Morning Brew Daily - SCOTUS Weakens Fed Powers & AI Leads Stock Market in H1

Episode Date: July 1, 2024

Episode 355: Neal and Toby recap another big Supreme Court ruling that rolls back a 40-year precedent, known as the ‘Chevron deference’, that could transform the authority of the Federal governmen...t. Then, a popular home improvement chain in rural America, Tractor Supply, cuts all its DEI and carbon emission reduction goals thanks to a conservative social media blitz. Meanwhile, the stock market is having quite a first half of 2024, thanks to AI and Nvidia. Then, the weekend’s winner: a new trend on how to entertain yourself during flights; and weekend’s loser: Nike. Also, Redbox parent company files for bankruptcy. Lastly, the news for the holiday week ahead. Expand your world with Meta AI. Now on Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook and Messenger. Get your Morning Brew Daily Mug HERE: https://shop.morningbrew.com/products/morning-brew-daily-mug?utm_medium=youtube&utm_source=mbd&utm_campaign=mug Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here: https://link.chtbl.com/MBD Watch Morning Brew Daily Here: https://www.youtube.com/@MorningBrewDailyShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:28 Good morning, Brewed Daily Show. I'm Neil Fryman. And I'm Toby Howell. Today, how chicken soup for the soul collapsed into a bankrupt bisque. Then the power of government regulators just got old yellered by the Supreme Court after Scotas overturned the Chevron doctrine. It's Monday, July 1st. Let's ride.
Starting point is 00:00:51 Today is not only the first day of the second half of the year, but also a sacred day for baseball fans. It's Bobby Bonilla Day. Every July 1st, retired third baseman Bobby Bonilla receives a 1.2. million dollar check from his former team, the New York Mets, even though he hasn't played an MLB game in over 20 years. The reason is that back in 2000, the Mets owed Bonilla $5.9 million, but instead of taking that cash up front, he worked out a contract that spreads out 30 million in guaranteed payments through annual installments from 2011 through 2035. And so July 1st has become
Starting point is 00:01:28 an annual celebration of Bonilla's savvy financial planning and an opportunity to make fun of the Mets. Let's be honest, it should be a federal holiday because you got first day of the second half the year. You have this great day to learn about financial planning. And then you also have that opportunity to make fun of the New York Mets. All the ingredients are there. Another wrinkled to the Bobby Bonilla deal that is very interesting is at the time that they made the deal, they were invested with Bernie Madoff. So they thought they had this double-digit cash cow made-off account.
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Starting point is 00:03:54 Legal confusion around factory emissions, the EPA had the authority to step in and guide. a decision. Vague law and health care, the CDC was there to determine how it should be implemented. But after the ruling, the precedent is gone, which means courts are no longer required to defer to the so-called administrative state when it comes to regulating industries. That power will instead return to judges who critics argue are far less familiar with the nuances of a particular industry that they will now be asked to have the final say on. Neil, by hamstringing the administrative state, everything from net neutrality to climate change will be. be affected. This was a very big deal. Yeah, this is great for business interests. It's great for
Starting point is 00:04:34 lawyers because any single regulation that comes down the pipeline from that alphabet soup of regulatory agencies that have really become the main policy makers in the United States right now, the EPA, the FCC, the FDA, anything that comes down the pipeline for them is going to be challenged by industry lobbyists. And it will go to a court. And previously for the past 40 years with Chevron deference, the court has said, okay, well, the, these agencies are experts in their fields. Why don't I just defer to them in terms of what regulations they want to implement now that has been completely scrapped. So you're going to see a wave of litigation targeting a ton of regulations that a lot of people say protect consumers and protect our waterways and things
Starting point is 00:05:18 like that. In the short term, a lot of people are like, wait a second, what is going to happen to the 17,000 lower court decisions and 70 Supreme Court rulings in the past, have relied on the Chevron doctrine, are those just all going to be tossed out the window? Chief Justice Roberts did say that they will stand, so at least in the short term, and cleared up some of those immediate legal questions. In the long term, though, this is a very big win for the conservative legal movement business groups as well, who have long just objected to Chevron, partly based on just a general hostility to what I keep calling the administrative state, but also partly on the belief that
Starting point is 00:05:52 agencies should only have the power that Congress gives to them. there is, we have separation of powers in our government for a reason. They always thought that potentially these agencies have just become too powerful. Their influence has creed beyond what they were initially intended to do. And then the pushback on that is, why would we rely on a judge to make a very important decision about a very important regulation when they were just recently assigned to the case and they're looking at something like net neutrality or what the FTC has done recently with banning non-compete clauses and are just learning about this information for the first time and they have to make a big rule.
