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4.21.25 Legal Docket on justice for terror victims, Moneybeat with David Bahnsen, and songs of love and promise
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Mary Reichert
Good morning. The Supreme Court considers the limits on what America can do to hold foreign groups accountable for terror attacks.
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Nick Eicher
Nobody likes pirates, right? But the United States does not try pirates in abstention.
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Kent Covington
That's ahead today on Legal Docket. Also today, the Monday money beat. David Bonson is standing by. We will talk about the public spat between the president and the chairman of the Federal Reserve over interest rates and a special world history book. Bob Kennedy Pace highlights music with a message for the season.
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Bob Case
In the spring, a young man's fancy lightly turns to the thoughts of love.
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Mary Reichert
It's Monday, April 21st. This is the world and everything in it from listener supported World Radio. I'm Mary Reichert.
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Kent Covington
And I'm Nick Eicher. Good morning.
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Mary Reichert
Time now for the news with Kent Covington.
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David Bonson
Negotiators from the U.S. and Iran Plan to gather again on Saturday for a third round of nuclear talks that after a second round over the weekend was constructive, according to both sides. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the goal is clear.
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Edwin Niedler
It has to be something that actually not just prevents Iran from having a nuclear weapon now, but in the future.
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Mary Reichert
As well, not just for 10 years with some sort of sunset provision or the like.
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David Bonson
US Special envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Arachi reportedly spoke face to face in Rome this past Saturday. Iranian officials, though, described the talks as indirect. Before they meet again in Oman next weekend, Irachis of the two sides agreed that experts will hold technical level talks in the coming days to discuss details of a possible deal. Republican Congressman Buddy Carter tells Fox News.
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Mary Reichert
It will be in Iran's best interest.
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Nick Eicher
If they deal with President Trump. President Trump is offering them an opportunity.
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Mary Reichert
Here that they need to seize upon.
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David Bonson
The president has made clear that he wants to solve this matter peacefully. But if diplomacy fails, the US Will take military action to prevent a nuclear Iran. The Supreme Court has sided, at least for now, with the American Civil Liberties Union blocking deportations of some illegal immigrants. The high court granted the liberal activist group's request for an administrative stay, temporarily blocking deportations of some Venezuelan gang members. The Supreme Court had earlier ruled that the Trump administration could deport under the Alien Enemies act as long as the migrants had a chance to challenge their removal. In court. The administration says it did give advance notice and at the very least, the court should narrow the stay. Meantime, debate continues over the deportation of a Salvadoran national. Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland traveled to El Salvador to meet with Kilmar Abrego Garcia last week.
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Edwin Niedler
Bring Kilmar home so he can be.
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David Bonson
Afforded his rights under the Constitution. But Republican Congressman Mark Harris says Garcia, who is now detained in El Salvador, is home. He charges that Democrats are trying to spin a narrative that this is a.
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Bob Case
Maryland man, that this is a Maryland dad, a Maryland husband, when in reality he's not a Maryland man.
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David Bonson
He is actually a national of El.
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Bob Case
Salvador who is a gang member of Ms. 13.
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David Bonson
Attorneys representing Garcia deny that he's a member of Ms. 13, while the Department of Homeland Security asserts that the evidence of his gang affiliation is undeniable. Garcia entered the country illegally in 2019 but had been shielded from deportation by an immigration judge before federal authorities mistakenly deported him earlier this month. Vice President J.D. vance met briefly with Pope Francis on Easter Sunday at the Vatican. I know you've not been feeling great.
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Bob Case
But it's good to see you in better health.
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David Bonson
The visit comes as the 88 year old Pope continues to recover from pneumonia. Vance converted to Catholicism in 2019. He and Pope Francis have disagreed sharply over issues like the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration. Pope Francis emerged on Easter Sunday to bless the thousands gathered in St. Peter's Square from the balcony over the Basilica entrance on Capitol Hill. Work continues on a bill that would extend President Trump's first term tax cuts, among other things. NGOP Congressman Brandon Gill says the president and Republicans are determined to balance the budget.
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Nick Eicher
We're going to be cutting spending in this reconciliation bill.
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Edwin Niedler
We've got a lot of work to do.
