Us today as the white house calls for greece to continue to continue with crippling austerity measures. We will speak with Yanis Varoufakis about his new book as well as and the weak suffer what they must . europes crisis and americas economic future. He resigned as the greek finance minister last year saying, i shall wear the creditors loathing with pride. But noam chomsky weighs in on first, Bernie Sanders run for the white house. Bernie sanders is an extremely interesting phenomenon. He has mobilized a large number of young people. These and people who are saying, look, were not going to consent anymore. If that turns into a continuing organized, mobilized force, that could change the country. Maybe not for this election, but longerterm. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Democratic president ial candidate Bernie Sanders says hes cutting hundreds of Campaign Staffers as he concentrates his efforts
West africa countries, we want to ask you this morning about your opinion of the level of confidence that you have in the federal government to handle ebolaouts breaks in the u. S. If youre confident of the government ability to do so. Somewhat confidence, and not too confident if you want to put on our social media pages, a poll on our facebook page, you can email us too at journal at cspan. Org. Polling put out a poll asking a question similar to this one and using the same categories about peoples confidence in the ability of the federal government to handle ebola outbreaks in the United States. When those polls were taken, they found that 26 said they were very confident. 35 somewhat, not too confidence, about 20 of those responding and not confident at all, 17 was participants. Again, if we want to get your opinion on the same categories this are morning about your confidence in the government to do so and the numbers will be on your screen. Divided it into confidence, somewhat co
All hinges on the economy and the data. Im cautiously optimistic in the context of moderate gross and aggregate outwardly spending labor Market Conditions are likely to improve further in coming months. In particular and despite the somewhat disappointing tone of recent retail sales data i think Consumer Spending is likely to expand at a good clip this year. And one number yellin is watching closely, gross domestic product. Today the Commerce Department on Fourth Quarter gdp. The broadest measure by the economy expanded by 2. 2 . Hampton pearson has more. Reporter harsh winter we send a slowdown in major west coast ports and the strong dollar not only drives on the economy ae end of the year but continue to take their toll in the First Quarter. Total corporate profits dropped more than 8 last year the biggest decline since 2008. That decline accelerated in the Fourth Quarter, as earnings from multinationals were impacted by the strong dollar. After tax corporate profits fell 57 billion
San francisco, yellin said it all hinges on the economy and the data. Im cautiously optimistic in the context of moderate gross and aggregate outwardly spending labor Market Conditions are likely to improve further in coming months. In particular and despite the somewhat disappointing tone of recent retail sales data i think Consumer Spending is likely to expand at a good clip this year. And one number yellin is watching closely, gross domestic product. Today the Commerce Department on Fourth Quarter gdp. The broadest measure by the economy expanded by 2. 2 . Hampton pearson has more. Reporter harsh winter we send a slowdown in major west coast ports and the strong dollar not only drives on the economy ae end of the year but continue to take their toll in the First Quarter. Total corporate profits dropped more than 8 last year the biggest decline since 2008. That decline accelerated in the Fourth Quarter, as earnings from multinationals were impacted by the strong dollar. After tax cor
San francisco, yellin said it all hinges on the economy and the data. Im cautiously optimistic in the context of moderate gross and aggregate outwardly spending labor Market Conditions are likely to improve further in coming months. In particular and despite the somewhat disappointing tone of recent retail sales data i think Consumer Spending is likely to expand at a good clip this year. And one number yellin is watching closely, gross domestic product. Today the Commerce Department on Fourth Quarter gdp. The broadest measure by the economy expanded by 2. 2 . Hampton pearson has more. Reporter harsh winter we send a slowdown in major west coast ports and the strong dollar not only drives on the economy ae end of the year but continue to take their toll in the First Quarter. Total corporate profits dropped more than 8 last year the biggest decline since 2008. That decline accelerated in the Fourth Quarter, as earnings from multinationals were impacted by the strong dollar. After tax cor