Holds, ten year yield, getting in the area of 9 the road map begins with the trade rally. Future points to new record, china says it has agreed to hold back tariffs plus, takeover offer, getting my latest reporting on xeroxs bear hug of hp. Warren proposes a sitdown with the microsoft founder we will begin with futures fresh hopes of a trade agreement, giving stocks a boost. Chinas commerce says the u. S. Have agree ed to phase out the tariffs imposed during the trade war. They dont actually say a deal has been reached multiple reports from this one on qualcomm. Yeah, i dont trust them. Yesterday, they said the talks were elayed. Honestly, these people were members of the peoples republic it might as well be run by the 8th army can i tell you what might matter they signed a death warrant for someone who pushed fentanyl to us and two life sentences for their colleagues they did a twoyear stay of execution on the leader of this. But this is what President Trump is waiting for far more im
Rates. Mortgage rates post about 5 a year ago and that put a stop on the home buyers in the market place. Because when Mortgage Rates go up that means the monthly mortgage payment is taking that much of a bigger of a bite out of family income. Reporter holly bartells has seen prices sliding for more than a year now. The trend over the last two years it is definitely come down. Reporter in her market of willow glen she has less all cash buyers and see a home sit on the market for 25 days before a sale and a couple of years ago it would sell in less than ten days and get several hundred thousand dollars over asking price. If it is in a beautiful neighborhood all fixed up, highly desirable property you will get multiple offers. It may not be the numbers we saw two years ago. Probably wont go crazy overasking but get maybe two or three right around the asking price. Reporter in september this year core logic properties the median sale price for all homes in the bay area was about 778,000.
Too often it is one party power and sticks it to the other party. And then secondly i know you mentioned geographic concerns. We try to putt some other limitations on the map drawing process by requiring districts to be drawn more according to county lines or natural geographic features rather than just these crazy districts that squiggle around. Thats not you know not easy to do but one thing it does is makes it possible impossible for people to be too key yative. Some of the districts are very, very creative and having little bit more limitation on the process, open process about how to redistrict we are for. We werent willing to go as some people say to go to california or arizona which have models which are more completely out of the political process. They have turned it over to citizens. They dont want the legislature or the parties involved. Our commission really believed that having both parties have a say in those maps made sense but we did agree with you in many ways redistri
We want to keep using our military do go into the other countries, take a bill with us figure out what its going to cost and tell them that you pay half when we get there and half when the jobs done. We cant keep affording to go and police the world and some of the social programs like Social Security so easy to fix. When the kid comes out of the Social Security on year one, start taking taxes out. Dont wait 18 or 20 years. Take a little bit out of earned Income Credit and not miss it. It would fix Social Security and probably give a little bit of money there for health care that the whole country needs. Okay. Caller i think those are a couple of good things to start with. All right. John fortier the budget. We with respect taking positions like wars and entitlement. Those are functions for congress to address. I think if youre getting at the budget process, thats something we made recommendations about and the Bipartisan Policy Center has additional recommendations out of an economic
Testifies before the House Agriculture Committee wednesday. This is two hours, 15 minutes. Good morning. This is a hearing on the committee of agriculture for oversight by the u. S. Department of agriculture will come to order. Ive asked Rick Crawford to open us with a prayer. Thank you mr. Chairman. Father, i bow humbling before you. Thankful for this country youve given us and, father, mindful of the great responsibility that youve charged us with. Father, just ask that everything that is said and done here today be pleasing in your sight and we ask that you help us to be civil in our discourse and discerning in our comments and dialogue. Father, i just pray it all in jesus name. Amen. Thank you, rick. I want to thank the secretary vilsack for coming to be with us this morning. He has a horde stop at 12 15. He has cabinet responsibilities to do. Mr. Secretary, thanks very much for being here this morning. Be careful on your knee there on your on the table. I want to say at the start