europe, market slightly lower across the board and in asia overnight asked whether led by japan s nikkei which fell 1.6%. care to break it down, fox business network s dagen mcdowell. con