i will choose neptune, wildly guessing get. neil: i have no clue. what do you say? >> i will choose venus, number one. stuart: i will go with mercury. i don't know why. the answer is saturn. there you go. number 3. here's some fun facts about the ring good planet. it is a gas giant twice the size of earth but because it is made of nearly all gas it is a low density and would actually be able to float on the surface of the ocean. the next cocktail party you can pull that little fact out. that is it. thanks for being with us for the hour and thanks for all the massive amount of stories you covered today. that will do it for "varney and company". coast-to-coast with the irrepressible neil cavuto, all yours, take it away.

neil: i love the back-to-back astronomical questions. it is so big, i'm thinking mercury, i am matter than you but it is fascinating. how do they prove that? how did they prove that? how much a planet ways? i think they made it up. just who is going to check us? thank you very much, speaking of intergalactic events, this is for my money these guys report on it as well, did you see this spacewalk today? remember the old days, talking to my buddy, jim and i when they would go on these spacewalks and if you saw them you saw them well after the fact. look at that crisp image. they are exactly where they were but it was so surreal what they are watching here, they did this so that virtually the

entire crew, including jared isaacson, they had to make sure, in the vacuum of space, they are dealing with this. the first time a private company has been doing it. for a while this was a weird kind of event that was helping tesla's stock but it is down a little bit now. this is all elon musk and what he's doing and the marvel of that was best expressed by isaac been himself. >> we have a lot of work to do but from here if looks like a perfect world. neil: like a perfect world indeed. some of these images, those of a certain age like me, you

don't ever remember scenes like this. i think of my own kids, this is what they are used to, these images, this is the furthest out we've gone since the apollo program. time to handed over to my fellow astronaut who loves getting into this stuff, his leica kid in a bad body talking about this but this is something to watch. >> it was thrilling to watch. jared isaacman became the first private citizen to step outside and orbiting spacecraft. listen. >> back home we have a lot of work to do, but from here, earth sure looks like a perfect world. >> you could hear the cheers from the space x engineers watching from the mission control room.

isaacman paid an undisclosed amount of money to send him and 3 other private astronauts into space but this is no tourist joyride, the crew are conducting real science and testing space x's new eva suits for the first time in the vacuum of space. after isaacman returned to the capital, sarah gillis is a space x engineer who oversees astronaut training for the company but this is her first trip to space because the space x dragon spacecraft has no airlock, the cabin had to be depressurized, all four private astronauts were wearing space x's new eva suits. for extended human stays on the moon and mars. >> this pace of the relevant is like the pace of development in the early apollo days. and with the private sector,

that we could not learn in this risk-free environment. >> reporter: it is approximately 5 days. it will return to earth, splashing down in the atlantic or somewhere in the gulf of mexico depending on weather. neil: the furthest we've seen humans go since the apollo program, right? >> yeah. they reduced the altitude for the spacewalk but at peak, they were 870 miles out, the furthest humans have been since the apollo moon missions. and because all members of those apollo missions were men, and now there are women on this flight, to borrow a phrase from captain kirk, the polaris done mission has boldly gone where no woman has gone before.

neil: i see what you did there. jonathan is like a big kid. it is a big deal. a lot of you say neil, you're not an astronaut. the late gene cernan gave me a pin that qualified me to be an astronaut. i was proud to be one of the your adjusts and i commented on that pin and some of the astronauts had to remind me that does not make you an astronaut and i had to tell them prove it. there you go. i want to bring in matt brock, where are we going with this show right now? the chief strategy officer, cofounder of agent smith. it is funny, when we talk about this, we are back in a big way but this time led by private enterprise, elon musk leading that pack.

