Korea taking a grim turn after the country tested a missile that could be capable of hitting the United States. The wall street journal is reporting the white house warned the hermit kingdom that the u. S. Is prepared to go to war. This latest round of escalation started yesterday when the north launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile. Limit experts say this is a major step forward towards the Nuclear Attack capabilities. The state media claiming its leader kim jongun was pleased with the test. President trump said hes on top of the crisis. The president also put pressure on china, tweeting trade between china and north korea grew in the first quarter. So much for china working with us. But x l but we had to give it a try. You would agree china ignored sanctions. It has benefited continuing to trade with north korea. They havent joined the party to contain that regime. So what now . President trump needs to impose costs on china. He started that last week with a series of
Korea taking a grim turn after the country tested a missile that could be capable of hitting the United States. The wall street journal is reporting the white house warned the hermit kingdom that the u. S. Is prepared to go to war. This latest round of escalation started yesterday when the north launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile. Limit experts say this is a major step forward towards the Nuclear Attack capabilities. The state media claiming its leader kim jongun was pleased with the test. President trump said hes on top of the crisis. The president also put pressure on china, tweeting trade between china and north korea grew in the first quarter. So much for china working with us. But x l but we had to give it a try. You would agree china ignored sanctions. It has benefited continuing to trade with north korea. They havent joined the party to contain that regime. So what now . President trump needs to impose costs on china. He started that last week with a series of
[inaudible] it afternoon. Welcome, glad to see everyone here. If nothing else you are staying out of the washington heat in the airconditioning and enjoying the launch. My name is john. Im a professor of economics, business, Public Policy at georgetown universitys Mcdonough School of business. Im also the executive director of our Host Institution today, the Georgetown Center for business and Public Policy. We are delighted to have a discussion on something very important, near interior to the Georgetown Center, that is the subject of trade policy. In particular, we will examine the issue of trade remedies, think tariffs, quotas, and the like, remedy unfair trade practices. Or, are they themselves simply protection policies. Todays panel will be moderated by my colleague bob, he senior industry fellow at the center, he has taken a lead in promoting and advancing the georgetown hill and has gotten so popular over the years. Again we are glad to have you here. I wont steal bobs thunder b
Good Tuesday Morning welcome to squawk alley. Joining me at post flnine this morning, sarah eyeseyer eisen. Also joining us is roger mack in a my good morning to you. A lot to get to to dafrment first up, faang stocks several hedge funneled managers bearish on the stocks in the Second Quarter third point, aprpaloosa and soro are liquidating 18 stakes in those areas. They speak out on the companys streaming strategy versus fellow faang stock amazon you wrote an oped in investing in the stocks two days ago do you seenlt. Turning as were getting the filings to day i dont yet and, in fact, what i am really curious to know is where the money went that was taken out of the stocks if you look at by funneled, the sales werent in general huge. Most of them look more like trims than, you know, lots of dumping. And, in fact, the thing that i think everyone looks closely at tech recognizes is that the faang stocks are leadership stocks for a really good reason. Their market power has given them hu
She has published six books. Most recently editing in 2016 a companion to first ladies. Blackwell companion to american history. Monographs include reds in america, stolen secrets and the dawn of the cold war, loans and legitimacy, the evolution of soviet american revelations and the subject of tonights presentation which is for sale right outside. First Lady Florence harding, behind the tragedy and controversy. Dr. Sibly serves on the Editorial Board for american communist history and on the historical raisery committee for the United States department of state. She received her ph. D from the university of california santa barbara. Her commentary has appeared recently, to name a few, in time, the guardian, usa today and Canadian Broadcasting Company and the new yorker or the new york post, my apologies and heres something you dont hear about historians every single day. In 2011 she got to appear as Florence Harding in a play which she wrote at the ohio state marion campus. We are so