David, good to see you. Thank you so much for being here. Your takeaway from the Fed moves yesterday.>> Hi, Maria. Good morning. I think the rate cuts were too small and too late.Uh they should have started in June and you can wonder why did they wait until now. If they're going to make the cuts now, the cost to the economy has been huge uh because they didn't start earlier. You know, all the interest on the national debt is paid at this rate that the that the Fed is setting.Uh so but but that's that's done ...

Let's bring in Art Laugher, former Reagan economist, and David Malpass, former World Bank president. Gentlemen, great to see you. Thank you for being here.Art, I we had this capital goods orders number come in four times more than was expected. It it was expected to come in uh positive.2%, it came in at a positive.9%. Now, these were numbers from September.We have to say that it was before the shutdown, so that might have changed things. But meanwhile, we had the the September wholesale inflation number tha ...