Starting point is 00:06:25 Why would we let a judge do it? And it might back up the courts and create all of this sort of paralysis in Washington. The administrative state was the only thing that was the only sort of organizations that got anything done recently with Congress as a deadlock at gridlock. So you have burgeoning technologies like AI and crypto that require regulation. But Congress just doesn't really do it because they are stuck in the mud with all of this gridlock. But the agencies are the only things that have the power to regulate these new. technologies. So that's the pushback on that. It's like, why are we just going to get bogged down in the legal system with judges that don't really know what they're talking about? They have no technical expertise in these subjects. Many companies have begun to roll back their initiatives for
Starting point is 00:07:08 diversity, equity, and inclusion, better known as DEI, but none have done so as publicly, so suddenly as tractor supply. The company, one of the largest retailers of farming equipment and animal feed in the country, announced last week that it would abandon its inclusion initiatives following a boycott campaign from conservatives on social media. That means eliminating all jobs focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and ending sponsorships of Pride festivals. In a statement, tractor supply said we have heard from customers that we have disappointed them, and we have taken this feedback to heart. What was this feedback? Well, the campaign against tractor supply was instigated by conservative commentator Robbie Starbuck, his real name, who started
Starting point is 00:07:50 taking aim at the company's DEI programs at the start of Pride Month in early June. Those complaints started to gain momentum online to the point where tractor supply leadership took drastic action. It seemed to feel its business was being threatened after shares fell 5% over the month of June. Instead of investing in DEI projects, the company said it would focus on priorities it feel is more aligned with its conservative, rural customer base like veteran causes and ag education. Toby, another win for the anti-DEI crowd, which has been racking up a lot of them lately. Yeah, just the sheer speed of this full-on backtrack shows how much the tide has turned,
Starting point is 00:08:26 even against four years ago when a lot of companies thought it was a necessity to promote and support these policies. Now, corporate America across the board is rolling back its DIY efforts. And it is interesting, too, because a lot of the backlash came from the social media campaign. And I think that leaders at Tractor Supply saw what happened with Bud Light earlier this year, saw what happened with Target earlier this year and saw, or last year, and saw just the real business impact that those campaigns, those boycott campaigns had and decided to take decisive action very quickly here.
Starting point is 00:09:02 I mean, this is a major pivot because as recently as 2002, Tractor Supply earned a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's best place to work. Corporate Equality Index, they were lauded for their inclusion efforts. So this feels like a stab in the back for a lot of LGBTQ advocates, especially during Pride Month, they called it an embarrassing capitulation to the petty whims of anti-LGBQ extremists. Another nonprofit said Tractor Supply was turning its back on their own neighbors with this short-sighted decision. So this really stings for people who thought we were making progress and DEI four years ago after those Black Lives Matter protests.
Starting point is 00:09:40 Now, Tractor Supply could be an outlier too because around 70% of companies say they plan to expand their DEI programs, according to a 2023 survey from an executive recruitment for But other companies have made more subtle shifts where they're changing the way that they describe, the language that they use to describe these programs. A lot of it because they want to head off some of these legal challenges that are propping up saying that it is actually discriminatory to include race and gender as factors in hiring decisions. So we are seeing subtle shifts across corporate America, but also very big 180s from companies like tractor supply. It really goes back to the Supreme Court again. I know we've said Supreme Court maybe like 30 times over the past two weeks. But in 2023, there was this big decision that they struck affirmative action from college admissions process.
