david simon the operator, not the guy that made the wire i love the wire. when his stock, simon property group got annihilated by covid, this generated $33 billion in dividends and told you that i had faith in him as the survivor, the one. the one who would get through covid, other malls dropping like flies. today simon reported and it was remarkable his malls are doing well because they're in the all best locations. something you could have seen coming because it shouted out on the last conference call with everybody getting vaccinated, simon may be among the top stories out there for the reopening because you know what people are shopping. they're shopping if the place is nice enough and the competition, gee, it's been wiped out on top of -- nobody knows this on top of the simon bought jcpenney out of bankruptcy the company is already turning around the plan could generate earnings wouldn't worry too much about taxes. lots of people -- go google jcpenney everyone said it's dead. it's owned by the landlord and i see terrific possibilities watch for it to co

. >> i mean, listen, it goes on and on and let's look, david simon, from simon properties, and obviouslyar mishra, danny mier, a-rod, and every day, you just go on and on gores six did their deal that's matterhorn. i know you're looking closely at that company. >> andrew talked about that. >> that was six or seven did the deal six did the deal seven -- >> i can't keep up, carl, is where it ends up, in terms of the plans for spacs to go public, and then the ones that are doing their deals, but jim, it comes back to this idea, we're going to have an awful lot of public companies out there that we're going to talk about for one day and lose sight of until perhaps to either the day that they fail or the day that they get acquired or news worthy happens or break through in battery technology that sends everything up. >> we have some good charts on cnbc.com which lists all of the 50, that where they are, and they are already, unfortunately, had to constantly update them, but you know what, i had a lightning rod on "mad money" and most of my questions that i get are about spacs and i constantly

properties call says that they had a decline but david simon did a good job the stock will be up good call last night but let's get to the chase people like tapp us ri and l brands they're talking about kohl's i don't hear anyone saying people are going back to playstop and -- gamestop getting xboxs. i'm not reading where it's jump on, this is your chance. i'm not getting that >> yeah. i know simon did talk about an improvement in rent collection, but i'd be curious to see e what he says tonight. you have the gamestop, take two part with no new games being announced. that's partly why it's down premarket, and then ea >> the kardashians ea needed something, more mobile last time take two spoke, the stocks 275 two days later it was 154, and look at where it went to i think it will be the same trajectory people say why doesn't strauss do something new grand theft auto is the greatest platform of all time sometimes you just -- they have 93 in the pipe >> they do, but activision had a good quarter in contrast to ea and to as we're looking at ea and see the ceo

dessert out at five separate restaurants i don't know >> tu listen to simon properties and what david simone the other day jcpenney closed. they're open simon properties had a great conference call. and you're not mad at him. >> no i'm not. >> it came up. >> did it? why does everybody say that? i guess i give off that vibe i'm not mad at anybody i come in peace. >> yes >> just because you're a little negative on spacs sometime ors question some things, something thinks you're, you know. >> you're loved. >> i've become deaf to the destroyer of worlds. no, no >> you're not a destroyer. >> no. >> a good man. >> he's a fine man you know, just a good man. a fine man >> let's make money for people >> to david's point, jim, about overheating, let's see, copper, eight-year high. platinum i think back to 2015. soybean, the crb has set a 52-week high for the past six days and is up 81% from the april low. i mean dudley's got a piece in bloomberg this morning, four more reasons to worry about inflation. he said the fed will have to pull, or may have to pull stimulus sooner and with more force than we

trend well prior to the virus >> yes, but there are companies in the mall, including jcpenney which david simon kohl's, david >> yup >> i won't >> no, i won't forget kohl's but after 9%, nine board seats >> what do you think happens here >> i have no idea. i have not reported on that. list tonight interview that scott walker did with the gentleman in question. it's interesting. >> i will be on scott's show today. >> are you really? >> yes i am. >> what is it that you think you will be discussing today. >> square, we have not discussed square, square was one of those calls they talked about bitcoin 4,500 times. hello. you can buy bitcoin and people can buy fractions but it's actually the speed with which people were buying bitcoin this quarter was disappointing and they did not talk about that, but i just did, but look, it is a cathie wood stock, so i guess she waits until it is where she has them where she wants them and then she buys it, right? david? right? >> earlier, you can't even close an etf, i'm not sure what you were referring to. >> she has to do something this is ridiculous. >> what'

center, it is very different than a shopping mall, and shopping center, let's say is, shopping mall, david simoning well, and overall i think kohl's will have to sit down and they say they've been talking to john but the numbers of kohl's are not good they're just -- here's a great thing to say noted a not as bad as they were. "bell ringing ]. >> and b of a, a new street high for target, and in the meantime, there's the opening bell and the s&p 500, at the nysc celebrating the recent listing at nasdaq. and we will talk to the ceo over on squawk alley later. overall, an extremely busy monday not just for your beat on m&a, but for spacs, and ipos, road blocks, looking at that direct listing in march and a whole lot more. >> the spacs continue unabated given the preparation over the weekend and then this morning, with mr. immelt, having spent as much time, but jim, i'm sure you get hit all the time, it's endless, jeff smith's got a spac and we will bring one on later this morning from a former goldman banker, announcing their deals, and it will just keep going, it's not like it is going to end next

