Futures indicating gain at start of trading. Take a look. Dow industrials up 38 points on top of rally yesterday fueled by a rise in oil prices. All the major indices higher this morning. Oil prices adding to yesterdays gains as well. Take a look at yesterdays close. Dow industrials up 456 points. Other averages also strong, oil prices this morning 1. 95 at 1573 creeping back higher on oil. Reopening the american economy, lockdown easing in some areas of the country bringing cheers to some and concerns to other including the white house. Most if not all of the economy will open later this summer. Secretary of state mike pompeo meanwhile blasting china and the World Health Organization saying they need to be held accountable for lack of transparency as the focus remains on the lab in wuhan as the origin of virus, something ive been putting a spotlight for months. Meanwhile missouri is filing a lawsuit against the Chinese Government. Attorney general eric schmitt, 7 30 a. M. Eastern on G
I can assure you that the authors that we are featuring today are serious accomplished economist who is decades who worked to form this publication. The subtitle of the book to economist drink their way through the unfree world gives us the unconventional approach for a couple of academics. That subtitle did not surprise me though. I tend to run in to ben powell and bob lawson at economic or academic conferences around the country and around the world and inevitably had drinks in their hands, probably because we chat at the hotel bars and the like. But the conversation is always interesting, informative and fun. And that is also true of the new book. This is a light book about a heavy topic. So it is fortunate that we are featuring today on the birthday of the late freedman, one of the greatest economist of the 20th century and the champion of economic and overall human freedom. We were lucky to have known him and for some of us who work with him to a limited degree. He too would agree
Please . David people would not recognize me if my tie was fixed, but ok. Leave it this way . All right. David i dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I begin to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . After you left as secretary of treasury, hank, you did something that was unusual. Many of them go back into the finance world or go into the finance world if they have not been there before. You chose not to do that. Hank i really enjoyed my business career. I had 32 years there. I had an opportunity to serve my country. What i really wanted to do was take my experience and apply them to addressing two of what i believe are the most pressing issues of our time, u. S. China relations and Climate Change. David many people say you get on a merrygoround and cannot stop making money, but you said when you left tr
Indication of yesterdays rally. Dow futures up 121 points. Thats half 1 , s p futures up 13 and nasdaq up 24. Dow on track for worst quarter since 1987, s p 500 having worst quarter since 2008. Speaker nancy pelosi looking for a phase 4 coronavirus package calling for Infrastructure Spending now and more money sent directly to americans. Major retailers furloughing staff as Stores Remain closed, macys, stores, the gap, cutting payroll impacts hundreds of workers. Unemployment rate could top 32 . Mornings with maria live right now. We want to check Global Market this is morning. Last day of the First Quarter in europe, green across the board. Dax index in germany higher by 200 points. World Health Organization says there are signs the coronavirus may be approaching a peak in europe. In asia meanwhile markets were mixed, take a look at the numbers on asian markets, best performer there korea up better than 2 although japan was down 1 . China says factory activity is growing, purchasing M
Chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. With time equally allocated between parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Chair recognizes the gentleman from louisiana, mr. Minutes. For five mr. Braham thank you, speaker. Rise today to commemorate the efforts of the town of raval, their na, to preserve communitys heritage. School part of the Still Standing is its gymnasium 1960 at did not stop the graduate class from doing something good. Audience on is in the today and the rest of the Alumni Association have purchased and museum t into a showcasing the schools history. Rabal the clerk will designate school, its first graduated students in 1939. It was renamed rabal high school 1949 and eventually briton igh school in 1956 after the