awesome, thank you. my pleasure. mark: i look at government. government you look at the constitution. our government is supposed to be limited, constitution of shed up with checks and balances, then we have the bill of rights that protects the individual, and the 9th amendment, in tenth that talks about federal implement ism, thesystem is set up to proe individual, recognizing there is a circle of liberty around the individual that the government cannot pep penetrate. now i look at government today, jason, massive taxing, massive spending. massive controlling. massive redistribution. massive transforming. we warding search citizen rewarding certain citizens, punishing certain citizens, political party in my view, particularly democrat, gaining power, expanding powers. i would be you re curious. what happens to the individual, all this power and energy and resources and focus is on the expansion and of the federal government. mark, you hit on the crisis that we re havi
jason witlock how are you. awesome, thank you. my pleasure. mark: i look at government. government you look at the constitution. our government is supposed to be limited, constitution of shed up with checks and balances, then we have the bill of rights that protects the individual, and the 9th amendment, in tenth that talks about federal implement ism, thesystem is set up to proe individual, recognizing there is a circle of liberty around the individual that the government cannot pep penetrate. now i look at government today, jason, massive taxing, massive spending. massive controlling. massive redistribution. massive transforming. we warding search citizen rewarding certain citizens, punishing certain citizens, political party in my view, particularly democrat, gaining power, expanding powers. i would be you re curious. what happens to the individual, all this power and energy and resources and focus is on the expansion and of the federal government. mark, you hit on
year. now, where we are, the market is expecting a couple more increases and then a decline. this is part of why the stock market went down yesterday, the fed is projecting interest rates will continue to go up and stay up through the end of the year. powell said, don t expect a cut this year. so the fed and the market have a very different view of life at the moment. the market was disappointed, a little bit, in the fed s reaction yesterday. which leads you to the second chart, steve, this balancing act for the fed, which is, we want to tame inflation, which is stubborn and sticking around, but we have thesystem, as well. the fed was trying to weigh this. before silicon valley bank, the market thought the fed would go up half a point. others thought it should go up nothing, recognizing there are still issues in the banking area. they split the baby and did half. one thing to think about is the banking crisis for the fed. i illustrated it here, showing how much banks borrow from th
drove through innocent bystanders, not dissimilar from what we have seen. i had senators from both parties calling me saying, hey, we feel the pain of what s happening in your state. we condemn it. for a moment, there was this pride of, hey, folks in positions of leadership across political parties are stepping up and standing up to this. the president missed that opportunity. i tried to give him the benefit of the doubt for at least saying the word yesterday. he couldn t move on. i think people in charlottesville will be enormously disappointed but probably not surprised. not to put too fine of a point on it, senator. what happened on saturday was a domestic terrorism attack by white supremacists. that s what happened. he drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters. the individual who did that is in jail. thankfully, thesystem,
the full weight of it is being brought down upon him. it is hard to imagine if that domestic terrorists action had been committed by somebody who was, instead of a white supremacist terrorist, a muslim terrorist, it is impossible to imagine president trump saying that both sides are responsible for the violence, saying that the people that came out against these extremists are equally to blame. you are 100% right. the hypocrisy of then candidate trump who constantly challenged president obama for not using the phrase islamic terrorism. this president is unwilling to use that same standard to describe what happened, which was domestic terrorism ye