We're back. It's still the breakfast and plus we have glad to say we have joining us for off the press, which is daily new super review segment upon a boy in Qataria for my special assistant to the state government or governor on information and communication. Missing guitar. Good morning to you. Thank you very much for your time. Special advice. I don't know how that came out. Sorry about that. Yes, indeed.  Appreciate it. We had a good relationship. You know, I was in cross in reverse. In reverse. Thank you very much for your time. And happy new year to you. Good morning. Good morning. Right. Fantastic. Um, we started for the look at the stories on the front page of the nation newspaper this morning. Indeed, the political season is heating up. There's a lot that's happened since the last time I was here, which is last year. Well, the big one there. Uh, I'll be fair to all tribes. I will be fair to all tribes. APC candidates unstoppable says Quarra governor. Uh, he is a product of unity. All right. Uh, more from the nation security spreads net to rescue 31 train travelers in Ado state, a reverse bars articles campaign from public schools, PDP candidate in the UK business review for 2023. So, we'll look to Nigerians. Sean evil predictions. Uh, the risk for us. We'll uh, some of the titles there on the front page of the nation. Fogs attack ocean APC campaign office 13 new COVID-19 cases reported in Lagos Ado. Um, and the early intercepts drug assignments in Woodin statue and Chris Azulica is thefts CEO. Uh, some of the stories on front page of the nation quickly uh, to the next paper, which is the punch and the lead story of the punch. You see, but no surprises there has to do with the adult train attack. Uh, it says soldiers, please vigilantes track abductors 31 passengers missing of course over 32 of Dr. Ria one escaped uh, to freedom to safety. Uh, writers to that railway workers, non passengers, Southeast residents among abductees and RC boss official. Uh, two underage victims rescued suspect arrested as FG or Basiki condemned kidnapping. More from the paper, electricity consumers demand new tariff reversal. Think it's quite a troublesome one. Uh, for a lot of us who haven't to pay uh, a lot for that. FG pays 4.12 trillion narrow interest on CBN loan. Agents protest as customs hike imported vehicle duty raids. Air chief regrets civilian casualties, orders probe armed forces remembrance. Governors seek support for fallen soldiers, families jackpot. More youth for cell assets seek fortunes abroad. Call for missing baby probe rises government mom and forex allocation to telecom sector drops. Let's quickly go to the guardian with these stories. The lead one search ongoing for 31 abductees in a dull state train station attack. Uh, reverse unlawful electricity tariff hike. Syrup, Ergis, Buhari, Atticus aide denies ill health rumors. Ignore propaganda LP on ground in North Spokesman shows Nigerians. Why some Southeast politicians, businessmen opposing OB by OBD OBIGO? Okay. Uh, more from the guardian. Some of the Ergis Nigerians shun evil predictions ahead of general election and don't take consumers for granted. Energy experts charge discos are some of the headlines on the front page of the guardian and that's our last paper uh this morning. We have a discussion on the situation in a dull state uh as far as the train attack is concerned but I'd like to give you a few minutes or a minute to just say something about this. Some things about because it's quite worrying uh traumatizing to see the least least. Are you talking about this uh train attack? Yes. Well it is it is quite tragic and more so worrisome. I mean uh I think these trains and train stations have become targets of attacks. Uh the last one of course we're all aware of what happened and uh that stops uh train services for quite some time. It will put on hold for quite some time to ensure that all the methods and safety measures are put in place. And so with the assumption of the train services we all expected that the federal government would have done its own work properly to ensure the protection of lives, the safety of lives. But you see this is even more disturbing in the sense that this one did not just happen while the train was uh uh in motion. Let me say uh what I say was not in real. It really happened at the station and this calls to question the preparedness of the federal government to actually commence and sustain the train services. Because at the stations we expected security guards at least we should have the police, we should have the DSS and all the security station there going too well that the train services shall be target of uh uh these criminals. So the main fact that without any resistance that these criminals went and abducted all those that abducted including the station manager. So without any resistance that is the key word there is quite disturbing, extremely disturbing. It shows that the federal government uh uh has um taken treated lives of Nigerians with levy. You know they bother less. Why would you tell me that you don't have security guards at that station? Because no gun shots were fired. There was no resistance. I think the abductors just went into abducted their their uh uh big things and walked away. It's so much need. It's it's quite disturbing. I think the federal government should do more or if they cannot ensure the protection of life then let us talk to the the train services in this country until when they are sure that they can protect lives. Very important. They are not just talking of uh attacks in and around the rails. We are now talking of attacks and they're taking the fight and they're doing nothing about that. It's it's it's not it's all right. Let's uh go stay with the Guardian newspaper um talks of the the health situation and the health condition of our presidential candidates uh really rife in this season ahead of next uh this year's presidential election. Um Artico Boca is his turn to to have that scrutiny. I mean throughout the weekend lots of um rumors surrounding his his health. Uh and a Tautiku has come out as quoted by the Guardian newspaper uh the stories on page three of the Guardian this morning saying that uh uh he's denying Artico's ill health ill health rumors. What are your thoughts on that? Because um some have said the man is not been walking well um he's jetted off to Dubai to take care of his health. He's nowhere to be found in recent days as far as campaigns are concerned. Well uh I am not here to ascertain to the velocity or I mean the apocalyptic fairness of that report. Uh first and foremost let me state this that um Artico is a human being and we are all close to him.  They fall sick and don't forget that he has been touring this tradition to campaign. He's a human being. In fact I just got back from my elder brother's burial on Saturday and he showed rest in peace. Yeah, since I called the lenses on on that open above. Yes, the architect who died at fifty eight you know. Uh and uh all through someday I was sleeping. Oh, I don't have any medical conditions. I'm not in apathensis. I'm not diabetic but I'm human. As a result of the two traditions preceding I am just a brother not even a son. You can imagine what the son was up on and you know and the wife. So we are human beings and we are prone to human problems and illnesses and sicknesses are part of of human being. The article today has gone for medical checkup of cause I'm not sure about his age.  You have to adjust at fifty the same thing. So what are we talking about? There is no human being on end of course. There is no one on end of course. But if because of when one is a terminal illness or when one is going to affect your job to discharge of the job that is really because of for example, as you're going senile if you're having amnesia if you're unable to walk then definitely it is going to affect the job because you will not commit yourself to that job the way you are. That is when it becomes worse. Otherwise somebody has malaria somebody has typhoid or even BP that is being managed and your doctor is abroad and you want to go and see what's going on with that. So the whole thing is being blown out of proportion. If at all it is because like I said I cannot speak for now if at all it is actually speak or not. I know this is an area of propaganda where everywhere you fly out to go and do something or they'll say ah there's one on medical treatment. Just to discredit the family. One of his both persons have come up to say it's a lie that that story is not true that Antico does travel. But whatever it is, even nettles that assume which are conceiving that he's actually sick. What is wrong with that? He has never he has never talked to anybody. He wants to be. He didn't disappoint anybody during the campaign. So what I'm saying? He didn't disappoint anybody during the campaign like they're faltering like something like making some numbers of him comprehensible statements and so on. So we