Joining us now to talk about the impact of a shutdown, Mark Zandandy, Moody's Analytics chief economist for all these reasons, Mark, you know, should are investors right to brush off the threat of a of a shutdown and what that might do economically. >> Well, Sarah, I mean, if the shutdowns a week or two and that's probably the most likely scenario, and that's probably what investors think is going to happen appropriately. So, then, you know, from a macroeconomic perspective, a market perspective, no big dea ...

Let's continue that conversation this morning with Dan Greenhouse, chief strategist, managing director at Solless Alternative Asset Management, who joins us here at Post9. Happy Friday, DG. Good to see you.So, this uh this week, has it been like a a healthy breather going into a ramp in the year end or is the rally as broad as you would have liked. >> No, the rally is not as broad as I would have liked. It's there's a lot of lowquality and uh bitcoin related names that that have led the way, but but also ho ...

Who is the next person on your list in this retribution. It's not a list, but I think there'll be others. I mean, they're corrupt.These uh these were corrupt radical left Democrats cuz Comey essentially was a he's worse than a Democrat. I would say the Democrats are better than Comey, but uh no, there'll be others. Look, it was that's my opinion.Uh they weaponized the Justice Department like nobody in history. What they've done is terrible. And so I would I hope there frankly I hope there are others because ...

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Politicians always threaten to shut down the government.They create mass hysteria. They cause confusion and chaos.And then they strike a deal and the government continues operating.Sometimes the deal happens at the 11th hour, other times it happens 2-3 days after the shut down.It is all noise though.The government couldn't figure out how to keep themselves shut down even if they were paid to do it. ...

The White House’s budget office sent a memo telling federal agencies to prepare for mass firings of workers if a government shutdown occurs next week. This could raise pressure on Democratic lawmakers. (Photo: The Washington Post via Getty Images) https://t.co/jhwcw4QZ83 https://t.co/BJPzwTQiwu ...

Let's go to our senior White House correspondent, Garrett Hake, who's been watching this alongside us. Um, I'm waiting to see Garrett if he takes any more questions, but I don't think so. Uh, Garrett, there were a lot of headlines there.Can we start with uh the Middle East and what the president said about the possibility of having some kind of peace deal involving Israel and Gaza. I think if I heard him right, he said, "Maybe today we'll have something to say." But then he went on to say, "I still need to ...

Federal workers uh could be at risk of more than furls if the government shuts down in a few days. Uh Emily Wilkins joins us now with the latest from DC and the uh well we'll talk at the end Emily but the uh as expected rhetoric. If you need you need 60 votes in the Senate, right.Is that what you need. You need you need 60 votes in the Senate, Joe. And and you got to map the math.There are only 53 Republicans. Some of them have to be Democrats. And look at this.How are you going to say. How are they going t ...

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It has been a hot minute since markets had to worry about a government shutdown. We have been here before, and a shutdown is usually averted last minute. That's why the market tends to take the ordeal in stride until it absolutely can't. Helpful context on the latest brewing debacle from Deutsche Bank strategist Jim Reid: "Whilst Fed speakers provided the main headlines, an important developing story has been on the potential for a US government shutdown next week. For those who haven’t been following, ...