Eye unanimous in furchtgottroth and jared meyer argue that government policy are robbin diana furchtgottroth and jared meyer argued government redistribution policy regulation and Economic Data robbing millennial set their future. That is next on booktv. [inaudible conversations] good evening. Good evening akamai Vice President for policy research at the manhattan student is my pleasure to welcome you to discussion by her senior fellow, diana furchtgottroth and her colleague jared meyer, coauthors of the new book disinherited how washington is betraying americas young. The persistent deficits and debt of the federal government driven to a large extent by the promises of entitlement programs such as Social Security and medicare have from bid longtime head of the National Bureau of Economic Research to observe that fiscal deficits impose a burden on teachers generation borrowing only postpones the time when taxes will have to be paid. Even more pointedly, former u. S. Comptroller general
Announcer and now, john stossel. Stossel capitalism works in my lifetime, free markets have listed 2 billion people out of the misery of poverty. Yet, lots of Americans Still sneer at capitalism. Its unfair. A scheme of the rich to exploit poor people. . even today when i would think the success of capitalism is so obvious, some countries still turn to forms of communism. Venezuela voting for that 15 years ago. Hugo chavez promised higher wages, more power to the people. Voters believed. They voted him in to office twice. Cuba went communist 60some years ago, and progress there basically stopped. Cuba is almost as poor as north korea today. But the dictators in cuba say, were only poor because the yankee imperialists starve us. Theyre talking about americas embargo with trade to cuba, travel to cuba. Now president obama promises to end that. President obama we will end an outdated approach that for decades has failed to advance our interests and instead, we will begin to normalize rela
Announcer and now, john stossel. Stossel capitalism works in my lifetime, free markets have listed 2 billion people out of the misery of poverty. Yet, lots of Americans Still sneer at capitalism. Its unfair. A scheme of the rich to exploit poor people. . even today when i would think the success of capitalism is so obvious, some countries still turn to forms of communism. Venezuela voting for that 15 years ago. Hugo chavez promised higher wages, more power to the people. Voters believed. They voted him in to office twice. Cuba went communist 60some years ago, and progress there basically stopped. Cuba is almost as poor as north korea today. But the dictators in cuba say, were only poor because the yankee imperialists starve us. Theyre talking about americas embargo with trade to cuba, travel to cuba. Now president obama promises to end that. President obama we will end an outdated approach that for decades has failed to advance our interests and instead, we will begin to normalize rela
Show tonight. Announcer and now, john stossel. Stossel capitalism works in my lifetime, free markets have listed 2 billion people out of the misery of poverty. Yet, lots of Americans Still sneer at capitalism. Its unfair. A scheme of the rich to exploit poor people. . even today when i would think the success of capitalism is so obvious, some countries still turn to forms of communism. Venezuela voting for that 15 years ago. Hugo chavez promised higher wages, more power to the people. Voters believed. They voted him in to office twice. Cuba went communist 60some years ago, and progress there basically stopped. Cuba is almost as poor as north korea today. But the dictators in cuba say, were only poor because the yankee imperialists starve us. Theyre talking about americas embargo with trade to cuba, travel to cuba. Now president obama promises to end that. President obama we will end an outdated approach that for decades has failed to advance our interests and instead, we will begin to
Quarter gdp. Also up today, a lineup of heavy hitters on the closing bell. We have exclusive interviews with paul jacobs rob sands. Have you seen what constellation stock is doing today . Jumping. And we have commerce secretary penny prits zer and john legere. We will get get the real story. He was escorted out of an at t story. He says he was there to see the musical act. He loves macklemore. Sure he does. Microsoft taking a hit today. Allen mullally is taking himself out of the running to fill the ceo role at microsoft. Microsoft announcing it will now be february at the earliest when they announce who is going to be the new ceo. Who are the likely candidates and who is wall street rooting for . We have an in depth look at that very important story coming up in a little while. Were keeping a close eye on market this is hour as we head towards as were into the final hour of trading with the dow down 82 points. Thats half of 1 . We have the nasdaq actually the outperformer today. Only