Stronger growth Going Forward in q3, and hopefully ongoing. However, you will have noted the have revised down our forecast for Growth Trends in the United States to 2 . We are facing this aging population issue. We are facing this relatively low collectivity issues, which is why we are recommending various longterm policy reforms to address aging and productivity. But it tells us another thing, weather that extreme occurrences have a serious effect on the economy, and extreme weather occurrences have frequently inmore the last 20 years than they had in the previous century. I think that is a valid reason to wonder about Climate Change and how to deal with it. Incidentally, one of the recommendations that we put in this report deals with tax. Thank you very much, madam labagarde. You can see offer comments tonight at 9 30 on cspan. The Russian Energy company gas prom stopped furnishing gas to ukraine today. A spokesman for the company said are only forkraine the amount that has been pa
As you would expect me to say so, we dont intervene between corporate entities. Both they are commercial entities that entertain commercial relationship. See certainly hope for the stability of that part of the world and for the stability of supply, that the situation can be addressed promptly and satisfactorily between the commercial entities and the negotiation. Strong hope thank you. This is the last question. Josh, Associated Press. Madam director, in the downward revision for growth in 2014, it looks like weather played a big role. What does that take oh tell tell us about the stability of the economy given that impact . I think it says two things. One is, we believe that this q1 result was a temporary occurrence. With temporary outcomes that will be mitigated by stronger growth Going Forward in q2q3 and hopefully ongoing. However you would have noted, we have revise down our forecast for Growth Trends in the United States to two percent. We are facing this aging population issue.
Because of what happened. Whats been happening in syria as i mentioned. For folks who are less familiar. Whats happened is becoming more active in the socalled sunni triangle of Northern Iraq opposed to the government in baghdad. And they took a foothold. You may recall earlier this year and last year, back in fallujah again and then ramadi, which is in the western part of the country, which is a sunni predominantly sunni area of the country, and now most recently youve seen this rather spectacular attacks starting with mosul. Which was always a troublesome [ inaudible ] chas been charged with his role in the attacks on u. S. Fast tl is in benghazi, libya, on september 11th, 2012. No u. S. Personnel or civilians were injured in this operation which was carried out in close coordination with Law Enforcement personnel. The United States has taken khatallah to a secure location outside libya. He will be brought to the United States to stand trial on a court of law. Secretary hagels proud
To meet president obama at the white house at 2 40 five this afternoon. The symbolism is huge. Quite yesterday, markets dead lets go onto the second screen. It is a vanilla board. This is the treatment as we go to the white house. We dont know the time yet of any announcements or press moments out of the white house. Heres the russian currency. Heres that new bout of weakness in the russian ruble and it just stays weaker as russia intervenes to try to support it. Preks just so viewers know, this is a longterm chart. 20 years. You can see how significant the weakness is. Remember the way these are quoted, this is the number of rubles per dollar. This is 9098. You can see the scale and scope of the disaster. That is the actor up from geopolitics. We scour the papers this wednesday morning and the webpages looking for what you need to know. Breaking news because the this is bloomberg Malaysian Airlines press conferences taking place right surveillance. Now. The president greets the the ta
Of health care. Gov. So let me say directly to these americans, you deserve better, i apologize. Welcome to the journal editorial report. An apology from health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius who acknowledged the rollout of the Affordable Care act was, in fact, a debacle. Despite the website woes and growing outrage over millions of dropped policies, president obama says its full steam ahead. Yes, this is hard. Because the Health Care Systems a big system. And its complicated. And if it was hard doing it just in one state, its harder to do it in all 50 states. We are just going to keep working at it. Were going to grind it up. Joining the panel this week, wall street journal assistant Editorial Panel editor James Freeman. Editorial board member joe raggio and Economics Writer joe moore. What have we learned from sebelius appearance this week . Not very much. She indicated the website and the larger architecture of the system are in much deeper trouble than we thought. H