want to get his take on the markets, treasuries, the economy amid this government shutdown. I want to bring in Drew Mattis. He's the chief market strategist at Metife Investment Management.Uh we keep uh we keep moving higher. Are we moving too high or you know, you can only get higher if you go higher. So where are we.>> Well, I think that's a great point. When you compare what earnings expectations are and you compare it to growth expectations among economists, you know, there's a gap there. uh and if you' ...

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Hey, thanks Scott. Uh we've got the former uh Treasury Secretary here, Steve Minutuchin, of course, the founder and managing partner of Liberty uh Strategic Capital as well. It's nice to see you, sir.We got a lot of lot of former Treasury Secretaries. Hank Pollson's here, Tim Gner's here, Larry Summers is here. You're here.Bob Rubin, Janet Yellen. Who am I missing. It's big turnout.Um here's what I want to talk about. Uh tariffs. We talked to the president of the United States this morning on tariffs uh on ...

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boosting the richest by $12,000 a year. Joining us right now is Phil Swagel. He's the director of the Congressional Budget Office.And Phil, let's talk through some of the criticism you've received. Russ Vought said on X that this bill reduces deficits by $1.4% trillion. When you adjust for the CBO's one big gimmick, not using a realistic current policy baseline.Caroline Leavitt said that the CBO assumes long term GDP growth of an anemic 1.8%. And that's absurd. And then you had President Trump himself sayin ...