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Good morning everyone. Bloomberg surveillance, economics, finance and

investment and folding it in Michael McKita International Relations.

Mike do we dash to the election now?

All the newspapers have election articles this morning.

Yeah, and there are polls out, and it's going to be the silly season

starting now.

It's Labor Day that everybody starts to focus on what's going to

happen in the election and one of the questions well it sort of folds into two

questions that people have is how does it affect business decision making do you sit on your

hands do you invest while you wait to see and then how does it affect the

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