>> we've been off to the races for the last month. just gone absolutely bonkers. it feels good and i think we're kind of in the new phase.

i love what happened today with the banks and until we get a catalyst that will change the tone, any pullback in the market will be met with real buying interest. >> you see the dampening inflation of the economy and it may go through a soft takeoff next year. forget about the soft landing but a soft takeoff and that means fundamentals and stock prices, sorry, stock prices can rise and i want to be tactical about it. looking for names that are still having a catchup mode. >> this market is headed higher in the short term. there's something special going on in artificial intelligence. just take a quick look at nvidia's stock, h holy moly. >> military recruit asking down because of a couple of things. the american people have lost faith in the leadership here in dc. stuart: we're laughing because that is one of my favorite

beetles song and played it vigorously in 1963 and '64. it's 11:00 on the east coast. friday, july 14th. i'm in a good mood. it's friday. check the markets, dow up about 100 and nasdaq up, not a ton but it's up. look at microsoft up $7 as we speak. that's a 2% gain, amazon up again, alphabet, apple, the only loser here is meta down about $1.23. the 10-year treasury yield is up but not much. the yield is 3.78%. that's the markets, friday morning, now this. we were right. the democrats are not happy with joe biden as their candidate and they are starting to figure out how to replace him. and vice president kamala harris too. it's cnn that confirms we were on the right track.

outrageous cnn confirms us. maybe in their ratings distress they're looking for a new candidate. slow pace of bindis reelection campaign feeds democrat's 2024 anxiety. nothing much is going on with the campaign and time is running out. "conversations keep happening, quiet whispers on the sidelines of events, texts, e-mails, phone calls as top democrat donors reach out to those seniors replacement candidates". no word on who the replacement candidates may be and it's not clear what mechanism would be used to push the biden harris team out. the president seems isolated from other leading democrats. where is former president obama or michelle helping him out and he's not getting much help and he's not raising much money. grass roots appeals bring in embarrassingly small amounts and cnn says the big donors are

whispering to people whose last names are not biden or harris. there's clearly been a drum beat of negative stories on biden coming from the liberal media. momentum is building for a replacement. democrats like a majority of voters have trouble believing that america will vote to keep an 80-year-old president in office for another six years. i think a political hurricane will surely hit soon. third hour of varney starts now. stuart: guy benson with us this morning. i remember when lbj, this is back in 168 i think it was. he just withdrew from the 1968 presidential election. richard nixon, he stepped aside after leading republicanning said water gate was too much for you, step aside. that was 1973. do you anticipate something

similar with biden this time around? >> seems like there's a collective action problem with the democrats and a lot are having the conversations you were reading about from cnn but it's awfully difficult to extract a president from office or from a reelection campaign if he wants to run. i think joe biden is a proud man and can get a bit own reigns owner reignsleading we've seen y and he's offended but he's not do much running for the election and the events are few and far between and the fundraising is pretty weak at this point. i think it is still very unlikely that he gets replaced because he's an incumbent president who has announced a reelection campaign, but the one caveat is the democrats sometimes fall in line in a way that republicans don't seem capable of. when the democrats decide we've got to win and this person is an impeimpediment to winning, the k room deals are cut and remember

with biden, in 2020, bernie sanders basically won iowa, it was disputed then won new hampshire and they were staring down the barrel of the party as bernie sanders as a nominee. someone pulled the rip cord and said enough. it was like in the span of two days everyone dropped out and lined up behind biden is that was the end of it after south carolina they have the ability to do it, but they are sort of running out of time and the longer you have the president and vice president saying that they're running, the harder it gets to make a change. stuart: politics is fascinating, especially politics today. some people think it's toxic and i find it fascinating. >> it's both. stuart: yeah, both. next, climate czar john kerry firing back on claims that he uses a private jet. roll tape. >> i just don't agree with your facts, which began with the presentation of one of the most outrageously persistent lies that i hear, which is this private jet. we don't own a private jet, i don't own a private jet, i

personally have never owned a private jet, and obviously it's pretty stupid to talk about coming from a private jet from the state department up here. honestly, if that's where you want to go, go there. stuart: what do you make of this, guy? he's exasperated. >> i don't understand the spin here because it is well established that his family for a long time had a private jet. notice the technical parsing where he said i personally have never owned a private jet. he had access to and his family evidently owned one for quite some time and they recently sold it. in fact when i saw that outburst yesterday, i said hang on. i googled and found a new york post story almost exactly two years ago to the day, which was tracking the family private jet and it had made 16 trips so far in the first half of 2021 so the jet existed and to say he didn't technically own it is skirting the whole point of the question and the hypocrisy issue. he doesn't want to deal with it and he's getting indignant.

