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todd piro, e.j. antoni thank you, a "varney & company" is out now.uit. >> good morning, good morning, everybody. i am ashle

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also e.j. antoni. let's start with you.resent electron threatening to take back control of the panama canal. accusing the country of charging excessive rates to use the shipping passage. trump writing untrue social. we would've whenever that fall into the wrong hands. it was not given for the benefit of others but merely as a token of cooperation with us in panama. the panama canal told maritime service from fee of 750 cents to $32000 based on the size of the vessel and what it's being used for. you said trump is inheriting a ticking time bomb of an economy. what would be the economic impact of the u.s. retaking the panama canal. >> i think it would be similar to acquiring any revenue and reading asset, that would be a positive for the u.s. in terms of the broader economy, trump is facing a tremendous amount of headwinds. we have a lot of problems in your a lot of things baked into the cake and the ticking time bombs are going to start going off next year. not the least of the fact that fed cut rates way too soon. they were

todd piro, e.j. antoni thank you, a "varney & company" is out now. ashley webster is in pursuit. >> good morning, good morning, everybody. i am ashley webster in for stuart varney. we begin with jimmy carter the 39th president of the united states who passed away at the age of 100 from his humble beginnings in rural georgia to his groundbreaking work in human rights we will look at carter's legacy and how it stretches far beyond the holes of the white house. meantime a new report revealing that president biden still regrets his decision to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race, sources close to the presidency he believes he had a strong chance of defeating former president trump had he chosen to stay in the race. we will be sure to get into that. to the markets there is a sea of red on the features as we enter the final trading week of 2024. the gala 459 points. the s&p down one of the quarter percent and the nasdaq down 1.5%. thus take a look at the ten year yield earlier in the premarket moving lower that is the case down to 4.5x% well below the

thank you so much, jonathan fahey, e.j. antoni. "varney & company" up next. save me from myself, come on in. >> i love it, bruce willis, very impressive. gerri: i made that up. it's not really true. >> i'm not so sure about that but have a great day. thank you so much. good morning, everybody i am ashley webster and for stuart varney. it is rally since with president-elect trump said his administration will be functional by 2:00 p.m. on january the 21st. he outlined his plan for the largest deportation operations in u.s. history. in washington the senate passed a bipartisan plan to temporarily fund federal operations in disaster relief. biden signed the bill of voting a government shutdown but now republicans are facing pressure to address the debt ceiling which is been seen as democrats last option to block the trump agenda. now to your money let's take a look at what the peaches are telling us ahead of the shortened trading week we are right across the board in the nasdaq slightly positive in the s&p 500 hugging the equator line but the dow off 219 points l

e.j. an knownny joins me now. -- antony joins me now.m, despite the fact that it's been proven wrong time and again, is still with us, and people still buy into these lies. the fact of the matter is demand if is unlimited. we have unlimited wants and resources with which to fulfill those wants. anytime you see one industry or one job be destroyed, another one is going to be created somewhere else. that has been proven time and time again throughout human history. you know, the people who complained about us losing the horse and carriage industry, for example, failed to point out that we were gaining many more jobs in the automotive industry, and that continues to be the case todayment. we employ far more people than we did in the past even though countless edge it is have gone by the wayside. if. ashley: yeah. it's interesting, i want to get into this one, if we can, e.j., red states have dominated job creation since to 2020. the top five states in jobs per if capita are all republican-controlled. idaho, utah, florida, texas, montana. e.

dagen: e.j. antoni is here for a record high number of government employees.r productivity as a nation, it subtracts from it. and congressman if chip roy, to on, yes, the feds are using our banking system to surveil without a warrant americans' financial data. into that, we dig. jason:: yeah. and we've got superheros joining us. elbridge colby, david bell via. you've got to see us, top of the hour. thanks, liz. ♪ customize and save with liberty mutual. customize and sa— (balloon doug pops & deflates) and then i wake up. is limu with you in all your dreams? oh, yeah. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty. ♪ [cheerful music] [phone ringing] not all multimillionaires build their wealth the same way, you have... the fearless investor. the type a cpa. the boot strapper. the boot maker. hee-ha. but many do have something in common. we all trust schwab with our wealth. thanks to our award-winning service, low costs and transparent advice, every day, over a million multi-millionaires, trust schwab with more than three trillion dollars of the

watching your money constellation research and ceo everybody wants to rule the world ray wang, also e.j. antoniray we will start with you president-elect trump's returned to the white house's parking hopes that dealmaking is going to rebound in 2025, deal volume has been muted for the past few years after we sell record numbers coming out of the pandemic but total global all humans up 12% year-over-year doctors through december 26. you say that big tech is going to benefit from m&a activity because of term policy and goveothermain points going intow year, tell us about. you write the biggest. that was going on was the ftc with luna con local with antitrust to make sure the customer is not harmed. in this case the inability for an exit for startups hurt consumers for four years, new innovation cannot be distributed if the same thing in biotech, new medicine or treatment can be pushed through because large pharma can't make the acquisition and ipo and m&a are related, given strong ipo market is easier to price m&a and you can also price ipo market. because there's going to be a movement of lina k