Because we have a pretty full program. On behalf of myself, if my cochair, kevin were also, thank you all for your your support and for your being here today to honor three phenomenal women for your their service for your our country and for your their contributions to National Security. We all know that with more women at the top, and more women at the table, better policies made. It fosters global democracy gender equality, and peace. That is our goal here and that is what we do best. I would like to acknowledge our diplomatic colleagues who are here, both americans who have served abroad, ambassador nurses will as foreign ambassadors who are here today. Could we get all of the ambassadors and the deputy chief of admissions just to stay on for your a second. [applause] you all have been critical from our mission from the beginning and we really appreciate your support. I would also like to thank current and former Board Members including our founder and president meredith at ellis wh
Basically, what weve got today is a reversal of what weve had over the last few sessions. He bond proxies are back health care is doing well today. We are seeing a selloff in the banks and a selloff in the auto sector, down by 1. 4 . Maybe the president didnt quite go as far as everybody was into spitting yesterday in pushing back the idea that european auto tariffs are a risk. We also see some weakness in the spanish market once again. The market not liking what is happening with spanish politics at the moment, and the coalition that is being put together. Again, it is the banks under pressure. The ibex down by 1. 5 . Vonnie fed chair Jerome Powell will deliver remarks on capitol hill in about an hour before the congressional joint Economic Committee. Powell saying in compared testimony that Central Bank Policy is appropriate as long as the economy stays on track. Joining us now for a bit of a dissection of where the fed stands, even as public impeachment inquiries get underway in was
I like to welcome everybody to russia and eurasia seminar. We do it every two weeks. As you know, and today we, given the speaker we have and the topic hes going to deal with, we had the pleasure of welcoming cspan here, which is broadcasting this event, as far as i can tell, live on cspan two. Im charles gati. I organized the similars. I say very little because i want the speaker to have as much time as possible. Just to give you a little background, he comes from massachusetts. He went, studied soviet studies at harvard. Before that got his ba also in soviet studies and Political Science from tufts university, at harvard he studied with legendary adam alone, and that tufts with old friend of mine. He laughed washington after some 24 or 25 years, and now hes a professor at, in florida, at the program for human rights and diplomacy at Florida International university and moved, is shrouded in mystery because few people do that perhaps it will tell us, and also declassified information
I want to welcome you all to a discussion about the possibilities of ranked Choice Voting, potentially solving a bunch of different challenges. This is an event in a series of events for new americas 20th anniversary. It was founded in 1999. We are creating a home for new generation of people and ideas across a wide range of Public Policy questions. I am kind of an of the oldtimers, although i was not here in 1999, although i knew the founders and saw the creation of it. Thefundamental ideas about political system had been part of the dna of this organization from the beginning, as my colleague reminded me that ranked voting was in the book that the founders wrote called the radical center. It was one of the ideas that they promoted. That book is not viable for what we do, but it is part of it. Informn i came back to the Political Reform Program in 2014, and our founding idea is that we introduce fresh and getting into the conversation about reforming american democracy and getting bey
The feds Robert Kaplan says hes not sure the u. S. Economy can avoid a severe downturn. Tim cook defends apples decision to remove an app that tracks hong kong police. He says it was being used maliciously. Shery lets get you started with a quick check of the markets. We see u. S. Futures gaining. 2 after President Trump said u. S. China trade talks were going very well. That optimism translated into the regular session and we saw the s p 500 game. 6 percent. As we finally had the first day of those twoday negotiations kickoff after we saw a lot of conflicting reports on if that would happen. We had banks and automakers leading the gains on the s p 500. The Semiconductor Index also gaining about 1 for a second consecutive session. The nasdaq also rose. 6 . We had a weaker than expected u. S. Cpi print, which did little to discourage market excitations that we could perhaps be seeing more fed easing. Energy was the best performer as well in todays session as we had wti rebounds from a t