The 10 year treasury yield hit a record low. Its rallied a bit. Its given the dividend trade a big boost. Well break down how to avoid dividend traps and the wall street journal ken brown says why stocks could be riskier than they appear. Gold has been one of the hottest trades this year, as you no doubt know. The gold rally is just beginning. We found one of the few gold bears to lay out his case against the pressucious metals. We were scrambling i dont know who we found. Well find out coming up. Tesla ceo elon musk giving into a war of worlds over the time it took the automaker to report a accident involving a autopilot. I dont know how well get to this over the next two hours. Lets start with the global yield crush. Bill, another day, another record in terms of low yields all over the world. Theres so many jurisdictions all over the place that have these negative yields, these record low yields, we just want to point out a few of them. The notable ones to give you an idea, a sampler
Anytime soon either. Progress. We have to go forward well, you can make it come back if you restrict peoples ability to vote and control their reproduction. [laughter] and thats what the fight is right now. Were at the heart of it. Were at the heart of, you know [inaudible conversations] i think weve got time for one more. Wheres my timer . I have a san antonio question. The Economic Innovation Group came out with a study recently talking about income inequality, and san antonio is one of those places where theyre side by side, some of the worst poverty and well off. And i was thinking about your point about women having children out of wedlock more and more. And i think historically weve always been taught to think thats a bad thing, thats something that we need to help those women not do. Just like we need to improve the educational system and everything. Are we thinking about this wrongly . I believe that we are. I am, however, a lefty feminist. [laughter] it is conservative dogma,
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