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thering through political speak, that they're offer improvements to the system, along with this roth hange, for example, if they wanted to expand the government's matching for, it is called saver's credit, they increase it a thousand to 2000 dollars r increase the eligibility, that in essence can compensate for the taxes somebody might pay under new roth system. so if they're signalling some of those, we need to step back and on balance do -- does it meet principles of what we in?ieve expand retirement security, increase number of people in the overall increase retirement wellness? host: does it surprise you these targeted in being this concept? seems to me like third rail, ocial security and other types of things. guest: we wish the private retirement system wasn't like but it seems , that every time we go into a tax manym debate and we've had since 1986, which was the last retirementeform, the ystem and the government tax subsidy, support, is always in play. host: let's go to the first ray in lake dallas, texas, democrat's line, you are on with go ahead.r, caller: hey, pedro, love c-span

i'm carolin roth these are your headlines >>> european equities head further into the red as the hang seng takes a sharp turn lower. >>> investors turn cold on unilever the consumer goods group posts a big top line miss in the third quarter blaming bad weather for weak ice cream sales >>> time is up catalan president carles puigdemont once again does not clarify if he's declaring independence from spain, failing to meet madrid's deadline but reiterating his call for dialogue >>> good morning it is thursday morning thank you once again for tuning in to "street signs. we are one hour into the trading session, what we have seen unfold in the markets is interesting. the hang seng off by 1.7%. no one knows the reason for that the stoxx 600 has taken a like lower, off by 1.73%. as soon as we know more about the underlying reasons, we'll tell you about it. maybe tweet in if you have a clue as to what is going on. we have some chinese data out which is more or less in line with expectations. when it comes to europe, we had plenty of earnings, and some were mixed we had disappointments from s.