it's hard to argue lafarge isn't. you are paying 17.4 for a cement company. that is tough. is it supported by earnings? i'm going to this excellent piece of research about european earnings growth. i'll do a couple, then look to the panel as well. european companies are doing well on revenues, earnings and growth. your point taking out some of the dogs. i'm looking at core europe. i think it's a fair exercise to do so. if i can do that, revenues are up a respectable 8.1% and e.p.s. is up. let's celebrate europe numbers. we beat ourselves up. let me finish up. i'm going to give you context. i'll get you back in, i promise. the u.s. equivalent is for revenue, 2.5%. they are outpatie ioutpacing eu that. 1.9 and 4.1% growth is better than many expected as well. europe is outpacing in terms of blue chip. it's very tight, i agree. we are outpacing by a significant margin. i think that's something to talk about, if not celebrate. >> let's put it into context. >> more context. >> six years of negative earnings revisions for europe. for six years, european countries have nothing. if

. >> lafarge was at the convention, he was here campaigning for trump. >> he went to a battleground state. >> all of our lives, i talked about this the other night. politics has been divided by a vertical line down the 50 yard line. we debate between the 45 yard lines right/left, right? we have overheated debates about the difference between justice and injustice, up 39% tax bracket or a 35% tax bracket. but politics now, the line is a lateral line. the people above the line are people benefitting from the technical revolution, and globalization, and people left behind below the line. the seismic generalization, a left over from the financial crisis, 15 million people lost their homes, the banks got bailouts in the millions, and no one went to jail. you can move back and forth between the donald trump camp and the bernie sanders camp, and what is increasingly going to define politics is that over/under line. and you're seeing that really play out in this election cycle. with alert -- long-term implications for both parties. >> and for the idea of political normalcy, the reason he was able

the madame lafarge of all time. i'll fix her wagon. you just can't zap up a house on a vacant lot. that lot belongs to somebody. somebody owns it. you can't build on it without a permit. haven't you ever heard of a permit? never. you have heard of city hall, the county assessors, the tax department! oh, samantha, he does get so tiresome. well, so do you, mother, when you won't listen to reason. endora. well, we certainly have missed you. long time, no see. and we thought you said you were leaving for good. any resemblance between george washington and myself is purely coincidental. rumor hath it you put that house on the corner. i put my house on the corner. mother intends to live there. over his dead body. wait a minute! stop helping me! going to zap yourself a roost around here as long as i can help it. that house goes. [ ding! ] arthur, don't annoy me. i have spoken. that house stays. now, mother. uncle arthur, please. you cannot put that house back there. what would the neighbors say? what would they think? i don't care what the neighbors think. don't worry, sammy. i won't let