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It's Tuesday, March 24th.

Welcome to Market Foolery.

I'm Matt Gruner, and joining me from Florida

is Motley full contributor Dan Klein Dan how are we doing I'm doing well

given the circumstances going a little crazy but working a lot and you know by

all accounts doing fine how are you I'm good Dan strange times and let's get

right to it because we're taping this around noon on Tuesday noon eastern and

at the time of our taping I want you to to brace yourself the

stock market is up and it is up big now we have a lot of optimism to end that

Congress may be closing in on a two trillion dollar stimulus, a stimulus that

would include direct payments as well as loan and assistant programs for

business. Now we don't know all the specifics to Ann, but we do know right now the market really seems to like the

potential the Dow up around 7% investors feeling optimistic. Are you feeling

optimistic? Yeah it's not even so much about the details, it's about kind of putting a floor on this.

If we know that Boeing and Southwest and JetBlue and other major industries aren't going to be driven out of business by this, that that suggests

that normalcy could eventually return. Obviously there's a lot of devil in the details, but right now this is just kind of creating some belief for people

that eventually there will be a way out of this, that there's a government backstop,

be it loans, be it direct payments, that's going to help people pay their bills but also keep these

companies open because these are all major major employers I mean a lot of people

will frame this as sort of a government giveaway but what are you supposed to do? The goal is to keep people at work, and that is leading to a ton of optimism.

And Dan, let's talk more about that. You just mentioned some of the big airlines, and I'm wondering when it comes to the

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