>> and mister isaacman's phrase along with neil armstrong and things of this. what i will say is of this, agent smith, company i cofounded. what this means from the market, and look at those toes the price actions, it is up and down, premarket and the thing our platform pointed out on that stock, almost a magnet pulling stock back to 225. and and our options specialist, around the 225 strike for the rest of september.

a lot of interesting things for many stocks for tesla, seasonally weak month so we started asking what else does this mean, tesla, virgin galactic. our platform is not excited but one stock forgot high marks from autonomous agencies, computer programs, analyzed stocks and investment themes, rocket labs is a decidedly non-sexy part of the space program, providing components for satellites to put up satellites for internet of things. helping your smart refrigerator and tell you when you 're out of milk or buoys or things like that. they have them scheduled for next week. they are part of this ecosystem, the 8 call strikes and a lot of exciting things,

this is the name you are watching. jack: wild names. i'm wondering too technology is such a promising area we see with the magnificent seven, it pooped out the momentum but i'm wondering how you play technology or advise investors how they should play it. it became exponentially a larger part of the portfolio. like nvidia and apple and meta. how do you explore that with them? >> our platform gives investors and users the ability to ask any question. what happens to nvidia if harris wins the presidency versus trump. what happens to semiconductor stocks in the instance of a trump presidency, which stock do you like better?

left for dead after nvidia earnings, good numbers from oracle this week. at the goldman conference yesterday to lift the group, leadership is not dead here. watching everything else. there's a tina story, no alternative. the barclays conference happened, maybe next time instead of speaking, have a golf tournament and not talk about stocks. bank of america, the consumer, financial leadership in question but there is this amazing growth story as an ai interpreter, seeing what's going on, inspiring to see what's happening today and a lot more read throughs from what i saw. i asked what are the read

throughs to what we saw with polaris don. it carries over to defense, aerospace names like boeing, rayfee on and speaking of seasonality, it's a very strong stock according to our agent's analysis so that is an exciting one. neil: talking about this phenomena in. enjoy your analysis. i enjoy you, having you on. lydia is focusing on earth and interest rates and mortgage rates, no time to go into space right now. she's looking at real numbers that look pretty good for the economy. >> next time you go into space you will be the only person i would ride into outer space with but taking a look at this

economic data coming out today, getting a read on mortgage rates. they've been trending down. we got the latest read from freddie mac showing the rate on a 30 year sitting at 6.2%, the lowest read since february 2023. rates on the 30-year exceeded 7% in april. as mortgage rates are sliding lower the mortgage demand for mortgage last week rose just one. 4%. that is not a lot and a reflection that home prices still remain high. some of us may wonder why these mortgage rates are falling when we' ve not seen a rate cut from the fed. years why, the decline is driven by the fallen treasury yields. a slowing jobs market and inflation that is cooling. i want to talk about the producer price index, it came

in hotter than expected. wholesale prices up 0.2% in august. year over year looking at 1.7% higher. that hotter ppi report seen as likely keeping the fed on path, still a smaller rate cut next week. the futures market fully pricing in a 25 basis rate cut. trader see a 15% chance for 50 basis point cut. charlie brady points out there was a 40% chance for a 50 point cut just one week ago. getting more skeptical about higher cut. markets are digesting this. we are seeing muted training, the dow now down 70 points. earlier it was down 183 points. let's talk about the consumer, kroger, the food giant chain topped expectations for quarterly results raise the lower end of the sales forecast

and investors are liking this, stock popping today by 5%. how they do this, kroger says they cut prices, think walmart, kroger is benefiting from the fact that people are eating at home more. the cost to eat out is so high. kroger is battling with the ftc over its proposed $20 billion takeover of albert's son, stopping the merger, it will lead to higher food prices but we heard from kroger's ceo, insisting the merger will bring lower food prices and we see the company overall reinforcing their commitment to lower food prices. back to you. neil: everything was perfect when reporting charlie as a esteemed a colleague.

i hear you. >> is brilliant, astronaut and brilliant neil cavuto. neil: great seeing you again. the ameritrade ceo, very confident in the economy, never plays politics. are you still of the view that the data, mixed though it is is comforting for continuing soft landing. >> the next step to the fed, step up and take more of a leadership role. the market has been on that all year long.

