Devoting more of their dwindling salaries to monthly housing costs. If these problems persist, Affordable Housing is a going concern, one that could be a factor in the election. We will look at the policy measures that can be put in place to ensure all americans, especially those that are vulnerable, have access to affordable homes. I would like to think the Enterprise Community partners for their support of the conversation. We have a fantastic lineup of speakers, including two mayors from very different regions of the u. S. Advocates and housing experts. A few housekeeping notes. T can tweet us using hehillhousing2020. We are broadcasting live. We will take your questions throughout the program. You can experience occasional trouble with the video. Refreshing the page should in most cases fix the problem. Giles of guest is john mesa, arizona. He has been focused on his next mesa vision which attempts to take his city to the next level. I will call this the hills lair. Lair. E to the
We are going to be looking at and wire mental legal doctrine, more broadly its social philosophical, kind of issues to grapple with. We also talked at the beginning of the semester, about how society deals with times of aggregate. The big pitchers the effects of large numbers of individual personal disputes on the big picture. And we will be dealing in talking about aggregates a little bit today. The class will lead to a couple of Big Questions big question number one, how much can we regulate in the interest of protecting the environment, big question number two who actually gets to advocate on behalf of the environment, or governmental issues. Those are the two things we are going to be focusing on all right, im going to begin today on talk about environmental change in u. S. History, including what was and what was not instinctive about the consciousness we refer to as environmentalism. When it came onto the scene in the mid 20th century. And let me introduce you to problems. And he
The wall street journal calculates that icahn will make 400 million if hes right. More on that in a moment. Lets get to the market. Down yesterday, and probably opening a little lower this morning. President trump says if china doesnt make a trade deal, he might raise tariffs even more. He also said hes very happy with china because the treasury has taken in almost 100 billion from tariffs. All right. The dow is going to open down about 80, s p down about 9, nasdaq down about 32. But all of them still right at record highs. In a couple of hours, really big meeting in texas. Apple meets the president. Tim cook meets donald trump. This is at the new mac pro factory in austin. Pivotal meeting. Its about building apple products in america. Its about tariffs on apple products. Its about china trade negotiations. It is a big deal meeting. Just as important, what will the president say to reporters when he leaves the white house . We will certainly tell you. Varney company is about to begin.
Pinp rally pushed the dow into record territory. Today a mere 6point gain did the same thing. Record highs. D s p close at but the moves didnt come easy. Stocks wavered between gains and losses. But in the end helpe c from trade optimism, earnings moment up and deeson Economic Data. Today as i mentioned the dow rose at 6 points, now mat 27681. Nasdaq up 40, the s p added 7. T in f all major amples higher for the webb. The s p finished the fifth consecutive week of gains. But the big question for investors now is can stocks move higher . As bob pisani reports, the answer my lie in the bond market. Reporter beyond the ral in the stock market we have seen a rally in bond yields. The yield on the. S. 0year treasury notariesen sharply the past seven days invenors ha seen that move in bonds since before the 2016 president ial election. Now this recent spike in yields mass pushed bank scks back into ahi leade position with regional banks like coamerica and key cor hitting highs omile utilitie
Without getting technical, the shift in Interest Rates has raised the risk of recession. Bad news for investors. The dow is going to be down 370 points. That means we are down about 1,000 points from the middle of last week. The s p 500 down maybe 45, 1. 5 , and the nasdaq, thats on track for its longest losing streak in three years, down bigtime across the board. Look at this. Talk about a flight to safety. Money pouring into u. S. Treasury bonds and yields are tumbling. The tenyear, the benchmark Interest Rate, now yields just 1. 78 . If theres any Silver Lining here, its the likelihood of even lower Mortgage Rates in the immediate future. The price of gold, that is a sixyear high. That is also part of the flight to safety. Bitcoin, bitcoin, money is flowing in there, too. Its back to 11,800 per coin, up more than 20 in the last week. Heres what we have to start the new week. A currency war, a prolonged trade fight probably, a stock market selloff bigtime and a universal flight to so