Term elections, the committee for Economic Development hosted this conference. Ok. Good morning, everyone. And thank you for joining us r the committee for Economic Developments spring policy conference. For those of you i have not met, im steve, the ceo for the committee. I would like to first thank our sponsors. You should see signs. Without these wonderful people we would not be able to do this. Triple creek ranch, henrietta for. The rand corporation, tiaa, insignature numb, cal tech, pace communications, kelly services. Thank you, karl, for everything that you do. Arizona state university, corn ferry, the Aerospace Corporation. Host hotels and resorts, air bus, broad view networks. Thunder bird school of Global Management and finally the the National Aeronautic association. So lets give a round of applause to all of our sponsors. [applause] we have a terrific lineup over the next two days. We will have conversations on the new administration and Congress First 100 days. Well look a
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I went back and have alex back in economics and got a couple degrees. I did work in the united universityn two computer networking operations. I had an internet policy project in the former soviet union. When you Bring Technology and the internet to another country, how do you do that . Depends when you do it. I put computers and some african countries as a matter of education, working with vendors, making sure you have the right prerequisites like electricity, making sure there is a process that has to happen and people are dedicated to, and making it happen. With the internet, it has been a little different. You need people who are in the country who are champions of the country. We did that primarily in the Internet Society when i was a trustee there by training people from developing countries how to do it. How to bring their computers online, how to develop networks, and how to do internet governance, Network Administration at the time. You have to work from the ground up. We acce
Of the Hutchins Center on fiscal and Monetary Policy at brookings. After three decades at the wall street journal where he was economic editor and shared two pulitzer prizes, david, thank you for being here. We have peter goettler, ruth marcus, famous columnist from the Washington Post, and sabrina schaeffer. David and panelists, welcome. Thank you very much. I guess if this is politically balanced, i must be the Bernie Sanders sedelegate here. Congressman walker was telling a couple of us that, a, the 100 days thresholds is meaning less, and, b, when the gingrich revolution in 1994 came, they made the 100 day target contract for america and they regretted it. So what struck me is my, god, its only be 100 days. It seems like a decade already. So i think this panel will flow nicely from the last one, and i thought id start by asking each of you if we look back on the first 100 days of the Trump Presidency a couple years from now, what is the one thing you think that has happened that we
Inventories are on the way. Our road map begins with the election six days away. Polls show pretty much a dead heat. Hundreds of economists including Prize Winners urging voters not to vote for trump in an open letter. Alibaba shares are on the rise this morning, the Worlds Largest retailer showing strength and cloud and in mobile. And big beat for time warner, company also raising full year forecast as it gets ready for that merger with at t. Call is wrapping up and well get you headlines on that. But first up, futures are moving lower a day after the s p extends its losing streak to six. Data from adp shows private sector added 147,000 jobs last month, that is below expectations. Meantime, the feds latest Interest Rate decision and policy statement 2 00 p. M. Eastern time. And of course six days until the election, jim, the past six days on all of the assets i just mentioned, is that all jitters ahead of tuesday . You know what, im going to say it is. I was talking with my friend sar