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Nick Eicher
We've got billions of dollars of green New Deal tax subsidies that we need.
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Mary Reichert
To be rolling back.
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David Bonson
We've got Democrats call the Trump tax cuts a giveaway to the wealthy. And House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries charges that Republican plans will make things worse. The cost of living in the United.
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Nick Eicher
States of America is too high. Donald Trump and Republicans promised to lower the cost of living. In fact, on Day one, costs aren't going down, they are going up.
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David Bonson
Republicans argue that reining in overspending in Washington will bring down inflation and consumer prices. Secret Service Director Sean Curran is speaking out about efforts to strengthen the agency in the wake of two assassination attempts against President Trump before last year's election.
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Edwin Niedler
We're not going to lower our standards. We're looking for the best and the brightest. And I will tell you, having the.
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Nick Eicher
Support of the president and the secretary, Secretary Noem, she's been very supportive as well.
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David Bonson
The Secret Service ran a recruiting ad during super bowl lix in February. Curran's remarks come as the Trump administration works to make cuts at the Department of Homeland Security, which controls the Secret Service. But officials say they're cutting bloat and waste, not crucial or necessary resources. I'm Kent Covington. And still ahead, legal docket the Monday Money beat with David Bonson and the world history book. This is the world and everything in it.
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Mary Reichert
It's the world and everything in it for this 21st day of April 2025. We're so glad you've joined us today. Good morning. I'm Mary Reichert.
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Kent Covington
And I'm Nick Eichert. Time now for legal docket. In 2018, an American Israeli named Ari Fuld was leaving a shopping mall in the West Bank. About that moment, a Palestinian terrorist stabbed him fatally. But before he collapsed, Fuld was able to shoot the terrorist, and that prevented him from attacking anyone.
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Mary Reichert
El the attacker ended up surviving. He received a life sentence in Israel, but was released in February. As part of a prisoner exchange deal, Israel swapped more than 600 prisoners, including Ari Fuld's killer. That group given an exchange for six hostages held by Hamas. Speaking to i24 News, Ari Fold's brother Hillel explained the complexity of emotions Israelis feel about these swaps.
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Bob Case
We all, you know, we feel the.
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Edwin Niedler
Pain, but we also recognize that these.
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Bob Case
Families deserve to be reunited. And it's a dissonance that many of us experience. And at the same time, it's terribly painful to imagine this terrorist who took my brother walking freely.
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Kent Covington
Fauld's widow Mariam had filed a lawsuit that finally made it to the Supreme Court this month following years of legal battles in lower courts.
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Nick Eicher
We will hear argument this morning in case 24:20 fold versus Palestine Liberation Organization and the consolidated case.
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Kent Covington
The other consolidated case is Sokolow v. PLO, where victims initially won more than $650 million in damages under the Anti Terrorism Act. But that decision was tossed out by a lower court ruling that US Courts lacked jurisdiction over the PLO and the Palestinian Authority.
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Mary Reichert
In response to that, Congress in 2019 approved the promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act. It clarif that US Citizens harmed abroad by terrorism could seek justice in American courts. Specifically, the law allowed jurisdiction over foreign entities if Those entities received U.S. foreign aid or maintained offices or activities within.
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Kent Covington
The U.S. now, the Supreme Court must decide a fundamental legal question. Can Congress do that? Can it mandate that foreign entities be subject to American courts even for actions carried out overseas? Kent Yalowitz represented the Fuld family and other victims, arguing not only Congress can do it, it should.
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Nick Eicher
The United States can take many actions in response to terror activity abroad by the PLO and the PA that kills American citizens. The government could, for example, prosecute them under our criminal laws, and they admit doing so would not violate any due process rights. They contend, however, that bringing a civil action crosses a red line is unconstitutional under the Due Process Clause. That is incorrect. The federal government's sphere of sovereignty is sufficiently broad that it follows American citizens wherever in the world they might travel.
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Kent Covington
Justice Clarence Thomas asked how the Fifth Amendment's due process guarantees enter into the facts of this case.
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Nick Eicher
If we analyze this under the Fifth Amendment, what limitations would the Fifth Amendment.