going to 5.4 it doesn't make a difference. it makes a little more of an impact, they are not going to have the meeting in october. seeing where they are between now and then, making a decision. i feel good about the economy and where inflation is. gdp is good. i would like to see them step up and get the basis points and evaluate in november. neil: what do you make of that big drop in mortgage rates, 6.30% 6.35% down from 7.20%. no movement in the housing arena. not saying it is going to refinance but no buying, what

do you make of it? >> there is a lag affect. as rates continue, they say they will ease but nothing is happening. now we are in the middle of september and as i said i don't think it makes much difference. you will start to see it pickup. there's a lag affect. i would not be surprised to see a pickup in housing by the end of the year. neil: if the fed were to go against conventional wisdom and cut rate by half a point markets could be jarred by that. >> if you are already bearish, use that as another example to the bearish and the world is coming to a end and everything, the reality is we are in pretty good shape. inflation under control, gdp is

good. similar to the internet in the 90s. if you are open-minded 50 basis points will be a welcome decision by the market. we will be in better shape two months from now, better prepared to make a better decision than if they go to 25. neil: we will watch what they do next week. seeing you again, thank you. let me draw your attention to southern california, they experienced up 4. 7 magnitude earthquake this morning. rattled a lot of folks. didn't do much damage, not getting any reports of injuries or the like or serious damage but it happened again in the southern california. they are used to this sort of thing. i have been there to experience this sort of thing and i'm the one who is panicking, they are very calm. more after this.

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neil: donald trump might be inching back to the consensus that it wasn't his best night in the debate with kamala harris. charlie gasparino following that closely. charles: he has done his own postmortem asking people he is friends with, advisers how well he did or how poorly he did, it is coming back to him, i don't think any of these folks want to confront donald trump and he is not going to call the people who would confront him but in the most gentle way, what is being told to the former president is it was a missed opportunity to put the race away. we should point out from what i understand, people who have spoken with him, donald trump was well briefed on how to handle this. everybody knew how kamala harris was going to come after

him, light on policy chops and she's going to try to get under his skin with 2,025 project, doted down the line, january 6th. he had rebuttals to all those and how to prevent to a more policy oriented approach that would force her to explain policy which she's not good at. she hasn't done any interviews where she explains policy. the other night was light on policy from her. he didn't do that. they believe it is a missed opportunity. they don't think it is existential. i read a lot of the commentary from conservatives, wall street journal editorial page making it sound like the race is over. the polling doesn't show that. something interesting about trump and someone pointed this out may be in the wall street journal, except for president biden, no one has won or lost

an election based on one debate performance. ronald reagan had a horrible debate performance against walter mondale. he came back a few weeks later and landed a few punches and everybody is like no one cared. biden was uniquely horrendous. you've got to take that out of the mix. that's an outlier. the other thing is i am just amazed how much free advertising donald trump generates by just saying anything. everyone has been panning his comments and work with me, i'm not trying to be funny and sarcastic, about dogs and cats, and illegal immigrants eating pets. it has been panned but if you go on social media and that's how people get their news it is nonstop means about this, not just picture means but people dancing.

this has a resonance. kamala harris in a whole other world. neil: you and i are loaded. charles: keep loathing me. i don't care. here's the thing. we underestimate the donald every time on this stuff. i wouldn't be surprised if he make lemonade out of lemons long-term. neil: got a ways to go, almost 8 weeks. i want to go to tim williams, director of public relations who follows these markets better than anyone. we are already seeing a surge for kamala harris post this debate but what are those early reads telling you? people putting down money on a hunch about how someone did. it carries a little currency. tell us about it.

>> we are in the midst of the election cycle, doing election for 20 years. lauren: 1 is a telling you, sorry to charge in on you. >> tuesday's debate was not what trump supporters were hoping for. it did bring in a surge of new money, new bets on harris. just over the last 24 hours trump has recovered considerably in our bedding markets. trump is back up, leading just barely in the number of betting

tickets although kamala is leading in terms of the total volume of that so trump is just over 50% of the wagering tickets. kamala has just 57% of the dollar. neil: what is interesting about it, charlie gasparino reported debates rarely move the needle. it introduces an outside player, not saying the vice president is an outside player but compared to donald trump she's less well-known. she became a lot better known at the debate the other night. the opening debate revealed him to be on par measure with the incumbent vice president richard nixon. three more debates, not saying they change the election but they change the momentum and love you of a young democratic senator, wasn't such an outside alienating figure for the

