academic you also have this historical perspective on the trends currently at play right now in the current ecosystem and you know typically when you have seen advancements in technology you ve also seen. advancements in prosperity advancements in health i mean is that the track that you see us on right now at the moment there s a tale of two cities right the best of times in the worst of times and we re seeing some of the contracting facts all of which are true and they may even relate to one time and place in the us today. in responding to about the institutions that got us here seem to be quite fragile that s why we meet in davos that s why we have these conversations because institutions are social innovations there are social technologies and we re trying to integrate both social technologies as well and it was very right i quite agree with the points that she has made my own stand on this there is the technology is incredible boom
washington with fox news senior capitol hill producer. chad, what s the latest. they had another set of talks at the white house today. this was vice president pence, the acting chief of staff mick mullaney, jared kushner also meeting with top congressional aides from the leadership of both sides of the capital. you get kind of a tale of two cities. democrats say there was no progress yet president trump sent out a tweet saying it was a very productive meeting. what will happen on tuesday. they will start to move a series of bills this week to reopen the government. they passed two separate bills last week on a bipartisan basis. one bill had five republicans that voted yes another had seven. what they will do starting tuesday and the rules committee and wednesday on the floor is start with bills to reopen the government starting with the financial services appropriations bill and go through one by one. they re very concerned about opening the treasury and irs
fiasco playing out in washington with fox news senior capitol hill producer. chad, what s the latest. they had another set of talks at the white house today. this was vice president pence, the acting chief of staff mick mullaney, jared kushner also meeting with top congressional aides from the leadership of both sides of the capital. you get kind of a tale of two cities. democrats say there was no progress yet president trump sent out a tweet saying it was a very productive meeting. what will happen on tuesday. they will start to move a series of bills this week to reopen the government. they passed two separate bills last week on a bipartisan basis. one bill had five republicans that voted yes another had seven. what they will do starting tuesday and the rules committee and wednesday on the floor is start with bills to reopen the government starting with the financial services appropriations bill and go through one by one.
is true. we are trying to plan for 2019. people had hoped a lot of these issues like trade would have been resolved before the end of the year. because they are not, we do have a little bit of a cloud going into next year. we don t know where that sits. we don t know how much it s going to plead into the general economy. a tale of two cities, right? people focused on all the upons in the economy. second third of the year all the negatives in the economy. i think the real economy is what we will see next year. it is still main street vs. wall street right now. and the question is where do they meet and who wins out in the end? i m betting on main street. i m betting that the bar is pretty low. we re going to get past some of these issues. it s challenging and scary. expectations were too high earlier in the year. now they are really low. as soon as we resolve some of these issues that are within our control in washington, d.c., which we can do, we can get past this and focus on the real
president trump: people thought this would never take place, it s a very great moment in the history of the world. as we enter 2019, north korea remains a nuclear nation. but let s and on a high note if it were, and the joy that kanye s white house visit brought a very grateful nation. if he don t look good, we don t look good. this is our president. he has to be the freshest, the fly asked, and we have to make our core re-empower. perhaps charles dickens was previewing kanye s white house visit when he wrote in a tale of two cities, it was the age of wisdom and the age of foolishness. but that was 2018 in a nutshell. ed: it was the freshest and the fly asked. jonathan hunt, thank you.