Closing bell. Im kelly evans. Im bill griffeths. Fourth time was a charm. This is our first rally of 2014 after declines. Pretty good Economic Data, the trade deficit number was strong enough. Thats 10 of our economy. So that bumped up the growth estimates for the quarter. The trade deficit figures were a big deal. Very excited about trade deficit. You can talk about the Immediate Impact to the Fourth Quarter gdp numbers. 2. 4 to 3. 3 on that report alone. Could you talk about what it means for the u. S. Energy story. Could you talk about what it means for the u. S. Dollar because the trade gap which is part of the current account is shrinking quickly. Were here to talk about the rally. The dow is up 114 points. Not far from the high of the day, but we got a ways to go before an alltime high. As bad a start as weve had to the year, were only 40 points off the closing high for the Dow Jones Industrial average. Were only 10 or 11 points for the s p 500. Its the Rolling Stone article that
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 President obama we will end an outdated approach that for decades has failed to advance our interests and instead, we will begin to normalize rela
Democratic Socialist Councilwoman Tiffany Cabán's district office in Queens is closed far more than it's opened sometimes weeks at a time, according to some of her constituents and others who work nearby.
The flier comes amid increased calls to shift certain responsibilities such as responding to calls about emotionally disturbed people away from the NYPD and to others like EMTs, health care workers and social workers in the hopes of avoiding unnecessary confrontations with police.