Thousand this year alone. I promised you a little cloak and dagger but let me set it up for you last year u. S. President donald trump famously said and i quote nobody knew health care was so complex well a lot of people that health care is complex and that may be one of the reasons why print the president has not repealed and replaced the Affordable Care act obamacare as he had sought but in fairness we live in an increasingly complex world for example the law that established our us Banking System in eight hundred sixty four was only twenty nine pages ill be speaking about the Federal Reserve in a few minutes and the Federal Reserve act of one nine hundred thirteen the entire thing was only thirty two pages but the wall street reform and Consumer Protection act of two thousand and ten commonly known as dodd frank a law i worked on in the wake of the financial collapse is eight hundred forty eight pages long and there are close to four hundred regulations related to that various agenc
And ill guarantee theyll always be working in that direction. Janet yellen staked out a very different territory. For her main speech in chicago she appeared at a conference of Neighborhood Revitalization organizations and said, quote, although we work through Financial Markets our goal is to help main street and not wall street. More than five years after the financial crisis she spoke mainly about unemployment and told the stories of three that lost their jobs in the recession. It became quickly clear that this was a fed chairman well suited for the time in which we live. However not everyone recognized that or her. Not long after she took office somebody came up to her in the airport and said you look just like janet yellen. The second most powerful person in the world. The most powerful woman in the world after angela merkel. A figure that measured in at 53. As the feds leader she leaves with roughly 4 unemployment. 1. 5 inflation. She successfully raised Interest Rates off and eng
Big. It was broad. After a big run mp thisning stocks pulled back when special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted several russian organizations and individuals for allegedly interfering with the 2016 president ial election. But the decline was grief and the dow and the s p posted the sixth straight day of gains. The dow rose 19 points to close at 25,219. The nasdaq fel 16 x. The 500 add one. Mike santoli takes a a lookt what could test the market next. Reporter the stock markets impressive comeback this the st week has been almost enough to make investors forget the shortharp drop that we preceded it. Its now up morehan 2 for the year to date. As encouraging as the rebound habeen investment strategists say there are a few tests ahead of the market that will signal whether stocks are back on stable footing. Stocks initily recover one half to 3 4 of the ground lost before faltering again. The s p 500 is in the zone where it might be expected to stall out if this pattern were going the secon
Worked very hard to manage those alignments so it doesnt create too great a tension. As time goes on, ive seen greater congruence in our views, not less. If i could follow one piece, you did mention that youre just back from ankara, the role and the relationship with turkey has been complicated, its been vital, its been seen as quite tense at times. It seems youre quite optimistic right now. So, one of my questions there, you see, for example, the kurdish being an effective force fighting within syria, but again, this is sort of just to get to one area where there are differences potentially differences between Coalition Members on how to approach a particular ontheground partner. How do you see that kind of dynamic playing out . Well, its its actually been naturally pretty remarkable what the kurdish elements in syria have done to eliminate daesh from a large segment of the border. There is still a border which is in the hands of daesh and thats problematic, and its an issue for the w
This recent poll done by pen sean and burr land. Robert green joining us to talk about it. Mr. Green, thanks for your time. Thank you, sir. Up next on cspan3, a look at the dodd frank Financial Regulations five years after they were signed into law. Well hear from House Financial Services chair Jeb Henserling on the law. And thomas perez talks about regulating retirement financial advisers. Later, a discussion on islamic extremism. When congress is in session, cspan3 brings you more of the best access to congress with live coverage of hearings, news conferences, and key Public Affairs events. And every weekend its American History tv traveling to historic sites, discussions with authors and historians, and eyewitness accounts of events that define the nation. Cspan3, coverage of congress, and the American History tv. President obama signed the dodd Financial Regulation into law five years ago. Up next, a panel talks about the different provisions of the law including the creation of th