didn't we didn't get all those things. His mental faculties are intact. Okay. So there's no problem. Maybe actually travels have traveled abroad for that. There's nothing wrong with that. Yeah. He is not a young man anymore. I mean he's um uh uh 76 years shy of 80. So I mean my my my my father passed on at 78 and I took care of him for 79 years. You know. Let me tell you something about Biden is old. Joe Biden. Now you said your father passed on your father passed on at 78. My father died at 94. My father smoked cigar. Grant is brandy. He stout. The other day he died. He was a judge. So you cannot say he was when I mean a judge. You can mean you can if you see judges that are actually working to see most of them go pray gray hair and everything. Because the challenges are enormous. You know. So he died at 94. No high blood pressure. No diabetes. No glasses. You use what you speak intermittently because he was a paramount chief. He never used what you speak at home. He died at 94. He didn't have a mission. He was not senile. Yeah. But that's the problem. What about we don't know. One minute. I'm not talking about you. Listen up. Your father's uh. You mentioned your dad. Let's keep learning land. I know what I'm saying. All right. All right. Go on. We went to the UK. Came back a few days later. He died. My mom died at 78. He was with the four years older. So it is not age. That's the point of me. I went my father died. He died with his younger brother. Sorry. One week interval. Who was also a general of university? One week after. He was seventeen years older than him. Now I'm dead of course. So it's not the age. I get your point. I get your point. My dad was 79 when he passed on.   My elder brother is 58. He's dead. He's already buried. So what are we talking about? I get your point. It's not about the age you know one passes on. I'm not saying that you can't live here. I'm just saying that from what people are saying uh it's been reported some tabloid was the first. I thought it's a particular tabloid was the first one to report that the man was sick and that's why he was flown from Dubai in the UAE to London for medical treatment attention. I'm saying that when you for most people not for everyone for most people when you get to your 70s you begin to you know watch it. You begin to take it slowly. I'm not saying it's impossible to be a president at that time. But if you are the age of 76 you know and you begin to have health checks.  Shouldn't that be taken seriously? And shouldn't that be a serious question? That is what I am saying. As far as your push for the president is concerned. I just told you I just told you this is political error. So plan to the tabloid just to moving into excuse the situations like this by your political opponents just to discredit you. Otherwise medically they tell you once you're 40 that's what they tell you medically. And of course as they socialized I spend the week. So that's about that. PTOB cannot claim to be who is supposed to be one of the youngest. Cannot claim to be as strong as Kofi Mantis. So if we are looking at just the age alone then PTOB should also not contest. That does look like Kofi Mantis to contest. Well we're not talking about PTOB here. I didn't mention his name. So what you're saying is that even if Tico is in the hospital in UK right now as far as his run for the presidency is concerned it's not an issue. That's what you're saying. That's not what I'm saying. Don't get me wrong. I said it depends on what I'm taking into the hospital. Okay. Okay. Okay. It depends. That's another point I'm making. It depends. We all fall sick. I said it from the one. We all fall sick. Okay. But it depends provided it is not something like I said it here. I said you don't suffer for ambition. You are not senile. You don't have a terminal. I didn't think I mentioned that when I started. I said it depends on the sickness. So if you have headache and malaria and stuff for that measure then would you go to the hospital? So it all depends on the kind of sickness you have. All right. So is it that so you believe that Tico Aboka left the UAE left Dubai to go to London because of something that could easily be treated? For him to go to London doesn't not mean it's something really serious. It's possible that there is doctor is it's possible he might even be going in for surgery. I said possible this is an hypothesis. If he's going in for surgery he would definitely go to where is doctor is. All right. I open up. I between nine thirteen and twenty. I have six surgeries. So surgery has nothing to do with eight. I have six surgeries. So surgery has nothing to do with eight. If we have we eat that's where I remember my first surgery when I did it there. The second one because Dr Yanny had left for London with you to London for me to go to surgery. But I'm sure you're aware that having a surgery in your 20s 30s even 40s it's way different from having a surgery in your 70s. I agree now. The point I am making is that he left UAE for London does not mean the case is that CBR. Maybe that's where he has his consultant. You have you don't have to you have the consultant that knows your medical history. And then we can afford it. Why not? I lost my friend my second cousin Dr Tiazia Makhry. Just because when we rushed him to the hospital the doctor who the doctor said he was like give him an injection and I was not killed him. Dr Tiazia Makhry that was not killed him. Sound brave. And that's how we lost him because the man who was trying to save his life. So he gave him an injection. That injection was not killed him. You definitely don't go to wear a doctor who knows his medical history. Even you coffee. If you have a problem you can rush to a doctor that you're close to. It's your manager. All right. All right. Mr Kutaira thank you very much. On the front page of the leadership we didn't have the time to look at all the stories there but I'll take one for now. Peter Obi the the Labour Party's presidential candidate has some coverage that he says quote I will or fuel subsidy will go. It says it'll be sort of paper saying I'm sure that must be from his appearance at the Town Hall Town Hall series last night. What are your thoughts on that? Fuel subsidy will go. Seems it's already going because in some places I am impenetrable. We are paying 400 Naira. Yeah. Do we still have fuel subsidy? Fuel subsidy is just a dream pipe. It's just a conduit pipe. Do we still have fuel subsidy and we are buying fuel at 500 Naira per liter for filling stations in Potacot? I understand in Naguja it's a few 180 or there about. But in Potacot it's 500 Naira. So where is the subsidy? If we remove the subsidy we'll fuel fuel go for 1000 Naira per liter. Send down to any nation. So I don't think there is fuel subsidy at all. It's just a cocktail. Because as you see a cocktail goes in charge of the the the industry maximizing profits at the expense of of that in Nigeria. And the federal government is doing nothing about it. So is there a reason maybe you think would you say this man who is saying fuel subsidy will go categorically maybe the right person to handle the situation from leading candidates. I'm not saying he's not the right person. Probably he has his own magic wand. I'm not saying the right man. I think Kutu has said that it was talked about fuel subsidy. Kiribu has talked about fuel subsidy. It is not the mountain. It is the act. You talked about a cocktail. I need to ask you which candidate Yeah. Which candidate you think has the political will looking at the leading candidates now three or four of them. Which of them do you think has the political will to dismantle any cocktail, you know. I don't tell the article has the political will. Amongst all of them the largest prospect of doing that. They have the political will. He's been there. He knows what it is. He knows what it takes and he knows how to grab out. He has the financial to all of it. All right. Interesting. Let's move on to other stories. Zoya Tiku has said I think his plan is to sell you know sell sell government assets. I'm sure probably privatize NMPC even though they're private but not entirely private now. If he wants to go into that we can go into that but that will be a topic for another when it comes to selling privatizing government assets. We will go into that. Don't forget Tiku was a vice president. I could say Tiku a Tiku a Tiku. What did the bus industry in 2019 when he recommended that Tiku? What did he say? He said he has all the checks to revamp the economy. He has all the he said all that. But this same bus angel now is endorsing Tiku. He's endorsing another man. That's the man of doubles. He's the man of double stick. We all know him. He's the man of double stick. So in 2019 was he why should we trust what he said about a Tiku in 2019 since the man of doubles speak? I'm not saying I would because the truth of the project is that COVID I can say COVID is the best broadcast time today and tomorrow