to china on critical man rales. we're beholden and vulnerable to china and this administration behindly is going forward. >> we're going to hit bottom between june and september and we're on a crash course, the market, with a debt ceiling that will heat up in the coming months as well as some of the worst economic data we've seen in the economic cycle. >> banks sold off quite a bit and it's been a fear trade. that's one of the neat things about banking and there's a lot of credibility in banking because they're so highly regulated and it's the most transparent industry in the world. >> it'll be a long haul as far as banks go. no bank is immune from what we saw happen as svb is the canary in the coal mine. we're not out of the woods yet. stuart: flo rida.

good thing. folks, the producers think i love when they play flo rida thinking i'm going to say look what florida is doing. the dow up 250 now up 150, nasdaq up 100 now 150. the rally is holding and look at 10-year treasury yield and moving sharply higher earlier and now it's dip add bit, 3.55% is your yearly. show me the banks and start with the big banks and they're all up this morning. that's giving some encould you tell mer to the market -- encouragement to the banks. all of the banks are up. not bad, not strong gains but they're up. that's the markets, now this. have you heard of goat

smuggling? it was new to me until i saw a story in the washington post. why am i presenting a serious editorial about it? according to the extremists, goat smuggling exploits animals so it must be stopped. this is an example of tiny minority of extremists imposing their will on the rest of us and winning. at a family farm in pennsylvania, young owners develop add side business and brought their baby goats to country fairs, birthday partis, and even retirement hopes and young and old found holding a baby goat in your lap was a stress reliever. it was a big success and everyone felt good except the extremists. goat snuggling was scheduled for two county fairs and one person got on and accused them of

exploiting animals and both events were canceled. to them any use of animals a exploitation and take aim at farms and pet ownership. that's extreme but they won. they shut down goat snuggling. dear lord. my point here is a, it's not exploitation. it's enjoy ago gentle relationship that benefits everybody. baby goats included. and b, the imposition of extreme views on the entire population has to stop and won't stop till the authorities get backbone. i told you it was going to be strange. the third hour of varney starts right now. stuart: i'm dying to know the reaction to goal snuggling. charles payne is with me. have you snuggled a goat?

charles: i haven't but i have a new item on my bucket list. stuart: extremist, tiny minority of extremists get something ban. it's crazy. >> it really is and before people would say, hey, we have to stop experimenting on monkeys; right? ironically this year, one of the biggest companies, charles river labs, they ran out and it was a big problem all though there's been benefits to human kind. i always wondered, stuart. what do think think happens with the horses that take people around central parks and goats and anything else if we don't use them a certain way? think they'll live -- there's a reason like, you know, those horses would be -- i hate to say it but going to the glue fac factory. stuart: feral horses out there, they're in terrible condition. charles: it's nuts but sounds like a fun, great thing to do. who would be against that? it's really mind boggling. stuart: trying to bring a goat snug hersnuggler into the studio

tomorrow. charles: that would be great. stuart: the fed calls svb failure a textbook case of mismanagement. my question to you is do you think we're approaching a lehman moment? charles: no, i don't think we're approaching a lehman moment, but i say we need to really give this greater scrutiny. listen, this is a billionaire bailout, stuart, that did not have to happen. they keep working the public relations angle on it. today in the hearing i'm hoping to find out who the top ten accounts were with $13 billion. i mean, when the president comes out and says we're saving these depositors to meet payroll. no, you're covering up for the top ten accounts, $13 billion. that's what they got. they were made whole. they were made whole. but if a bank in ohio went out of business and someone had let's say $450,000, they would lose $200,000. they would lose that and it's

just -- they didn't have to do this and this was the -- it just boggles the mind. stuart: did that do it for political reasons because those depositors largely tech guys out of northern california and green as well. charles: that area code is the richest in the country; right? green as hell, lot of investments in climate change, they're connected as hell, big major donors and they're in this rarefied era, stuart, they brought us sam bankman-fried, the same cohort. they've been ripping off the american public for 20 years, 20 years. i can't even begin to describe how badly they've ripped off this country. these egregiously-priced ipos, lyft, uber, airbnb, they're a great company but by the time they gave us a bite at the apple, they're so expensive most people will never break even. get who bought the biggest yachts in the world and wealthiest on the planet and have 10 accounts and 13 billion and we have to bail them out and

