i was picking lou basensase's brain.l shot but you do like the flexibility of having this rather than necessarily avoiding that. >> there's benefits to both, certain roles we are talking about like codeing, an individual solo job. i want to do that, what you are seeing with amazon. i read the letter to employees, what has distinguished us historically is our ability to collaborate and be team oriented. lauren: 20 does everyone need to collaborate? >> he is trying to revive a startup culture in a mega company, hard to do. the -- neil: who was going to change the way we work and for a couple years it did but everything seems to be returning to normal. >> it's called work, not fun. it is at will employment, 49 of the 50 states. we will give you until january 2nd to adjust. if you can't and there is no extenuating circumstance you can move on to better opportunities. neil: more companies are doing this in thinking about this. not as if they are hurting, not as if amazon's business is hurting. a lot of these companies are run

market watchers lou basensase and luke lloyd joining us. what do you think is going on? the broad picture today. >> we are seeing weakness in manufacturing. prices are stubbornly high and the fed mandate to control inflation while not tipping over the job market is, you are seeing that combined with the fact that it is difficult. david: let's look at the numbers for september. seems like a witching months. the last ten years it has been down 2.3%. last five years september has averaged down 4.2%. is that coincidence or is there something to it? >> you have to use history as a gauge. the seasonality component and the broad market rotation which might make this even worse or better in some ways given the market dynamics. max seven is selling off significantly. the equal weight s&p 500. a big part of that as early as next year. stocks in the s&p deliver the majority of earnings growth in the market, very interesting, the market dynamics are the elephant in the room, the election coming up. the least talked about dynamic is oil prices. oil tankers are being blown up in the m