Communicators congo a discussion of the communicators, a discussion of telecom in washington this fall. Joining us are three working reporters covering this issues, covering congress, sec, our other agencies. John hendel is with politico. Lydia beyoud is with event driven. And Tara Jeffries is with bloomberg bna. Before we get into these issues, i want to ask you all an opening question to see where we go. The influence today of some of the larger Tech Companies, and here in washington. Is it growing, is it outsized . Lydia thats a great question. We are seeing a pivot. In the trunk administration, away from wellrecognized influence by Tech Companies like google and facebook, towards skepticism. Influence under the Previous Administration is under a different light here. Tara i would agree. I think the trunk administration has not shown the same focus on tech groups and companies that the Obama Administration did. Thankfully, we are seeing conversations in congress about it as well, gi
Maybe nearing a deal to acquire time warner. The two sides are in advanced talks and the deal can happen within days. At t is down about 3. 5. He is literally working the phones as we speak. Internet companies you probably know this suffering two waves of Cyber Attacks. The socalled denial of service tax affecting sites like amazon, twitter, spotify and several others. Feel like the internet was going through molass s. Today we will talk to security expert on who may be behind the attacks. Sales force backing away from buying twitter. Does it have its eye on any other company . Marc benioff will join us. Mcdonalds meng thaem. Courtney reagan is at the mcdonalds trading post right there. So you know Ronald Mcdonald may be in hiding because of the clown thing. Shares up about 3. 4 here today at post five. Responsible for about 24 points on the Dow Jones Industrial average. We had earnings beating expectations both below a year ago levels. Strong global same store sales up 3. 5 . That is
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To the extent there are positive real subsidies to the except that they improve outcomes, they are either very localize to the family or very localized to the community in question. You work on capitol hill. I worked there for a number of years. Every other person who comes here in the door says its a great thing if you gave a subsidy for their industry and how many jobs they create. Thats what shopped around. They are grossly skabexaggerate. Lets think about housing for a second. We all need a place to live. An Apartment Building is not all that different than a condo. It actually takes the same amount of construction workers. Theres Nothing Specific about the tenure that increases jobs. Again, we all have to live somewhere. I think you should be skeptical of those job arguments that you often here. The chart youre looking at here is the lower bar thats the fannie and freddie market share. We hit long term homeownership rates in this country in 1960. The growth of fannie and freddie w
Thats what shopped around. They are grossly skabexaggerate. Lets think about housing for a second. We all need a place to live. An Apartment Building is not all that different than a condo. It actually takes the same amount of construction workers. Theres Nothing Specific about the tenure that increases jobs. Again, we all have to live somewhere. I think you should be skeptical of those job arguments that you often here. The chart youre looking at here is the lower bar thats the fannie and freddie market share. We hit long term homeownership rates in this country in 1960. The growth of fannie and freddie which really in the 70s they had single digit market shares. This he were irrelevant to the Mortgage Market before the snl crisis. The growth of them has seen no long term indrees in homeownership rates. Its fine to say we want to do things for homeownership but maybe we want to do things that do things for homeownership rather than things that claim to do thing for homeownership. The