Where the Money Is: 10.09.13
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2013
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Yellen is the new chief and why Treasuries are critical. Motley Fool analysts David Hanson and Morgan Housel take a look at Wednesday’s top headlines and search Twitter for some hidden insights.
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| 0:00.0 | We're all set to have a new chair woman and we tell you why treasuries are important. |
| 0:04.8 | You're in the right place folks because this is where the money is. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome to the show folks. I am David Hanson normally joined by Matt |
| 0:14.4 | Kopinefer but he is in Senegal or some African coastal country. |
| 0:18.6 | Matt's somewhere in Africa. So I'm joined by Morgan Housle, a Fool 1 analyst now. |
| 0:23.0 | You are now in-house, no longer just a writer for us. |
| 0:26.2 | Got a busy day of headlines. |
| 0:27.5 | Let's throw up the first one. |
| 0:29.2 | Got to start with Janet Yellen, of course, |
| 0:30.9 | from the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:32.2 | Yellen is Obama's choice as Fed Chief. |
| 0:35.0 | Not a huge surprise here, right? |
| 0:37.0 | Yeah, I mean this was already priced in by the market. |
| 0:39.0 | We've known it for several weeks since Larry Summers bowed out of the race about four or five weeks ago. |
| 0:46.2 | It was pretty much assured that Janet Yellen was going to get the nod. |
| 0:49.1 | And it's almost certain, I think, that she will be confirmed by Congress as well. |
| 0:53.4 | Although who knows what Congress is going to do. |
| 0:56.0 | Do you think, do you think that this was, I mean, Summers pulled his name out what, three weeks ago? |
| 1:01.6 | Some like that. Some like that. Some like that Do you think the administration was kind of |
| 1:03.0 | holding on to this? The market's been down a couple percentage points. Hey let's |
| 1:06.1 | let's give them something they like. Let's give them yelling. You know the |
| 1:08.9 | the consensus I remember several weeks ago before we were talking about the government shutdown when everyone was still focused on who was going to run the Fed. |
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