that's an l for him. stuart: his wife is the heir to the heinz family. >> that's right. i hosted with dagen and new experience cohosting with dagen and she's terrific and back at it 6:00 p.m. eastern, fbn. stuart: got it. guy, thank you very much indeed. >> my pleasure. stuart: check the markets and the gains we saw at the opening bell have moderated should we put it like that . the dow is up 80 and nasdaq up 30 and s&p up four points and look who's here on a friday morning. our regular contributor at this time on this place is jonathan hoenig. are we off to the races yet? >> the market certainly is, stuart. i don't think you fight the tape. keep in mind the market is a forward looking indicator and you'll start seeing a lot of economic data get better. it's been pretty bleak for the better part of two years but when you have all the stocks at all time highs and even today as you mentioned, microsoft, meta,

all the stocks, not too far off from all time highs and don't fight the tape. i'm looking at alternative sectors and alternative trends right now. i don't think tech is the next big trend. the next big trend is the weakness in the u.s. dollar, which had its biggest drop in over six months earlier this week. that's what i'm playing for the next big market move. stuart: that's a sophisticated investment to make of the u.s. dollar. most of our viewers don't do that kind of thing. hold on a sec, if our viewers believe the dollar will fall, is there a stock or industry they should put their money into where they'll benefit? >> yeah, great historical precedence to this and back to 2002-2012 and the dollar fell almost every year. same thing from 1970-1980 or even 1985-1995, you had big times where the dollar fell precipitously and one stock i like is bwx. this is actually an etf, stuart,

that holds foreign bonds but in the period of dollar going down, foreign bonds, foreign stocks will all out perform and if i'm diversifying right now, that's where i'm looking and not another tech stock but foreign gnomes that haven't participated and they're dirt cheap and they'll do well when the dollar continues to fall. stuart: jonathan, i've known you a long time and please give me investment advice. two dais ago i bought heavily into uber. what do you make of that? >> i don't give a investment advice, stuart, we say don't fight the tape. uber not too far from the all time high and people often think, well, i can't buy stock now. it's at an all time high. as we always say, oftentimes the all time high is just an all time high. the trend is higher from here. stuart: i was doing exactly what you've always said, don't fight the tape. stocks that go up are likely to go up some more. follow uber for me, please. jonathan, well done. see you again real soon. >> thanks, stu. stuart: lauren is back looking at movers and starting with

blackrock. lauren: down 1.5% and world's largest asset manager and stellar earnings report card and money in flow starting to slow down and surprised by the stock reaction because all the big bank turmoil and they pushed investors into blackrock's money market funds for instance. stuart: american airlines. lauren: they're starting to say googood-bye to jetblue and that wind down starting next friday dead of summer. jetblue is not going to appeal and want to deal with the spirit merger and dealing with the courts for that one to go through and not going to bother with this one. stuart: nokia. i remember back in the late 1990s, nokia suddenly emerged as largest camera maker in the world. we couldn't believe it. lauren: i was thinking flip phones. who made the razor. not nokia. stuart: one time big in phones but they were bought -- they're down 9%. lauren: full year of sales outlook. they're warning of extended slump in demand from the u.s. and pushing back expected

recovery into next year like recession concerns. stock down 10. stuart: thanks very much, lauren. now this, a presidential candidate found a new way to connect to gen z. roll it. >> ai francis suarez here. i'll cut to the chase. sos america pack is giving away a free year of college, seriously. stuart: hold on, sports fans, it's not totally free. there's a catch, which we'll explain. twitter just started paying people for their posts. some high profile creators are collecting six figures from the app and we'll tell you about it. the administration is forgiving nearly $40 billion worth of student loans and 804,000 borrowers have debt canceled immediately or some of it. who qualifies? edward lawrence qualities. we'll have the breakdown, next. ♪

