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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Resilient Market | Allen Jackson Now | December 1, 2025

Good evening and welcome to nashville.
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I'm alan jackson.
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Now we know the price of a dozen eggs or a gallon of gas.
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But what about the size of the u.s.
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Economy?
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Would you believe $30 trillion a year,
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Knowing that
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A lot of some people think the president, any president,
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Can simply wave a magic wand and make it better all at once?
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90% of it is private business, but the government can help.
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They set the playing field with taxes, tariffs,
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Regulations, government contracts.
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But it's big and small business that produces the goods, sets
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The prices, hires and fires
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And decides where it's best to set up shop.
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President trump certainly
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Knows how to run a business, and he has since january
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Been trying everything possible to turn the economy around.
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But it takes time.
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Certainly more than ten months time.
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With that, i want to bring in our friend
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From dallas,
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Who knows as much of as anyone about the ups
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And downs of the american economy.
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Is the chairman of annandale capital, george c.
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Welcome back sir.
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Thank you alan. great to be here.
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Consumer confidence is a big part of what drives the economy
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In this year.
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Confidence has slipped a bit, but that's often the case
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When the future isn't clear and people are afraid to spend.
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Home depot, for example, has seen a slowdown
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Because homeowners are unsure
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About building that addition to the house.
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What do you think should be done to regain or rebuild
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Consumer confidence?
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Well, i think economic growth
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Is number one, and i think it's a really great thing
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That we're still growing as a country.
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With all the
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Biden inflation policies we endured for about four years,
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It's pretty amazing the economy is still intact.
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I would say the greatest force
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In the history of the world is the american private sector.
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Number two would be the american military.
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But the american private sector just continues to drive
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Profitability, prosperity and growth.
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No matter what is thrown at it, whether it's obama or biden or
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War or plague or pestilence or any of the other
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Ten plagues you might have thrown at us
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Like they threw at pharaoh way back in the day.
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We cannot continue to surmount that because the american,
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Capitalistic
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Democratic society is just more powerful
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Than anything we've seen in the world.
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And the president so far has done
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A really nice job, actually,
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At bringing inflation down, frankly,
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In partnership with the federal reserve,
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When they raise interest rates so much three years ago,
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It's been a very effective partnership
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In bringing the biden inflation down quite dramatically.
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And in fact, we in texas are slightly,
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Selfishly resentful about that because oil prices are way down
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Right now.
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And that's bad for the oil and gas industry.
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So i would argue that oil prices
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Might need to come back a little bit.
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But those egg prices came down and that's a good thing.
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Well, there's a lot of attention being paid to mortgage rates.
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Now, to put it in perspective,
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The average mortgage rate for the past 50 years was 7.5%.
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Current rates are at 6.3.
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That's more than a point below the average.
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But it wasn't that long ago that things were so slow
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You could get a 4% mortgage.
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Is there anything that can be done
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So that the spring market will pick up a bit?
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Well, i think we're kind of a victim
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Of our own prosperity, frankly.
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I mean, real estate prices
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Since the great recession have just gone up so much that
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New potential homeowners in gen z and the millennial generation
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Are just having a really hard time
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Affording how much a home cost.
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I don't think mortgage rates are all that high.
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I think that's overstated.
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I think 6% is actually pretty, pretty decent mortgage rate
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To have,
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And it's going to come down more
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Because the fed's going to cut rates more, more than that.
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But i think you probably
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Are going to have to see some flattening of home prices
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And reduction in mortgage rates before more
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People can get into their first home, which they should.
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Well, president trump acts pretty quickly
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When he's things that sees things not working.
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He's cutting tariffs in brazil to get beef and coffee prices
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Back down.
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Gas prices, as you mentioned, are already down.
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He talks about investments that should begin to pay off
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In the years ahead. listen to how he puts it.
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My message to all of the leaders and investors with us today,
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And they are the best in the world, is very simple.
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Under the trump administration, america is back
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And america is open for business,
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And america is actually stronger than it's ever been before,
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Ever.
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We're also making incredible strides
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To make america affordable again.
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That's a new word
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That they use, the affordability they took before
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They had the worst inflation in history.
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They had the highest prices in history.
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If you look at the numbers since i took office,
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Corn is now below 2.7%.
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Well, next april should
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Provide a lift when taxpayers see the tax cuts kick in.
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Is there anything else that the president can do right
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Now to make people feel better about where things are?
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Well, i think he's a great promoter of americans
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And american strength and the american economy.
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And quite frankly, i think the bully pulpit,
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As coined by teddy roosevelt, that the president holds
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Is really the best thing he's got.
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He needs to be encouraging
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The american people every single day.
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Let them know he continues to fight for them in unfair
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Trade deals around the world,
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And make sure that he's encouraging american business.
