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Podcasts, Radio News. See the best idea. Well the first thing is to say where did the first half go?

Wow. It seems you know frankly the new slow is so exhausting.

Excuse me it feels like a year in the first half of 2024 and of course we dive into the second half I should say looking at three massive tumultuous elections in France. We'll talk

about that in a moment. The United Kingdom, July 4th and then of course all that's

gone on in the United States in the last 72 hours.

Thanks to Jordan Fabian at the White House for giving us a morning brief of just the absolute

mystery of what to do. I'm sort of centered on reading about the donors

to the Democratic Party, the donors to President Biden, but I'm just saying that

as an amateur. I don't have any strong pearls of wisdom.

Thanks for the really intelligent comments out on YouTube today, out on the live chat.

A minimum snark, appreciate that. We're out on YouTube search and subscribe to

Bloomberg Podcast. It's a new way to do it. I'll get the six month statistics here in a bit and

we're just humbled by the response. Today we're going to go to France and

then bring it on back to the stock market. Alan Katz is one of the true reporters of Bloomberg, very important in finance,

and particularly in finance reform, the criminal intent reporting of finance.

And I guess that's how you wrangle yourself

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