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Bob Case
Provide for personal jurisdiction?
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Nick Eicher
So, first of all, the Fifth Amendment requires fair notice and opportunity to be heard, which the defendants had. In addition, it protects persons against arbitrary government action. Here, the statute reasonably advances a legitimate government interest. And within the context of the federal government's power.
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Mary Reichert
Other Justices worried about possible overreach. Justice Sonia Sotomayor you're basically saying there.
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Nick Eicher
Is no due process protection whatsoever under the Fifth Amendment even for US Citizens, because I don't know why it makes a difference that this is a foreigner or a U.S. citizen. If there is, as you're advocating, no Fifth Amendment due process constraint on government, then Congress could, on whim, say you committed an act in New York, violated a federal statute, get tried in California, get tried in Alaska, get tried in Hawaii.
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Mary Reichert
Yalowitz responded by emphasizing reasonableness. That's a key legal standard courts use to ensure the government does not overstep. He gave an example. Suppose Congress passed a law saying anyone who sets foot in Paris, France can be hauled into court in Paris, Texas. That would clearly be unreasonable. That would amount to arbitrary government action and would therefore violate due process rights. So reasonableness is a good guardrail.
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Kent Covington
Deputy Solicitor General Edwin Niedler agreed with Yalowitz and the victims, emphasizing that courts usually defer to Congress on issues of foreign policy and national security.
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Nick Eicher
Congress determined that it is fair to deem the PLO and PA to have consented to personal jurisdiction in suits under the Anti Terrorism act if they made payments to or on behalf of persons who injured or killed Americans in acts of terrorism or engaged in certain activities in the United States. Both of those forms of conduct that are jurisdiction triggering are knowing and voluntary. They have a clear nexus to United States territory and to United States States nationals and to the compelling US interests in deterring terrorism.
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Kent Covington
But Justice Elena Kagan wondered about constitutional limits.
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Nick Eicher
Well, why is that? If the minimum contacts test is a constitutional test, why does what Congress says in a particular statute modify that? Because the minimum contacts test grows out of 14th Amendment cases that provided for limitations on state governments. Those limitations do not apply to the federal government. The Court has said that for the.
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Kent Covington
PLO side, lawyer Mitchell Berger acknowledged he's representing a deeply unpopular cause. He highlighted the historical limits of prosecuting defendants who aren't actually here.
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Nick Eicher
Nobody likes pirates, right? Pirates have been bad from the founding. Nobody ever thought that even though piracy is a crime against humanity. Humanity or it's a crime that fits in the define and punish clause. That certainly the United States can define piracy as an offense. But the United States does not try pirates in absentia because there's a delta between what Congress can prescribe as laws and what courts can do in adjudicating individual claims against someone who violates a law with extraterritorial effect.
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Mary Reichert
And then Justice Samuel Alito compared the relative harms in the case.
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Nick Eicher
What exactly is the unfairness in this case? And the. It's the. It would too burdensome to litigate this in New York, where the PA and the PLO conduct some activities. Well, so what's the unfairness?
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Mary Reichert
Berger answered. The courts have already ruled that having an office in the U. S or any kind of seat at the UN Is not enough to establish jurisdiction in American courts over the plo. It wouldn't be right to deprive it of that liberty interest. Now, if the justices side with Congress, that could reshape how American courts deal with foreign defendants in jurisdictions far from their homes. I think that side will prevail, though, as I counted at least five justices leaning that way.
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Kent Covington
All right, so we can get caught up a bit on our cases. There is another overseas terror case to touch on. In brief, this one deals with financial support for terror. It's Bloem Bank v. Honickman. Here, victims and family members accused a Lebanese bank of supporting Hamas financially. Lower courts dismissed the case twice. Now the Supreme Court must decide how much flexibility the courts have to allow plaintiffs to amend complaints after dismissal.
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Mary Reichert
All right, one more quick hit. Esteros v. U. S. In this one, the court is weighing how much discretion judges have when they revoke the supervised release of a prisoner. Edgardo Esteras violated the terms of his supervised release when he fired a gun during a domestic dispute. The recommended sentence for that was between six and 12 months, but the judge gave him two years, saying it was necessary to promote respect for the law.
