Hello my name is David Runtzman and this is Talking Politics. We're coming to you in a week where the stock market is all over the place.

We're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about the housing market in the UK. We're going to talk about the market in Donald Trump by or sell.

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I'm joined by Helen Thompson who's back and we're going to pick up where we left off last week. Pleasure to welcome back Aaron Rapport, our correspondent from Minnesota.

And I was hoping we were going to be celebrating the Minnesota Vikings. I'm sorry Philadelphia has to occasionally get a treat right now.

Well, they've been around since 1933 and it's their first one so good for them.

Good for them and also pleasure to welcome back Chris Brooke. We're going to try and connect. I think we're going to make it.

The housing crisis in the UK which Helen and I talked about very, very briefly at the end of last week through to what's going on in the markets.

And the wider question of whether Donald Trump is up or down. And I think what connects these things is that we spend a lot of time like everyone else talking about the surface of politics.

The short term up and down in the new cycle, even in the electoral cycle and there are some underlying fundamentals.

There are some things that remain true regardless of who's in office. And there are some factors that affect people's behavior including their voting behavior, which are not just determined by who wrote which memo.

What does the FBI think is to resume a good thing or a bad thing, but actually people's experiences in their own lives of how they live and start with this where they live.

So Helen, we I left it last week by asking your blunt question to which you gave a commendably straight answer, which was is the NHS or the housing crisis a bigger threat to this government.

And indeed you might say to any government that has to provide over it. After we spoke, I was reading a book and I'm just going to name check it now.

By Andrew Heinmore called What's Left Now, which is an interesting attempt to get beyond some of the partisanship of left politics.

That is to get beyond the idea that everything is a disaster and it's all a full to neoliberalism.

And to offer might be called a slightly more old fashioned new labor view that it's more nuanced and that on some of the big issues like inequality.

There is a mixed picture in equality is rising in some respects, falling in others.

Lots of the things that people on the left say are all going to hell in a handcart aren't, but housing is.

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