people will lose confidence in the banking system. that's what they should lose confidence in. this is a president that rallies against the rich. stuart: will we get new bank regulation out of this? charles: we will. we will. listen, , they went from 250 asa threshold and some of the banks with $50 billion is because these community banks, it was too hone rhus on them and forced to hold more money and major lenders in the community and we don't want to clamp down on banks where they can't go out and bank and look a banker in the eye and know them and they know you and go to church the same way and they they'll give you a shot. this is not why it happened. i want to make it clear and they're trying to make it a story, there's nothing to do with it. bonds, we know what happened, they had too many bonds and,

listen, $1 trillion came out of the banking system over the last year. a record amount of money out of european banks in february and most europeans never heard of silicon valley bank and there's an alternative in banking that's put ago squeeze on banks and this excuse for bailing out silicon valley bank, not the bank but depositors, billionaires. it's unconsciousable. stuart: billionaire bailout. charles, i'm going to catch you, all the goat smuggling on the show. charles will be on making money at 2:00 p.m. eastern, charles payne. thank you, charles. good man. charles: thank you. stuart: look at the market, the rally is holding up a half percentage point on the dow, up nicely on the nasdaq. that's over 1%. modest rally, got it. mike lee back with us this morning. are you buying any, any stocks at all right now? >> you know, stuart, if i was

coming into the market right now with fresh cash, i'd be looking solely at the defensive sectors so staples, utilities, healthcare, and energy. less so on the energy side, but the defensive sectors and i also like gold and i like long term treasuries. stuart: are you buying any stock? tell me which stocks you bought. >> yeah, xlp, xlu, xlv. those are the three -- those are your staples, utility, healthcare, defensive sectors, and the energy sector to a lesser degree. then gold, gld. i think we are -- what we just had with this banking that you were just discussing with charles, that was a liquidity shock. the next thing to happen in the cycle is a credit shock. it's most likely to happen somewhere in the commercial office space range. that i think is the next shoe to drop. we don't know when or how. that will send the market shivering and i think -- go

ahead. stuart: so what you're talking about then is a rippling out from the initial banking crisis, which maybe contained partly for now, but it ripples out into the real estate market and the bond market backing up these commercial loans. is that what you're saying? >> yeah, well, i think we already had a problem, banks were already backing away from a lot of commercial real estate loans before silicon valley bank and now there's been a lot of deposit flight into market treasuries and lending standards will continue to get tighter as we move on here. i do not think we're in a banking contagion, but it's a good time for banks to tighten the belt because the economy is slowing, rates are persistently high and yield curves are addverted and difficult time for banks to make money and paying 0% on checking act buy a money market and it's going to be hard to hold onto deposits and this will bleed over into the chips act and continue slowing and i'm

not positive on the stock market. stuart: okay, mike lee with treasuries. thank you, mike. see you again soon. >> thanks, stuart. stuart: l lululemon is moving ad they're up 27%. lauren: up 27%. stuart: that is huge. lululemon is moving. ross stores. lauren: ross stores and a group of other retailers including burrlington and urban out-- burlington and urban outfitters. they're all down. ubs sees at least 23% downside. look at that, urban down almost 4%. they cited unlike the lululemon shopper, a consumer that is slowing down and keeping their wallets in their pocket.

stuart: there's a difference. how about lyft? they're down this morning? lauren: yeah, by about one and change and uber up by about one and change. lyft cannot compete with uber. lyft has a new ceo, david rischer and can be seen as setting the company up for potential sale and what happened during the pandemic is uber really was able to bounce back. they diversified into meal delivery and other things. lyft didn't do that. they're a one trick pony and they're struggling to find -- stuart: they're a clean play. lauren: and maybe easy acquisition. stuart: down 1%. lauren, thank you. world health organization changed their covid vaccine guidelines. we'll tell you what they're now recommending for youngsters and teens. elon musk and tech experts are calling for a pause on artificial intelligence chat bots. they say society could be at risk. we'll have the full story for you. china threatening retaliation

