We will look at the financial struggles and some of the biggest u. S. Cities. We will find a list on what is happening find out the latest on what is happening with detroit. And why aspiring authors are bypassing big publishing houses and reaching out to the readers although their own all on their own. The Government Shutdown in the infected may have had on the u. S. Has a market to for more on this, will the street today thinking live in the newsroom with more. First, the newly the good news. The u. S. Has a market has picked up this year. The National Median price for a home in september was just under 200,000. That is an 11. 7 jump from a year ago. But even before the Government Shutdown, it seemed there there are signs that the market might be calling might be cooling. But the worry of the shutdown is this. 25 of all u. S. Mortgages are backed by one u. S. Government agency or another. Most of which would close the 16 most of which were closed and the 16 days of the shutdown. We al
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Business as usual elsewhere. The jobs report is playing out in this part of the world. Yes, that is another a another big one. A chance to react as far as the jobs report. 74,000 jobs added to the u. S. Economy for the month of december, well below the 200,000 estimate. What we saw was a drop in yields as far as government treasuries are concerned. Just about the lowest level in about a month for the u. S. 10 year as far as yields are concerned. Broadly speaking, this is what we are seeing in the equity markets this morning. Is really about dollar weakness which is seeping through to various degrees in the asiapacific. Once again, we see dollar weakness, asian currency strength and a lot of these out,ts as was pointed japan,he holiday in second week into the year and we have already seen for public days. Anyway, we will see how that pans out tomorrow. We are seeing the currency, the south korean won strengthening. We will see how that will impact the markets. On that note, back to you.
In the big ten conference, including student death, admission policies and campus safety, this interview with Indiana University president Michael Mcrobbie is 45 minutes. This morning, the cspan bus is on the campus of Indiana University in bloomington. On it, we are joined by the president of Indiana University, Michael Mcrobbie. Thank you very joining us. Delighted to be here and welcome to Indiana University. Thank you for the invitation. Can we start, president , with your general thoughts before we talk about the details of your university, but your thoughts on the greatest challenges facing those in Higher Education today . Oh, i would say that probably the greatest challenge in front of us is to continue to provide a quality and affordable education, especially to the students within the state of indiana. We are a state university, after all. And keeping that education both affordable but also ensuring its quality so that our students are graduating with very high level skills t
Periods of time. We heard about the serious impact, fiscal impact of solitary confinement. It costs almost three times as much to keep a federal prisoner in segregation than in the general population. And we learned about the human impact of holdsing tens of thousands of men, women and children in small, windowless cells 23 hours a day, for days, for months and for years with very little if any contact with the outside world. This extreme isolation can have serious psychological impacts on an inmate. According to several studies, at least half of all prison suicides occur in solitary confinement. And ill never forget the testimony in our last hearing of anthony graves, who was held in solitary for ten of his 18 years in prison before he was exonerated. Mr. Graves told this Sub Committee and i quote, no one can begin to imagine the psychological effects isolation has on another human being. Solitary confinement does one thing, it breaks a mans will to live. Now, ive been chairman of thi