gerry: will be back next week with more interviews next week on "wsj at large" with gerry baker thank you for joining us. >> welcome to barron's roundtable we get behind the headlines and prepare you for the week ahead. i am jack otter covid booster shots gaining approval from vaccinated adults in the us pfizer ceo joins us with his pandemic outlook and the latest on the company's covid-19 treatment pill

gerry: will be back next week with more interviews next week on "wsj at large" with gerry baker thank you for joining us. >> welcome to barron's roundtable we get behind the headlines and prepare you for the week ahead. i am jack otter covid booster shots gaining approval from vaccinated adults in the us pfizer ceo joins us with his pandemic outlook and the latest on the company's covid-19 treatment pill chinese president xi is tightening his controls the country celebrates the communist party's 100 anniversary. do investors need a new playbook? we begin of the three most important things investors ought to be thinking about right now. it is a tale of two markets as the dow is down and bonds disagree but spending stores and we will sort it out after a big run on gasoline prices are sliding is that a new trend or just a breather the president asked the ftc to investigate oil and gas companies speculators are trading options. what this means for your portfolio. so here is the tale of two markets, you are seeing contradictions tell us about some of these. >> you mentioned inflation and t

. >> this week on "wsj at large with gerry baker" the democrats barely passed their plan even as the cbo calculates it will add significantly to the deficit contradicting the president's claim the cost is zero.