Cramer's Morning Take: Home Depot 5/16/23
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🗓️ 16 May 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Jim Kramer here to share with you a sample of my take on the market from today's |
| 0:06.7 | CMEC Investing Club morning meeting. |
| 0:08.5 | What do we have here today? |
| 0:11.7 | Well, we have a day where Janet Yellen basically said, you know what, it's really, it's |
| 0:16.9 | come and do. |
| 0:19.0 | Speaker McCarthy, obviously intransigent. |
| 0:21.6 | The president flying to Japan at a time when I would argue that the Republic is in jeopardy, |
| 0:29.6 | if you look at, say, the monthly T bill, we're beginning to get calls from people, regular people |
| 0:34.6 | who are saying, what happens here? |
| 0:36.6 | What happens to my Social Security check? What happens to my Social Security |
| 0:38.2 | check? What happens to my Medicare? Can I get my medicines? This is what's on the horizon, |
| 0:43.4 | and it's making people very concerned that there's a cavalier nature of Washington about our own |
| 0:48.4 | concerns. Sure. And it's creating a lot of volatility in the market. Look, will there be an agreement? |
| 0:53.7 | Yes, at some point. There has to be, right? But up until that, there's just a lot of volatility in the market. Look, will there be an agreement? Yes, at some point. There |
| 0:54.7 | has to be, right? But up until that, there's just a lot of uncertainty as we get closer to the |
| 1:00.3 | ex-state where the government runs out of cash. And the market is going to be volatile into that. |
| 1:05.0 | So that's what we're seeing today. We said yesterday, expect Tuesday to kind of a down-opening, |
| 1:09.5 | Home Depot's a drag two, which we can talk |
| 1:11.8 | about as well. Well, I mean, my law school professor Larry Tribe is talking about using the 14th |
| 1:17.5 | Amendment. That's a total non-starter. All that does is get at the Supreme Court. Supreme Court |
| 1:21.1 | thing kicks it back to the house. Whoever thinks about that is just, I think, a fool's iron. |
| 1:26.5 | Home Depot is important because the stock was down eight to |
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