Faced since coming forward. Hate texts and phone calls. I had to change my number. And your secret score. The surprising Information Companies collect on line about consumers. How to find out what they know about you. Its thursday, december 2nd, 2020. Heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Reporter in baghdad this morning iranianbacked protesters have withdrawn from the u. S. Embassy ending their twoday siege. Tensions still linger. Reporter more troops lead to the middle east. Reporter troops using teargas before thousands of demonstrators dispersed. Reporter the loss of former nba commissioner david stern. Reporter he served as commissioner for 30 years. The fad plans to ban sales of flavored cartridges other than menthol. Reporter the suspects hurled hate speech and attacked a 22yearold man. Its like a dream come true. Reporter long lines around illinois where people got up before dawn to wait outside new dispensaries. Illinois becomes the 11th state to legalize recreati
The etf industry, big numbers are par for the course. Our analyst Eric Balchunas is used to big numbers. Eric this is no exception. This is the end of the year, the last show, so normally go over weekly. You today numbers are big. 324 billion. That is the second biggest year of etf flows ever. 7 organic growth. Lets look at the top leaderboard of the year. Bti broad market. 31 , that is the best return for the s p since 1997, even though it did not feel like that. Usmv was a shocker. Interesting for smart data. By one basisee point, enough to win this internal the battle. That is the hangover from 2018 and rates falling. Take a look at the Asset Classes. January to october, equities not that big. 40 of their flows in the past two months. Fixed income, look at that drop off. Gold as well. Look at their growth this year. A little below average but 18 look at their growth this year. Fixed, way above last year. Lets look at the leaderboard in terms of the issuers who won and lost. For the
Where the subject of algorithmic fairness or privacy is not frontpage news today we will speak to the two leading lights in that area they will help us understand the state of the art is now and Going Forward with that we will welcome professor kearns first to the stage. Welcome to the stage. [applause] good morning thank you for coming my name is Michael Kearns with my close friend and colleague writing a general audience book called the ethical algorithm so for roughly half an hour we want to take you had a high level to the major themes of the book then we will open to q a. So many people and certainly this audience is aware in the past decade Machine Learning has gone from relatively obscure to mainstream news to characterize the first half of this decade is the glory. When all reports were positive with all these amazing advances like deep learning and speech recognition image categorization in many other areas we all enjoy the great benefits of this technology and the advances ma
Think it makes him weaker. If you are still not sure, 202 7488002. We will also read your Text Messages at 202 7488003. Tell us your first name and where you are texting from. We are on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Happy sunday, happy christmas week, a lot to talk about in the next three hours. I want to talk about some breaking news from north korea. Trump careening towards a christmas crisis with north korea. Here are some of the details. President trump is pulling out all the stops to convince north korea to return to nuclear talks, delaying married till your delaying military exercises and sending a top envoy to the region to reassure jittery allies. Democrats are calling on the president to stick to diplomacy and even strive for a limited interim agreement while lawmakers in both parties want the white house to be more transparent about what it knows about north Koreas Nuclear capabilities. Dictator, kim jongun, shows no sign of restarting the talks. His regime has promised th
Host joining us on newsmakers is Ellen Weintraub. She is the chair of the federal election commission. Joining us here for the questioning is Maggie Severns, reporter for politico. And michelle ye hee lee, who covers money and politics for the Washington Post. To both of you, thanks for being with us. Chairman weintraub, thank you for joining us. Let me begin with the enforcement mechanism that the fec has. You do not have a quorum. You do not have a majority. So what type of authority, what type of power do you have in enforcing fec laws . Chair weintraub well, the laws will be enforced, they are just not going to be enforced right now. There is a five year statute of limitations. No one should be under any illusions that if they do something now because of a lack of quorum, there will not be any enforcement. It is unfortunate we dont have a quorum. It is inexcusable, in my view. We had two commissioners who resigned, one two years ago, another almost two years ago. Those seats were n