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Ryan Bridge: Commerce will always find a way eventually · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, and I really do mean good morning. Four
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  Speaker 1: months ago, wall kicked off in the Middle East. A
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  Speaker 1: year earlier. Year before that, the tariff war kicked off
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  Speaker 1: all over the world. And yet today the following things
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  Speaker 1: are happening. Regardless of those. Wall Street is steaming ahead,
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  Speaker 1: on track for the best or some of the best
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  Speaker 1: quarterly performances since COVID. The S and P up fourteen
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  Speaker 1: percent through Monday, Nasdaq up twenty percent. This is for
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  Speaker 1: the quarter. Price of oil is falling. Manufacturing activity in
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  Speaker 1: the United States it is a four year high here
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  Speaker 1: at home. People always tell you the bad stuff, but
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  Speaker 1: they rarely report the good or the stable. Yesterday, business
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  Speaker 1: confidence was up in June and that thirty seven percent
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  Speaker 1: of businesses are more confident this month compared to last.
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  Speaker 1: Despite the ward and the oil in the shop is
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  Speaker 1: being a bit more cautious. There's optimism out there, there's
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  Speaker 1: hope out there. Jobs. Remember they said jobs would fall
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  Speaker 1: off a cliff like that's literally what one economist said,
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  Speaker 1: people would stop hiring of The employment survey that came
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  Speaker 1: out a few weeks ago was the most negative or
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  Speaker 1: depressing reads since it began decades ago. And then we
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  Speaker 1: got jobs number Monday. We gained opportunities, we gained jobs,
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  Speaker 1: we gained workers on a net basis, we added to
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  Speaker 1: the poll. That's why on this program we always strive
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  Speaker 1: to bring facts without so much emotion and hyperbole. Bad
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  Speaker 1: things happen and people react, but not always in the
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  Speaker 1: way that you think or even they think they will.
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  Speaker 1: And if there's one thing you can be sure of,
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  Speaker 1: no matter how disastrous the headline or the event, or
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  Speaker 1: the war or the pandemic, commerce will always find a way.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it'll take a little longer than others. For more
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