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Kent Covington
Esther Ross argues federal law doesn't give judges that kind of power. In cases like these, they're supposed to consider only rehabilitation, not punishment. But that leads to a tricky question. How is a judge supposed to consider the nature of someone's offense without considering the seriousness of it.
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Mary Reichert
Justice Samuel Alito pointed out this tension.
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Nick Eicher
Directly under the statute, the judge must consider the nature and circumstances of the offense. But on your reading of the statute, the judge may not consider the seriousness of the offense. And how is the judge supposed to do that?
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Kent Covington
In other words, what's the real difference between considering the nature of an offense and punishing someone for it? That's what the justices have to figure out. Finally today, one case the justices did figure out, it's a unanimous one, Cunningham v. Cornell.
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Mary Reichert
Right. This one makes it easier for employees to challenge retirement plan managers, ruling that employees don't have to disprove every defense just to get their case heard. Employers must justify their own decisions, and that will reinforce protections for workers who are saving up for retirement. And that's this week's legal docket.
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David Bonson
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Mary Reichert
Coming up next on THE WORLD and everything in it, the Monday Money beat.
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Kent Covington
Time now to talk business markets and the economy with financial analyst and advisor David Bonson. David heads up the wealth management firm the Bonson Group. He is here now. And good morning, David.
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Edwin Niedler
Good morning, Nick. Good to be with you.
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Kent Covington
Well, good to be with you, too, David. So we've talked over the past several weeks an awful lot about tariffs. And finally, I've got a story that isn't tariff driven. It is President Trump driven with a touch of tariff policy. But it would be the spat between the president and the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jay Powell. And I should note, this is the Jay Powell that President Trump nominated in his first White house term in 2018. And now he's fallen out of favor. What's going on there, as far as you can tell?
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Edwin Niedler
Well, I want to give all sides of it here. It's a tricky thing for me, like so much with markets in the economy that require nuance because it doesn't lend itself to sort of this side versus that side. There's a few different things to say. I'm critical from time to time of this Fed chair, Jay Powell. I'm often more critical of the role that we have asked the Fed to play. And I don't really blame a particular Fed chair for doing the job they were given to do that I don't think they should have been given to do. And I have to separate where I'm critical of the way a Fed chair is doing their job versus the job itself, you know, that I may not agree with, and there's a little bit of both sometimes with Chairman Powell. I do know him to be a very earnest and sincere man, and I have differences with him about certain elements of monetary policy. The President right now is upset with Jay Powell because he did not cut rates at the last meeting and this week gave a speech at the Economic Club of Chicago where he stated that they have concerns about the tariffs coming in, pushing prices higher and impacting some of their plans of monetary policy, and yet perhaps then putting downward pressure on growth. And so it kind of could lend itself to a stagflationary environment, which is very difficult for a central bank to deal with. And I don't know if President Trump's upset that he said it and believes the Federal Reserve Chair should not be criticizing or commenting on potential policy, or if he's upset about what he didn't do in policy terms, which is go cut rates more. The President's always wanted lower interest rates. He always wanted lower rates when he was a very leveraged real estate investor. And every president we've ever had or ever will have, if they could control the central bank, would like lower rates, not higher rates. I interpret it as the President working the refs a little bit. The irony of this whole thing, Nick, is that Jay Powell is going to be doing exactly what President Trump wants anyways. The Fed funds, futures market have said all throughout that there's probably four rate cuts coming this year, potentially five. And so whether or not President Trump was complaining about this, I think that Powell would be doing it. But he doesn't want it to appear that he's responding to the President's prodding. And so we're gonna have to watch this play out a little. I suspect my theory is the right one, that the President's just working the refs a little bit.
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Kent Covington
Working the refs? Well, you mentioned Fed optics there. Powell doesn't wanna be seen as reacting to presidential prodding. He's gotta be seen as independent. And there is something unseemly I about a president jawboning a Fed chair. But I have to say, and by the way, let me put up a link to Powell's Chicago speech. I'll do that in the transcript. But Powell doesn't seem to mind complaining about White House policy.