I now say oh message is the best broadcast time. That does not be the fact that I recognize your abilities. All right. All right. Anyway, let's go on. It seems all is not too well with the families of Nigerians fallen here heroes. As we mark armed forces remembrance day, you know, there's been talk of the difficulties of families of Nigerians ex-servicemen having to go through on the front page of the punch, there is a little story a caption at the bottom of that front page armed forces remembrance governors seek support for fallen soldiers families. It seems that the state governors are the ones who may be coming to the rescue of the families of these ex-servicemen. One of the thoughts on this and how they they've been treated are they asking for too much maybe because I know that this current administration I I I yeah when you've been when you've been doing the service of not the public taking care of are you talking about those that have retired I'll be asking for too much doing the service of not the public taking care of the remuneration incentives almost zero we've heard of new continue on three occasions we've heard of the situation where even the soldiers have to shoot a captain or that about and even those that were sent on the rescue mission to rescue the adopters what some of those who went and took the money that have said that the soldiers said this is how they feed they just send them here to keep for them to die getting equipment to even fight these criminals so if they cannot take care of the several ones are they is it the are they the retirees that don't take care of okay so that will be actually for talking about that's the truth about and that's why our soldiers are like look I'm going to send them out you see how how successful they become because United Nations will their co-workers ensure that they give to them more than what they need okay because in this country you get 10 percent of what you need Miss Singotaro let's just quickly very quickly and very briefly look at one I think I won't be fair to you as a reverse man reaching his life from Potacot if I don't allow you speak on this on the front page of the nation a final take reverse bars articles campaign from public schools the political appreciation of article by Amishi is not endowed by Amishi by Wike or Amishi sorry by Wike sorry by Wike is not endowed okay they said thank you for that correction they said recently they have not paid 95 billion Naira for political campaign and they have the question thank God I Wike himself was wrong who said he had really was sponsoring this I mean telling people so you have used the state forms to buy to pay for that to pay 95 08 that is true because I don't have the nature of education to conjure the seeds and say they paid but let us even assume that yes they paid how many political parties campaign 95 million to campaign just to pay for locations how many political parties to pay just for locations as for articles in case you know he has sworn that article not win the presidential election and so he he will do anything to ensure that article does not even get 25 percent reverse but that is wishful thinking because article will reverse all right all right open up we're going to open up Bonkotaro thank you very much for your time we keep an eye on activities in river state especially as a concerns freedom democracy the rule of law I think these are issues to keep talking about thank you so much for time please accept our condolences on the the passing of your your brother may so it's my pleasure may so rest in peace my pleasure thank you thank you and that's so much we will take for now on off the press we'll return in a matter of minutes sir as we dive into our first major conversations we look at the situation in Edo state with the kidnap of travelers and the attack on the train station in Edo state we'll be back please stay with us


Justin Romando is best known as the editor of antiwar.com, where he writes a steady barrage of columns exposing the U.S. government's war machine. Uncompromising and defiant, Justin is one of the most unheralded journalists working today. His work is too incendiary for mainstream publications and way outside the bounds of any left-right paradigm. But he's not only a voice against war and empire, he's had a huge influence on the modern libertarian movement for decades. He was a friend and associate of the late Murray Rothbard, and in 2000 produced a biography of Murray titled An Enemy of the State. We discussed the early history of the modern libertarian movement and his time working with Murray Rothbard on libertarian strategy and the chances for developing a broad new antiwar coalition. Stay tuned. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Mises Weekends. This is Jeff Deist. We're joined today from the San Francisco Bay Area by Justin Romando. How are you today? I'm good. Thanks very much for coming on today. There's a lot going on in the world. But let me just back you up a little bit and get into something that's a little more high level. In your bio, you still have the term paleo-libertarian as a moniker for yourself. Can you tell me from your perspective what paleo means to today's libertarian movement? In my bio, where? On Wikipedia? I mean, I didn't write that. Are you saying Wikipedia is not true? Well, like we all know that everything on the Internet is true. Though, I would defend that label. I think that the word paleo means going back to your roots. I think that we should go back to our roots as libertarians, keeping in mind that the non-aggression principle is what we are all about. We are not for any cultural lifestyle and that, you know, lifestyleism is a danger that has to be avoided. So I would agree with the paleo label and I think it's still valid. Even though Lou has kind of renounced it, I have a sentimental attachment to it. Well, in terms of your own development, you're a young guy growing up in New York State, I guess Westchester County, so not quite New York City, but not quite upstate. Catholic kid, is there anything about your childhood that made you into a natural or reflexive libertarian? Oh, boy. Well, yeah. I mean, I was always a difficult kid and, you know, I could have been a juvenile delinquent easily and then I read Ayn Rand and I became a libertarian and, you know, growing up Catholic was very important to me. The Catholic Church, even though I rejected the whole idea of God early on, my interactions with the local Jesuit seminaries. I lived in Yorktown Heights, New York, where I was brought up and up on the hill there was the big headquarters of a Jesuit and in exploring the woods one day, we came upon, you know, the seminary and I, you know, I started talking to them and they were talking about St. Thomas Aquinas, you know, philosophy, and of course, my parents were thrilled.  And not quite, but I was taken with their engagement with ideas, which I didn't get at school and I didn't get from my classmates, certainly. So that was an influence on me. And, you know, I joined a libertarian movement when I was maybe 15 years old.  I don't know if anybody remembers what mimeograph machines are, but it was an early form of publishing and we had our little fanzines. We were all young Americans for freedom. So it was that generation of the libertarian movement that I belong to. And of course, I'm thrilled today to see that we are now a relatively mass movement and I have trouble believing it. But anyway, well, let's talk about your time being a libertarian before the digital age was upon us. Obviously, you knew Marie Rothbard as far back as the 1980s and you were involved with him in libertarian strategy and the LP. You ultimately wrote a biography of Marie. Tell me about that time and what you really remember about him. Oh, boy, Marie was a friend. I met Marie in 1978 when the Cato Institute was founded in San Francisco. And we were the local libertarians and we were thrilled to hear that the Cato Institute was coming to San Francisco. This was the big news. So, you know, I went down there and met Roy Childs and I had on my hands an article that I wanted him to publish in libertarian review and he was thrilled. He published it and he hired me as a volunteer editorial assistant. That was my entry into this world, which to me was just amazing. Here were all these people gathered together, the cream of the crop of a libertarian movement, the intellectual fountain heads. Murray, Bill Evers, Ralph Raco, Leonard Ligio, David Thoreau. I mean, everybody was there. And there was a little war in the offices across the street from Cato. In an old warehouse, there was libertarian review, students were a libertarian society and the libertarian party men across the street in this glass and steel building was the Cato Institute. And so we entered that world and it was a privilege to meet all these people. I just can't even begin to express it, of course, all due to the generosity of Charles Koch. Justin, when you think back to that time, one of the fascinating things about Murray Rothbard is his willingness to build coalitions. He had a lot of thoughts about a coalition with the anti-war left. He had lots of thoughts about libertarians trying to have outreach with the religious right, with independence, with everybody in between. And I'd like to get your thoughts about that, especially in the context of the sort of the modern anti-war era. I noticed that Ralph Nader just came out with a book where he also praises what he calls an emerging left-right alliance. Right. Well, I mean, let me talk about how I sort of came into contact with Murray. Me, myself and Eric Gareth, who is now the webmaster of antiwar.com, we started what we call the radical caucus of the libertarian party.  