meant to beor is predictive of what will happen in the economy over the next six to 12 months. the way it works and what youou should payttention to is when the year-over-year index drops and starts going negative, that is a red flag and it typically means historically we will havae a recession anywhe from zero to 14 months. right now the indicator is also in the green. tenths of 1%,t extly as analysts expected. valuaons, there are specific numbers. lookining at history, looking this from pure mbers, the are specic numbers you can look at when you arere talking about the ratio. what is that? >> over the past long term 1927, the a average p.e. ratio on the s&p 500 is 15. long-term average is . were on the high side. this is the one indicator that is a tiny bit alarming. i think it i is important when e are talking about valuations to talk about them in the conte of comparing them, stocks specifically, to other asset clasasses. righnow investors are so limited in terms of what they can do with the dollar. cash is not paying you anything. speaking, i'm not concerned about valuatio

got to get them young and teach them yeah the vale of the dollar learning how to save last question beore we get out of here um why is money such an emotionally charged issue that so many of us have a hard time talking about it? you know what i'm talking about? yes it's a cultural thing other a couple minutes let's go countries cultures brazil talk very openly about their incomes and things like that we just don't and i think it's taboo isn't it? it is it's tacky some people say it's tacky you talk about your money talk about your money issues talk about what you have what you don't have what you want what you're looking for money you're just talking about money it's tacky taboo right? i don't think so i think but in a lot of people's minds it is i think what you're doing here with this show talking about it us all speaking and people watching what we're doing with the coalition where there's a thousand points of interface when it comes to talking about money you don't have to talk about your money you can talk about other people's scenarios but just hearing the stories what other people

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prescreening program for people who want visas to come from those countries, including having them beor couple of times before they get the visa. is no question there are measured responses you could take in addition to what has been done already. people talkear about, for example, one of these through belgium, maybe we should stop traveling through belgium, that strikes me is way too far. steps, butdditional you want to balance the fear factor against the damage to our economy and trade. >> we could take those steps. should we? steps, but you want to balance the fear factor against>> i think i woule what the current regime is turning up. it looks like we're seeing other people coming from the area who have potential risk, then i think i might take a serious look at whether i want to suspend residents of those countries from coming to the u.s. for a time. i want to be careful to say we should not interfere with the ability to train medical going to the area to help out. at the end, as tom said yesterday, the only way you will is stop it at the source. if you do not do with the problems