The averages gave back their gains. The s p declining. Nasdaq dipping. 24 . There is a lot going on here i think even the tariffs on until china actually follows through with its promises since they doublecrossed us so many times makes a ton of sense it should have caused a rally, not a selloff. But maybe i was some sort of weird mistaken reason to take profits. First, lets consider how much good the trade war may have accomplished in our country in a short time tomorrow the United States and china will sign the historic agreement. They agreed to buy 200 billion in goods and services from us to roll back half of a 15 on levies on other products were still keeping tariffs on chinese goods and china allowed the currency to become much stronger the in exchange, were no longer ka a. K accusing of them of currency manipulation so for everyone that told us the Chinese Communist party is playing the long game, that there was no way we could win, and we would get nothing, well, how did that wo
1 . Travel and leisure one of the major Industry Groups lower, and contributing to that loss, brent crude did top 70. It is now 69. 35. Gold futures were up to 1575 announce. That may be the biggest indicator of tensions in markets. Still the top story, escalating tensions in the middle east after the u. S. Killed a rainy and general killed iranian soleimani m general custom soleimani general kassem soleimani. They will see the consequent as of their mistake in not only today, but in the years to come. President trump has been warning against any major retaliation, and moments ago, tweeted this. Iran will never have a Nuclear Weapon. By the senior how close is iran to having an operable Nuclear Weapon . The iranians have said they will no longer abide by the nuclear deal that the United States reached in 2018 United States breached in 2018, and they will go full tilt toward develop at of nuclear technology. Based on varying estimates, the good have a Nuclear Weapon within a year to fiv
About free speech and sport the biggest ever edition of the Southeast Asian games that is efficiently underway developing the host nation for the regions largest multisport and that. Fellow iraqs cabinet has met to discuss the Prime Ministers Office of resignation meeting was called to find a political solution after 2 months of antigovernment protest demand he says the government has done everything to meet the protesters demands but demonstrators disagree and say they wont back down they vowed to continue protesting until theres a complete political overall more than 400 people have been killed across the country since the protests began in october. Good morning now from see mona fulton who is live for us in baghdad so simona what is the latest there thats happening. Well the violence appears to have gone down after 2 very violent days that claimed a lot of lives but the aftermath of what has happened still very much reverberates not just here for her square but the entire nation for
Listen on the go with this free cspan radio app. Host Grover Norquist serves as the president of americans for tax reform. We hear a lot of debate about the impact of the 2017 tax cuts. What would you say about that . Guest several things. What it did to economic growth, gdp, and it has gotten stronger. Wage growth is up. The last 15 months, about 3 . And that is particularly in the Median Income people, middle income folks Getting Better wages. We are also seeing 7 million job openings with less than 7 Million People looking. More people are leaving their jobs, which is a good sign. I means they know there are other jobs. You want people to leave jobs they are not happy with that are not going somewhere, and they are finding jobs. And the total workforce, the number of people looking for work, under obama, that actually declined. One of the reasons unemployment went down is people were so discouraged they quit looking, they retired early they did not , go to work, they stayed in schoo
More people are leaving their jobs, which is a good sign. You want people to leave jobs they are not happy with that are not going somewhere, and they are finding jobs. And the total workforce, the number of people looking for work, under obama, that actually declined. One of the reasons unemployment went down is people were so discouraged they quit looking, they did not go to work, they stayed in school, they stayed home. They were not working. That was declining during recovery. It was just the weakest recovery in modern history. We never had a recovery like that. But worse, people were leaving the workforce. During recovery. Growth, he blocked entering the workforce. Every once in a while, you see lots of people get jobs, but the unemployment number doesnt move because as many people start looking for work and that is a good sign. People wanting to work and finding work, more people being able to choose their jobs. Voluntary. Not getting fired. Voluntary departures are up. Wages are