A twenty three thousand point mark for the first time in its one hundred thirty two year history but the excitement is coupled with hesitation this is the second longest bull rally in history no one knows how much longer at last and if theres a correction around the corner yes coulter is at the New York Stock Exchange for us here is what exactly has lit that fire under the dow recently. Well an epic rally that sold Morgan Stanley called the dead it is already the fifty thousand point mark that the Dow Jones Industrial average crossed for the First Time Ever since the president ial election one of the reasons why the market is trading upwards is there to right now we are experiencing the fifth consecutive quarter of the u. S. Companies actually see an increase in profits overall the economy is doing rather well and then there are still those promises that there might be a rest less regulation for Financial Institutions that we might see tax cuts at some points or so there are some funda
And live from studio fourteen here at aljazeera headquarters in doha fully back to bow welcome to the news grid the race to save survivors after a devastating earthquake along the iraq border hour after hour the death toll rises more than four hundred people have died and thousands are injured most of the victims are believed to be in the radian town of. What have the latest on rescue efforts also on the grid the g. C. C. Crisis and the fight for influence in the horn of africa the five months brocade of qatar by saudi arabia and its on lies as forced countries to take sides as ethiopian Prime Minister visits doha well explore how the crisis is reshaping the already troubled horn of africa region and journalism propaganda todays the deadline for the russian state owned media outlet r. T. To comply with u. S. Government demands to register as a Foreign Agent of the russian government critics say its coverage is driven by moscows political agenda the kremlin is furious and. This is to re
Policy at water in the west. Matthew turner is professor of economics at brown who has written a bit about transportation. Dan wilson is at Federal Reserve bank in San Francisco and speaks only for himself and not for janet yellen or anybody else at the fed. And cliff linsen is our colleague here. I have asked each to say pretend we had a president of the United States who has a short attention span. And pretend that he ran for office saying i want to spend a lot more money on infrastructure. Pretend for a moment that this tax credit thing was something thought up and will never resurface again, what would you tell him about how to wisely spend the money . I asked each to give us the seven or eight minute spiel that they would give in the oval office and then we will have interaction. It is putting a lot of pressure on time to ask them to keep to that thing but make you do it. Maybe i can start with you because we havent talked about water at all. There has been a bit of focus on water
Cspan3, a conversation from Brookings Institution on potential increased Infrastructure Spending. During a president ial campaign, donald trump said he wanted to spend more on roads, bridges and airports here in the u. S. Were a little behind schedule so im going to talk fast. Im really pleased that what we wanted to do was bring together people who have done work in the area of infrastructure to talk about where there is evidence, where there is not evidence, where the things that government does makes sense and where things dont make sense. Physical infrastructure is a rather broad term and so we have a panel that is one part water and three parts transportation. Newsha ajami is Senior Research associate at the Stanford Woods Institute for the environment, director of urban policy at water in the west. Matthew turner is professor of economics at brown who has written a bit about transportation. Dan wilson is at Federal Reserve bank in San Francisco and speaks only for himself and not
Where the things that government does makes sense and where things dont make sense. Physical infrastructure is a rather broad term and so we have a panel that is one part water and three parts transportation. Newsha ajami is Senior Research associate at the Stanford Woods Institute for the environment, director of urban water policy at water in the west. Matthew turner is professor of economics at brown who has written a bit about transportation. Dan wilson is at Federal Reserve bank in San Francisco and speaks only for himself and not for janet yellen or anybody else at the fed. And Cliff Winston is our colleague here at brookings. I have asked each to say pretend we had a president of the United States who has a short attention span. And pretend that he ran for office saying i want to spend a lot more money on infrastructure. Pretend for a moment that this tax credit thing was something thought up and will never resurface again, what would you tell him about how to wisely spend the m