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♪ stuart: here is the elon musk story of the morning. elon musk is calling for six month pause on developing new more powerful artificial intelligence systems. why does he want the developers to wait, lauren? lauren: because he's scared of the potential consequences of ai that really has no guardrails on it right now. so he's one of the thousand experts who signed an open letter totem prayerly pause -- to temporarily pause developing the systems that compete with

human intelligence. it's elon musk and apple cofounder. you can't train any system more powerful than chatgpt 4. they say powerful ai should be developed only once we're confident their effects will be positive and the risks manageable. this is the god father of ai, jeffrey hinton over the weekend. >> i thought 20-50 years before we had general purpose ai, and now i think it may be 20 years or less. >> what do you think the chances are of ai just wiping out humanity? >> i think it's not inconceivable. lauren: wiping out humanity.

that's not just taking their jobs but that's dangerous. this is very scary. and the companies have all said in the rush to be first, think microsoft first is google, they're putting out the technology before they admit it's ready for prime time. it's misinformation disinformation but cyber crime, data theft, fraud and that case wiping out humanity. stuart: stop the development, pause, six months and make sure it happens. lauren: ftc, the head lynna conn said we don't want all the big players buying up audiotape the small players and really controlling everything. whatever. i mean put the guardrails on this first so it's not really the acquisitions, it's like what do we want this technology to express about what we are as humanity and don't want to become. stuart: you have to admit it's tough to right the guardrails and guidelines. lauren: no one understands it. stuart: except the developers

developing it. lauren: now they're saying slow down. stuart: next case, sam bankman-fried now accused of bribing chinese government officials with $40 million worth of crypto. hey, ashley, that is one big bribe, isn't it? ashley: well, he had the money at the time, you're right. federal prosecutors claim bankman-fried paid about $40 million bribe to at least one chinese government official to get access to accounts that have been frozen by beijing. the details are contained in a new indictment filed by prosecutors in manhattan and the feds allege that bankman-fried was trying to unlock $1 billion in crypto currency in accounts that had been seized by china. so $40 million, chump change. prosecutors say the bribe, well it worked and bankman-fried gained access to those accounts so a conspiracy to violate the anticrime provisions of foreign advocacy act brings number of

charges that bankman-fried faces to 13, unlucky, since his arrest in the bahamas in december. stu. stuart: thanks, ash. china threatened "resolute counter measures over next week's meeting between speaker mccarthy and taiwan's president". florida congressman carlos jimenez joins us now. congressman, you're on the house select committee on china. how do we respond to this vague threat? >> i don't think we respond at all. we continue do do what we do and can't respond to threats from china. that makes us weak. if we do that, the chinese win and we lose. we need to continue with whatever plans we had and we'll continue to do it. i expect that the speaker will meet with president of taiwan and select members of the committee on china. stuart: seems like chinese are exerting influence and power on all fronts against ours and have they now become our enemy as opposed to a rival?

>> no, they're not a competitor. i mean, they are actually an adversary. the competitors, you know, work within the rules and play within the rules. the chinese don't play. the chinese communist party doesn't play within the rules and we need to treat as an adversary and we're finding with the select excite committee on china they're an adversary and threat to our freedom and threat to the world's freedom and need to treat them as such. stuart: have you seen any serious pushback from the biden administration against china? >> no, not really. they -- look, again, with president biden, never listen to what he says. it doesn't really matter what he says. look at what he does. no, he really hasn't done anything that i can see that would be considered a threat or a pushback against the communist chinese party. stuart: congressman, take a look at this headline "south florida we'ves republicans a play book for the 2024 election.

they think the latino community will be a key player in 2024. why should that community vote republican? >> well, because that community -- the republican party really represents the values of that community, and so i'm hispanic, i'm cuban, i came here as an immigrant, and my ads just won best english ad, best spanish ad, and best original ad in what is the oscars of the political ads. what was the message? exactly the same. exactly the same ad in i think liberal and spanish and that's what we need to recognize. inflation, security, parental rights, gas prices, that resinates with all americans, including hispanics. we just need to know how to communicate with them. stuart: congressman, seems like there's a gradual shift from democrat to republicans. it's not a majority shift at this point, but it is a shift. it's consistently moving towards republicans. you think you're ever get a