We were imitating the left consciously. And we put out an issue of a newsletter, which, hold on, was called Diversity.  But this was back before it was popular and fashionable. This was back when it was radical. So Murray contacted us. Of course, he was across the street, but he got in touch with us. He, you know, we came over and he talked to me and he wanted to join. We were like, wow, this is great. You know, we got Murray. And Murray basically taught us what it meant to be a libertarian, what it meant to have a strategy. And of course, he was not into the cultural leftism that we espoused. But he saw all this as window dressing. I mean, what he saw in us, I guess, was that we were dedicated to principle and we were talking about strategy.   We were interested in what he was interested in. And that is building an actual libertarian movement that could win. And so we learned from him and we evolved our views. And it was great fun. I mean, he was an amazing person to be around, always joking and laughing, but basically serious. And he schooled us. We had weekly meetings of our caucus and, you know, we talked about the movement. You know, we talked about ideas. We drew up a 10 point program, which if you read it today is still valid and actually pressing it. So that's how we came into contact with Murray. I was working for students for Libertarian Society and we were active locally in the anti-war movement in an effort to get rid of draft registration. So Murray guided us, not that he was in charge. I mean, he actually argued with us. He took us seriously. And that was absolutely amazing. I mean, here's this guy who had written all these books, was brilliant person, the founder of our movement. And here are these snotty little kids, basically, who thought I knew everything. And here we are arguing with him as if we were on the same level. But he wasn't offended by this. He was charmed by it and he educated us. That was very important to me. When you talk about strategy, the fast forward 35 years, is Ralph Nader right when it comes to the anti-war movement? Is there a left-right coalition today that you can still discern out there? Certainly it seems like public opinion is going Ron Paul's way when it comes to topics like Syria and Iraq and Afghanistan. Yes and no, I haven't read Nader's book. I read about the book. I, you know, I intend to read it, but there isn't much of a left wing anti-war movement anymore to ally with. It's basically us.  And I think that they often look to older models. They hearken back to the anti-war movement of the 60s, which, you know, it was massive demonstrations, stuff like that. I think it has to take on a different form now and I'm not quite sure what that form is, but I think a lot of it is online, which of course positions anti-war.com pretty well. But yeah, I mean, like we have great trouble with what is called the left. I mean, where is the left today? Where do you see a left? There is no left.  And that was really the death of the anti-war movement. And of course, now that they're in power, at least temporarily, they are not that interested in opposing the regime's wars. So that's a problem. Of course, there's Ralph Nader, but I mean, how many troops does Ralph Nader actually have? You know, I think the left is dying and that it isn't left versus right anymore. It's libertarianism versus authoritarianism. And I think a lot of anti-war leftists have a problem with that, but there's not much they can do about it. Justin, is there any room on the right? It seems like the neoconservatives remain almost delusional, certainly unapologetic. We've seen Cheney come out recently talking about Iraq. The same people who bungled us into a disastrous conflict in the Middle East never seem to apologize or go away. But there also seems to be a developing Ron Paul wing on the right of people who understand that we need to get back to some kind of traditional conservative foreign policy. And so I'd like to get your thoughts on where we are in terms of reclaiming sort of the old Taft Goldwater Republican foreign policy. Well, all the movement is on the right now. That's where the growth of anti-interventionism is really taking place. And this is a project that I've been personally involved in and anti-war.com has emphasized over the years. Ever since the end of the Cold War, when Murray first started talking about this paleo movement, it's been in progress. And 9-11 interrupted it and gave the neocons a temporary triumph. But that's worn off pretty much. And now the neocons are in a tiny minority and we're on the descendant. And of course, Cheney now has this political action committee called the Alliance for War Mongering or whatever he calls it. They're raising all this money and they're going to have this big campaign to re-institutionalize neoconservatism as the official ideology of the Republican Party. But you know what? It's not going to work.    And we're winning. We are actually winning. I mean, you know, for somebody who grew up in a libertarian movement that didn't have more than a thousand members nationwide, to me, this is almost like a dream. And I keep pinching myself and thinking, I'm going to wake up and it's going to be me, my mimeograph machine. But actually, it's actually happening. I mean, I've never been more optimistic. People are embracing anti-interventionism as the default because they are politicians. They're looking at the polls. 75% say that the war in Iraq wasn't worth a single American life. Now, we said that back when it started and we were a tiny minority, but we knew that we were going to be vindicated. And we have been and now, now is our time. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I have to agree with Justin 100%. Read his column several times a week at antiwar.com. And Justin, we thank you for your time. Have a great weekend. Oh, and I had a great time. Thank you for inviting me.


Hello, welcome back on my YouTube channel. In this video, I'm going to show how to split a point cloud layer into tiles. Tiles are useful when the point cloud layer is very large and we need smaller tiles to handle. We can also re-tile an existing tileset. In the processing toolbox under point cloud data management, I select the tile tool. In the tool, I select delft as the point cloud layer that I want to split into tiles and the tile length can be specified in map units. In this case, I will use 500 meters. Then I choose an output directory for the tiles. I create a new folder called tiles. This operation requires a lot of temporary disk space and the disk space on my C drive where the default temporary folder of QJS is not enough. So I'm going to change here under the advanced settings, the temporary folder location and on this drive, there's enough space. So I create a temp folder there and here I can also change the number of threads and I keep the defaults and run the algorithm. After running the algorithm, I can find the tiles in the tiles folder and I'll select the tiles there in the last format and drag them to the map canvas where they'll be converted to Copsi. I select the result by removing the original layer and there we see that our tiles are there. Note that the tiles here that were created don't have a coordinate system. We can assign the coordinate system in the tile tool, which I'll show next. I'm going to run the tile tool again, but now I'm going to demonstrate how you can re-tile existing tiles. So I use the 37 tiles that we just created and I'm going to re-tile them to 1250 meter tiles and in this case I'm going to assign the projection that we want for the output and I write the result to a new folder, which I call tiles 1250. I go back to the advanced settings, the algorithm settings and I change the default folder there again in 10. You see that it has removed the previous one, so I create it again. It's just for running this tool and then I run it. After running, click close and remove previous tiles on the layers list and add the new tiles to the map canvas. You see the boundaries and it's automatically producing the COPC files. In this video you've learned how to create tiles from a point cloud layer or to re-tile existing tiles.