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stuart: a super pack supporting francis suarez for president has a creative new way of pulling in donations. watch this. >> ai francis suarez here. i'll cut to the chase, sos america pack is giving away a free year of college. seriously. you can enter now for a chance to win a free year of college. higher education tuition and fee haves more than doubled in 20 years and joe biden's infamous bidenomics are only making things worse. stuart: okay, that was an ai generated francis suarez announcing the plan. to enter the pack is asking for $1. by the way, the man himself tweeted out a chance to win front row tickets to lionel

messi's debut into miami and venmo $1 into his campaign and puts you into a lottery for the tickets. the president is forgiving $39 billion worth of student loans. edward lawrence joins us. edward, who qualifies for the loan forgiveness? >> yeah, and it'll be a wide range of folks and the biden administration are changing how it calculates the lengths of student loan repayments and that's to include more people in that loan forgiveness so the change includes counting months where only partial payments are no payments were made and students in default of their loans will see the default months counted so now if the total months paid or unpaid reached 240 or 300, it'll be forgiven under income-driven repayment plans and ads 804,000 804,000borrowers and the adminin

not wiping out $440 billion in student debt in one sitting and the president doing it in pieces and latest move pushing the total student loan forgiveness to about $117 billion from the administration and looking at using higher education act of 1965 as a way to create a rule wiping out billions more in student dealt and a longer process with public hearings and the process started on june 30th. >> it's going to be months. i think as i said even the typical rule making process typically takes months but we're aiming to do it as quickly as possible so we will give you more updates as we hit each milestone in that process. the first step is a public hearing and that'll happen in july. >> this is a white house intent on spending more taxpayer money as the process plays out pushing the culmination of the process to right before the general election. back to you 6789 stuart: edward, we hear you, thank you indeed. a growing number of universities

have begun to issue language guides. they help students avoid so-called noninclusive and harmful language. adam elwanger is a professor at university of houston and joining peak spl now. professor, you say there's dark motives behind the language guides. what dark motives? >> well, i'm a professor of rhetoric, and that means that i study the ways that strategic uses of language can change the ways we think about the world. this is what's at stake in the language guide and they want to encourage students to give up the terms father and mother in form of parent, the genderless parent. of course what this does is erase the differences between what a male contributes to a child and what a female contributes to a child. we have an attempt to advance a social justice agenda through

the manipulation of language and our words come to us in thoughts. thoughts inextricable with words and control the words that people think and control the thoughts they have. this amounts to a kind of thought control really. stuart: okay, you're not supposed to use words like mother, father, and maybe christmas. those are kind of not their verboten almost. are obscenities okay? i noticed an explosion of bad language all over the place. >> it's a way to signify transgression against norms and standards of public decency and it's really the central experience of higher ed right now to push these things. it is important that we don't give an inch to them. we stick with the old language that we've always used and the old truth that we've known for thousands of years because if

they allow us to eliminate these words from the vocabularies, then they've won and changed society and that's the agenda. stuart: professor, if you use those old words to students in your classroom, you could be accused of endangering your students because, you know, you're putting out old language. i mean, they'll come right after you. >> they will, and this is going to be construed as a way of endangering students. this is why it'll take a little bit of courage. people who love the old ways and past and it'll be encould you tell mer from all of us. us. stuart: we appreciate your courage. professor, i hope you'll come back. >> thank you for having me. stuart: check the markets now, please. in business now for a little over two houser.

we're up 100 on the dow, 50 on the nasdaq, 8 points up on s&p. i want to show you microsoft again though, please, because it's on track to close at a new high. it's just a little shy of $350 per share as we speak. apple's 190 and alphabet 125. meta's twitter killer called threads, it's cooling off after the red hot debut. what's going on, ash? is the shine wearing off already? ashley: i think so, maybe. last week threads reported an amazing 100 million signups in five days, but new data shows the platform has seen some dropoff in growth and engagement. according to analytics company sensor tower, on tuesday and wednesday the platform of daily active users down about 20% from saturday. and for the time spent by users, that too down 50% from 20 minutes to 10 minutes. observers say despite the hoopla

during the launch, it'll be an uphill climb for threads to carve out space in most users social network routines but analysts say meta only needs one in four instagram users to use threads monthly for it to be as big as twitter. we'll see how it plays out. stuart: ashley, looks like twitter will start paying its cree creators. is this because of the competition from threads? ashley: yes, and twitter is finally putting its money where it is hash tag is paying up for the long planned revenue sharing program. four creators on the platform with large audiences and one creator claim claims to have netted more than $100,000 already and episcopal noted the first -- elon musk noted the first payouts for the creators in their supply threads cumulative announcing back if february. that's good too. users have to be subscribed to twitter blue, owner stripe to

