Where you dont have to have a background check for purchasing a weapon at a gun show. In massachusetts, all of new england, youve got to have background checks. In connecticut, youve got to be practically licensed to buy ammunition. Psychiatric evaluations is a simple solution to make your medical records public information. Then you can go and the people who do the background checks i had to go through this with the Police Department here. They look at your records and they see whether you have had any instances where you would be suspect to owning a gun. Governmentw why the has not done this a long time ago. I think the nra has promoted this, that they wanted to have peoples records made public so they can easily check and evaluate the old instant background check. Thats about it. Very simple solution. Bernie sanders was saddened by the on air shooting. As a selfdescribed socialist, Bernie Sanders has not been a gun control advocate necessarily given his state of vermont. There is a
It is a bank holiday. A lot of the data in the u. K. Closed. The ftse is not trading today. I still want to give you a quick snapshot of whats happening across europe without the ftse 100. It is down some 0. 4 . Dollareuro is the one im keeping an eye on for the week. Maria draghi, the ecb president , refrained from talking down the euro. This is what im looking at. Im looking at dollar. Kuroda,peak to governor a fantastic interview by Kathleen Hays. Crude oil, 47. 43. We are seeing a Little Movement for gasoline prices. It could also impact the oil prices. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Heres nejra cehic. Nejra in the u. S. , houston is battling unprecedented rainfall following the biggest storm in the history of texas. The down for has crippled the core of the u. S. Energy industry. Gasoline has surged to the highest in two years. The president of the cleveland fed urged her colleagues to look past recent inflation data and stick to their gradual pace of lifting Interest
I like it watch weeks later. Its relevant yeah. The wisdom. Absolutely. Global markets report lets check in on how were coming out of the overnight session. Looking at u. S. Equity futures the dow, s p a bit lower implied for the open same for the nasdaq. Coming off records again yesterday. How about overnight in asia. Well see how they react to the feds tightening yesterday which did not phase markets. The nikkei is up 0. 2 . I believe they had an earthquake in japan overnight as well the shanghai down about a quarter of a percent european equities, seeing how the theyre continuing, green pretty much across the board. France and italy leading the way with a half percent of gains ftse just a bit higher crude is coming off a flinday win streak you know, crude for wti is over 50 a barrel brent over 56 a barrel both down a quarter of a percent. Small declines for nat gas well talk about Hurricane Maria. Just thinking, japan, mexico, maria. Think about the last 30day period i know. Normall
[inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone, and welcome to brookings. Im a visiting fellow here at brookings and a university of pennsylvanias perry world house and delighted to welcome all of you here for an event on americas global image, cohosted by both brookings and the Pew Research Center. This year marks the third year running that were cohosting a public event to launch and discuss the important regular survey data about americas place in the world and other pressing global issues are as many of you are probably already aware, if you glance at the newspaper or check your social media accounts this morning, last night pew release delays addition of its Global Attitudes survey which is been conducted since 2002. 2002. With these your survey covering 37 countries and more than 40,000 respondents, all conducted after the inauguration of President Trump between figure 16 and may 8 of this year here and the findings argues worthy particularly during a week in which the white ho
[inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone, and welcome to brookings. Im a visiting fellow here at brookings and a university of pennsylvanias perry world house and delighted to welcome all of you here for an event on americas global image, cohosted by both brookings and the Pew Research Center. This year marks the third year running that were cohosting a public event to launch and discuss the important regular survey data about americas place in the world and other pressing global issues are as many of you are probably already aware, if you glance at the newspaper or check your social media accounts this morning, last night pew release delays addition of its Global Attitudes survey which is been conducted since 2002. 2002. With these your survey covering 37 countries and more than 40,000 respondents, all conducted after the inauguration of President Trump between figure 16 and may 8 of this year here and the findings argues worthy particularly during a week in which the white ho