Half of america. Social security numbers, birth dates, home addresses, phone numbers, even credit card numbers all in the hands of criminals. Ive heard from working families in massachusetts and all across the country since then. The equifax is a nightmare. At best it is a giant hassle. Time on hold with credit reporting agencies, fees for this service and that service, confusion about whats been stolen and what to do about it. At worst, it could be ruinous, a lifetime of responsible spending and borrowing wiped out by Identity Theft and fraud. People are outraged and rightly so. Bad enough that equifax was so sloppy that they let hackers into their system, but the companys response has been even worse. First, equifax hid the information about the breach for 40 days 40 days. Equifax gave criminals a 40day head start to use the information they had stolen while the rest of us were left in the dark. And then, when equifax fine lily decided to disclose the breach, they didnt call or send
Instead of staying here the following day. The reason was that at that time and in that moment the strongest storm ever recorded out of the flick was bearing down first out of the atlantic was bearing down first on the caribbean not just towards florida but the city in which i lived and the nation watched over the next few days as that storm took its track. There has been a lot said about Hurricane Irma since that time. I heard some say that it could have been worse, and i imagine some particular instances perhaps that is true. Had that storm entered through tampa bay in florida, it would have been an incal cliewbl lost through the counties of miamidade, broward and palm beach counties, the Economic Loss would have been very significant. So its possible that the storm could have had an even greater impact. But its difficult to say that to the people that were impacted by it. It was a unique storm in a lot of different ways. The sheer scope of it. One of the things that really kind of p
Washington deal on the debt limit was near. Wall street opens this morning after another strong run on friday. The dow closed at its high 111 points higher nasdaq 31 higher, s p 10 up. Gold continued its fall. Down 27 dollars for a weekly loss of more than 3 percent. Oil ended down around a dollar. Caused by the prediction that next year the United States will overtake russia as the worlds 2nd Largest Oil Producer behind the opec nations. The prediction comes from the International Energy agency. The 2 largest mortgage banks say Rising Interest Rates pushed 4th quarter loan originations to nearly half of what they were a year ago. Wells fargo and jp morgan say home loan applications have been on the downward slide for nearly 6 months. A lot of talk and a lot of hope over the weekend, but as of yet no clear breakthrough in terms of the Government Shutdown or what to do to resolve the debt ceiling crisis. Republicans have been backing down from their earlier demands for large concessions
Look at u. S. saudi arabia it relations. Then a review talks about the federal budget and government shut down. He says what he thinks the matter what it is. I think you have to be political in a certain way. If you have to be honest and say the same thing. You have to cater to people sometimes i think and know what they want and need to be able to influence and to vote for them. It is not being does on it. Know your going to help them with the. Season to, next week Lady Bird Johnson to roselyn cotter rosalyn carter. Next, a discussion on faith and the white house with current and former directors of the white house faithbased offices. Use met in dallas at as him southernmessages methodist university. Thank you for that kind introduction. Ladies and gentlemen, we at smu and the center for president ial history is honored to have you here with us this evening. I hope i can speak for all of us when i say it is an honor to have our five guests and panelists with us today. These five peopl
Having served from her perch at brookings as a key confidant and friend to both the first bush and the first obama f so calledaith czars and she has begun to develop exciting new faithbased partnerships and initiatives. God bless each of them and god bless resident george w. Bush and god bless president opera obama. Barack obama. I have been teaching at Ivy League Universities for more than 30 years. Having the key value of an Ivy League Professor which means i can speak for five minutes or two hours on any subject with no essential change in content. [laughter] before you hear from my betters on this religion, policy, and civic life. In the half dozen or so years that are seeded the establishment of the office, small but intellectually and ideologically and religiously diverse cadre of policy wonks and opinion leaders came together. What happened was that we trumpeted a fact, a fact that was hiding pretty much in plain view. Namely, the fact that americas urban churches come the synag