Hello, everyone and thank you so much for joining us this afternoon. My name is Benjamin Quinn and on behalf of Harvard Book Store im so excited to welcome you to todays event, geraldo cadava, discussing his book, in conversation with java applets. Todays event is part of the bookstore friday form sees which takes place on a friday afternoon during as we to highlight our books in in a wie range of fields. We remain digital for the time being, we have a full schedule of our virtual events. Next friday october 2 half in law school joins us for discussion of his latest book, too much information, understanding and you dont want to know. For todays event we will conclude with some time for your questions but its like to ask the speaker something locate the q a button wherever it is on your display. We will get there many as time allows. Ecoto the top section i will shortly be posting a link to our website where you can purchase your copy of the book. Its all we have a copy of the book over
Government accountability, the report of the nations Fiscal Health. Today the Budget Committee will hear from congress nonpartisan watchdog on the nations Fiscal Health and the importance of confronting our critical fiscal challenges. I welcome back mr. Dodaro who is the most usual and best witness providing information throughout the year that it is extremely helpful heading off some of the future crises that will happen if we dont Pay Attention. This hearing will kick off a series of hearings and discussions about that will form Bipartisan Solutions for the problems we face this year and help build a foundation for next years budget cycle. The next few years should be significant for the Budget Committee. The committee has been the working hard to enact reforms that improve transparency and accountability in the budget process and help put us on a more sustainable fiscal path. Last year senator whitehouse and i introduced the bipartisan congressional budget reform act and i want to e
Why pay more to wait longer for worse care . Instead lets give patients the care that they need from a doctor they choose at lower costs. Mr. President , that is our goal. That is our objective. And that is what we are going to accomplish. Thank you, mr. President. I yield the floor. Mr. Durbin mr. President. The presiding officer the democratic whip. Mr. Durbin i ask consent the quorum call be suspended. The presiding officer were not in a quorum call. Mr. Durbin thank you, mr. President. I ask consent to be recognized as if in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Durbin just a few minutes ago, i had a visit to my office of four young people from the state of illinois. They were of a variety of different ages, from 10 years of age to the age of 17. They all came because they had a similar life experience, and they wanted to share it with me. Each one of them have been diagnosed with type one diabetes. And little owen, 10yearold owen from deerfield, told a sto
Heading south. Look at this. Interest rates, well, they have come down, way down from where they were this time yesterday, it was high Interest Rates that in part spark the selloff, now they are way down. Lets be clear on this tuesday february 6th, you will see nerve ramming ups and down. Maybe some perspective is required. Number one, nobody is forecast ing a recession. Number two, a pullback is in evitable after such a powerful and unbroken runup. Three, all of the gains from 2017 are intact, its just the gains of 2018 that weve lost at this point. Number four, as of now, stocks are cheaper than they were 24 hours ago but profits are still going up. Now you are going to be hearing a lot of noise from the left, they are eager to Society President trump with anything thats negative. Ignore it. They are grinding an ideological to beat up a president they cant stand, we will tell you exactly whats going on and theyll be some advice too, Varney Company is about to begin. Stuart well, talk
Much power. Yeah. Black rock was beat. Later this morning we do have more delivering alpha stars stopping by our set this morning including your Capital Management founder. This conference could start at 8 30 eastern time and the preshow starts right now. Dont miss them. They will be on stage together later this morning so a very busy day ahead but first up to speed on the top deadlines. Three big Global Market stories developing at this hour. Parliament is in session. The government must vote on reforms that have creditors insisting on a bailout. Then overnight in asia chinese gdp data coming in stronger than expected. 7 year over year in the Second Quarter. In other reports retail sales also topping forecasts and the main index is down about 3 . The boj leaving Monetary Policy unchanged today. That comes as expected. It continues to expect the economy to continue with a modest recovery. Chair janet yellen will begin two days of semiannual congressional testimony. Shell appear before