majority of hispanics to vote republican? >> yeah, i do, because we -- the hispanics and the republican party have the same values. we're about faith and hard work and family. those are the values that most hispanics have and that's the values of the republican party. stuart: that means biden's open border policy has failed. in my opinion, he opened the border because he wanted the hispanic vote. the exact opposite seems to be happening. that was a failed open border policy; right? >> yeah, because they seem to think that somehow hispanics are monolith ick and will always be in the same spot and the democrat party is going so far to the left it's leaving a lot of hispanics behind, and it's a huge mistake i think. eventually i believe the republican party will be a coalition of conservative whites, black, and hispanic voters, and i think eventually will be the majority -- well, we are the majority in congress right now and i'm sure we'll take back the presidency and senate in '24 as long as the republicans follow the play

book. what's important for americans are important to hispanics. we need to know how to communicate with them and in south florida, woe know how to communicate with them. stuart: you certainly do. kongman, that was great -- congressman, that was great, thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you. stuart: losing weight is good for your heart even if you gain some back. we'll explain a little later. a reparations advocate admits she has no idea how it would work in san francisco. roll tape. >> how will they pay each resident? i don't know. those are the challenges that we all have as municipalities. stuart: dr. ben carson will join us and he has a lot to say about reparations. ben carson is next. ♪

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now you know. stuart: don't forget to watch american built on mondays 9:00 p.m. eastern on fox business prime. look at markets and i see green not as much as we saw two hours ago, but some green there. susan is back is the news on chip makers. is susan: do we know the formula to coca-cola after all these years in nobody does. the formula for success for tech stocks have been chip stocks so far leading the nasdaq 100 to its best quarter since 2020 and continuing that boom today with microns results and terrible quarter to end last year for micron, record losses, sales missed badly actually ask laying off at least 15% of their work force, 7 7300 jobs cut and the good news is the worst is over and inventory glut coming down and helping boost the stock of the year as you called t nvidia. stuart: look at that. susan: adding $372 billion in

market cap since the october lows and the thing is you are pay ago premium, 150% premium to the nasdaq and the stock is price jy and if you believe in e boom, this would be an absolute winner. stuart: what's the update on macys ceo retiring? susan: in 2023 he's taking a step back and blooming dale's ceo stepping in and he's been credited with macys staying better with inventory level and foot traffic. starbucks and outgoing ceo founder howard schultz taking heat on capitol hill talking about unions and answering to bernie sanders who brought him there saying he has the right -- hurt shuttle says he has the right to have a preference -- howard schultz said he has right to have a direct relationship

with employees and not unions. stuart: i need to see the outtake from bernie sanders. susan: remember block, known as square, attacked by short short sale hi hindenberg and block recovered up 10% and double dick emberds over the past week and -- digits and over the past week they say it's a buying opportunity for square and block. stuart: battle going on right there. hindenberg versus everybody else. susan, you're all right, thank you very much indeed. everything is bigger in texas including school choice. that's an op-ed written by dr. ben carson who joins me now. doctor, great to have you back again. >> thank you, stuart. stuart: seems there's no holding back school choice in red states. i mean, it's spreading across the board for red states, but what about the blue states? when can we expect change there? aren't they tired of lousy school performance? >> well, they should be. you probably saw the statistics about three or four weeks ago

where they looked at 23 public schools in baltimore city to see if kids were achieving at grade level in math. none of them were. thousands were examined and not a single one. this is happening in a lot of the blue states, children are simply not being educated. it's almost like it's a purposesful dumbing down of people. stuart: the vote is the only answer. you've got to vote in local elections in big cities to make change. you can't get progress without a vote. >> people have to get involved and recognize that if america is going to be successful, the people have to be inv involved d can't leave it up to polit politicians. stuart: watch this, please, doctor. roll tape.