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Edwin Niedler
Well, there's a lot of different elements involved in the optics of what's going on. And so on one hand, it's so funny how many on the right have said, oh, inflation's so high and it's not going lower, and why would the Fed cut? And then now President Trump's in and they're saying, hey, inflation's come back down. He should be cutting rates. And so, you know, everybody's view on inflation tends to be highly levered to their own political outlook. There's no question that inflation has moved a lot towards the Fed's target. On a headline basis, it isn't showing there yet. But as I've been pointing out on this podcast for over a year, I believe that's because of a misunderstood reading of the data around shelter and rents. So I don't have any problem at all with the Fed cutting rates. I do think they're too tight. And I do think the economy is slowing down substantially. And I think a lot of that is because of the uncertainty around tariff threats. But it's a peculiar position for the president to say that the economy is doing great and tariffs aren't going to hurt the economy and the Fed should be quickly cutting rates because of a slowing economy. Now, by the way, there's a legitimate criticism I'll bring up. I was on the Kudlow show on Fox over the weekend and an economist from Heritage said that it wasn't fair that Jay Powell never criticized Joe Biden for all his spending. But then he is criticizing the potential of these tariff policies. And I think that, prima facie, that's a legitimate issue. But then my question is, so what is it we're asking for? We're asking that he not criticized the tariff policy or we're saying he should have criticized the Biden policy? You know, there's a sauce for goose, sauce for gander thing going on here, too.
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Bob Case
Right, Right. Yeah, right.
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Kent Covington
It works both ways. Yeah. So, hey, before we have to go, David, we continue to hear warnings of a recession and I'd love to get from you a read on where you think the economy stands right now. The health of the economy, from what you're able to see, the indicators that you pay attention to, well, the signals.
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Edwin Niedler
We look at are going to be backward looking and then the things I most care about are forward looking. And when I look forward, it has to do with what I know to be a significant decline this quarter in capital goods investment. And then anecdotally the conversations I'm having with what is right now, well over 100 business owners that if they're a bad representative sample then that's what it is. But I have a very hard time believing that my 128 business owners I'm serving are that different from a lot of others out there. And that uncertainty theme is pretty much unanimous. There's varying degrees of severity of what that means. Some saying that they worry for the the sustainability of their very businesses existence and others saying we may face cutbacks later in the year but nobody's going out doing big orders. No one's going out doing big investments whether it's R and D research and development or hard capex of investing into big inventory, big factories, big manufacturing capital goods. And so you have all that up against the uncertainty and the upside. The upside uncertainty of the tax bill that really the uncertainty on the tariff thing could not necessarily be wiped away or be made all good, you know, kind of whitewashed, but there's a good degree of offset if they really could get this tax bill done above and beyond just extending the Trump tax cuts with things like 100% business expensing or any other additional reduction of the corporate tax rate, which would be hard to do. So that's the stuff I'm looking for. Forward looking, Nick. I don't care about retail sales last month. I don't care about consumer confidence last month. All I have to do is look at fifth Avenue. And I know people in America still love to shop so I'm not worried about any of that. But businesses not investing that will catch up with us this summer in the economy. And we already know even though we're not talking a whole lot about tariffs today, we already know that that's stuff is still lingering in terms of China and other trade deals.
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Kent Covington
All right, David Bonson, founder, managing partner and chief investment officer of the Bonson Group. David Wrights at World opinions and@dividendcafe.com hey David, thanks. We'll see you next week.
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Edwin Niedler
Thanks so much Nick. Good to be with you.
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Mary Reichert
Today is Monday, April 21st. Good morning. This is the world and everything in it. From listener supported world Radio, I'm Mary Reichard.
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Kent Covington
And I'm Nick Eicher. Today a special world history book, right?
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Mary Reichert
Springtime is not just about showers and flowers. It's also about history and the timeless songs inspired by the changing seasons. Here now is Bob Case opening the Great American Songbook to celebrate a musical tradition generations in the making.
