Business economics, its two hours 15 minutes. Thank you everybody for joining us this morning over coffee. The opening session of the policy conference, i am the director of the center of the National Independent business. And i am delighted to introduce the vice chair of the white House Counsel of Economic Advisor. Preparing for the session i found that we have a foundational commonality and he is originally from sweden, im originally from minnesota, the land of american. He stopped a bit short of the minnesota border and currently on leave from the university of chicago where he is the professor of Public Policy studies at the University School of Public Policy. In the Freedman Institute program on research and healthcare markets and policies within the Health Economic initiative. Before rising at the university of chicago he served in several positions including his role as Senior Advisor to the head of food and Drug Administration and as a senior Economic Advisor to the head of the
Director of the center of the National Independent business. And i am delighted to introduce the vice chair of the white House Counsel of Economic Advisor. Preparing for the session i found that we have a foundational commonality and he is originally from sweden, im originally from minnesota, the land of american. He stopped a bit short of the minnesota border and currently on leave from the university of chicago where he is the professor of Public Policy studies at the University School of Public Policy. In the Freedman Institute program on research and healthcare markets and policies within the Health Economic initiative. Before rising at the university of chicago he served in several positions including his role as Senior Advisor to the head of food and Drug Administration and as a senior Economic Advisor to the head of the center for medicare and medicaid services. He also served as a healthcare advisor for john mccain during his president ial campaign. Thank you so much for joinin
Hosted by the American Academy of political and social science. She is the recipient of the academies 2019 Daniel Patrick moynihan prize. Good afternoon. Can you hear me okay, everybody . Im tom kecskemethy, executive director the American Academy of political and social science. It my pleasure to welcome all of you to our seventh annual Daniel Patrick moynihan lecture on social science and Public Policy. Very briefly before you move into todays proceedings, i know we all want to hear from ambassador power, were pleased to such if the last as always, happy to be joined by folks who work with senator moynihan and to be joined by members of the family who have been so supportive of this enterprise from the start. I havent seen morena yet but she may be. She will be with us at some point today. Maura is his daughter and shes been a tremendous supporter of our organization and this initiative from the beginning. I also would like to thank Sage Publications your sage in the publishing world
Further decline. 2018 has to offer both good and bad. Ramy we are getting breaking news on the south korean front again. We have cbi today, inflationary prices coming in line with what estimates were. A nice rebound from the decline we saw in the previous month. It slightly exceeded what economists broadcast. You know we have been talking quite a bit about where inflation is in the market here in the u. S. And japan. Really there is no difference in south korea though they may be in a little better shape. It is perplexing. Because things are low, they are bound to go up. I a magic the Commodity Markets will kick in. The commodity market will kick in. Fact that an expected tightening from the fed and others is a key risk to watch and 2018. Betty certainly we are watching the markets here today in the u. S. Lets quickly pull up where we ended up and u. S. Markets today. 1 5 of 1 . Er by the nasdaq also higher. Pretty much green across the screen. A lot of people are not taking on any hug
Lets look for european equities are trading now. Not looking just at equities but at the gmm function which looks across asset across the spectrum in western europe. When it comes to equities, i said what is left of it in terms of equity trading because a lot of indexes closed early. The ftse 100 closed around lunchtime higher, up 9 10 of 1 and the dax closed lower on the day. Euro stock 50, down 5 10 of 1 and trading on the ftse in italy on the cac 40 in france. The ibex in spain a little bit lower. Today, fx face, weakness on the europe. Cable, up 6 10o of percent intraday. The sovereign bond space, downward pressure on the front and for germany, the twoyear yield down to basis points. Two basis points. 10 year treasury yield where it began twice 17. 2017. Here i am looking at the year to date, overall, towards the end of trading, stoxx 600 is not changed on the day. This year, stoxx 600 headed for its best year since 2013 and tech stocks and commodity producers have been the outperf