>> how will they pay each resident? >> i don't know and those are the challenges we all have as municipalities. stuart: doctor, should there be reparations for anyone? >> it's just a political trick to try and get people to vote for you. they know good and well reparations are never going to occur like dangling a carrot under people's nose, follow us and we'll get it to work for you. there's a lot of black people that came to the country after slavery that were never slaves and ancestors were never slaves. there are other black people here who were save owners. slave owners, what do you do with that situation? and most of the white people in the south were not slave owners but for the aristocrats. this is just a totally unworkable thing and if you want to be smart, recognize there's a wealth gap between blacks and

white in this country. except looking at nigerians and more. there's no wealth gap. but there's a tremendous emphasis on education and family. seconds to play you look at american black who is have been here for a long time where the emphasis is on education and family, there's no wealth gram gap either. maybe they're looking at the wrong things. stuart: i didn't know that, immigraimmigraimmigrants from nd going to, they do -- ghana, they do as well as domestic population? >> that's correct. that's something that really should be widely broadcasted and the left doesn't talk about that and you're at terrible disadvantage and you're here and born in great britain. people from germany, ireland,

africa, people from south america, why did they come here? because we're better off here. and let's make the most of that. let's not let someone destroy that. stuart: dr. ben carson, don't be a stranger to the show. you've got a welcome home here. dr. carson, you're all right. see us again soon. thank you, sir. >> thank you. stuart: this year, you're going to pay through the nose if you get cassioppi cemented to an ice school. ashley, give me numbers. ashley: sticker shock pushing $90,000 a year. upward of $320,000 for four years. places like brown university and cost of attendance, tuition room, board and fees almost $85,000 and that's well above what the typical u.s. household earns, and here's what you pay for full freight per year and

cornell and 84,500, 60. stanford just over $802,000 and harvard, what a bargain, $76,763 per year. financial aid does help at least 50% of students receive some sort of financial help for lower and middle income students with an average household income below $125,000 but schools are complaining they too are paying for much more in this inflationary world. but that is eye watering. stuart: yes, it is. ashley, you mentioned inflation. vauthank you very much. i have inflation satisfactory for everyone -- story for everyone. food inflation in britain hit a new high, 17.5%. nigel farage has the story from london a bit later. at least soft and average 15

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>> people have lower blood pressure and better chest rale tevin they were gaining a little back. ashley: british researchers at university of oxford analyze combined results of 124 weight loss clinical trials involving a 50,000 and follow up of for man

two years and even as the weight came back in slow increments, onset of disease, heart disease and diabetes for instance remained lower and it's better to have lost and regained all though the health benefits did tend to diminish as opposed to regaining more weight overtime. but shows you the benefit, lose weight and keep the benefits even if a bit more comes back on. stu, stuart: better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all as i recall. ashley: yes. stuart: thanks, ashley. stuart: lydia, what shortages is the pharmacy seeing? reporter: adderall, penicillin and this is where the pharmacy

keeps the albuterol supply and stores for kids. up here and over here mostly empty. in fact he's only got one more dose, enough for one more prescription today. that's a problem because if you have a kid that needs albuterol and can't get it, that can mean a trip to the emergency room. watch. >> the fact it's so many different medications all at the same time, that's been the most difficult part, and it's unprecedented. i've not seen it in my 25 years in healthcare. reporter: stuart, according to a new report from the senate committee on homeland security and government affairs, drug shortages are getting worse, rising by almost 30% between 2021 and 2022 reaching a five year high at the end of last year. the primary cause as the report says include the overreliance on foreign countries for active

pharmaceutical ingredients and limited domestic manufacturing capabilities. in fact, between 2010-2015, the number of chinese-based companies making pharmaceutical ingredients that are registered with the fda more than doubled and that number remains nearly the same now at 435. now the drugs that i mentioned earlier, stuart, those are common in many american households across the country and antibiotics and adderall. but the shortages are being seen on life-saving drug treatments like cancer medications and according to the report, they say these shortages are resorting in -- or resulting in the delays of some treatments and even the rationing of some life-saving treatments. very concerning, stuart. stuart: yes, it is indeed. good story. lydia, thank you very much indeed. a related note here, healthy children and teens may no longer need the covid jab. that's the new guidance from the world healths organization. they say healthy young people

are a low-risk group and low priority for the vaccines. children typically have less severe re-accounting standards boards to covid compare -- reactions to covid compared to adults. three years ago when teachers wouldn't go back into the classroom because the kids weren't vaccinated? now we find not necessary. that much for kids. show me the dow 30. change the subject, where are we now? 27 of the dow 30 are up, three are down. the dow industrial average itself is up over a half a percentage point and close to 200 points higher 32, 591. get to the royal bit. king charles "paralyzed by fear over harry and meghan at his coronation and concerned the exile royals will embarrass him and tarnish his reputation". nigel farage is next. ♪

stuart: the european union had a deadline for all new cars to have zero emissions. ash, when is this?