nation's highest office. are you getting any sense of that kind of thing in the data you collect? >> certainly. tuesday's debate show that kamala was a real contender. put her more of an even stage with donald trump. if there's one thing veterans like to see is a rematch. certainly hoping to see another debate between these two candidates. neil: fascinating stuff. i would love to get you back and monitor the markets. people making fun bets on what they think will happen in 8 weeks. big stuff. thanks again. a little bit of softness in the dow but not bad. every one, volume is reflecting ahead of the big fed meeting to gauge this.

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neil: a possible government shutdown before a presidential election. october 1st is when that could happen if they don't put together a spending deal. we got texas congressman kind enough to sort out where the divides are. it has been a long time. where is this now? >> we don't have the votes to pass it. quite frankly we had some democrats that voted with us on our save act which forces anybody registered to vote to prove their citizenship. the speaker thought this would enhance us by having a better and more secure election coming up and also keep the government open until march.

unfortunately we are going to lose most of those democrats and a bunch of our own republicans and i think the democrats may want a shut down because they think they can blame it on us but they want to avoid the responsibility for a lot of things they caused in the last 3 and a 31/2 years of the biden/harris administration. madison: a has donald trump weighed in on this? i think he supports the gist of what you are trying to do but is he concerned about how it might boomerang on republicans if it comes to that? >> latest i heard is the former president wants us to hold tough even if it shuts the government down to do that to stand on principles of having a fair election. i can't argue with that because i look back at the 2020 election and i saw a lot of irregularities, anomalies that

we don't want to see repeated. we've done our job in the house of representatives. we passed at least half of our appropriations bills, passed a lot of good bills, some in the senate and schumer simply won't take them up, they passed absolutely 0 appropriations bills which forced us into this continuing resolution solution better known as a cr. it's not an ideal thing at all especially, i'm the chairman of the subcommittee on space and aeronautics, former military guy, it hurts our space program. it hurts our military because we have to live by last year's budgets and we don't want to have to do that, put us in a space race, coming on strongly. we cannot afford our military to get in second place. neil: you mentioned the former president. about republican colleagues

joining to say he missed a great opportunity to debate last night, lindsey graham, how did you feel about it? >> i think donald trump did a fine job. i'm not going to lie. there were a couple places he could have come back, healthcare etc. . climate change i believe abc moderators, the democrat team, trump against those three, they learned to keep going back. i heard miss harris say we need to move forward. at the same time she keeps wanting to talk about race. neil: you don't think he did anything wrong, as she' s in good him on a couple things, he took her bait, ran with it and didn't do as good a job as he could have? >> everybody makes mistakes.

i thought he didn't adequate job. all of people out there, just ask themselves am i better off today or was i four years ago, inflation, open borders, the potential for terrorism, diminished status on the world stage, likelihood of world war iii in the future with ukraine etc. . if they think about this, there is no other place to go, to vote for donald trump, four years under him we had the best economy in five decades. we had a secure border. the groceries, the gasoline, the inflation, the prices we are having to endure today, the average family spending $14,000 a year more because of biden and harris inflation.

i really believe, from that standpoint there is no other vote they can cast. neil: i tell you what, donald trump should be talking to you because you articulated what he should have a couple nights ago. thank you for your service to this country. in the meantime, nothing to do with stocks but a lot of young investment bankers are working these days. the big banks are trying to do something about that. there's a price. cheryl casone a, this is about cutting down the workload. cheryl: absolutely. this is a report in the wall street journal, exclusive report that talks about both jpmorgan and bank of america working to curb the long difficult hours of young investment bankers starting the change in culture, the shift

change, you had this young 35-year-old investment banker who died. he was working one hundred hour weeks for several weeks. he ended up getting a blood clot which went to his coronary artery. you see the seachange with his executives. jpmorgan will put down and 80 our, and putting limits in place. 6:00 pm friday to noon, they have a protected window they don't communicate with superiors and a full weekend off every three months. you have to understand, this is the culture for decades.

and michael douglas and charlie sheen in the boiler room mentality at these banks, another movie called boiler room, realizing they can't jeopardize the health of these younger kids, making 200 grand a year, that is where the allure comes in, to change the culture. neil: you have to weigh your health. >> yeah. neil: there has to be a balance.