Starting point is 00:10:25 And that didn't really have much to do with businesses, but it did create a lot of legal uncertainty for companies and it opened the door for a lot of attacks from anti-DGI conservative advocates who were now launching legal campaigns against corporations like Starbucks, Disney and Target and companies are looking at all of their documentation and say, does this open us up to any legal liability? and that has been a major factor in the rollback of DEI programs. Congratulations, everyone. You have officially made it to the halfway mark of the year. So go ahead and bust out those orange slices, get those legs elevated, and listen as we break down how the stock market fared through H1. If you had to hand out an MVP award,
Starting point is 00:11:04 it would go to AI and Nvidia. The AI chipmaker surged 150% and briefly became the biggest company in the world. Just to put its utterly absurd dominance into perspective, the S&P 500 gained 14.5% in the first six months of the year. Invidia alone was responsible for over 30% of that gain, one company, a third of the gains, just a dominating first half of the year. Dominating first half, the S&P 500 just went bonkers in H1.
Starting point is 00:11:33 It notched 31 all-time closing highs to start the year, which was the most of any year this century, except one, which is 2021. Also, for AI, if you look at utility stocks, they rose 7.6%. And that has to do with all of the energy that these AI data centers consume. So people think that investors think that the sort of energy required is going to lift utility profits. But there is concern that there's too much weight. This lineup is too top heavy. I mean, if you look at an equal weight version of the S&P, that makes no distinction
Starting point is 00:12:09 between the size of the companies. that trailed the version that is weighted by market value by 10 percentage points since the beginning of January, which is the widest underperformance in the first six months of a year ever. So that sort of highlights how just the average company gained 4.1%, but the S&P in general gained 15%. That gap is massive and shows how NVIDIA is really carrying the back on Steam. Yeah, very time. Caring the back on his team, putting the team on its back. One index that missed out on all those AI gains, though, was the Dow.
Starting point is 00:12:39 the 139-year-old grandpa of the stock market has looked increasingly out of touch with the broader market, gaining just 4% compared to the S&P 500, 15% gain. It makes sense when you look at the big components of the Dow, Nike, Intel, Boeing, all down more than 30% in 2024. It's showing its age. And it could have been worse, but it dropped to Walgreens earlier this year. Walgreens is down 52% so far in 2024, and that's the worst performer in the S&P 500. So it dodged a little bullet by getting rid of Walgreens.
Starting point is 00:13:10 Let's go back to May, though. The Dow was up 40% from its post-pandemic low, which was in September 22, and was up 6% in the year. It crossed 40K. So we do just want to give a little shout out. It did cross a big round number earlier in the year. But yeah, it's just been bad. It's lagging behind the AI, the S&P 500. I mean, it really is the AI 500 now.
Starting point is 00:13:30 Or it's the AI 2. Now, travel back in time with us at the beginning of the year. investors were expecting the Fed to cut rates six times. Instead, we've gotten zero rate cuts, but the S&P 500 has chugged along just fine with a strong economy, strong earnings, and of course, the AI boom, closing it to that record 31 new highs. No rate cuts, no problems? No rate cuts, no problems for most of the sectors, except I do want to highlight that real estate was the only S&P 500 sector with losses in 2024. The other 10 have gained. And if you look at what the impact of Fed rate cuts, or the Fed keeping their, they're keeping their interest rates
Starting point is 00:14:08 at a 22-year high. It's really put a damper on the real estate sector, while the others have sort of cruised through with strong profits and the AI hype. Moving away from stocks for a second, commodities have had an insane first half of the year. Coco prices hit a, wrote a roller coaster that seemed to only go up jumping 85% over shortest concerns. Gold also hit a record high last month, while oil is up a meager but respectable, 12%. Commodities have had a pretty banner year as well. They have. I mean, if you want to call it a commodity or security, let's look at Bitcoin. It hit a record after those ETFs were issued. But now it's just kind of hovering. And some people are saying it's getting a little boring. The share of Bitcoin traded over the weekend this
Starting point is 00:14:49 year has reached an all-time low of 16%. So that, you know, you used to look at Bitcoin as the ultimate volatility roller coaster asset. But now it's just getting a little snoozy. Now it's Cocoa prices are the roller coaster. Finally, let's look ahead to H2. Obviously, only the person who runs the simulation knows what the market will do in the second half of the year. But typically a strong first half has led to a solid showing in the back half. Since the 1950s, when the S&P 500 climbed more than 10% in the first six months of the year, it rose by a median of 10% in the second half as well, according to Bloomberg.
