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Power lunch starts right now good day welcome to power lunch lets get a check on the markets. The numbers are in the red all the averages are as investors try to digest mixed signals on the u. S. China trade talks but the indexes are off the lows the dow is down. The s p 500 call these numbers pretty flat except for the russell which is off about a half a percent we begin this hour with major deal news as Charles Scwab is in talks to buy Td Ameritrade could we be in for wave of deals that turn the disrupted back into disare you positive tors. For more on what led to the talks, let head to the New York Stock Exchange you have a combination of two big forces going on. First you have the synergy more importantly its about skill. Revenue per customer is dropping because commissions have gone do zero theres other reasons for this as well. The trend, for example, to low cost and a way from higher cost mutual funds and into etfs hurts anyone or collects revenue sharing from funds on their pla
Joining us this morning from los angeles. He is from George Mason University law school, the founder of the National Security both for area thanks being here this morning. Jamil jaffer, we will start with you. Theave a conversation about usa freedom act and what congress has to get to and reauthorized. Tell us first what the usa freedom act is and why it was passed in the first place. Caller sure, well, bill, you aspiringe are three provisions in the usa freedom act that would be rubberized by the legislation if it were renewed by december 15. Reauthorized by the legislation if it were renewed by december 15. Somewhere he added years later your specifically, the provisions expiring now are one that allows the government to identify and surveil terrorists who do not have a proven connection to a foreign power, and the second is called the wiretap authority, that gives ability to follow suspects when they switched their cell phones or emailed address rapidly to avoid surveillance. And th
Elections, not political favoritism. The Fair Elections Charter Amendment addresses these issues simply and directly. It will prevent candidates from elected office from being appointed to the office theyre running for within 90 days of their election. It will also prohibit those elected to offices within 90 days of election. I want to thank my cosponsors, hillary ronen, sandra lee fewer, mat haney, and aaron peskin for your support. We who represent t secondly, im introducing an ordinance requiring the Planning Department to prepare an annual jobs housing fit report that analyzes the alignment or misalignment between job growth and housing level by affordable level in our city. This is a new analytical tool that will help us better manage growth in our city. According to the b. L. A. Report i commissioned on jobs housing fit, our Housing Production is out of alignment for job growth for low and moderate income workers, and we are failing miserably at meeting the housing requirements f
Fewer, mat haney, and aaron peskin for your support. We who represent t secondly, im introducing an ordinance requiring the Planning Department to prepare an annual jobs housing fit report that analyzes the alignment or misalignment between job growth and housing level by affordable level in our city. This is a new analytical tool that will help us better manage growth in our city. According to the b. L. A. Report i commissioned on jobs housing fit, our Housing Production is out of alignment for job growth for low and moderate income workers, and we are failing miserably at meeting the housing requirements for low and middle class income households. Planning commissioners have been asking for this data for years, and we need jobs housing fit data every time the Planning Commission and the board of supervisors consider a Major Development projector area plan. Jobs housing fit data will allow us to make better Economic Policy and land use decisions. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, su