g.e.ch australia a victory lap, ceo larry cole said the strength was driven by robust demand and solid execution, end quote, though we also know the company is still navigating supply chain challenges which has really kind of got me down it makes the numbers look even more impressive, frankly imagine how well they can do when they get the supply chain sorted out incrementally more exciting and positive in florida g.e. said deliveries for leap engines would be pushing the fourth quarter into 2025 it's incredible to think about what the numbers could have been like if those delivery had happened as scheduled. but i feel pretty good knowing that business is going to boost the next several quarters, and that's why g.e. stock jumped 6.5% last tuesday in response to the point where it's um a cool 68% year to date [ applause ] that's an amazing run. here is the bottom line. as you hear companies reporting this earnings season, remember that you don't want to just ask about their own company's spe

you know, westinghouse and g.e. a phenomenal job. i'm going to i'm going to tell you one little anecdote about g.e. and steinmetz in the twenties. my great grandfather happened to be chairman of g.e. so this is kind of a law, if you will, may be apocryphal, but we'll assume it's not. so. my great grandfather goes to steinmetz after the election, he says. steinhardt, who did you vote for? stein you said, i voted for the republicans. and he said, steinhardt, i thought you were. i thought that's why you had to leave germany. steinmetz i was until my salary went over $5,000 a year. so you know, the point would like to make beyond a funny story is that what was going on in the 20, the roaring boom, the optimism, you know, and the environment of the twenties was enough to to a dyed in the wool socialist to capitalism. so you know that's pretty neat. anyway we talked about during that time the national debt which coolidge inherited 25 billion reduced to 16 billion. the dow jones went from $63 to $381. and these all indices of the great thin

. >> d.i., g.e., most of it.refer to make a statement through a broad coalition like the business roundtable or the council or the this or that because they don't want to stand up and be out there on their own. so the question is does that suffice? is that -- does that mean that these companies have no courage? should you be calling them out? should you not be calling them out? >> these things are always tricky and i'd much rather work behind the scenes quietly than call people out publicly, but i will say -- and i also should say i get why ceo s want to talk about cps, not -- but there are some issues that are political and some that are just moral. this is not even right or wrong. this is good versus evil. so to the mother's group, to the unfor university students, you just need to say look at what happened. this doesn't require to you a take a position on middle east politics. saying that it's wrong to brutalize the elderly, to rape women, to murder parents in front of their children and then seize those kids