Neil

Today, lawmakers and meme stock traders rally around Jerome Powell.

Good morning.

It's time to start getting excited for the Winter Olympics, which begins in just a few weeks from Northern Italy.

And for any skating fans out there, you're going to be in for a treat.

On Sunday, Team USA announced one of the strongest American figure skating teams in history, anchored by four-time national champ Ilya Malinin, a.k.a.

the Quad God, and the ice dance duo of Madison Chalk and Evan Bates.

Toby, you think you can land a triple sow cow?

Yeah, it seems to be the big drama coming into the winter games is will this ice hockey arena be ready in time?

The race is on until February.

And now a word from our sponsor, Indeed.

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So much protein.

And that's why our studio smells like that.

Anyway, we'll be at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos next week.

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I'm not sure what Jerome Powell expected when he posted a two-minute video Sunday night, but it's landed like an asteroid and the fallout is just beginning.

Politicians, analysts, and probably even your family group chat have all been weighing in after the central bank boss ripped into President Trump in a video two evenings ago.

In that shocking clip, which now has more than 60 million views on X, Powell said that he's been criminally investigated by the DOJ over his comments on a Fed renovation project