And what the u. S. Could do to have a greater influence on the north Korean People. This hearing is two hours and 15 minutes. Is one of the highest ranking officials to ever to defect. As a former deputy pastor to the United Kingdom, he wanted his family to be free. It is where we have the opportunity to hear from someone with such unique insight into the most repressive regime into the world and one now threatening us with Nuclear Weapons. Thank you for speaking before this committee today. I wanted to acknowledge that it takes courage for you to do this. I met with you in august and soul along with mr. And mr. Snyder and barra. Your observations and recommendations to the committee will not only help them form u. S. Policy, but its my hope that your message including how we can peacefully denuclearize the Korean Peninsula will reach the ears of every north korean still suffering. As i know you agree its crucial we get information to North Koreans so they can better understand the sel
U. S. Debt limit, tax reform, and liquidity requirements for Community Banks. He also discusses possible provisions to deter currency manipulation and future u. S. Trade deals. Held by the House Financial Services committee, this is three hours. The committee will come to the committee will come to order. The chairs authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. Members will have five legislative days in which to submit extraneous materials to the chair for inclusion the record. The hearings for the purpose of receiving the secretary of treasurys annual report on the state of the International Finance system. But before proceeding to that report, i will give you a report on the hollingsworth family of indiana. Would like to share with you some bury good news. Hollingsworthbert the fourth arrived this morning at 1 38 a. M. , weighing in at seven pounds, 15 ounces, mother and baby are doing well. Husband and father is a total wreck, but congratulations to our colleague, ray c
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Francine welcome to the pulse. Manus i am manus cranny. We will bes aiming to Peter Altmaier we will be speaking to Peter Altmaier. Francine there is more evidence of the china slowdown this morning. 8. 8 in august. That is the most since 2011. Nick bottoms is standing by with more. What is driving the downturn . Whammyhis is a triple for a lot of these industrial companies. The stock market crashed affected in a very bad way. A lot of their investments and demands are low for a lot of these drivers of the old economy. You want the valuation coming home to roost. A lot of these companies had lending denominated in dollars. Their debt becomes more expensive. You are seeing a confluence of factors and the data showing how hard it is heading chinas industrial companies. Manus where we see that evidence. If we look at the broader economy, we have had a raft of measures. Drawing conclusions about where we are, whether it is a hysterical slowdown. Or whether it is going to be a glide lower.
Thousand jobs in august, the smallest gain in years. This could mean the fed waits before tightening policy. Over 700 billion of fixed income from blackrock. He is here to share his views. People saw an immediate reaction. Except for the headline, Everything Else was pretty good. Themployment rate dashboard improved. We saw hours worked unchanged. Longterm unemployment went down and the number of people working parttime. Federal several prominent researchers said that a secular because so many people are retiring from the labor force. That is not the position janet yellen has taken. Within the fed there is a growing recognition that that is the case and we are not going to see a big rise big rise. Are people going to come back into the labor force . What you make of all this . Take a caveat and say there are things that are really good. Every single piece of Economic Data has been positive. Adp was really good. I sm. If there is something worth thinking about. To 17 have disappointed a