Starting point is 00:15:23 You think we see double-digit gains again? I mean, who knows, but the big curveball here is the presidential election. election in November, and that could throw stocks haywire one way or another, or it could just keep it going on, keep it on, keeping on, because whether it's been a Republican administration or it's been a Democratic administration, stocks have only gone up for the past few decades. Give me one name or two names from some stocks you think are going to do well in the second half. All right. Well, I'm not a financial advisor, and I don't know what I'm talking about.
Starting point is 00:15:51 I'm just reading the news. One stock is Disney because last month signed a deal with the government in Orlando. know to build a fifth theme park at Walt Disney World as part of this $60 billion investment plan. And really, its theme parks are its main profit driver of the business. And then this weekend, Inside Out 2 of Pixar, hit $1 billion at the global box office, becoming the first movie since Barbie to do that. So maybe Pixar is getting its mojo back. It's building more theme parks, which really drive its business.
Starting point is 00:16:21 So maybe Disney is on the up. Maybe another stock, maybe, Molson Coors, and that's only because I saw a lot of people drinking Miller High Life at the bar this weekend. So I think Miller High Life is going to become this like cult beer that will drive Molson's stock to the moon. That's called doing your own research right there. Up next, some news you might have missed
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Starting point is 00:17:55 Today, though, we have a winner and a loser of the weekend. And Toby, you lost to me in the pre-show origami contest. so why don't you start with the dud? Yeah, not to put a damper on your Mondays, but my loser from the weekend is Nike. On Friday, the Sportswear Giant recorded its biggest single-day drop ever, erasing roughly $28 billion from its market cap. It came after a dismal earnings report where it posted 2025 guidance
Starting point is 00:18:19 that was so bad at least six investment banks downgraded the stock soon after. Nike warned that sales in its current quarter were expected to decline by a shocking 10%, which was worse than the 3.2% drop most had projected. and that is coming on the heels of its slowest annual sales gain in 14 years, not including the COVID-19 pandemic. Neil, I'm sure lots of MBD listeners have heard us talk about Nike struggles this year as it fends off challenges from upstart brands like On and Hoka. But it was alarming to see a company of Nike size and status just get wiped out like that.
Starting point is 00:18:52 And this is all going back to one person. CEO John Dono took over on January 2020. These analysts looking at the stock are putting, all of these failures squarely on him and saying management is not executing. It's missed the trend for running and it's getting lapped by Hoka and on. And so they're really pushing, his seat is very hot and they're pushing for management changes to turn this ship around. They used the word comeback five times on the earnings call. So they realized they're in a major slump. And, you know, yeah, his seat is extremely hot. I think one of the things that they did incorrectly was they
Starting point is 00:19:28 kind of neglected their relationship with wholesalers, their retail wholesaling partners, because what they try to do is just direct all their energy towards their direct selling strategy, get people to buy directly from Nike, but in the process, they neglected their wholesale business. So they're going to try to repair that relationship,
Starting point is 00:19:45 going to try to refresh a few lines, start releasing new stuff. They've kind of been relying on Air Force ones, Jordan ones, dunks, you know, the good old staples of years gone by, but they need some refresh right now because they're getting challenged on all sides. And you never want to bet against Nike, but this looks like a multi-year restructuring program, really.
