Julie hyman is here. More records. We have had many of them this year. Pretty remarkable. The down the s p close to records yesterday. Any gains today would represent more records on a closing basis here. Terms of gains, we have telecoms, financials, and health care leading the pack. Wavering between gains and losses. A pairing of out of the gate it appearsmorning, to be energy. Vonnie mentioned the surge of energy and now prices are going down. Nowave got a big leg lower and we saw so Similar Movement off one third of 1 . We have been looking around for what is going on exactly and we have the latest data on stockpiles in the u. S. Not the latest but rather reserves that showed a little balance from a 13 year low. It is not clear exactly what but we are seeing oil may be a little more delicate. Were taking a look at what is going on with media as we continue to get reports disney is getting ever closer to a deal with 21st century fox. Yesterday, it was no longer interested in those as
For a conversation on Monetary Policy and the possibility of inflation in the u. S. Economy. Former Federal Reserve chair bernanke and Larry Summers speaking. Live coverage just getting underway. Will undoubted lly weighing. Thats the fun. We think that the question of rethinking the two Percent Inflation target is one of the most important questions facing Monetary Policy makers at the moment. You might say the backward looking question that we need to think about which we are thinking about is how did unconventional policy really work and should unconventional policy really be considered conventional policy. We look forward i think you have to argue that one of the biggest questions now is whether given everything we know whether a two Percent Inflation target framework is the right one for Monetary Policy. After all, when it was conceived nobody anticipated we would have so many years of trying to get inflation up to two percent and nor did we think that the long run equilibrium Int
So, in thinking about this event and in what we wanted to accomplish here, what we set out to do was to have Larry Summers make the case why we should think about this, have a number of very experienced monetary economists who have views about what we should do, think about what we should do. In this panel, the question was, could we get some people to some very different points of view, to talk about, what difference does this really make . Is this worth the energy we spend on it and to whom does it matter . So we have a deliberately diverse panel. John taylor from stanford, wellknown for his taylor rule, thinking about Monetary Policy for a long time. Christian forbes from mit, until recently on the Monetary Policy committee of the bank of england, correct me if i am wrong, you never had a chance to raise rates, is that right . Right. You tried. Peter hooper chief economist of Deutsche Bank securities and writing about the relationship between the fed and the congress only briefly me
What we should do. In this panel, the question was, could we get some people to some very different points of view, to talk about, what difference does this really make . Is this worth the energy we spend on it and to whom does it matter . So we have a deliberately diverse panel. John taylor from stanford, wellknown for his taylor rule, thinking about Monetary Policy for a long time. Christian forbes from mit, until recently on the Monetary Policy committee of the bank of england, correct me if i am wrong, you never had a chance to raise rates, is that right . Right. You tried. Peter hooper chief economist of Deutsche Bank securities and writing about the relationship between the fed and the congress only briefly mention this morning but is relevant given after the Federal Reserve exists because congress created it. As we know legs, what congress created it can take away, sarah and her colleague have a book out called the myth of independence tracing the history to congress. I will ask
By the Brookings Institution center on fiscal and Monetary Policy, an hour and 45 minutes. So, in thinking about this event and in what we wanted to accomplish here, what we set out to do was to have Larry Summers make the case why we should think about this, have a number of very experienced monetary economists who have views about what we should do, think about what we should do. In this panel, the question was, could we get some people to some very different points of view, to talk about, what difference does this really make . Is this worth the energy we spend on it and to whom does it matter . So we have a deliberately diverse panel. John taylor from stanford, wellknown for his taylor rule, thinking about Monetary Policy for a long time. Christian forbes from mit, until recently on the Monetary Policy committee of the bank of england, correct me if i am wrong, you never had a chance to raise rates, is that right . Right. You tried. Peter hooper chief economist of Deutsche Bank sec