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I will say that
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The semiconductor industry, in particular,
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The jobs he's brought back and the amount of investment
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From the semiconductor industry and other large foreign powers
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To commit to invest in the u.s.,
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Substantially, which should have happened
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Previously, actually, because it's
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The best economy in the world by a mile.
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But he's done a spectacular job at that.
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And people should be encouraged
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That this is a pro-business administration.
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And i think the stock market reflects that.
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The stock market just refuses to go down.
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And there's lots of reasons for it to go down.
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It's very highly prized.
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Consumer sentiment is, you acknowledge,
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Is not very good right now,
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But you combine a pro-business administration
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With the greatest private sector the world's ever seen.
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You just can't keep a good economy down.
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Well, the recent unemployment report was positive,
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And so too is economic growth is running around 4%.
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Are you seeing any other positive signs
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That may not be in the daily headlines?
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I think that the press puts
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Out there all sorts of negative stuff,
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And they're constantly preaching sturm und drang.
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And the stocks guy is falling and oh, woe is us and misery.
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And i think a lot of the american people
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Are too smart to buy and all that kind of stuff.
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I mean, if you look at
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Economic growth, stock market growth, profit margins,
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The pay of the american worker, they're all on the upswing
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And they're all doing really, really well.
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And we've had 15 straight years of prosperity
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Since the great recession.
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So i think most people have gotten to the point
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Where they realize the mainstream media is so
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Biased, is so left slanted and so anti capitalistic
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That they just
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Need to drown it out and ignore it
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And just focus on their own lives
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And all the prosperity
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That's being generated, especially in pro-business
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States like your state of tennessee, north carolina,
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Florida, texas in particular.
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We're kind of the best business state in the world.
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And i also us states like that.
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And that's why people continue to move here
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And pour out of california, illinois, new york,
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Unfortunately for those states, yeah,
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There is, as you mentioned, there's a significant population
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Shift underway
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Toward those states that have a better business
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Attitude, better employment attitude.
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What's that going to do to the larger economy over time?
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Well, it's just going to be a massive redistribution
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Of population, wealth and prosperity in this country.
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I mean, if you look back at you
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Go back to pre-world war two,
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And i gave a speech on this recently,
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Texas in the south, we're basically very,
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Very backwards agrarian states
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That really didn't have much of an economy.
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Fast forward less than 100 years
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And the great titans of american industry,
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Which was the northeast new york down to washington, dc,
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And then rising out in california,
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This completely turned on its head and all that
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Prosperity and growth and pro-business attitude
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Has dissipated and been magnetically
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Pulled to texas, the southeast and other parts of the country.
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And that's not a trend that's easy to reverse.
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Once it gets in motion.
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It's going to go for quite a long time.
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Well, we need to take a short break.
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Can you stay with us for another segment?
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You bet.
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I'll be back with more from george c in just a moment.
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I'll be back with more from george c in just a moment.
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We're back now with the chairman of annandale
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Capital, george c, it's coming to us from dallas.
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Wall street has been rising, but also seeing some wide swings.
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They talk about an air bubble that could burst at some point,
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But a lot of new money is still chasing the ai companies.
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The treasury secretary
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Makes the point that this is all about good growth.
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They will show up even more next year.
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Listen to his argument.
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The real thing that is going to happen
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That is going to give americans real purchasing power
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Increases.
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It's going to be through growth.
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The we passed the one big beautiful bill.
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I am also the irs commissioner, and i can see that
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Working americans, thanks to the president
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Living up to his campaign, promises, no tax and tips, no
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Tax and overtime, no
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Tax and social security deductibility of auto loans.
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If you buy an
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American car, there going to be substantial refunds
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In the first quarter of 26.
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Working americans will change their withholdings
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And they will get a bump up in their real incomes.
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George, do you agree that spending and optimism
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Will increase when the tax filing season begins?
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Yeah, i think that's exactly right.
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I really want to give a shout out to secretary bassett.
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I think he's one of the stars
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Of this cabinet for this president.
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He's an adult in the room.
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He totally understands global financial policy
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In america first and national policy.
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And he tends to ride to the rescue and eliminate
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A lot of bad policy
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Promoted by other people in the administration
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Who really don't know what they're doing.
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He's been a real,
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Real high credibility, widely respected treasury secretary.
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We're lucky he's in that job.
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Well, there seems to be a
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Real need at power plants to help run the air stations.
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You're in the energy sector.
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Do you think we'll have enough of a resource
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To meet the increasing air demands
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And the growth that it brings?
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Well, that's actually a really good
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National security questions.
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We don't it's really going to affect our national security
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If we have power outages and we can't provide the energy
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To go to the next level.
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In terms of our technological advances
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In ai and data centers and everything else.