full payment and have more than 5 million tweet impressions in each month for the last three months to be eligible for add revenue sharing. to your point, it comes as threads is being called that twitter killer all though twitter we should point out says it may sue meta's new service for allegedly misusing twitter's trade secret and other intellectual property and the battle goes on. stuart: usually does, thanks, ash. now this, artificial intelligence could make your next trip a whole lot easier. really? airlines are using ai to navigate turbulence and weather to reduce delays and i hope it works and we'll tell you all about it. farmer's insurance pulling out of florida, 100,000 customers will lose their coverage and we want to know why. that's next. ♪

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♪ stopped raining stem prayerly and not a bad day. stuart: rally continues and it's been up all week. dow up 85 points and s&p up 6 and nasdaq 44 points. again i'll show you nvidia and microsoft both are on track to set new record highs today. ashley: as always, stu, depends on where you live and doing it state by state and household asset about 953,000 a year before taxes in the top 1% in connecticut and massachusetts, it's around 900,000. it was about the 70 last year

and on scale in virginia and making 367,000 to be in the top 1% in florida by the way with 695,000 and according to the congressional budget office, the top 1% of u.s. households hold. there you have it. stuart: senator sanders and warren are not happy about that. okay. thanks, ash. ashley: no, they're in the 1%. stuart: they are indeed. the actress fran drescher joining the hollywood picket lines with a grave warning. >> if we don't stand tall right now, we're all going to be in trouble. we are all going to be in jeopardy of being replaced by machines. stuart: actors think artificial intelligence could tale their lightness and out on the job.

lawmakers sounding alarm about new classified ufo footage and one congressman saw the video and warns that aliens have potential to turn us into a charcoal brick ketanji. -- brickette. hillary vaughn has that story for you coming up next.

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stuart: lawmakers sound the alarm about classified ufo footage. one lawmaker who saw it claims it could turn the earth into as we just said charcoal brickettes. sound serious. hillary vaughn is with us. what do the lawmakers want, show the public the video? reporter: yeah, they basically want the pentagon to level with

them and give them the information that they're looking for because they have major concerns about whether or not we are essentially alone in the universe. we've seen the sightings of unknown aerial phenomena and a recent whistle blower and coverting extra trees y'all space cast and the vice chair of the senate intelligence can't blow off the whistle blower concerns. do you think the pentagon is keeping congress in the dark about who are not they have extraterrestrial aircraft and what they're doing with it? >> people with highly qualified and high classification come forward and they're telling the truth, which is a problem, or we have people in really important positions lying to us and they're crazy and that would be a problem. >> you feel like you're getting the information that you need? >> not necessarily.

>> they've found according to the whistle blower dead pilots in the recovery of the space vessels, sounds farfetched but not for congressman tim burchet te who has seen classified ufo footage. that's plausible. >> if the craft is coming into the air space, some being has to be controlling them and so i would assume that would be the case. at some point, tell the truth and ufo exists and pentagon putting pressure on people trying to come as witnesses. >> a commission to declassify

documents with ufo and unidentified aerial phenomena and we may be getting anxiouses sooner than you think. stuart. stuart: that's a favorite way of getting rid of something and a point of commission and way to report and not going to do that. that's the way it sometimes works. hillary, thank you for a great report. we'll see you soon. thank you. better get back to the market. we're closing out the week and it's been a pretty good week so far and looking pretty good this friday morning. the dow is up 120 points right now and s&p up 10, nasdaq coming on with a gain of 62 points. bitcoin, earlier it was above $31,000 a coin and still there and 31,300 and dow winners, have we got that list, please? yes we do. united health clear standout winner among the stocks and it's actually putting about 100 points up for the -- what was that? 200? 200 points up for the dow because of the performance of united health. i'm sure microsoft is helping as well. it's up $6 nearly 2%.