The following is a presentation of TFNN the morning market kickoff With your host Tommy O'Brien Good morning everybody. I'm Tommy O'Brien comedy live from TFNN Wednesday morning 9 o'clock 6 a.m. We got about 24 minutes to go until the starter trading and markets in higher territory But pulling back a bit from the highs we had just this morning You see the acceleration up to 47 12 at about 6 45 a.m. This morning News coming out that it looks like Pfizer and Biontech saying their booster provides high level of protection against the Omicron an initial lab study There's a little bit of acceleration You could argue that a lot of that already may be potentially built in quite the run We had the last couple days in terms of fears of the new variants subsiding you go from a low of 45 31 And as I just told you we just reached 47 12 47 12 from 45 31 you're talking about a hundred and 80 S&P points from where we were just Monday morning remarkable and you're talking about within about 30 points That's within about 1% folks of all-time highs on the S&P NASDAQ 100 tech stocks quite a day higher yesterday in the NASDAQ up 3% NASDAQ you're talking about Monday's action. How about 800 points almost in the NASDAQ from a low of 15,005 159 we're trading right now at 16,000 323 the Dow is positive by 34 points right now Dow within about 700 points of all-time highs in the Russell positive by 7 Russell with some volatility you talk about a pullback from 24 60 down to the lows of about 21 43 So you're talking about 320 points from the lows and we're right back in the middle of this consolidation The Russell had been in for the better part of 2021 crude oil we'll be talking our man Teddy kegs dad from forex-trading-unlocked.com at 40 past the hour We'll be talking a little bit of forex. We'll be talking a little bit of crude crude quite the acceleration off the lows We had last week over the last six days. You've seen crude trade up basically $10 from 62 43 today We reach a high of 72 79 We've pulled back a bit but crew with a 71 handle right now. You got gold off $2 at 17 82 Gold quite the acceleration in November up to 1880. We've just been chopping around with all the volatility in the market Look at this calmness that we've had in the gold contract with very little volatility indeed and no 10 bonds We jump over the 10-year a little bit of lower price and higher yield We jump over to the yield right now. You're talking about 1.5 percent. We're about 1.46 yesterday We're sitting right at 1.5 percent the yield on the 10-year The price action put negative by four ticks at 130 oh six and we jump over to the volatility index Sucking out that volatility in the market. We're at 21 90 Next stop looks to be about 20 bucks at least close in this gap 2096 is where that gap would get closed and that is the gap that we saw from Wednesday prior to Thanksgiving To the Friday where you had that huge sell-off beginning of the half-day of action on Friday following Thanksgiving We've been stuck above 22 basically since that time today Maybe it's that day we get out of that price level with the VIX subsiding and continuing that action All right jumping around to what else we have going on. We'll start it off with Vaccine optimism. So that is the headline there and when you jump over Pfizer-BioNTech say booster dose needed to fight Omicron, but that it is effective initial lab studies showed a third dose of their vaccine May be needed to neutralize the Omicron variant results that will accelerate booster shot drives around the world That's a 25-fold reduction in neutralizing Antibody levels versus the variant compared with the original strain. This is what we're seeing It looks like it definitely is something that's more contagious But the good news is it seems like it's a milder case and it seems like the vaccines do work Maybe the booster is necessary However boosting with an additional shot of the vaccine raised antibodies 25-fold against Omicron Giving a similar level of protective proteins as observed against those earlier versions after the standard two Doses they indicate that two doses of the vaccine may not be sufficient. I mean, that's kind of what we had seen folks This is an ever-evolving science. I've gotten my booster. I encourage you if you're on the fence go out there talk to your medical professional Because they are safe they are effective and we're seeing it happen right now in live action With the market getting a little bit ahead of itself on this sell-off post Thanksgiving, but man They've gotten it all back. We're trading at 46 89 now the S&P's taking a look at this chart We've had you back it up even further really remarkable that we are staying within this trend line From the lows of COVID I was talking about this yesterday and it's definitely an art not a science folks All right, you could try and take the lows off of the COVID low We had in March of 2174 But if you line up where this thing took off from basically in April if you take the action under 2500 out of there Maybe that was a little bit of an exacerbated low because remember just zooming in on that low the moves We were having in the S&P at this time remarkable. All right We had a move on March 24th of 217 points from low to high and We almost opened at the low and closed at the high we opened within three points of the low We closed within three five points of the high five and five point five points almost What is it the highs me that the high is 2447 the close is 2442 50 five point two five you have a 200 and Gotta get this right. It's just big numbers 217 point bar Yeah, and we open within a few points of the open And we closed Basically within about five points of the high so remarkable actually take that out of the equation though Maybe those few days where we really shouldn't have been below 2400 because I mean it's not like we knew much in March 24th The the market just kind of said hey hold on, you know, this isn't going to be the end of everything and you trade it up I mean that's almost a 10% pop folks S&P's are training at 2200 and we had a bar that was 217 points I have to keep looking at the numbers because they're so big I think I'm making mistakes so with that in context if you take the trend line not incorporating that it lines up pretty well to The lows and the highs maybe a little bit of a linear regression But man this thing just bounced right off the bottom and if we're on the way to the top you're talking about 4875 That's right now, but if as we go into the future you're talking about maybe 4900 as time progresses a little bit across the board there All right, and that's a good segue to JP Morgan Carl Contania, he's got some good tweets out there recently. I'm gonna pull up a couple that I found on his tweet feed this morning JP Morgan though this morning talking about 2022 will be the year of full global recovery and end of the pandemic a return to normal economic and market conditions and they put a price tag of the S&P of 50 50 not bad folks not bad indeed Back this up on a three-year weekly 50-50. I mean just to put it on this chart where we are That's quite a remarkable acceleration even from here You're talking about a solid 400 or so points in this index That would be what an eight or nine percent move for 2020 Combining the final month of 2021 all things considered I think a lot of market participants would take an eight or nine percent return in the S&P right now following the few years We've had in the you know 20 25 percent gains. It just cannot that be that way going forward folks There has to be some recoil on the market 20 to 25 percent gains on a consistent basis just is too much money It just is not how things work folks across the board. Yes, certain companies can rise at that level The entire economy rising at that level not quite how things usually work You just have to go back to history to see how these charts oscillate But man JP Morgan out there with some strong recommendations and Fundamentally, I would somewhat agree. I mean, I would say that life is getting back to normal We're gonna have these flare-ups of variant concerns until we really get the whole population of the globe Vaccinated to calm down the number of cases that are allowing these variants. We're gonna have some flip-outs I'm sure in the market when it comes time for stimulus fading away and tapering that would be the real concern State June folks will be coming back. We'll be talking about Kevin Hinks from fast market TD Ameritrade Network. 