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Bob Case
We are in a special time of the year when our fancy turns to the outdoors while the fruitfulness of the earth becomes more apparent as buds and blossoms appear. Human fruitfulness in the form of affection and love become more prominent in our hearts and culture, as Lord Tennyson waxed in his poem Loxley Hall. In the spring, a young man's fancy lightly turns to the thoughts of love. In the biblical songbook, King Solomon had the same sentiments when he wrote in his song of love, love. See, the winter is past. The rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth. The season of song has come. The cooing of doves is heard in our land the fig tree forms its early fruit. The blossoming vines spread their fragrance arise Come, my darling, my beautiful one Come with me. Turning now to the American songbook, where do I begin? With songs extolling April in human love. The earliest popular Standard is the 1921 Golden Oldie April Showers from the Broadway show Bombo. Buddy Da Silva and Lou Silvers wrote the number, but the extraordinary vocalist Al Jolson made it famous. Though April showers may come your way Just for you Just for you they.
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Nick Eicher
Bring the flowers that bloom in a may.
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Bob Case
When Jolson introduced the song, he unexpectedly jumped up on the stage Runway, pointed his right arm to the gallery and shouted, look. Look, look, look. They're not clouds.
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Mary Reichert
No, no.
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Bob Case
They're crowds of daffodils. 36 curtain calls later, April Showers had become part of Jolson's permanent repertoire. The song also became the last song he ever sang in public to wounded American soldiers in a Korean Hospital in 1950, when he was dying himself whenever they put in a shower. Come.
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David Bonson
Alone.
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Bob Case
Next up on our cavalcade of Spring Standard is the most famous of all April Song from the American songbook, the beautiful and haunting April in Paris.
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Nick Eicher
April in Paris Chestnuts and blossoms.
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Bob Case
The lyrics tell of a love for a beautiful and romantic city, with the realization that the love of a person is what makes April and the city of Lights so special.
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Nick Eicher
I never knew the charm of spring Never met it face to face.
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Bob Case
In 1934, Freddie Martin's orchestra had a number five hit with the song. Almost 20 years later, April Born. Doris Day revisited this Standard in the 1952 movie April in Paris.
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Mary Reichert
What.
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Bob Case
Have you done to.
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Kent Covington
My.
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David Bonson
Heart?
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Bob Case
Moving on. In 1957, Sammy Fane and Paul Francis Webster wrote April for the movie of the same title. Early rock and roll superstar and outspoken Christian Pat Boone recorded the song, which charted for 19 weeks, sold over a million records, and was nominated for an Academy Award. But April.
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Nick Eicher
Love.
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Bob Case
Can slip right through.
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Nick Eicher
Your fingers so if she's the one don't let her run away.
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Bob Case
April is a time for recommitment to the things that matter most to us. Love, romance, new birth, even spring cleaning. As far as the Bible is concerned, April is the beginning of the year when the fruitfulness of God's creation is is evident to all. The Bible refers to April as the first month, the turn of the year, the beginning of the months or even months that you came out of Egypt, signifying God's new life. The church has long recognized the pleasures of April in her hymns. We close today with 18th century English hymnist Isaac Watts and his wonderful hymn There is a Land of Pure Delight, sung here by the Mennonite Table Singers.
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Mary Reichert
There is a land of pure delight.
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Edwin Niedler
Where sings immortal rain, eternal day excludes.
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Mary Reichert
The night and pleasures vanish pain their everlasting spring abundance. With Ref.
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Bob Case
Watts assures us that the love of our life, Jesus the Christ, awaits us in the land of pure delight where spring lasts forever. So rejoice fellow Christians, in April because. Because it is a foretaste of eternal Aprils. I'm Robert Case. Not Jordan Stream nor death or should.
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Mary Reichert
Write us from the shore.
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David Bonson
Tomorrow, Earth.
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Kent Covington
Day 2025, we'll explore the Dominion Mandate and hear from a farmer who believes that stewardship is the key to better agriculture and a mother whose relentless love cut through bureaucratic red tape to rescue her adopted daughter. That and more tomorrow. I'm Nick Eicher.
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Mary Reichert
And I'm Mary Reichert. The world and everything in it comes to you from World Radio. World's mission is biblically objective journalism that informs, educates and inspires. The psalmist writes as for man, his days are like grass. He flourishes like a flower of the field, for the wind passes over it and it is gone, and its place knows it no more. But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him. Part of verses 15 through 17 of Psalm 103. Go now in grace and peace.