Santa claus is coming to town. Santa claus is coming to town. You better watch out. You better not cry. You better not pout, im telling you why. Santa claus u is coming to to. Lauren welcome to fbn a. M. Good morning. Im lauren simonetti. Deirdre im deirdre bolton. Lauren five days until christmas. Deirdre thats right. Today is friday. Lauren a lot of investors might be hitting vacation early but still lets take a look at your money. Weve certainly seen a strong meltup after a trio of record closes idea, fractional declines for all three major average as. The nasdaq is down 4 points. It could be on the verge of a sevenday winning streak. Investors on mitt particular, phase one of a china deal will be signed next month. Deirdre japans auto sector falling after the house passing the new north american trade deal, usmca, so that kind of weighed on the nikkei. Lauren lets take a look at european stocks this friday. You have up arrows across the board, nice gain in london, the ftse gaining
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[applause] thank you are coming. Its my pleasure to introduce to you, commissioner michael bueller. He was appointed to the Security Commission by president obama and is sworn in an august 2013. He was delegated by President Trump to be in german in that capacity from january 23rd of this year to may 4th. His term expires in june 2018. Previously, dr. Pirowar worked at the sec in the office of Economic Analysis with the division of economic and risk analysis as an academic scholar from iowa state university. He was a professor of finance at iowa state university, earned a ba in Foreign Service in International Politics that can take an from georgetown and phd from penn state. Today we are not going to have a set presentation, but instead a formal question and answer format. Im going to ask mr. Pirowar a number of questions and then we will open it up to the audience so you all can participate in the discussion. Commissioner pirowar come with the new chairman of the securities and Excha
Good afternoon. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation and the Louis Lehrman auditorium. Welcome to those that join us on the website on all of these occasions and for those here in the house we would ask a courtesy check to see that the various mobile devices have been silenced or turned off and for those watching online youre welcome to send comments anytime by emailing the speaker. Leading the conversation this afternoon is David Perkins senior fellow for Economic Policy at the institute for economic freedom. Before joining heritage he served as the general counsel witgeneral counselwith the natis association and seven chief Financial Officer and general counsel of the alliance for retirement prosperity and was a part or at the growth of Public Policy and government relations. Please join me in welcoming david. [applause] thank you for coming. Its my pleasure to introduce to you the commissioner michael buehler. He was appointed to the securities and Exchange Commission by president oba
Disaster. As uncle sam takes on the role of teacher, more students and their educated parents saying they are baffled by the new common core curriculum. Parents taking to twitter, posting unbelievably complicated homework assignments, some of which contained spelling errors. A new video heating up on the web shows College Students struggling to understand basic subtraction using common core methods. The videos creator is here, editor chief of campus reform. Dan mcglothlin joins me. Retired teacher, author of the book, god and country, a parent guide. Caleb, i want to start with you, explained it, really revealed, showed what people are telling me from all over the country, what the problem is with common core. I want to start with that video. 32 minus 12. 12 plus three, equals 15. 15 plus five equals 20. 20 plus 10 equals 30. 30 plus 2 equals 32. 3 plus five is eight plus 10 a 18, plus two is 20. 32 minus 12, equals 20. Extra difficult for no reason. So, caleb, you take common core to