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I guess you call it negative 800 bucks just under 50,000 Bitcoin with some volatile action in a big way Bitcoin yesterday We had a price action all the way up to 52,150 so seems like a couple thousand dollars on Bitcoin just par for the course these days All right folks Let's jump over to our man Kevin Hicks every trading day 12 noon eastern time fast market from the TD Ameritrade Network Kevin Hicks Tom White and the team breaking down the day's market action Walking you through hypothetical trade setups folks in the option market talking about Delta talking about Theta talking about defined risk Kevin Hicks. Good morning Good morning Tommy or Brian. Yeah, you know, I think we've got a market here that is You know has has run quite away in the last couple days and we'll see if it's got any more legs good news this morning out of Pfizer and It looks like the combination of two vaccines and a booster will work against the Omicron variant That's real good news. I think you've got breaking news out of Roku and they're cutting the deal with Google I think that's that it's got that stock up about oh 16 17 dollars the last time I looked and you've got Kind of a lead in to the CPI data that's coming up on Friday Tommy and but besides that Not a lot of data to really get the way of this market right now Tommy So can it run into Friday's number? Very possibly yet? Yeah, pretty remarkable Kevin and I think on that Pfizer news this morning You saw the S&P's even I got the chart here up on the thinkorswim platform on a five-minute basis jumps to 47 12 About 645 7 this morning But then it just gives back that 20 or so points Kevin probably what you're talking about a lot of this built in Remarkable that was only I just had to pull it up Kevin 12 days ago was the Friday after Thanksgiving I think to myself then right the worst of the worst was kind of Cascading through the market of fears of the the mutations in the spike protein and Vaccines not even working and within 12 days We have the market back sitting within 1% in the S&P of all-time highs And we have news out there at least from the companies themselves saying that a pretty robust protection with the booster Especially and I saw that Roku news as well man And I like that because I watch YouTube on my Roku folks I watch Tiger TV on my YouTube channel on my Roku if you don't check it out It's a great deal. So I was excited to see that and Roku is up about 16 bucks So Kevin we look really for Friday. I think in my head. I'm looking for CPI all the rage I mean we just had you could call it a variance scare in the market But I see the Fed as being the real catalyst as we go forward JP Morgan out there with no fear at all today talking about maybe 5050 for next year as we get over COVID What do you look for for that Friday number as we come into it now basically back at all-time highs right now Kevin? Yeah, well Tommy the expectations for Friday's number are fairly muted in terms of What last month's number was it was point nine this one's looking point seven the ex food and energy was up point six This is looking up point five. So if those numbers come in like that that would be, you know, less acceleration in In inflation and I think the market would like that. So yeah, I think you look at the consensus You look at what they were a month ago and CPI is such an important part of the inflation narrative So this number coming up on Friday. Yeah, don't discount it. It's a big one Tommy Yeah, it'll be pretty cool man, and I think over the course of And we've been saying it for a long time Kevin It's like every month we go forward these data points are so important as chairman Powell is gonna have quite a task ahead of himself as we taper As we deal with possible inflationary tendencies, but it'd be interesting over the next, you know Six months or even year how these play out because of the volatility. I think that might be in this market I was talking about my subscribe to my subscribers yesterday Kevin saying it's a two-way market If anything, which is pretty cool as a trader right now that you're gonna have volatility in this market because of Just some what you talk about. I mean, there's so much unknown Kevin We're waiting for CPI data in a normal world without a pandemic CPIs can't vary as much as we've seen right now But as a trader, I think it really provides the volatility that we were missing for so long when the market was just dead a vix That seemed normal at 12 or 13 Kevin quite a far cry from where we are right now With that in mind you mentioned it. We got some earnings coming out still Man some some big numbers in terms of Mrs. Ditchfix. They're down pretty dramatically today Campbell soup was a little bit higher on their numbers We do have some for the week. Are you guys gonna be talking about any equities coming up at 12 noon today? Sure. Well, what like folio a day ahead of time? They're gonna talk about Lou Lou lemon That'll be a huge presentation that that they do because Thursday So piled with good names and then we'll trade our age restoration hardware today And then we're kind of thinking about that last one We're gonna try to make it as timely as possible. So we may trade some Roku today based on their Google alphabet news Nice and yeah, talk about some two powerful stocks man. Lulu lemon Just remarkable how they've transformed that athleisure industry completely It seems like that stock just does not stop hitting 485 just recently and restoration hard man, man Quite the story in terms of their acceleration in 2020. I got the chart up here I had a trend line that it was in Kevin from March of 2020 called the COVID lows almost takes it all the way up to the high we saw in August But man, they've had a little bit of a pullback back to about 500 and change 576 from 744 Those those stores restoration hardware man, they have a beautiful one in international plaza I'll tell you real quick Kevin and they put one in I hadn't been there in a while This is a couple years ago now. I go to international plaza I said did they just put a Hilton in the middle of international plaza It looked like a hotel the thing was so big Kevin that I found out no No, that's just a store that sells goods for your home. So oh my goodness check out that thing And that was a couple years ago They just built one a mile from my house and it is the curb appeal on these buildings is spectacular I I'm not lying folks. I thought it was a Hilton hotel I could because it popped in and this is a beautiful mall Kevin international plaza in Tampa You know as in there's a lot of things that pop in that place, but they popped especially a two-story giant And yeah, so they they've they've come in and and talk about being in the right place at the right time as people try And take care of their home spruce it up Talk about being high-end at the right time as well. Well, Kevin, we appreciate the conversation man We'll be watching at noon Eastern time today Lulu lemon restoration hardware and we'll look for that third stock as well man You have a great day Thanks for having me on Tommy. Have a great day. Always a pleasure Kevin you too folks tune in 12 noon Eastern time You heard it. They'll have a great presentation from like folio at Talking about Lulu lemon and they do an outstanding job folks talking about consumer sentiment out there And there's so much data. That's the coolest part There's so much data out in the world right now when you talk about social sentiment They do a great job of kind of corralling that all giving you the presentation for Lulu lemon and seeing how that might impact as they come Out with their numbers on Thursday I believe this week jumping over to Lulu lemon on the thinkorswim platform We jump over to the analyze tab They have an old earnings tab underneath there and there it is December night They'll be out with their numbers tomorrow the market right now pricing in a one-day Market maker expected move of almost $29 for a $434 stock now you jump over so you got $29 for the move Tied to earnings the weekly number with exposure through Friday You're talking about a $36 move quite a move for a $434 stock for Lulu lemon out with their numbers. Let's jump over to restoration Restoration hardware. There's some moves for you as well. Now. They're out with their numbers today jumping over It's almost a 10% move priced into the numbers folks. That is a decent number. If you're looking to absorb some premium I might have to take a look at that stock from my newsletter because anytime you see a 10% move priced into an equity folks I say maybe there's some premium up there to absorb if you don't think it's gonna have that type of volatility around earnings That's why you should listen a fast market coming up at 12 noon Eastern time today folks Is they break it down with Kevin Tom White the whole team stay tuned folks will be right back for the open Are you having fun trading the markets? 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You were trading at 176 in 2019 I believe we got under one 200. Yes, we did to 196 yesterday's action last week got down to 199 You're catching a bit there has to do with a multi-year agreement So not just a short term multi-year agreement looks like Roku was well aware that Google YouTube was one thing They had to have and I would agree. I watch a lot of YouTube. I got kids in the house They watch YouTube occasionally It's pretty cool folks if you haven't tried it out if you have a player of any deal In terms of if you have any type of a streaming stick An Amazon fire stick whatever you use to stream onto your television You can go right to YouTube search TFNN pull up our live stream during the day You can be watching all the host live on your television through that I watch it myself throughout the day If I'm around the house and I have the TV on you just throw on the YouTube app pull up TFNN You got all your favorite hosts there live on your television. So people use it immensely Multi-year agreement with Google to keep YouTube and YouTube TV on its streaming platform now YouTube TV Even even bigger one right in terms of people paying for that deal Yeah, Google had previously threatened to pull both YouTube and YouTube TV off tomorrow December 9th Caught the attention of Congress attempting to reign in the power of big tech companies like Google But they've done a deal nonetheless that much is on the market really liking it for Roku Google I looked at earlier not up too much. You're up about two tenths percent Not sure really that has to do with that big of a deal in terms of four They're a deal with Roku. All right. What else we have going on gonna jump back to the Fed decision and focus on that now Where are we? That's not it That's not it as well Give me one second folks What did I do? I Somehow lost what I had here today All right, I'm gonna pull it up. I had an opinion piece from Bill Dudley talking about next week No, I gotta find this it's here somewhere Is it not can't believe I closed that down? All right, I'll find it One moment as I pull this up folks because this one's too important. I want to talk about it here We go. All right, I found it again. Just that quick. So the next Fed meeting will offer more surprises now Full disclosure here. Okay in terms of Bill Dudley. He thinks that the Fed has to Taper much quicker. He's a former Fed official from New York He believes his opinion is