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Reform this week. In the business section, you lay out graphic. Megan we took a close look at the house plan. It is a serious attempt to implement major changes to the u. S. Tax structure. But also there is so much at stake politically. It is fascinating that a year after the election, we are now getting to what republicans universally say is the real thing that they have to get, tax reform. When anyone tries to get this done, there is a reason why it has failed in the past. The u. S. Tax code is so complex and there are so many vested industries and people and sectors and special Interest Groups that relied on parts of the tax code that in a normal, Intelligence System you would have not had in there. What is fascinating about the house tax plan is how much that it raises the deficit which has long been anathema for republicans. But also to make the numbers work, how much they look at smaller, limited parts of the code that will make a difference. Julia it is ok when you add those pie
And welcome to power lunch, the bears are out today. The dow and s p 500 having their biggest oneday slide since the beginning of july. The s p 500 in fact falling below its 50day moving average for the first time in a month. Wall streets socalled fear index, the vix soaring hitting the high in five weeks gold meantime, hitting a twomonth high retail to blame. Macys is down 9 . Kohls and dillards also getting whacked. Jc penney being taken down here, brian. We begin with your money and investments. North korea, of course, grabbing all the headlines, but the defense stocks are mostly lower today and apple is the biggest drag on the dow. So is all the saber rattling really to blame . Live in washington with the latest on north korea, bob though at the nyc, bob, let us start with you how much are you hearing is north korea, is valuation, or maybe just a normal, healthy august pullback . You know, id say 75 is concerns about north korea, but we do have some High Expectations on the earning
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Spoke at the Cato Institute of washington. This includes remarks by one paul sun, senator rand paul. Its an hour and 10 minutes. Good afternoon. Welcome to the Cato Institute. Im david boaz of the institute of her trying Something Different you are doing an event after work hours. Well see how that works out, but hopefully its good for people who have jobs and cant come to the events we do usually at noon. Required to have a very interesting discussion of ron pauls revolution. About 30 years ago there was a book published about the early years of the Libertarian Movement called it usually begins a timer and unless we found a cato, that most of our interns and students who came to her seminaries had first read the fountainhead. Not all of him, but more than anything else. I think you can say over the past six years, it usually begins with ron paul. As we get more people hitting their first taste of libertarian ideas and maybe then they move on to read ayn rand and cato policy studies, w