Starting point is 00:20:03 My winner of the weekend is the act of sitting on a plane doing absolutely nothing, but looking at the in-flight map ahead of you. Yes, going full monk mode on a flight is the latest travel trend to go viral. The concept started gaining traction in May when a 26-year-old London guy named West posted about doing nothing on a seven-hour flight except stare at the flight map. Other people, mostly men, responded, Hey, I do that too. Then others took it up as a challenge to see just how many typical human comforts they could avoid partaking in, avoiding water, headphones, free snacks, even the bathroom. The trend, whose official name is unfortunately rated R,
Starting point is 00:20:41 seems to speak to the desire to unplug from the world and have that rare experience of being alone with your thoughts. Many who do it said it was form of meditation with the hum of the engine serving as white noise. Plus, you look so weird that people just don't bother you at all. Toby, the longest anyone's recorded themselves doing absolutely nothing on a flight is 20 hours from Perth to London. How long do you think you could make it? Oh, I wouldn't even make it 20 minutes. I don't want to be alone with my thoughts.
Starting point is 00:21:07 But if you are from an older generation before smartphones, you're listening to this, you're probably laughing right now because that's what you yourself used to do. If you weren't reading a newspaper, reading a book or something, there was nothing else to do. So I think a lot of maybe our older listeners are saying kids these days, they think they're inventing these trends. This is how we grew up. I think suffering as a service would do so well right now because so much of our lives are comfortable. All of our creature comforts are taking care of.
Starting point is 00:21:34 So people, it's why running is having such a moment right now. People want to suffer in a controlled environment. And I think this is another example of that depriving yourself of human comforts on a flight. Couldn't be me, though. I've done this before. I just haven't, like, fill myself or doing it. All I do is look at the in-flight map. I mean, maybe I drink water and go to the bathroom like a normal person.
Starting point is 00:21:54 But yeah, I definitely have that in-flight map going up. It's just literally the best content you could ever have. You do love the in-flight map. Before everyone had Netflix, but after Blockbuster had faded from relevance, there rose a company that existed in a liminal space between physical retail and streaming. And that company was Red Box. Red Box was a vending machine for physical DVDs where the promise of a comfy movie night back home was as easy as a press of a button at your local 7-Eleven or grocery store.
Starting point is 00:22:21 But now, Redbox looks to be no more after its owner filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. But even crazier than the idea that a DVD vending machine could work is the fact that chicken soup for the soul entertainment is the aforementioned owner that is going bankrupt. Yes, that chicken soup for the soul. The same company you published, the self-health books full of soothing, relatable, and uplifting tales acquired Redbox for $375 million two years ago. But widening losses and a bloated portfolio of media products eventually caught up to it. And now Red Box and Chicken Soup are heading to bankruptcy court.
Starting point is 00:22:55 This company owes pretty much every single movie studio in Hollywood money. It owes retailers like Target and Walmart money. It hasn't paid its employees in two weeks. This is an utter debacle. You said the word bloated. This company, it's Chicken Soup for the Soul. They had the best nonfiction book series of all time, helping you just feel good about yourself. And then all of a sudden, they changed ownership and went on an insane buying spree,
Starting point is 00:23:21 tried to become an ad-free, an ad-supported streaming company. They bought Crackle as well. And then they bought Redbox for $375 million in 2022. Took on a ton of debt to do that. Now they can't even pay their employees. What a disaster. I remember this deal because this was 2022 right around meme stock madness. I thought that chicken soup for the soul was going to become the next meme stock.
Starting point is 00:23:46 It had all the ingredients there. It's a recognizable name. They just made this weird, not that buzzy, but kind of buzzy acquisition. So I actually, transparently, I bought a little couple shares of chicken soup for the soul. It has just not gone well whatsoever. It also bought Redbox right at the wrong time where the decline of physical disgruntles. That was always happening. We knew that was happening.
