acant? How does it survive that? I always speculate that there are some magic numbers for things to fall apart. One of them is 10%, the other is 20%. That if anything goes to 10% problem, whatever it is, whatever the problem is, if it gets to 10%, then things could start getting out of control, but also 20%. Depending on the thing, you know, so whenever I see a 10 or a 20 coming, I'm like, whoa, 10 or a 20 coming. But when it's at 28, it feels like it's already broken out into you can't get this toothpaste back in the tube. Is it just me?

Now here I'm only talking about how it feels. This is again not what's happening. It's just how it feels like it's out of control. And I'm also curious because you may have heard that the real estate in New York City is actually coming back and prices are holding up and people are moving back to New York City. So wouldn't it be interesting to know what was so different about New York City that allowed some of it to come back already? Some of it and Chicago maybe getting worse. It doesn't even say if it's just getting better. So just the news is reporting on this.

I will say for self-improvement purposes, as a consumer of news when I see a story like this, this is what I want to see context-wise. I want to see which direction it's moving because 28, it's probably in the story. I don't know if it's in the story or not. I was skimming things today. So I'm pretty sure that they covered the numbers that matter. Just the News does a really good job by the way. You should always check them out. Just the News it's called.

But 28% you'd want to know which direction it's going and you'd want to know what the other cities besides New York were looking at. And you'd want to know why is New York coming back or why do people speculate it's coming back? What did they do differently? Is it crime? I don't know. I guess corporate earnings were kind of good this quarter, but people are still worried. So the stock market didn't go up that much. Well, actually, that's not true. Everybody's got a different reason for why the stock market didn't move. I saw one reason was that it's already gone up. So you know, it already anticipated good news, maybe.

But have you noticed that whenever the stock market goes up or down, whether it goes up or down, somebody's got a reason that you can't check? You know, that you can't really check. It's like, well, I think it's the animal spirits, Bob. You know, people saw Trump jump and grab his ear and suddenly they reach for the wallet. And everybody's just got some wild ass story that they're pretty sure they can sell, especially if they're selling financial products.

You can never stop Bitcoin. Well, that's probably what everybody says before something gets stopped, but I know what you mean. I agree.

Yesterday I lit a match and threw it on some gas and I want to talk this through with you guys. Okay. So this is going to start out with sounding like I disagree with you. But if I do this right, by the time I'm finished with this topic, which is going to be healthcare, you will say, "Oh, we're not actually on different pages." You ready for this? We'll see if I can pull this off.

What I said was that I guess some of the Democrats were thinking about a one-year extension to the ACA, Obamacare, until they could figure out a better solution. Now the Republicans were offering to open the government and negotiate just over a few, you know, the next several weeks, a much smaller period of time. So when they offered that, the only change they offered besides just keeping the government open at the same rate so they can feed the people and then work out a real budget. So they were going to do that, but a lot of the Republicans said to me when I commented that it seemed reasonable. So to me that was the first reasonable offer.

Now when I say reasonable, that doesn't mean they should take it, right? I mean, you've watched me long enough to know a reasonable offer doesn't mean you accept it. You know, you can do better. Ask Trump. If you said to Trump, they made a reasonable offer. Should you take it? Do you think he'd say yes? No, because he knows how to do this. You'd say, well, maybe we'll bump him up a little bit. Maybe we'll tap that along a little bit. Maybe get a little extra because he knows how to do this.

So now the