Means, what healthy competition means, julia, in this era that were in my take thus far is that theres been a difficulty applying kind of legacy, antitrust law to technology will new ground get broken here because congress, as we learned in elementary school, makes the laws absolutely. And theres been a lot of talk about the need for new, different types of laws. But jon and carl, what i think is really interesting here is the question of how much of todays hearing will really focus on the antitrust issues, which are the purported focus here, and how much will we hear other criticisms, other questions about the likes of hate speech, manipulation, voter manipulation and the spread of misinformation on these platforms such as, you know, youtube which is owned by google as well as on facebook so i think there are a lot of Different Things at play here. While antitrust will be at the center, carl, dont you think well see this veer off into other directions as well yeah. Thats sort of my qu
Government funding deadline. The House Majority leader steny hoyer in a letter to his colleagues announcing plans to take up a continuing resolution through the week of september 16. Do you see any issues with congress not being able to fund the federal government this year . I am not worried about the governor as a government shutdown. I am a little bit worried about a shutdown in december or beyond. Reprising the 35 day shutdown we saw. It will probably pass easily. There may be an attempt in the senate to pass the defense bill. Theres interest to get that out of the way and democrats are telling me they dont want to let that go and be left with a threat that the domestic spending world would not get addressed. Probably into early november or late november or early december at which point we will see a larger battle. In recent weeks we found out the pentagon has finalized its list of military project to fund trumps border wall. Thats sure to be an issue. The military construction bil
Im sara eisen look at whens driving the action higher. A thaw in the trade war again. U. S. And china resuming tariff negotiations in october. Strong Economic Data helping ease some recession fears and the s p moving back above the 50day moving average. Key technical level. Tech stocks are leading the rally. Two big interviews coming up on closing bell. Box Ceo Aaron Levie and with Consumer Staples near alltime highs kimberlyclark ceo michael hsu will join us see both interviews only right here on closing bell. Joining us for the entire final hour of trade is stephanie link. Welcome back, stephanie. Thank you. So are you a buyer on this trade rally . I bought a couple things today. I added to a few positions, nothing new, nothing big, but i think the debate will continue are we going into a recession or seeing Slower Growth i have been saying i think Slower Growth mode and a lot of that because the consumer has been quite strong. I know a lot of people talking about that i spent this w
Year, the phone number is 2027488002. You can catch up with us on social media. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good tuesday morning. You can start calling now on this question as we show you some stats on poverty. In 2019, the Poverty Level for a household of 4 with an annual 25,750 or below, the 2018 the latest year where there are federal stats for this range, 500 53,000 americans were considered homeless. In 2017, the poverty rate was 12. 3 . Americans did of not have Health Insurance. We are having this conversation on poverty in america in the wake of a forum in which 9 president ial candidates spoke. It was the Poor Peoples Campaign form and one of them was Bernie Sanders. Here is what he had to say. [video clip] the point is for us to begin to think about what freedom means and in the richest country in the history of the world, half of the people in our country should not be forced to live paycheck to paycheck. 500,000 americans should n
For the roundtable discussion this morning we are joined by minnesota republican jason lewis, virginia democrat bobby scott to talk about the Bipartisan Legislation for the criminal Justice System, but before we get to that, with just days to go before the potential shutout coming your thoughts on how the next couple of days will play out . Guest theres the consent this we are not shutting the government found that wha down s under the bill is still getting worked out and i would hope that we could come to an agreement and funded for a year. I come from an area that is very strong in defense and virtually impossible. The shipbuilding for example exn a monthly basis you really need to be able to do longterm planning, so we are in a strong disadvantage in these monthly continuing resolutions. The guest i agree. We passed the appropriation bills in the house and senate and ended up getting back into the cr. On the defense especially i think we will get there but we wont shut the governmen