Move we had early in the week and post thanksgiving. We are right back to where we were in yields, with the 10 year at 1. 83 percent. The dollar index strengthened poste jobs report. That said, it is still below 98. 2. 75 onachs is up news it may be close to settling with the Justice Department and other agencies on that probe into its dealings with 1mdb, the malaysian state Investment Fund. Nothing has been decided, and it may stretch into january, but low 2 billion would be considered a win for goldman. Guy i am being told the week Inflation Expectations component in the michigan data is the reason why bonds on yields have rolled over. We are back to 30 on the german tenyear. In terms of stoxx, we continue to be relatively strong. The other point is that at this point, it doesnt look at the fed is going to have to raise again next year. There might be diminished expectations for how high rates can actually go, and that could be putting a cap on rates here. Guy definitely a possibilit
Programs youll see today. You can check your Program Guide or visit our website booktv. Org who a full schedule. And joining harris is the author of this book information wars. We lost the global battle against this information and what we can do about it. Information about the u. S. To the world track is yes. In olden days during the cold war we used to say telling americas story to the world. And how did you do your job, its funny, took me a while to figure out the parameters of the job what are the things i came to the conclusion was the way we tell our story is will be to our store to ourselves with american media, newspapers, magazines, tv. Rather than produce content ourselves i used to do during the cold war i thought lets show people how they cover ourselves. That was one part of it. The other part was the more strictly Public Affairs things where people are standing in front and you have to have the government line. Its safe use of your stance on issues, heres our policy, make
My honor the convene this plenary, and when we were planning the conference, we always liked to bring our heavy hitters out. And i think that today is one of those occasions, in which we have a collection of fine scholars and activists here to address the theme. So what we are, and what we have decided to do is to run the plenary more as a round table, and the moderated conversation about the issues with the great migration, and i wanted to introduce our panelists, and give them an opportunity to speak for a few minutes as far as their own work and perceptions and ideas about the great migration, and then move on to the question and answer followed by a discussion with us, and followed by a question and answer session with the audience. So i wanted to introduce our panelists. The first panelist is joe trotter who is a giant history professor and prior with the Carnegie Mellon center in pittsburgh, and previously the president of the africanamerican studies in the urban life and economy
This is the second month and a rope where it surprised to the upside. It was coming down. Is it going back up . Carl it still looks like there is a broader deceleration underway but the slope is much shallower and it tells you some of the handwringing over the trade war is overblown in terms of the consequences for the broader economy. The trade wars negative without doubt. Growth is slowing. As the economy slows, hiring should slope, but things are not rolling over. Written a fair amount about the relationship between the economy and the growth of the jobs numbers. Is it changing your mind about how much the economy is slowing . Carl may be at the margin it tells us there is less slow down. If we look at the number of hours worked, a unit of gdp requires a certain number of worker hours to produce and the fact that aggregate hours worked is growing at 1. 9 to the us thet quarter tells tracking estimates of gdp that are below our forecast are down closer to 1 . Is based takeaway here o
Will turn it over to tony. [applause] thank you gavin has put on a number of programs here including some definitive conversations well over a year ago which is where i first met him. Its a pleasure for me to have the task of introducing. Before i began its a lifetime of a career based in the premise vital to civilization and i think liz has captured that i will tell you one story about ed how i felt about him. The first time i met him i was about 25 years old the first week in the urban Development Corporation although i knew the agency and very anxious to go to work for him again. It happened on a very odd day we were working at the Burlington House we were the only tenants in the building at the time because the fisher brothers couldnt find anybody else to be set a very difficult time of year. So they elected to sign a lease with the state agency. But that particular day that had run a frontpage story to set up the private building from the 46th floor. [laughter] and to say the leas