Maria big show this morning, joining the conversation Dagen Mcdowell, chief Market Strategist art hogan and president ial candidate arkansas governor Mike Huckabee. Good morning. A lot to talk about this morning especially on day 2 of Federal Reserve meeting, Delta Airlines coming. Ed is here, chairman and ceo of the black stone group, Steve Schwartzman talking about his book. Oklahoma senator James Lankford also joining us this morning, dont miss a moment of it, we have a big 3 hours, top story this hour is oil, once again dropping this morning on news that saudi arabia will restore normal output and production levels by the end of the month as secretary mike pompeo meets with saudi arabia king prince salman to twin attacks on saudi oil facilities, iran is denying any involvement in saturdays strike with president Hassan Rouhani blaming u. S. For disruption in the region. Its not exactly going well for them. I think this was their attempt to break out and sort of find way to put press
Consumers arent spending as much as expected. Retail sales for june fell a seasonally adjusted 0. 3 , well below expectations of a rise. Because it makes up a good chunk of Economic Activity if that piece of the economic puzzle is missing, some say it throws into question the potential rate hike by the federal reserve. And the batch of bad news comes just one day before fed chair janet yellen is set to appear before congress. Courtney reagan reports. According to the latest government data, consumers arent spending enough to prop up Economic Growth. June retail sales posted the weakest reading in four months. And thats not all the bad news. May retail sales were revised lower than previously reported. With Consumer Spending fuelling 70 of the countrys Economic Growth Monthly Retail sales are a key data point for those trying to forecast the federal reserves decisions on Interest Rates. And fed chair janet yellen addresses congress in the twoday testimony beginning tomorrow. Just look a
Consumers arent spending as much as expected. Retail sales for june fell a seasonally adjusted 0. 3 , well below expectations of a rise. Because it makes up a good chunk of Economic Activity if that piece of the economic puzzle is missing, some say it throws into question the potential rate hike by the federal reserve. And the batch of bad news comes just one day before fed chair janet yellen is set to appear before congress. Courtney reagan reports. According to the latest government data, consumers arent spending enough to prop up Economic Growth. June retail sales posted the weakest reading in four months. And thats not all the bad news. May retail sales were revised lower than previously reported. With Consumer Spending fuelling 70 of the countrys Economic Growth Monthly Retail sales are a key data point for those trying to forecast the federal reserves decisions on Interest Rates. And fed chair janet yellen addresses congress in the twoday testimony beginning tomorrow. Just look a
You can watch this and other programs online apple tv. Org. book tv. Org. [inaudible conversations] starting now live from the texas book festival in Office Austin is a conversation about fake news. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Good afternoon and i would like to personally welcome you to the texas book festival in austin, texas, the greatest book festival in that united states. [cheers and applause] my name is Brian Sweeney a proud board member of the texas book festival so you can totally trust me when i say that. We are here with an esteemed panel of two writers i admire 48 panel called pulses, forgery and fake news. I often think this year may be the fake news, something that has come into the currency of our language. Fake news fake news has become so ingrained in every aspect of our lives in terms of how we consume our media and understanding our political discord in the large decisions we make as a country Going Forward. I would like to introduce our panel today. One
Folks, i guess we are going to start here. So, thank you so much for coming and i hope you are comfortable because im going to talk for a bit here. My name is Mark Pendergrass as a about a third of the people in the audience do because that is their name, also. They are related to me. This is the bookstore i love to come to all independent bookstore with great hearts and is also close to where the pendergrass enclave has lived for many many years. I grew up he or in atlanta. I live in vermont, now. I come back here frequently to see my mother who is right here in my father who was very much involved in my research for this book. Read most of the manuscripts and who died last year at the age of 99 and a half and i just want to dedicate this whole talk to him. He was a wonderful, wonderful, kind, generous man and i dedicate the book to him into my mother into my made, my africanamerican maid whose name was willie mae and whom i call me and i will be talking about her maybe i should talk