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Motley Full Money, I'm Pedro Willard here with Motley

Full analyst Bill Barker. Bill how's your Monday going so far?

Monday's going well so far. Thanks for asking and yours?

Busy because I mean one of the reasons I love hosting the show on Mondays is I never know what news I'm going to get.

But, you know, the rest of the week you can kind of see earnings economic indicators.

Monday is a wild card, but it usually involves some form of mergers and acquisitions.

It's kind of like my own version of the celebrity gossip, and we've got a makeup and a breakup today.

I want to start with the big one.

This kind of feels bittersweet to me as a student of US history and financial history but US steel right once the giant of the

American economy you know it's attached to all the big names like JP Morgan being acquired by a

and bonds deal for 15 billion we knew that this was coming US deal has been

has been entertaining suitors since the middle of the summer. It's a good deal for

shareholders but I don't know Bill it's the end of an era what do you think?

Well I suppose the era ended quite a while ago, although US still is at the heart of a lot of eras,

a lot of history, whether you're talking about monopolies

and the creation of regulation to thwart monopolies.

You're talking about its role in war efforts,

the creation of vast amounts of wealth, the

creation on the other side of sort of the rust belt,

and so many other parts.

You can tell the story of America over the last 130, 140 years or so pretty well by looking at different aspects of where this company has been and I think that where it has gotten to is not as interesting as where it's been.

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