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>> welcome back to cavuto coast-to-coast. our taxes going up? are they going down? that is what congress is trying to figure out. the trump tax cuts expire at the end of 2,025. if congress does nothing to stop at congress that is taxes way going up for millions of americans. with the president election looming before that, vice president kamala harris's plan is on the table as an alternative to the trump tax cuts. the tax foundation compare the two plans. harris's plan would generate $1.6 trillion in revenue but gdp and wages would take a hit. trump's new plan in addition to the existing tax cuts and jobs act would generate one. $3 trillion in revenue with a minor dip in gdp but a boost in wages. democrats are pushing harris's

plan and blasting trump's. >> it is always the same trump playbook. donald trump tosses out a bit of chicken feed to the working people in the ultra-wealthy like him pocket huge gobs of cash. donald trump doesn't have a viable plan to pay for these reckless policies, these handouts which is only proposal to close the gap is a tax on nearly all consumer goods. >> reporter: some democrats think these tax savings are just a little bit of chicken feed, to some families it might feel like the whole chicken. the tax foundation analysis if trump's tax cuts were to expire, individuals making 30,000 a year will pay $250 more in taxes. a family of four making 155,000 will pay 2500 more in taxes at a family or five bringing in 200,000 would pay $7000 more in taxes. the tax foundation previews

what to expect if trump's tax cuts go and harris's proposed tax hikes kick in. >> 62% of households will face a tax hike if the tax cuts and jobs act are allowed to expire. this must be something folks are going to be able to ignore. this is going to be meaningful. >> asking them what they would do if taxes increase in 2026 which they consume a number of things, 66% said they would increase prices which you can imagine will be problematic with the current inflationary environment. >> reporter: there's a lot of talk about making the tax code more progressive, they pay 45% of all taxes. neil: i want to get from the director of the national council under president biden. good to have you.

on the left or right, you've got a big decision to make. the sooner the better to iron it out. what if it isn't ironed out, what if that goes away? >> vice president harris and donald trump, all of the expiring tax cuts for people making under $400,000 a year should be extended but there are two key differences between harris and trump plan. there is plan would provide additional tax cuts for middle-class families, children of parents with young children, the trump plan by contrast would impose a 10% tax on everything from appliances to your morning coffee to the clothes that will cost the typical family, and and the

trump plan, and million dollars a year, and that's why the trump plan would increase the deficit more than there is plan. neil: always comes up, at the convention, the rich not paying their fair share. what is the fair share. used to be 90%. the rich or whatever you want to call them still account for most of the money raised 70%. what in your eyes would be a fair level, fair rate for them to pay. >> and.to put that in context. we've seen since the reagan era

incredible concentration of wealth and income among the very rich. paying a predominant share of taxes but also a predominant share of incomes. neil: higher now at these levels than it was at the 70% level. i wonder if it is skewed by the fact that half of americans, take nothing away from that but isn't that math not doable? >> if you look at the effective rate, the actual percentage of your income in federal taxes. if you look at the wealthy meaning the top 0.1%, 500 taxpayers in the united states their effective tax rate is lower, and they gain the

system, 7% tax rate. neil: it gets to be those individuals, not saying you are right or wrong but it extends to the rich or 1.1% is different from someone over the 400,000 level. >> i'm not calling anybody greedy. i'm glad people are making tens of millions of dollars a year. they should pay their fair share of taxes and the harris plan rightly focuses on tax policy and the typical person, 95% of families in the united states. neil: a lot to get through. thank you. good seeing you. more after this. into freefall. i'm glad i found stability amidst it all. gold. standing the test of time.

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