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alix: fairpoint. top pick? >> shall. --shell. demand is going to go up.hat generates more cash and more cash return. if we want to be simple and own oil stocks. alix: head of oil and gas. thank you very much. this is bloomberg. ♪ alix: look at some of the biggest business stories. amazon will add more than 40,000 people to its corporate ranks in the u.s.. a high reince priebus be its largest ever recruiting -- the highest recruiter -- regulators rejected the use of a trust to pay shareholders before final approval of the deal. prices in the u.k. rose in august. prices were up 2.1% over july. a tax break on purchases is being withdrawn. alix: similar here in the u.s.. i have to tell you, they are coming down a little bit. let me get this chart as you were talking about. you can see this jump higher. july was a bit different. now you have the job, 2.1%. you had the tax break. you thought that's going to continue. not the case. you see the really strong price action. not as big of a deal when you compared to extra low borrowing costs. not a lot of supply. cr

paul: okay, fairpoint on covid-19 but also the white house seems to be gambling that they can put the republicans in a box looking like anti- factors and anti- masks and the going to recover as the covid-19, the party of the democrats will be recovered is the party that took care of covid-19 because the republicans are going too far on the mandates. what you think that strategy. carl: maybe that argument could hold in some states but overall i think the president is shifting the blame is saying that you need to blank the republicans from covid-19 when he is the guy in charge and assiniboine get this done. the republicans cannot overreach and hurt themselves of the local level but ultimately the worst covid-19 situation is, the worst the present looks no matter who is to blame. paul: thank you carl good to see you again. when we come back bill for the democratic spending agenda arrives as a house panel advances a $2.2 trillion package of tax increases because the so-called super wealthy to pay up and will tell you who else who will be picking up the tab. tomorrow holds the course of yo