Shutdown. We cannot be, causes or general custer. Tells fox news that we did not use any chemical weapons. A former House Majority leader speaks. He was overwhelmed. He was gratified. A little after 8 00 a. M. Monday morning, aaron alexis, a civilian contractor working on a computer project entered building 197 of the Washington Navy yard with a valid pass. He was carrying a bag in which he held a shotgun, which he had purchased legally in virginia. He walked into the bathroom on the fourth floor, walked out, and began shooting. Before police could take him out, he killed 12 people. He has been four years in the navy reserve and had a pattern of insubordination, absence of leave, and two days in jail after a bar fight. Nevertheless, the navy gave him an Honorable Discharge and was given security clearance to work on a halfdozen military bases, despite having been involved in shooting incidents in fort worth, texas, and seattle, walks and 10. Just last month he told police that he had h
Nothing was agreed upon. Russia tightens its grip on the crimean peninsula. An american warship steaming toward the black sea as crimea has a referendum that could make them a permanent part of russia. Russia is not friendly, as you probably realize. Top prosecutor for Sexual Assault cases, lieutenant james morris is suspended for groping allegations. Outed as a founder of bitcoin. Just one small problem. He says its not true. I have nothing to do with bitcoin. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie attacking the president of the cpac. You see something going off the rails and what you decide to do is stay as far away from it as possible. If thats your attitude, mr. President , what the hell are we paying you for . 175,000 jobs added to payrolls last month. The Unemployment Rate ticks up to 6. 7 . Cringeworthy crash in canada. Nobody was hurt. Oh, no oh, that . Let me see your teeth. We can get together and starting a martha stewartjohnson oh, boy. We have a couple of technical fouls. That
Wanted to because the government had decided there were going to control replanting. What he said was a okay, but i can raise we for my chickens. He took it all the way to the Supreme Court and lost that battle. What you recount the story . Because it is a great example on the enumerated powers and what what we find ourselves in the place we are in now . How do we get here . What do we do about it . What other ramifications. The greatest way for the government to make something expensive is whether government to make it affordable. And all you have to do is look at the programs. The average of a shared cost of health care before we created medicare and medicaid . Iran the same as every other aspect of our inflation. In other words, there was no differential between Health Care Costs. Now that we have a Government Program what has happened is Health Care Costs are too, sometimes three times the rate of the average inflation in the economy. So what you did is, number one, you had a Supre
His ground on the debt ceiling. General electric is reportedly on the verge of buying Italian Space firm avi oi. And Indias Central Bank stands pat despite consistent calls for a rate cut. But the rbi is saying its focus is now normally on boosting growth. Well, its been a rel ofly good year for stocks in europe. Adding about. 3 . Advancers mostly outpacing decliners on the index this morning. If we can zero in on the bourses, its largely green behind me. The fits fits mib is atting. 6 . The ibex in spain, up 0. 8 . And the ftse up about 0. 3 . Now, some companyspecific news this morning, fin mechanica saying shares up 2. 4 . This on news theyre set to buy sgeavio. Safran is also a company considering that change. Lets take a quick look at the bond space. Well get a sense of the kind of trade were seeing shaping up. It is consistent with flows into the periphery, perhaps out of the core and the risk on move generally that were seeing this morning. Yields up to 4. 5 roughly in italy at
Democracy doesnt function this way. This is not just for me but for my successors in office. Whatever party theyre from they shouldnt have to pay a ransom for congress doing its basic job. The greatest nation on earth shouldnt have to get permission from a fewer responsible members of congress to keep the government open to prevent an economic trafficker catastrophe. And this. I had a chance to speak with Speaker Boehner. I said what ive been saying publicly, i am happy to speak with him and other republicans about anything. About 4 30 this afternoon, Speaker Boehner responded with this. The long and short of it is there is going to be a negotiations here. We cant raise the debt ceiling without doing something about whats driving us to borrow more money and to live beyond our means. This isnt about me and frankly not about republicans, this is about saving the future for our kids and our grandkids. The only way this is going to happen is to in fact have a conversation. Were going to ha