. >> david simon is doing a remarkable job that acquisition when he lowered the price has done reallyelieve as much asd i did, and said don, your company is coming back and frt, with touchless, david, put it right in your car. >> one thing that has not been working is faang, right? why isn't it working >> alphabet is working >> alphabet has. >> you can't say faang and netflix is up a bit. but apple, obviously, is not facebook is not. >> it's a whipping boy. >> amazon is not. >> people are so angry at me for saying shoe stick with apple they say it's just killing them. >> really? >> yes, it's killing them. >> upside down ice cream cone. >> upside down, that ice cream cone is melting on them. >> yeah. >> meanwhile, look at this twitter, ned segal, going crazy, it is the stock of the day david, the key this morning. >> you heard it there. twitter, the key to this market. >> not gamestop. but we want to follow gamestop every minute because we got to see to the guys who sold those call, short the calls and now -- >> we're slowing it up 85% but really, it was $42 at this time yesterday [ be

comment is now closed, and commissioners, unless you have any further comments, want to thank david and simon for this presentation, for bringing this project together. if it'll be anything like 1 1/2, 3, and 5, we'll have another state of the art facility on the waterfront, and it will be a wonderful addition to the waterfront. so with that, please, can we have a roll call vote? >> clerk: absolutely. on resolution 21-10 -- [roll call] >> motion on the resolution 21-10 is adopted. call the next item, please. >> you're on mute, carl. >> clerk: thank you, michelle. president brandon, i was going to say, if it's okay, i would like to record commissioner gilman's vote for item 10, which was resolution 21-09. >> yes. >> clerk: okay. # 11-b is an informational presentation regarding real estate and maritime portfolio management strategies and policies to address current and projected market conditions and support economic recovery. >> good afternoon, commissioners. mike martin. as you know, over the last, let's say six to eight months of 2020, we had an intensive set of dialogues with you really fo

my name is david michael simon epidemiologist and professor at the george washington public health, in 2017 i served as labor of the health of administration the longest administrator in history covid-19 98 - 2001 for environment safety and health of the u.s. department of energy protecting workers, the communities in the environment around the nation's nuclear weapon. much of my work has focused on the protection of workers exposed to the virus that causes covid-19. i was a member of the biden here as covid-19 advisory board and served on the national category panel that develops a framework with equitable vaccine allocation. covid-19 has created an unprecedented public health crisis with a huge impact on transportation. passengers need reassurance they can travel without fear in the industry needs safe workers and willing passengers to survive in this period. we don't know how many workers have developed or died from covid after workplaces but there are many studies demonstrating the exposure transportation greatly increases the risk of need. we have to protect transportation workers

david sak's joins us after the break. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: president's son hunter biden has a new memoir coming out in april. pretty soon. simonill be heart felt. trace gallagher has that story for us. hey, trace. >> had it at the bottom of the screen beautiful thing. hunt's drug addiction. i come from a family forged by tragedies and bound by remarkable unbreakable love. here is the best part. it's being published by gallery books which is actually an imprint of simon and shuster. if you go back you will recall that's the same company that refused to publish senator josh hawley's book. so the question now becomes how much will the president's son be getting for this book? well, sources now tell fox news it will be somewhere in the high six figures. the' same man accused of trying to profit off his father's name those accusations by the way the media refused to cover is now profiting off his father's name and everybody is covering it. and just for the record, hunter's finances remain under investigation by the department of justice. the word is he may need the extra money and for clarity, just a few months ago, hunter biden wa

lawyer and david wilkins who's an expert on this subject, he and ken mack were a little, like, taken aback that we found information that they didn't find. but the earliest black lawyer was moses simon harvard but out of yale university. 1811 graduate who got into an altercation in new york because someone called him out of his name so that became a legal case that he ultimately, you know, won. so, there's a lot that we don't know about ourselves that we have the ability to find. and think about all the work that's being done now around the enslaved area and the repositories of great britain and portugal and spain and france. that hold lots of information about our -- the enslaved period and who was, what, all of those records are really perfectly preserved. harvard university is just looking back at its archives. the work that bruce simmons did that drew the attention when she was president of brown to the role of slavery. slavery is a northern tradition before it is a southern tradition. so we've got to get rid of some of the falsehoods that actually exist. and then we have to understand, and this brings it to the present, i mean, if you look at the history of the u.s. presidencie

david? >> here's what i would say before i give you more personal stock advice is prime and-- simon property just because the stock had dropped so much and now the stock has recovered and it's well-off of the lows and you have a company that after the financial crisis went up 500% in its recovery. there is different pressures now with different headwinds around the home all industry, but they don't own those types of malls collapsing all over the country. primarily as high quality assets. they have done a lot to even fulfill my-- fulfillment centers and they have great locations and yes there flows are perfectly protected. i'm really impressed with what they are doing through this pandemic. stuart: okay. i may get back in and if i do i will tell you. david bahnsen, thank you. susan: is 3% yield attractive in this market? stuart: not particularly. i want a higher yield. susan: blackstone yield is about 3%. stuart: yeah, but i am in it so i get a capital gain as well. susan: okay. stuart: gamestop. let's talk about that, a report melvin n-uppercase-letter fidel securities are expected to testi