ashley: from 2035, which by the way is just 12 years from now, all new cars sold must indeed have zero emissions but in true eu form, there certainly hasn't been consensus on the details and poland voted against the law while bulgaria, romania obstructing cerumen stained and inermny -- sustained and germany called for exception on cars running on e fuel arguing they're carbon neutral when combusted in an engine and the new law making it impossible to sell combustion cars from 2035 and auto makers like porsche and ferrari said their vehicles won't be weighed down by heavy batteries and others like volkswagen, mercedes benz and ford will use electric cars to decarbonize. stu. stuart: i got to move on from that real fast, thank you, ash. king charles reportedly "paralyzed by fear because of harry and meghan".

nigel farage joins me. i understand it was a guy called tom bower that used this paralyzed by fear expression. is the king really paralyzed by fear? >> tom bower is the country's leading biographer and great psychologist and, yes, on the one hand the king can't uninvite his own son wh to his coronation and that's paternal instinct and on the other hand if he invites them and we understand he's invited harry and meghan, the fear is they try to cause a scene and steal the show and spoil what is going to be a global spectacle probably watched by a couple billion people. poor old king feels he can't do right for doing wrong. as it is, i'm pretty certain harry and meghan will come along. all he can do is cross our fingers and hope they behave. stuart: they want to be on the balcony for the money shot;

right? on the balcony, they want that but they're not entitled to that because they left the working royal family. >> absolutely. that balcony is for working royals and amazing picture of our beloved late queen of winston church hill and she was a working member of the royal family and these guys opted out and they chose a new life on the west coast of america and can be in the abby and attend the coronation, but they absolutely cannot be on that balcony. so the worry is, you see, they attend and the next day's newspapers rather than being filled with pictures of the king with the crown going on his head and being on the balcony, the next day's papers are full of harry and meghan complaining that they were excluded, possibly because of meghan's racial background. you know, you can see the fair. stuart: oh, god. i'd love to talk about this but i want to move onto this: this

sex travion green ordinary. this is extraordinary. new grocery price inflation in britain hits 17.5%, that's an all-time high. how do you get that under control, nigel? >> we have to start producing more of our own food and not have so many solar farms and wind farms taking up productive land capacity. that would be one way but, look, ultimately inflation is a disease of money caused by government. if you look at the new money creation on both sides of the pond, you know, more money supply chasing the same number of goods, that means only one thing: persistent high prices, and i believe all the predictions from the bank of england and the fed that inflation will almost have disappeared by the end of the year are wrong, wrong, wrong. stuart: 17.5%, i can't see that coming down to zero in a few months. not going to happen. but i can see a nasty recession bordering on depression to get inflation under control. last 15 seconds to you, nigel.

>> well, the big worry of course is stagflation and saw it in the '70s when the economy is falling but prices still continue to rise. that then was because governments had created too much money. i'm saying we've made the same mistake again. stuart: i think you're right. nigel farage, good st. thank you very much, nigel. i hope to see you again. time for the wednesday trivia question. a category 1 hurricane, cat 1, sustain winds of how much miles per hour? 65, 74, 82, or 90? the answer after this. ♪ c'mon ref, that's a foul! jay? jay's back? gimme a time out. huddle up! i call the time outs. didn't expect to see me so soon, huh? well, i invest in a fund that fuels innovation, like next gen video conferencing, and when i saw your defense in the first half, i had to step in! anyone can become an agent of innovation with invesco qqq, a fund that gives you access to nasdaq-100 innovations. .

♪. stuart, owe asked category 1 hurricane sustained winds of how many miles an hour. >> here in florida i should know this. go with number two, 74. stuart: i would go with number three, 82. look. ash, you're right. you live in florida. you should get this right. category 5 hurricane. that is sustained winds of 157 miles an hour. cat-1, a mere 74. that is just about it for "varney & company." i have to tell you, we got a lot of emails on the goat snuggling story. i didn't think it would be that popular but it is. time's up for me. to kos starts now. -- "coast to coast" starts now