Pessimism index. Maybe it is getting a little better. The job openings are coming out about 10 00 along with wholesale inventory. Earningsmerican eagle and Dicks Sporting Goods before the bell and after the bell, caesars entered 10. This is significant three years ago today was the japanese the japanese tsunami. Thats the news. Lets do it data check. 2 and the rest are nowhere. The Foreign Exchange has a little bit of action with the japanese yen weakening. Paying attention to the ruble which is a little bit weaker as we go to the president s meeting with leader of ukraine tomorrow. 108. 50 ones cents. We did not have to scour the papers too far. On all the front pages, the lack of any sign of the missing malaysian jet was remarkable. We still dont know anything for days after. All the debris and oil slicks that people spotted turns out that was completely unrelated. The search involves nine nations and has gone beyond the flightpath and now extends to the malaka strait. Authorities ar
Thats a different inflation. That is helping them a lot. We have our own price index today. Cpi is expected to rise today but only to 1. 3 . We also get the association of homebuilders index. The highs are expected to rise. Twoday one of the fed meeting. Tomorrow we get the Rate Decision and the bank of england governor is testifying to the Parliament Economic affairs committee. Is his first testimony. German chancellor Angela Merkel is sworn in for her third term today. Lets take a data check. It is quiet and you would expect that as we begin this to date that meeting. The market is flat. Crude oil has gone nowhere the last couple of days. Screeno on to the next a little bit of foreign exchange. Quiet big deal of isle december usdidr the indonesian currency. Everything else is stable and indonesia goes weaker. The bank of japan is helping. That. Can see that bears watching into the beginning of the year. Lets look at a chairman y yellen chart. This is 22 , zero percent, how much angst
History buff but unlike a lot of people who make that claim the history buff in my family was not my father. It was my mother and of her four children i seem to have been the only one she passed that gene onto. She took advantage of that one day we were driving into the city from westchester and she pointed out a big building up on a hill. She told me that was the bronx va hospital and then she said something that i have never forgotten. She said there were still men in that hospital who had never recovered from being gassed in the First World War. And this made quite an impression on a seven or 8yearold me. Even though i was a small child i knew enough about world war i to know that it happened a really really long time ago. 60 years at that point and it really struck me that there were men who had lived entire lifetime since then still frail from what they had endured in that war. I didnt know very much about the war at all. I knew what it was about. Pretty much i knew that snape u.
Well, he lived up fairly selfish life. He became a drug addict when he was about 17. See, he had such an incredible well that he was able to still continue to master the saxophone and master the art of playing jazz. From there he was actually able to find his own way to go. So powerful that he and flaws lot of others. And we have been talking with stanley crouch, columnist for the New York Daily News and author of this book coming up in september, kansas city lightning the rise and times of charlie parker. This is book tv on cspan2. Book tv continues with richard rubin. Richard rubin presents a collection of interviews conducted with menus served in the American Expeditionary forces and world war i. This is a little over an hour. [applause] thank you. That was a wonderful introduction. I started this book back in 2003. So it has been at 10year odyssey, but the seed for this book was actually planted many years earlier. It was back in the mid1970s when i was seven or eight years old. An
[applause] thank you. That was a wonderful introduction. I started this book back in 2003 so its been a a tenyear odyssey but the seed for this book was actually planted many years earlier. It was back in the mid1970s when i was seven or eight years old. There was a day till i grew up in Westchester County new york a suburb just west of the city and the son of a history buff but unlike a lot of people who make that claim the history buff in my family is not my father. Its my mother and of her four children i seem to be the only one she passed the gene onto. She took advantage of that one day we were driving into the city from westchester and she pointed at a big building up on a hill. She told me that was the bronx va hospital and then she said something i have never forgotten. She said that there were still men in that hospital who had never recovered from being gassed in the First World War. This made quite an impression on the seven or 8yearold even though i was a small child. I kno