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And it's not a certainty, to be honest.
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It's it's been waylaid by all the politically correct
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Green energy of the past 10 to 15 years.
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And really, the right answer to energy, which anyone
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Rational would put out there is we need more of everything.
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We need more.
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When we need more solar,
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We need more hydro, we need more nuclear.
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But the nuclear is going to take forever
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Because the permitting process is so long.
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And so until all that plays out the right way,
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We what we desperately need the most of is more natural gas
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Fired power plants.
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Because natural gas is the clean, cleanest
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Burning fossil fuel there is out there.
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The the carbon footprint of it has gone way, way, way down
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To where it's rational to use it as much as we possibly can.
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We have almost an unlimited supply of it.
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And that's the easiest way
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To provide a whole lot more baseload power
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That's reliable for these data centers,
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For the i, for the for the bitcoin mining,
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For all these huge power producing
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Needs to to fund all this power that's required
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For all those kind of things.
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And then beyond that, the world desperately needs cheap
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Electric generating power plants.
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And how you fuel those is liquefied
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Natural gas that the us has the most.
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I've been can send all over the world for economies
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That want to be our allies
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And want to grow the right way with the right kind of power.
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So it's a huge issue.
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And we haven't figured it out yet
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Because the power needs are enormous,
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Are beyond really the ability to comprehend it.
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It's so big.
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Well, china china's
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Adding a coal coal fired power plant every week.
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It seems to me
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We're going to have to have a change of attitude
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If we're going to compete with them,
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Or else we're going to surrender
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Our leadership role in the world.
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Well, that's that's the other ironic thing
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About all this clean
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Energy stuff is that basically the real
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Problem for, for the, for the world
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Being is as clean in the, in the air, in the water,
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With clean energy as we can get is, is to eliminate
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What india and china are both doing, which is using coal
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And using wood and using the dirtiest forms
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Of power generation out there.
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The united states and europe are not the problem anymore.
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They are.
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And it's toby rice, who's the chief
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Executive officer of ect, the largest natural gas
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Company in the country has said before,
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And most people don't understand this
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Because everybody's been focused
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On electric cars and electrifying the fleet and
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Reducing the internal combustion engine to zero
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Where no cars use them.
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You could electrify the entire u.s.
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Automobile fleet today,
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And it wouldn't have any better an impact on the environment
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Than if you got rid of all china's coal fired power plants.
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So what we need to talk the chinese into doing
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Is turning all their power plants
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Into natural gas fired power plants with u.s., lng.
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And as long as we're staring across
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The rubicon at then ready to go to war,
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None of that's going to happen.
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We've got to do business with the chinese.
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And yet, at the same time, don't let them lie, cheat and steal
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Their way over the us in terms of economic advantage,
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We've got to have a balanced, fair trade with them.
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And they're they're the worst violator of unfair trade.
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And we need to hold them to account
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And at the same time, clean up the air in the water
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By pushing them to adopt natural gas instead of coal.
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It sounds like some good texas common sense to me, but
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Some people like the idea of a $2,000 handout next year,
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But others would rather use any extra money
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We have to pay down the $38 trillion debt we're facing.
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What's your position on that?
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It's a real head scratcher for me.
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Alan. i'm really glad you raised that idea.
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Redistribution of of of the of the government's
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Tax revenues, which is the people's money
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That's been generated by the people paying taxes.
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I don't care who's redistributing it.
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I think it's a terrible idea on the far left.
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You have wanting to redistribute from the haves to the have
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Nots, irrespective of merit or who's working.
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And now we have a tariff induced
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Attempt to redistribute money, $2,000 to kind of bribe people.
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Frankly, politically, i think it's a horrible idea.
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We got a $38 trillion debt.
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We need to get to work paying that down
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And reducing the annual deficit so our children
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And grandchildren aren't stuck with a huge bill.
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They can't pay.
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Well, one last question and i
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Will acknowledge it's below your pay grade.
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But it is interesting
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The president has stopped production of the penny
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Because it goes 3 to 4 times
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As much to make a penny as it's worth.
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Look into this.
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And i saw that it cost almost $0.14 to make a nickel.
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Should we stop making nickels to and save what's left
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Of our pennies and nickels for our retirement funds
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And dimes while you're at it?
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We don't really need these these kind of coins anymore.
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I think it's a great idea.
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Thank you.
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George, your wisdom is always helpful.
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I appreciate you spending some time with us today.
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You bet. alan, it was great. thank you.
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Well, we come back some free advice on finding hope.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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I said to you on a number of
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Occasions that i believe god is shaking the earth.
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You may feel uncomfortable in the moment, but
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After the shaking things that become visible
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That weren't visible to us
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Before, the eternal things of god become more clear.