and it's close to its record high. move onto dow losers. there are a few. scisco is down and others. airlines using ai to help avoid flight delays. how is it works, ash? ashley: yes, indeed. an ai program is helping to basically micro-forecast weather down to the zip code to help airlines essentially reduce the number of delays and could soon predict the kind of disruptive weather we've seen that's thrown air travel into ka chaos and its called gail and used satellites and -- gale, g-a-l-e and satellites and drones and connecting cars reporting windshield wipers that have activated and jetblue relies on it. it uses the program to shift flights around extreme weather

down to a specific runway and exact time to start de-icing planes in the winter. jetblue says the micro-forecasting is already saving the airline $300,000 a month. 3.7 million a year by simply reducing delayed and canceled flights by getting ahead of the weather. fascinating, stu. stuart: talk about the strike in southern california while the actors and writers. actors not happy about the use of artificial intelligence in movies. what's their big concern, ash? can replace in perpetuity for a single day's pay and that's a no starter, it's not good enough and announced they were going on strike. take a listen.

>> the entire business model has been changed by streaming digital and ai. if we don't stand tall, we're all going be in trouble. we're all going to be in jeopardy of being replaced by machines. ashley: the actors joining writers that walked out in may calling for regulation of ai use include ago ban on ai writing or rewriting literary materials. also proventing training of ai tools on material written by union writers and you've mentioned this earlier, these dual strikes are hollywood's most widespread work stoppage in more than 60 years and thanks to ai, it's disrupting everything. stuart: sure is. thanks, ash. now this, farmers insurance group pulling out of florida. it is the fourth insurance provider to leave the state over the past year. the chief financial officer of

the state of florida is jimmy petronis and he joins me now. why are farmers leaving and florideans say it's high lily litigious and that's driving them out. what say you? >> that's a horrible excuse. farmers are the bud light of the entrance industry and going to the united nations proclamation and pushing them out and florida had the most transformational special session dealing with litigation and we've seen a 40% drop in litigation this year alone simply because of the reforms passed in december. stuart: what's going on if they're a four or five insurance companies leaving the state in the past year, what's the basic problem?

>> biggest is bide bidenomics and everything is costing more and a roof is costing 16% nor. you my think of all the materials going into replace a house or build a house and insurance claims are costing more and throw higher interest rates on top of that and access to capital is struggling. so these carriers don't have as much on their balance sheet in order to expand their risk and they look at florida as probably a state they want to pivot from, but we've got 400,000 people this past year that moved to the state and a lot of business opportunity in the state and again, some do better at jobs than managing their finances than others. stuart: how will you hold them accountable? >> i think when we have a number of tools in the tool box, we'll start to review what type of complaints have been on farmers and if their market conduct has shown they've not performed according to florida statutes, we've got fines and we can go after them but look, i think

anybody can be a prodigal son from time to time and farmers want to change their tune and come back. i'll take them back into the state of florida. i want a competitive market but i think they have really pourly handled this and they're atrocious and they're getting the attention and berate want and they kind of de-derive it. stuart: disney's theme park attendance in florida has dipped. however the ceo bob iger denies the claims. what do you say to that? >> look, i think disney doesn't have a florida problem. it doesn't have a ron desantis problem. it's got a disney problem. and disney has had an incredible run in the state of florida, over 50 years of financial partner but at times leadership makes decisions that have poor consequences. again, i think disney needs to go reevaluate their leadership. they need to go back and look at

the -- they can only fight so many fights at one time and right now between the strike and numbers in florida, between some of the woke agenda they've pushed out, it's obvious it's having an affect on their consumer support. stuart: one last one, i noticed florida has a significantly higher inflation rate than many other states in the nation. is that bidenomics? >> i do believe so. when you've got 400,000 new people in the state of florida, the supply chains are getting stressed out. so again, you go and get a higher interest rate and there's a challenge for labor right flames of uic in the state of -- now in the state of florida but everybody is having it. you know who's not having problems? new york because people are fleeing. they've got other problems but as people leave the new york, illinois, new jersey, california from the train wreck financial states, they're coming to florida and coming here because of our best fiscal health in the history of the state of florida. stuart: tell me about it, sir, i live in new jersey.

jimmy petronis, florida's chief financial officer. thank you for joining us, jimmy. we appreciate it. >> [ laughter ]. >> thank you. stuart: show you where the market is going and not looking great. we have plenty of sell willing and i only see nine winners, that means there's 21 losers. but the dow is up 100 points. all right, folks, don't go anywhere, friday feedback is next. ♪ with a majority of my patience with sensitivity, i see irritated gums and weak enamel. sensodyne sensitivity gum & enamel relieves sensitivity,

