if it is someone like job -- jeb bush or scott walker we're going to see a more muscular foreign-policy. alix: do we walk back what is happening with cuba? lonnie: it is entirely possible. congress is the one that has to lift the embargo. the president can say we have an embassy, things like that. the actual meat of the cuba relationship lies with congress. alix: you are sticking with me for a few more minutes. coming up, hillary clinton gets in on the the island thrown action. -- the iron thrown action. ♪ alix: welcome back. here are the top stories. billionaire investor who worked for george soros says trouble is looming. our monetary policy is so much more reckless so much more aggressively pushing people in this room come and everybody else on the risk curve that we are doubling down on the same policy that put us there. blackstone is going on a real estate spending spree. it is the biggest such transactions since the financial crisis. blackstone agreed to buy a shopping center owner for $2 billion. he will spend the $5 billion to expand to manufacturing units. stocks finishing in