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Federal agencies, they're trimming excess.
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Corporations are downsizing.
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Ai is affecting the job market.
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Some are saying
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Times will get tougher and the economy will get worse.
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Well, our grocery prices settle down.
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We'll be able to afford a house,
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Will be able to pay for the kids.
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Extracurricular activities are real questions.
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It can't be unsettling,
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But i'm going to ask you this holiday season
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To not lose sight of what i believe is truly important.
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There are very few things i know that will bring more momentum
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To your life or mine than learning to be grateful.
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You know, it's a little countercultural these days.
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We tend to talk a lot
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More about entitlement or what we believe we have a right to.
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But let's make a shift and come back
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To being a grateful people.
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That's expressed in your attitude
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More than anyplace else.
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And the wonderful thing about your attitude
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Is it's a different
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Than the other things that tend to define us as individuals.
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You get to choose your attitude.
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We didn't choose our hair color.
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Most likely we didn't choose our height or our eye color.
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But we do choose the attitude that we express.
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In fact, nobody could give you an attitude.
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If you've got a bad attitude
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And you think somebody else gave it to you.
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That's not how it works.
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You've accepted that.
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It's your attitude and yours alone.
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There are very few things that will erode your sense
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Of gratitude more quickly than looking at other people
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That have things that you don't, and being envious of them.
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Reality is, we're the most blessed people
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On the planet in the history of civilization.
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Most of us have so much stuff
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We have to rent places to put it.
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Yet the culture tells us that we shouldn't be satisfied.
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We shouldn't be content.
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There's a difference between contentment and complacency.
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I'm not asking you to be complacent,
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But i'm telling you that the voices that are trying
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To create discontentment within you.
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They don't originate from the throne room of god.
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So let's learn to be grateful people
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To celebrate the victories in our lives, the places where
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God has brought breakthroughs,
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Those outcomes that could only be explained
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By the goodness of god in our lives.
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Let's be intentional
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This holiday season to pause and take a moment
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And celebrate his goodness.
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If we'll do that, it'll incubate hope in every heart.
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I'll be back with your emails in just a moment.
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I'll be back with your emails in just a moment.
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Thank you for spending a few minutes of your day with us.
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If you ever
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Miss a live broadcast, you can always go to aj now.com.
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There's a full archive of our programs there.
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You can watch them at your leisure.
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You can even share them with a friend.
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The more the merrier.
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Thanks for your emails.
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Gail d from washington wrote
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All the controversy in the nation
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Today is disturbing and it causes division among us all.
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I admire president trump
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For standing up in order to change the way
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Things have become led by the deep state.
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God bless our president, our nation,
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And let a spiritual revival come soon.
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In the name of jesus.
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Amen. gail, i agree.
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I respect the president as well.
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We should not be afraid
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Of our government or the people who work for the government,
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And at least in theory, they work for us.
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Don w, from texas, said, i heard on an israeli
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News broadcast that the jews think
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If the body of a jewish hostage isn't returned,
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The deceased cannot find eternal rest.
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Where does this train of thought come from?
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And is this in the old testament?
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Somewhere?
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Well, i'd make a couple of observations, don.
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There's as much diversity in the jewish community
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About what they believe and how they believe
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As there is in the christian community.
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And i suspect, you know,
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There's a tremendous diversity amongst us.
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So it wouldn't be uniformly.
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But the rabbis have had a tremendous influence
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In interpreting what the scripture says
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To the people who respect their opinions.
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And so when you hear those things, they're usually driven
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By rabbinic thought and writings.
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The best remedy for all of us is to be familiar with the bible.
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If you're not in the habit of reading
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Your bible on a daily basis, let me encourage you strongly
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To begin to cultivate that habit.
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It will protect you from many things,
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Perhaps most importantly, from the opinions of people
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That are informed by scripture.
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Embarks from columbus, georgia, said,
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It seems to me that the disastrous events
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In nigeria and sudan
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And the massacre of thousands
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Upon thousands of christians, many being beheaded,
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Is a glimpse into what the final three
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And a half years of the tribulation might look like.
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But on a smaller scale,
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I think that's a pretty astute observation
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That i would submit to you
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That the shadow
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Of the spirit of antichrist has fallen over the earth.
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You can find expressions of almost all the things
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Described in the book of revelation
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Already taking place in the earth.
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What's between where we are and the return of our lord
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Is the intensification of those things ultimately
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Being expressed almost without hindrance.
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It's a good time to use our freedom
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And liberty to get to know the lord.
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Thank you for your
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Emails, for your thoughts, and most importantly,
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For spending a few minutes with us today.
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God's moving in the earth.
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I want to be a part of that.
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I'm alan jackson and i pray you have a wonderful evening.
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