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♪ stuart: that is atlantic in north carolina and 83 degrees there right now that . looks like a perfect beach weather and lauren and ashley, ready to get started and first comes to us from pierre. it's great you thanked ashley for his work while on vacation. may have done so while i wasn't looking. lauren as always did a wonderful job too. she's certainly a huge plus on your program.

stuart: absolute statement of reality. lauren and ashley, did a lot of hard work for me and i appreciate it. lauren: you got compliments ashley. ashley: lauren does a ton of stories and holds it together. lauren: do you guys want something. stuart, mark, do you or are you planning to use ai in your programming? we cover it but we don't use it, do we, lauren? lauren: i was thinking of all the systems we use and to my knowledge none of them use artificial intelligence. stuart: ashley, have you written a script with a chat bot? ashley: i don't even write with any intelligence. what do you think of that. stuart: that was good. that was a very good one. spur of the moment humor. lauren: that was a good one actually. stuart: ace writes this, congratulations on your new tie on wednesday showing offerer wimbledon colors. not deliberately showing them off -- there it is. black and green, i didn't know

that was for wimbledon. ashley: blue and green. stuart: oh, whatever, i'm color behind. i didn't know they were wimbledon colors but just a brand new tie and thought it looked good. from deborah, today is my birthday, what was your favorite birthday present ever? mine would be a happy birthday greeting from "varney & co.". deborah, happy bi birthday to y. flat out. what's your favorite present, ash? ashley: i can't even -- it's been so long sings i've had a birthday. when i was a kid i love it had, lots of toys but nothing stands out. stuart: that wasn't very exciting, ash. come on. we have to excite the viewers here. ashley: i'm sorry. i'm sorry. lauren: i got a pair of sneakers that was very expensive, i'm ashamed to admit it on television. stuart: this is the dullest series of answers to a very good question i can remember. lauren: you commented on the sneakers when i wore them and said but they're dirty and i said well we paid for them to

look dirty. stuart: should have seen charles payne's sneakers, paid $1,000 for them. they are fashionable and really terrific. stuart and ashley are from england. are there any english based dishes you crave or enjoy? i make a mean shepard's pie. i haven't done it recently but i make a good one. ash. ashley: invite me, please, the next time you make one much the classic roast beef, graafy, potatoes and bangers and mash. can't get a good bangers and mash. stuart: not much call for shepard's pie in south florida where it's hot and humid. ashley: apparently not. run out of shepards. stuart: should rfk jr. join as vice president on trump campaign for 2024's election? he says he wants to unit the country? absolutely out of the question as far as i'm concerned.

lauren? lauren: who do you think trump's vp would be if he gets that far? stuart: haven't a clue and not prepared to guess. lauren: kari lake. not rfk jr.. stuart: not mike pence either. from paul, i hope you did your homework on tesla. i don't own tesla by the way. i bought uber, not tesla. i've been in the market for over 40 years and this company is led by the absolutely best ceo on the planet. that's flattery but i'm sure elon will take it. best ceo of the century. lauren? lauren: most interesting ceo of the century. stuart: ash? ashley: certainly the most -- i don't know what's the word. extravagant but always fun to cover and you've got to hand it to him, he's pretty incredible what he's been able to achieve. stuart: it is absolutely incredible, that's true. jim writes this, so hollywood actors are afraid of ai putting them out of work. gee, maybe they'll have to get real jobs and do work. i disagree with that.

sorry, sorry, sorry. actors have real talent and work extremely hard and so do writers. i have no objection to people with real talent and hard work getting ahead in the world. they have real jobs. are we all in agreement on that? ashley: oh, yes. stuart: just want to say thanks to everyone who sent in their feedback. it is now time for the friday trivia question. who was the first baseball player to be featured on a postage stamp: babe ruth, lou guerig, jackie robinson. the answer right after this. ..

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stuart: okay. who was the first baseball player to be future on a us postage stamp, babe ruth, lou gehrig, roger mares, jackie robinson, who was a? ashley: i will go with jackie robinson. stuart: i will go with him too. lauren: the same, jackie robinson is my guess. stuart: the answer is jackie robinson. the stamp was issued in 1982. first baseball player on a us postage stamp, the markets are in rally mode as we approach the end of the week, dollars up 126, that is it for "varney and company" for the week but coast-to-coast starts now.