Starting point is 00:24:08 But then also the Hollywood strikes ended up. And it's the same thing. If you go to a Red Box, going to a Red Box is just a crazy thing to do in the year in 20, but even worse when there was no new titles there. So it all just went south. But man, what an unlikely pairing that ended in a very likely scenario. Right. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:26 And I would say, look out for the Hulu documentary on Chicken Suit for the Soul because it truly is a crazy story started in 1993 by motivational speakers. And it's just, it's an utter, it was such a rise and fall that I think it would make for a great documentary. Finally, it's Monday. So here's your preview of the week ahead, which I hope is a lot. on the work front. Over in the UK, they have no respect for 4th of July because they're holding a major election that day. And after 14 years in power, the Conservative Party could be dethroned by the Labor Party if recent polls are to be believed. And then in France, the campaigning
Starting point is 00:25:01 will be fierce ahead of the second and final round of snap parliamentary elections on Sunday. Over the weekend, the far-right National Rally Party cruise to victory handing President Macron's Centrist Alliance a big blow. These Europeans, don't they know it's our Independence Day and you're supposed to chill. I mean, get over it already. UK election on July 4th. Like, come on, just grow up. But it will be interesting to see if inflation is as big a deal as a lot of voters say it will.
Starting point is 00:25:26 Because in voters' minds, they're still thinking about 2020 when inflation was at 11% in the UK. It's down closer to 2% now, but we'll see if that plays a role in these elections. The Supreme Court will finally wind down its term today, but not before delivering a verdict on Donald Trump's request for immunity over his efforts to subvert the 2020 presidential election. So look out for that potential blockbuster ruling at some point today, and then the justices will finally go on summer break. I need it. After a really busy docket with some major, major, major decisions. It's given us a lot to talk about, but yes, finally they go on their break.
Starting point is 00:26:01 Boeing faces a crucial week. The DOJ will reportedly charge the planemaker with criminal fraud, and it has this week to decide whether to plead guilty or take the risk of going to trial. The charges would accuse Boeing of violating an agreement it struck with the government after those fatal 730. 37 max crashes that allowed it to avoid criminal prosecution as long as it met certain conditions. They're looking at an additional $243 million flying on top of a fine. They already paid of the same amount. So they're looking at close to $500 million. DOJ is seeking a lot less than the families of the victims requested, though.
Starting point is 00:26:34 They requested a $25 billion fine. So from the family's perspective, Boeing is still getting off easy, and there is more to play out on this story. On July 4th, a new men's hot dog eating champion will be crowned. The Nathan's hot dog eating contest in Coney Island will not feature 16-time champ Joey Chestnut, who isn't allowed to compete due to an endorsement deal with impossible foods. He will instead head to an army base in Texas to compete against soldiers. Turns out this wasn't a stunt, but a real conflict. It was real conflict, and later this week you will all get a lot more insight,
Starting point is 00:27:07 an insider's insight perhaps into this hot dog dust up, and I'll just leave it at that. In the sports world, Wimbledon begins today. The Tour de France, which began on Saturday, begins its third stage. And the U.S. men's national soccer team likely need a victory against Uruguay tonight to stay alive in the Copa America tournament. Greg Burhalter out. That's all I'll say. End the show with that. That is all the time we have for today.
Starting point is 00:27:30 Thanks so much for listening and have a wonderful Monday and a start to a new half of the year. Good time to hit reset on your resolutions. For any comments, questions, angry worded letters, send an email. to Morning Brew Daily at MorningBrew.com. Let's roll the credits. Emily Miliron is our executive producer. Raymond Lou is our producer. Olivia Graham is our associate producer.
Starting point is 00:27:50 Ed Lewis is our technical director. Billy Minino is on audio. Hair and makeup is a normal person and just watches movies on their flight. Devin Emery is our chief content officer and our show is the production of Morning Brew. Great Saturday, Neil. Let's run it back tomorrow.

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