Based on the risk off the further markets. It is time now for global exchange. We will bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. Where to begin in asia, the coronavirus continues to spread in china, with the number of confirmed cases climbing above 75,000. Engle. Me is Stephen Stephen for the second time in about a week, china has rejigged its methodology for how to classify confirmed cases of the coronavirus in china, that has led to this now becoming a bit of a global crisis. We are seeing more speculation that the data we are getting is we necessarily reliable, or are seeing a significant dropoff in the number of confirmed cases. In hubei province, just 349 new cases reported overnight. Is that because of the new methodology, or do they have the containment efforts under control . That is raising a lot of confusion and questions. Also, it adds to suspicion that officials in china may be prema
We were both at the wall street journal my partner and i for many years, Peter Fritsch, and the News Business went into a downturn in the late 2000s thanks to the internet. It started to evolve into a less fulfilling job for me. I was in my mid40s and i decided what i really, really loved to do in journalism was investigate complex cases and that there was less market for that in the journalism world. The emphasis was on breaking news, and so i decided to try to see if i could do that sort of work in a private capacity, as a consultant. Host what kind of stories did you work on at the wall street journal . Guest i started at coming american politics in washington in the late 1980s, early 1990s, and investigating politicians for possible corruption, writing stories about campaignfinance abuses, ethics in washington and government. Over the years that evolved into different types of Investigative Journalism involving financial crime, fraud, corporate cases like enron, scandals like the s
Him. Reuters is reporting the Justice Department is trying to block Robert Muellers chief of staff and one other from the committee from testifying behind closed doors. The debate tonight on whether those individuals will not testify. We have another strum victory. An Appeals Court dismisses a lawsuit brought against him by two democratic attorneys general. Trump has the answer to reagans question, are you better off than you were four years ago . This as the nasdaq closes at record highs. The fed rate cut coming. All of that increasing President Trumps reelection chances. To the border. A new bill introduced by a pair of republican senators whos allow Illegal Immigrants to sue sanctuary cities. They are accusing of the Obama Administration of deleting, wiping clean right before they left office, hundreds of public statements by top border officials including i. C. E. Officials because the Obama Administration did not want public scrutiny of their tough positions on the treatment of de
Author jeff quinn. You open your most recent book, waco, with this author jeff guinn you open your most recent book we go f with ts from rick perlstein. A far crosscutting motive that defies storybooks simplicity, that is usually the way history happens. I think that quote is the most cogent ive ever heard. Rick does a tremendous job himself and its true no historic event happens in a vacuum. Thats the fascination in researching the narrative nonfiction history. I want to read that quote inu u. S. Well and this is from 2021 and in the plea burn times radio. A lot of people no longer want to find nonfiction to learn things. They want nonfiction books to reflect what they already belie. They want books to reinforce their opinion. They want books that tell them everything they believe is absolutely right and that the other side is worse than i thought. If you take a look at the bestseller list for nonfiction for the last several years there are three categories generally representative. T
Good evening, and welcome to politicsnation. And youre looking at live pictures from selma, alabama, where Vice President Kamala Harris and other dignitaries, including myself, are crossing the bridge to commemorate the 59th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday, with just two days till Super Tuesday, election 2024 is very much on our mind. And joining me now is congressman steven horsford, democrat of nevada, and chair of the congressional black caucus. Congressman, mister chairman, its been nearly 60 years since john lewis and Josi At Williams and some 600 others first marched across that bridge, the Edmund Tennis Bridge you and i just marched across with the Vice President. And yet we still find ourselves contending with conservative forces, seeking to curtail Ballot Access for minority voters, or students. And in the case of alabama, dilute the power of the black vote. What are your thoughts, as the cbc chair, as we walked across that historic bridge, 59 years later, and still fighting for