The ashes . That is what you did in virginia and new jersey. And your guy your guy going to politics who is my guy . Deblasio. My guy. 60 youre a new yorker hes your mayor hes my mayor hes my mayor. Thats my mayor. And he we had him on the show before ive also had commentary that has not always been positive about some of the things he said i know. I know youve been critical you have not been positive of deblasio, im just yanking your chain. So the prospects for tax reform what do we think i think it gets more complicated. Is this a picture of the future . Is this something they can look at a year from today and say election day all over again if we dont have something passed potentially in all fairness im glad you guys got it. Its nice once in a while. You were off a low base. A lot of state legislatures and governors. You are talking about the democrats having a good day for the first time in a long time. Youre looking at the democrat over there . That democrat . Its been a long time
Still positive on stocks and short bonds. Tepper telling me of the markets, quote, any comparison to past overheated markets are ridiculous look at where multiples and rates were in 1999 im not saying stocks are screaming cheap, but youre nowhere near an overheated market, he said. Tepper calling his short of bonds a hedge, a trade that is not working now, but that hopefully will tepper citing strong Global Growth and low bond yields as two of the principle reasons he sees more opportunity ahead in stocks telling me, quote, because world growth will continue to be good, earnings will be better and stocks are relatively cheap to Interest Rates asked where rates would begin to become concerning for him, tepper telling me, if rates go up a lot, the market would have trouble with that, but 50 basis points is not going to make a difference, he said. I asked him about his portfolio, his 13f revealing yet that he continues to like tech tepper owning positions in names like alibaba, afl belpha
Jazeeras ali velshi joined by Al Jazeera Morgan radford who new Nelson Mandela on a personal level, ali . Yeah, you can hear the cheering at the end of moons comments and its more somber in there at moments, outside people are still streaming in and starting to become a trickle and morgan is here with me and morgan knows the family. Today is not the family event, the family funeral will be on sunday in the mandela home. But the family is here and this is the way for the rest of the world who really thinks of themselves in many ways as Nelson Mandelas family to celebrate. They call him father of the nation and we heard the youngest of the three young men born to mandelas only son and he spoke about the legacy his grandfather left and afterwards that cut the cameras to president obama and the entire stadium erupted and immediately after they sowed zuma and the stadium booed. This is a complication of the post mandela era. For all the problems in south africa citing and there are many and