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Welcome to Motley Fool Money. Thanks for being here. I'm your host, Criselle, and joining

me in studio this week for Motley Fool Inside Value, Joe Megger, for Motley Fool Income

Investor James Early, and for Million Dollar Portfolio, Mr. Charlie Travers.

Gentlemen, good to see you. Thank you, Chris. Oh, we got a lot going on. We've got the latest

on PC makers, coffee roasters, and one big box retailer. We will give you a preview of

the events that Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon all have planned for September.

And as always, we've got a few stocks on our radar, but we begin with the big macro.

And James, we had new home sales for July, up 26%. That's a two-year high. Friday's

Durable Goods report was kind of a mixed bag, but the story that kind of got a lot of

buzz this week was the release of the minutes from the Federal Reserve's meeting nearly

a month ago. And basically, what it laid out was that we had members at the Fed very actively

discussing the potential for a third round of quantitative easing. What did you make of

it?

This quantitative easing is economic intervention. And you know me, I'm jaded about this.

I tend to see it as the equivalent of giving a kid in the back seat of the car a plastic

steering wheel. You know, we're driving. So he feels like he's doing something, but it

really actually isn't doing anything. For those who don't know, one goal of the Fed would

be to pump money into the economy and drive down interest rates, basically to stimulate

borrowing.

But interest rates are already pretty low. We've learned from Japan that they're just

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