is Not hidden as in I'm gonna pull up what he was writing a week ago. Okay, the Federal Reserve needs to act on Paul's words If central bankers don't accelerate the taper at their policy meeting in two weeks, it'll be too late Okay, he's putting this messaging out there because that's what he believes But you got to be aware that it's possible the Fed's got a meeting coming up December 14th and 15th That's next week. That's next week folks That's Wednesday Excuse me. Let's make sure Tuesday and Wednesday. Yeah, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week Beyond the taper the long-term outlook for interest rates might come as a shock to markets. Now. He's out there saying That at their policy meeting next week now, he's trying to introduce the idea though to make it happen, okay, but you have to realize it's possible folks because Chairman Powell I was actually pretty exacerbated that he was so strong in talking about retiring transitory when he had been talking about Transitory forever In light of the context of the stimulus and where rates are, okay You have to recognize the importance excuse me of a statement like that and the implications it could have on their plan to taper and Raise rates potentially faster than the market was continued anticipating now The aim is now to complete the program in time to be able to start raising short-term interest rates as soon as March should that prove to be necessary But the taper isn't all that will be on the agenda next week's meeting This is build ugly talking again opinion piece not new is opinion But it's an important opinion and you better believe that there's a certain probability folks that this could happen And I'm not sure the market is pricing in the probability that this could happen a lot quicker than they were thinking Fed officials are likely to signal a faster and larger tightening of monetary policy over the next three years to an extent that markets have not yet Anticipated okay, this is build ugly. This is his opinion. We'll see if it plays out But we only have one week folks the last time the Fed officials published economic projections in September Talk about a long time ago. They expected inflation to fall back close to the Fed's 2% target Even as employment pushed past the levels consistent with price stability That was a long time ago folks and the Fed they're not thinking that anymore Their median projection for the central bank short-term target rate at the end of 2024 was 1.8% Well below the 2.5 2.5 percent level most judged as neutral this time around The broad contours of the economic outlook will probably similar the median forecast for next year We'll show above trend growth pushing unemployment below 4% The biggest change will be in the interest rate policy officials deemed necessary to achieve the economic outcome last time the median projection for the Fed short-term Interest rate target at the year-end was 0.3% for 2022 1% for 2023 and 1.8 for 2024 this time the upward path will start sooner steeper and rise higher for 2022 he's looking for 0.8% that's three Quarter percentage point increases next year And for 2023 He expects officials to project four more rate hikes taking the median target of 1.8% a year earlier than when the market was thinking just three months ago for 2024 2.5 percent Judged as neutral one can make the case that the 2024 interest rate projection should go beyond neutral I would almost argue that folks You know we'll find out on Friday and and Friday is going to matter in terms of what matters next week But be aware if Friday is a hot number from inflation That's going to put a lot of pressure on this Fed meeting coming up next week The shift in the Fed's interest rate projections might come as a shock to markets is as he puts it I I kind of I I agree with that as in I agree that right now this market is trading like everything Is perfect and when you're trading like everything's perfect We saw what can happen when you get a few scares of the variant That's not what the market really Should be worrying about my opinion folks as traders as investors You should be focusing on the taper because over the next year things are going to change dramatically as asset purchases go away And interest rates rise at a level we haven't seen in a while And we're going to see how that plays out now.  He was talking about is this the tweet I took from it No, okay, but that he was tweeting this out talking about data track research Consumers having a little bit less cash Maybe then they had previously which is the reason why credit card balances are rising at a healthy clip Once again, really remarkable how these went in terms of people stop spending money march of 2020 862 billion was the peak for consumer loans credit cards and other revolving plans and from all commercial banks We reach a low in february of 2021 But since then we're on the rise Consumers might not have as much cash as they had previously That's something to keep your eye on as we have rising rates. Stay tuned folks We'll come back with teddy keg stat talking some forks are you in the market for buying or selling real estate in the bay area? Including the surrounding st. 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That's tfnn.com then hit watch tiger tv Welcome back folks We have stocks pretty much flat right now the dow up about 40 points s&p's up by four and nasdaq the only major index in the Red by about one tenth percent right now in the rustle though charging higher up 2.2 percent In a big way at 22 53 Let's jump over to our man. Teddy kegstad folks You can reach teddy every trading day at forex dash trading dash unlock.com We talked to teddy every wednesday at 40 past the hour. He talks to us about forex. He talks to us about some commodities Teddy kegstad. Good morning Good morning. Tommy we got a lot to talk about today in front of this fed meeting next week I like it man. It seems like every week teddy man. We got some big action going on whether it's crude whether it's currencies And of course with the fed action going on we got interest rates 10 year yields in about 1.5 percent I'm not sure if you were listening in the last segment Just talking about bill dudley out there with an opinion piece making the case that they might be having to hike a little bit Case faster than the market might be anticipating Be interesting. We got a cpi number coming out friday a fed meeting as you said next week Go ahead. Where are we going to start man? Okay, well, how about we do a little run around the world? I got some price targets and things for your guys And then we'll we'll break it down for you after that. I love it. Let's do it. All right. So starting out euro us dollar Okay, for those of you who follow my site, we stream, you know videos and also signals We had the euro us dollar just hit this morning the one 1311 target now. That's a key little area now We're coming off a higher move low swing low So there's a good chance that the euro right now is in a nice little corrective phase And it's going to make a run for that last major swing high around 113 80 I think that's about all you're going to see right now. I think that between now and next wednesday You're going to see a lot of divergence between the currencies versus the dollars So a little strength in the euro weakness in the pound, which we'll get to in a second 114 38 I think is your up extreme for any rally in the euro us dollar up until next wednesday Okay, because nice we'll get to it. We'll wrap it up when I can after I finish this, okay I'll follow you with the charts. Perfect. Go for it. It's a choppy mess unless you're already in it I would work a position otherwise. I would look to buy dips. I think that that's your best opportunity But it's it's a nightmare until things get under control until next week Okay, now unless there's a big rally in oil and a big sell-off in the interest rates Then I would say get become a buyer for sure But otherwise stay out of that one for until you get a valid signal British pound us dollar is weak right now. It's it just made a lower move low today while the euro is higher So that's why that that's why the dollar index right now You are not going to be able to use that as a good guide until after next wednesday You got two strong currencies going the other way. You know what I mean? So Yes, it's a grinding bear. I would use caution if I would if you're short I keep your stops tight if you're looking to buy I'd wait for a valid signal because don't try and catch a falling knife right now There's a lot of geopolitical things that are also weighing on on the uk Now let's get to our favorite one to talk about the us dollar Japanese yen Which I'm long actually and have been for a long time. You all know that one 116 is back on the target right now with the oil where it's at interest rates We're coming off the amicron blah blah, you know scare I think that you're going to see like a balloon underwater rally with the us dollar yen over the next week or so And that's regardless of what goes on with the Fed going into next week.  