Your unfiltered view of government. Created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. This week on the communicators, a democratic member of the federal trade commission, rebecca slaughter. Our guest reporter is leah nylund who covers technology for politico. Hasissioner slaughter, what this pandemic been like for you when it comes to your work . You soaughter thank much for having me. It is a pleasure to be here today. As you can see from my special guest here, what this pandemic has involved for me in part is a lot of time with a brandnew baby and juggling those responsibilities, which is not a common occurrence for commissioners in a pandemic or not in a pandemic, so i have been muddling through that. In terms of the work of the agency, its been an important and fascinating time. We switched to all telework quickly, relatively seamlessly, in march, which i was very impressed by. Even though the technological work
And longtime political reporter with the gazette in cedar rapids, serving as the moderator tonight. Because of the pennant, we are without an audience know it is time to meet our two candidates for the Second District of congress. Former teacher. Covering clinton and scott counties. Senator, thank you both for joining us tonight. We appreciate it. You get to lead us off. For 60 seconds, talk about why you are the best choice for this seat in congress. Thank you so much and it is a great pleasure to be here. Farmer,ormer teacher, a and a long life rhode island or. And also took that to the state senate, working on important issues like Economic Development. I know we are not going to agree on every issue tonight, but i want to go to washington to find common ground. We are facing some tough problems right now with the pandemic, the economy, with health care, and with education. Many more. I know that the way to get to the best solution is to do it together. You. Nator, 60 seconds or i w
That broadly speaking if we dont get that, there would certainly be Downside Risks certainly through the channel i mentioned. Thank you cnn. Thanks for taking my question chairman powell, give us an update to the policy framework and repeated calls for this and this event, is the fed open to other parts of the economy such as income inequality and Affordable Housing we monitor everything we think is important in the u. S. Economy. In a broad sense, all of it goes into thinking about Monetary Policy you mentioned inequality so disparities in income and Financial Wellbeing demographic and racial categories, something we monitor carefully, inequality, which i would point to its a multifaceted thing, stagnation of nat the lower end of the income and lower mobility those are things that hold back our economy. They are the thing is we dont really have the tools to address those. We have Interest Rates and Bank Supervision and Financial Stability policy and things like that, but we cant get a
Common occurrence for commissioners, pandemic or no pandemic. I have been muddling through that, and in terms of the work of the agency its been a really important and really fascinating time. We switched to all telework pretty quickly and i will say relatively seamlessly in march, which i was very impressed by, but even though the technological work got up and running very quickly, at least for me personally, i found it incredibly challenging to be juggling the responsibilities of the job and fulltime parenting. This baby here is my fourth so i have three kids home fulltime and needed fulltime attention, and a job that need fulltime attention. Even with an incredibly supportive partner that was in normalcy challenging. My first reaction to your question is really to think about the logistics, and i know if that was true for me, it was maybe doubly true for our staff across the agency just like it is for people working from home across the country whether they have small children in th
Beijing praises the decision while President Trump says he is not a fan. A focusson says now on his cabinet lineup. And plans for structural reform. Are seeing a lot of investors sticking by the sidelines, a quiet session in the u. S. Overnight. Wall street hanging out to see what further guidance we get from the fed after their decision. A great chunk of investors will be waiting for more details as to the revamp inflation target. We are seeing futures trading flat. This after we saw u. S. Stocks rising. The s p seeing a Third Straight session of gains. For a change, we saw gains across tech, outweighing the decline we saw across financials. Treasury yields at the dollar end of the day, where they started. We are seeing the likes of the dollaryen holding steady, this as we look set to see the appointment of yoshida suda as the new japanese Prime Minister. As well as hearing more about whether we will see continuity across his cabinet appointments. We are watching at to see if another