Including the implications of changing its drug schedule listing and the potential of Cannabis Research. Witnesses from the food and Drug Administration and the Drug Enforcement agency testify on current marijuana policy, the Health Effects of cannabis, and what steps congress can take to allow for more research of cannabis compounds and products. The subcommittee on health will now come to order. Welcome to everyone thats here in the hearing room. The chair now recognizes herself for five minutes for an Opening Statement. According to the department of health and Human Services National Survey on drug use, 44 million americans reported using cannabis in the last year. 33 states now allow the medicinal use of cannabis and 11 states and the District Of Columbia have legalized cannabis for adult use. But state laws and federal policy are a thousand miles apart. As more states allow cannabis, the federal government still strictly controls and prohibits it even restricting legitimate medic
Im Carl Quintanilla a busy morning well start with this report out of axios, a 2020 corporate hit list ranked by candidates mentioned on twitter tech heavily represented uber, twitter, alphabet making the top ten. Roger mcnamee is joining us along with casey newton. Good to see you guys roger, we talked about this list and it is probably only going to continue as we get further into the political season we mentioned where the banks are in all of this why is tech getting so much attention . You know, i think that it is very simple. Weve been in a really long bull market weve been in a period of time for maybe 40 years where we deregulated everything and given corporations almost total autonomy and the tech guys have taken advantage of that, even credibly successfully investors have loved it. But at the same time, a lot of harm is being done, being done to public health, democracy, privacy, competition and we have to have more balance in the economy consumers have got to benefit more fro
Well reveal one of the best investment ideas the smart money is getting into. Halftime report starts right now. Welcome on jon, pete, and carey firestone the ceo of arias Asset Management we focus on the russell 2000, which has come alive, confirming to many that the reportsetting rally has room to go the russell outperforms the major averages for the last three months. Certainly since 2018, theres been a significant underperformance whats interesting about 2019 is both for passive and an active funds, youre seeing outflows in small caps a thats qu50i9 contrary the composition of small caps is the problem, so small caps are carrying in overweight to financials relative to large caps, then caring in underweight to technology and consumer discretionary, relative to large caps so the composition is the problem. I agree with the premise in 2020 it could be critical in driving the overall indices higher, and i think you want to have inclusion of small caps and increase your exposure to it y
Surveillance. Yesterday, we saw a selloff on the back of the President Trump press conference here in nato. Lets get that board up for you to look at your markets. , they are treasuries extending gains. I am also looking at shares in asia. Stocks in europe edging higher. I am looking at that vote in the u. S. House. And what that means for sentiment on your markets. Coming up, a conversation with londons mayor sadiq khan. First, lets get straight to first word news in new york city. She simply did not have the resources to keep running. ,his, from Kamala Harris suspending her campaign for the democratic residential nomination. President ial nomination. She had a strong start but her campaign failed to catch on. Opec plus sending mixed signals about output. Iraqs oil minister reiterated his view cartels should deepen cuts. An earlier technical meeting ended without any discussion of steeper cutbacks. There are a number of key members, yes, they want to do that. Addition toels in the 1.
Date trade tensions resurface as china rebukes the decision to sign a bill backing protests in hong kong. And retail front and center as we get forecasts from adobe and the National Retail federation, forecasting strong Holiday Spending joining us for the hour is allied chief Investment Strategy lindsey bell here we go, a shortened day today but a lot of excitement. Whats driving the action . Well, you know, there is lower volumes today. Coming into the end of november, going into december, this is the seasonally strong period of the year earnings season was a good one retail sales pretty good retail earnings were good even though a mixed bag and so i think were in the period of pause until the new year. What are you paying close attention to today. Well, today, i think its really all about this is black friday about the retail environment and the consumer theyve been very confident, wages going up Unemployment Rate very low, near 50year lows can the strength of the consumer driving th