I'd be cautious being a bull I think it's an upside correction right now, especially with the strength and oil But we all know what's going on in Australia. It's not good for global economy. Okay New Zealand dollar us dollar which tends to go along with the australian When it's kind of just in a free float is had a nice little three inside up buy signal It's a high probable Japanese candlestick pattern which you can learn about my book if you read it I like those candlesticks perfect And it but it has a good upside target of about point 68 49 I think that's where you're going to run into some heavy selling But it could still get up to point 69 even I think that's about the extreme for a correction of the New Zealand dollar us dollar So one more and then we'll get into the back with backbones and stuff US dollar Canada bring us back to north america is back on the skids remember is in an overall bear market It's been in an upside correction for the past like four months Bobbling around I would use caution being a bull with that market right now Especially with interest rates going the way they're going and oil going to the way that it's going It's going to be a tug of war with that currency right now I have a downside target of a dollar 25 49 with the dollar 24 70 being a very easy extreme sell-off target in the short So and that's where I see things right now with these signals and with those the direction I just gave you That's a lot of divergence. Like I said, we had the euro that's strong against a dollar pounds weak Swiss is in nowhere as well. So Europe isn't a is a mixed bag of goods the same thing is with asia You have the dollar strong against the yen dollars weak against australia, which right now you would think how is that possible? But that's what just what is going on in the markets, right? Sure. Well, I love the wrap-up man. You do a great job of walking us around that whole globe Now crude we have to talk about if we can real quick Uh, quite the volatility. I was looking at waiting for you to come on today and I said, where were we last week when we talked?  We're at about 68 bucks We trade down to 72 and we got a excuse me 62 and then we get a 73 handle Um, you know, we I we kind of know where you've been on this one But what do you look for in crude right now at 72 dollars in the near term? Even if you're talking about 100 dollars in the longer term Oh, I think it's going to hold. I absolutely think it's going to hold I don't see oil. I think what we had over the holidays was that little amicron sell-off Remember remember when we talked on wednesday two weeks ago when I was out in arkansas I said be careful of holiday markets. They're thin the algos will kick in and drive it crazy I think we had that's what happened with the oil market on that friday when it collapsed, you know I mean, yeah, we had a 10 out $10 break in oil with no news in the world that would substantiate having that happen You know, so and it took last week to kind of absorb that correction and it's got a balance I mean now it's like a balloon underwater. I don't think that oil has any way of getting suppressed right now Especially like I look at how the the prices at the pump have been They're only going up in the midst of having that big break and I was traveling through the midwest You know, so if the gas prices aren't taking a dent and they're going to make height or they're going up That's just as an indicator right there Yeah, I I had to tell you because the people in my house, right? I was telling them Hey, cruise cruise just went down a lot. You know, the gas might go down. This is right before Thanksgiving And uh, and they were saying well, I always like to buy gas right before the holidays because they never go down I say you're not listening to me. All right cruise going down It's going to go down and and guess what I was not right on that one Teddy because they never went down man, even with crew going to 62 bucks. I I agree I was kind of I just kind of threw up my hands and said, hey, what do you want me to say? I know they're not lowering the prices, but Yeah, higher prices for sure Um, and then so could we real quick teddy with the with the fed? Where do you see the fed next week with what's going on? We got about a minute left Sure.  The market is always fantastic. It's never bad You know, yes, so now they cannot deny it and now they have to pull the trigger But since you're no longer in denial, what are you going to do? You can't do what you've been doing now beforehand when you said inflation wasn't a problem. It's normal Oh, it's just a spike now. You say that inflation isn't going anywhere Which means that it is here and it's staying. What are you going to do? You know, so I think that they're going to probably You know that tapering is on the table and as far as I agree with you with your uh The person from the last segment that yeah, there's a really good chance of them starting to raise earlier than uh later I think for sure And I I just think you know, whether we know what's going to happen or not, man It's not priced in when the market's sitting at all time eyes because inflation's soaring and the fed chairman's telling us Hey, we were wrong inflation's here, man Teddy, we appreciate the risk rigor I listen, I I look forward to talking to you next week, man. We'll find out Thanks, teddy. Have a great week man. We'll talk to you next week. 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You can call<PHONE_NUMBER> That's<PHONE_NUMBER> This segment is brought to you by think or swim for more information Just click the think or swim banner on the front page of tfnn.com Welcome back folks. We got the s&p's up by five points right now tech stock slightly in the red They get the nasdaq 100 negative by just 18 points now of 28 russell up by nine I think I had a wrong print right there when I was talking about the russell um, did I? Yeah, I did i'm not sure why I pulled that up It was telling me that the russell was positive by 2.7 percent that was wrong data You get the russell right now up by about four tenths percent. Let me see those are futures too. Let me see the cash Cash you're actually talking about maybe down. Uh, is that right russell? Maybe down about two tenths percent nonetheless Yes, that's the action this morning. Okay, excuse me. Let me put it back on the daily There's the daily so russell barely positive on the futures. That was probably yesterday's action nonetheless right now I have cash. I'm not sure That's 939. No, that's wrong. Okay. This is what's right This is what's correct for russell's positive by half a percent had to get it straight myself thaw positive by 31 Nasdaq negative by two tenths. Let's jump around to some of the fang stocks Tesla not necessarily a fang stock, but I like to check them out. They're negative by about half a percent today You have amazon shares negative by two tenths apple making new all-time highs yet again Seems to be the trend lately up three quarters of percent at 172 I talked about it before somewhere around 183 or 184 apple would become the first three trillion dollar company remarkable Microsoft down three quarters percent and google on the heels of their deal with roku flat right now on the session And i'm going to jump over to docu sign up 3.8 percent today docu sign Where are we insiders? Yeah, there we go you had the uh president and ceo Buying 4.8 million dollars worth of the shares first time you had insiders buying docu sign I think it said maybe since it went public back in almost 2018 always encouraging when you see that Uh, it doesn't necessarily mean everything because it's kind of a game theory perspective right pretty cool when you know If you're a president ceo if you buy something I might give it a lift Uh, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy in some degree, but something to keep your eye on maybe that's kind of a lower area That even the president and ceo finds attractive at the price of 144 docu sign up 3.8 percent today S&P is positive by one stay tuned folks. We got a man basil Chapman live with the tiger technician tower coming up at 10 We got our man larry pesavento live at 11 fast market at 12. You heard them. They'll be talking about lulu lemon They'll be talking about restoration hardware. Maybe talking some roku steve rhodes at one david at two tom o bryan My dad live at three o'clock. Have a great wednesday everybody


is in essence a sophisticated heat beam which we call a laser. Laser is actually an acronym that stands for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. A laser can measure the excited states of materials. Wait, let's back up. The word spectroscopy means measuring with light. And the interaction of light with matter is called photochemistry. We see photochemistry every day. Look at what happens to this blue t-shirt as it is left out in the sun for one week. Let's discuss the interaction of matter with light. Do you remember your color wheel? If we observe a material that looks yellow, that means it's absorbing most of the other colors in the wheel. And in most cases, it absorbs colors opposite to yellow. That means violet, blue, and red. Okay, let's translate what we've discussed from our color wheel to an optical spectrometer. Let's illustrate what a solution of red dye might look like for an optical absorbance measurement. The material is absorbing blue and green. We see red and orange reflected back. And these are monochromatic laser lines. So Dr. Watasenge, how does a laser provide a fast picture? Just like a strobe light or a speed camera. Here we have a very fast laser system. And in this instrument, we can excite our sample. And when the fluorescence decay can have various lifetimes. So using this fast laser and this instrument, we can measure these ultra-fast processes. So that is how the whole setup will do it. Enjoying a fast picture about the material or the fluorescence. Okay, and can you explain how your laser system relates to solar cells or solar energy? Well, first of all, whenever a material absorbs light, it's going to go into a high excited state. Then in order to use this material in solar energy technologies, we need to know what's happened when this material goes into the excited state. So if the lifetime is very fast, probably it's not very suitable for solar energy-related applications. So in order to measure that, we need a system like this where we can measure very fast processes like femtosecond processes or slow process, nanosecond, microsecond process. And this instrument is capable of measuring femtosecond and bosecond process. And if you want to measure slow process, we need to use other experimental techniques. Well, thank you very much. You're welcome. To reiterate, lasers can study the excited states of materials, which helps to improve the performance of solar panels.