This is the story of a world whose borders and territories were drawn by the slave trade where violence subjugation and profit imposed their own roots this criminal system shaped our history and our world. Unsubtle the portuguese invented an economic model with unprecedented profitability in the sugar plantation. This was the 1st black colony 1st slaves or. Marriage of a black man with sugar cane. In the 16th century other european powers were eager to follow their model their greed would plunge an entire continent into chaos and violence nearly 13000000 africans were cast on to new slavery routes to the new world where the english the french and the dutch hoped to become wealthy in measurably wealthy. Because the caribbean has similar climatic features to sell till may eventually became the principal crossroads of the slave traders routes for people in the western world these islands are today associated with the cation ringback what a loop offers tourists a dream destination sunshine
Has been the trend we have been watching for quite some time future indicated 44 points by the dow. S p futures by 3. 5 this comes after we saw all three of the major averages sitting at new highs again on friday thats happened a lot recently the dow and the s p 500 up for the last seven of the last eight sessions nasdaq on an eightday winning streak and thats something that youre watching as we kind of rush into the Holiday Season here also look at whats happening in the treasury market. Youll see that right now the ten year looks like it is yielding 1. 91 just below 2 for the ten year we have some news breaking just literally in the past hour now. Report saudi arabia sentencing five people to death for the killing of Washington Post columnist jamal khashoggi, he was murdered of course in that saudi consulate in istanbul just last year by a team of saudi agents saudistate run tv saying three other people were sentenced to prison over the killings and reports say that the investigation
Secretary Steven Mnuchin on the u. S. Economy and Financial Stability. He talks about Digital Currency, World Bank Lending at the potential impact of Climate Change. Ready to go . The committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled promoting stability, reviewing the administrations regular approach to Financial Stability. I want to inform all concerned that this meeting will end at 1 p. M. Per the request of the secretary. I now recognize myself for four minister give an opening statement. So let me welcome back secretary mnuchin. Today we are here to discuss the Trump Administrations actions that have undermined and not promoted our nations Financial Stability. As ive said many times before, i am very concerned about this administrations actions to eliminate important protections for consumers, investors and our economy. It appears that our banking regulators are following that te dereg
Waters the committee will come to order. Without objection, the chairs authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled promoting stability, reviewing the administrations deregulatory approach to Financial Stability. I want to inform all concerned that this meeting will end at 1 00 per the request of the p. M. Secretary. I now recognize myself for four minutes to give an Opening Statement. So let me welcome back secretary mnuchin. Today, we are here to discuss the Trump Administrations actions that have undermined and not promoted our nations Financial Stability. As i have said many times before, i am very concerned about this administrations actions to eliminate important protections for consumers, investors and our economy. It appears that our banking regulators are following the deregulatory blueprint that the Treasury Department, under secretary mnuchins leadership, has mapped out point by point and rolling back many of the Critical Reforms demo
Stability. I want to inform all concerned that this meeting will end at 1 00 per the request of the p. M. Secretary. I now recognize myself for four minutes to give an Opening Statement. So let me welcome back secretary mnuchen. Today, we are here to discuss the Trump Administrations actions that have undermined and not promoted our nations Financial Stability. As i have said many times before, i am very concerned about this administrations actions to eliminate important protections for consumers, investors and our economy. It appears that our banking regulators are following the deregulatory blueprint that the Treasury Department, under secretary mnuchens leadership, has mapped out point by point and rolling back many of the Critical Reforms democrats made to prevent another financial crisis. If these rollbacks continue, there will be grave consequences for Financial Stability in our economy. The 2008 financial crisis was devastating for our nation. 11 million americans lost their hom