A lot to talk about. Policy front as well. The president unveiling a 4 trillion budget that he says is all about middle class economics. Republicans say this is just asking for more taxes and it doesnt balance the budget. It does include a proposal to bring offshore profits back to america. Its very similar to a bipartisan proposal introduced by republican senator rand paul. He will join us to speak about the president s budget and well try to figure out if hes getting in the 2016 race. You dont want to miss that. Plus could activist investors take aim at twitter and at the ceo. Darren swisher wrote a piece thats been getting a lot of buzz and our jim cramer has said, quote, a, b, c, anybody but costello. Well see how hots hot seat is for dick. Its a new month, were kicking things off in slightly negative territory. The dow has been up and down. Its hovering around the flat line. The nasdaq is the underperformer, off ten. Earlier it felt like flashback to december where we sat and sat
Thank you. I am the anticlimax. The only thing standing between you and the metro. Not to let you ride the metro. Hisses from the audience. There has been a lot of topics the last couple of days. There is one that is undergirding it, who we are and how we behave and whether we have character or not. The way i frame this, we have two sets of virtues. The resume virtues and the you e. G. Virtues. The resume ones are the skills you have good at business, accounting, the eulogy is what they say after you are dead, courageous, brave, honest, capable of great love. We live in a society where Everybody Knows the eulogy version is more important, but we talk about the resume more. We talk about public life more than private life even though if you dont have that private solidity, your public life falls apart. We are to morality what the victorians were to sex. We cover it in euphemism. We understand the characters destiny. Whether talking about ebola trade policy, where it falls apart you have
Executive action, the process of possibility of a dhs shutdown and rebecca berg of the washington examiner. Later our to her tour of historically black colleges and universities continues with Brian Johnson at tesco g university tuskegee university. Former defense secretary William Cohen sits down to discuss the teacher of defense wednesday looking at issues like the situation in ukraine and pandemic diseases. We will have live coverage at 10 00 a. M. Eastern rum the Center American progress. The cspan cities tour takes tv on the road, traveling to u. S. Cities to learn about the history and literary life. We partnered with Time Warner Cable for a grids it visit to greensboro, north carolina. After months of cleaning the house, charles was making one more walkthrough and in the attic he saw an envelope with a green seal and walked over. Noticed the date was 1832. He removed a single nail from a panel in an upstairs cattle and discovered a trunk, books and portraits. This was this treas
To help you with the political war. You put it differently, you said its a campaign that you are running. Is bringing him on part of this creating a kinder, gentler he does not start until the end of september. He was obamas 2008 Campaign Manager and he was an advisor sort of in between the campaign and the white house in 2012. He is a pretty incredible guy. But the context is we view where we are at as there is a Political Campaign that is happening. We did not really realize it but there is a Political Campaign that is happening and uber was the candidate. The opposition was the taxi cartel. They were the opponent. Maybe there are some primaries going on that some other folks in the ridesharing space, etc. But the big opponent was the taxi cartel. They have been giving political donations for dozens of years, tens of years, decades. They have been lobbying folks for those same decades. Bayonne local politicians. They have created a monopoly in every single city for taxis. The causes
Coming up in a few minutes. A couple of different stories were watching. The nasdaq partying like its the year 2000. Closing above 5,000 for the First Time Since then in only the third time ever. The nasdaq now. 8 away from the record close. There is a surprise from down under this morning. Australia central bank holding back on further easings. Gasoline prices jumped 37cents a gallon. Now thats the largest week to week increase since the agency began its survey in 1992 but life is relative and if you remember where things were six months ago its hard to complain. So it doubled in three and doubled again in three. So it doubled 72 divided by 3 is 24. 24. So its probably is it 24 return in six years if it quadruples . Yeah. If it sits right you can do it. So the nasdaq is up so instead of 6 or 7 for equity appreciation the nasdaq since 2009, 24 a year. So stay out of the market. If you put that money in 15 years ago youre just giving it back. They didnt have money 15 years ago. They wer