Welcome, everybody. Thanks for being here. This is a hearing for the Regulatory Affairs and subcommittee. Modernizing moving forward using Lessons Learned during the covid pandemic. We should have something good come out of the pandemic. This hearing is focused on what we can gain, whats already been learned, what gaps are still there and what to do to better improve the process. A decade was telework legislation and enhancement act of 2010 set the baseline standard for federal agencies to follow the telework. Over the last ten years, loosing advances in technology, expectations an increase in Cyber Security threats. So many changes in the world makes sense to take a close look at the current policies and strategies in the federal workplace. Its acting as a magnifying glass for improvement. In july with a panel of private industry witnesses during the hearing, we gathered valuable information concerning what private employers have done to support Remote Workforce and we are able to dra
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With the chairman in the midst of a sales lunch, whose as the company has a plan b. And the cost of being cool. A former executive testifies the Company Fired thousands of workers in recent years in an effort to compete with Companies Like google and amazon. The latest on multiple age discrimination lawsuits facing big blue. Our top story of the week, apple earnings. The tech giant forecasting revenues that topped analyst estimates, and services now contribute to a fifth of total sales. They also reported the iphone represented 45 of revenue, the first time it has made up half of sales. In a way, this is progress towards apples less reliance on the flagship product and more on new lines of business. I got reaction from bloomberg businessweeks max chafkin and a Portfolio Manager, dan morgan, who manages apple stock for his clients. Dan it was interesting, if you would have told me they would have missed on both services and revenue, i would have said there was no way they would beat on
Its come back has helped that final mile if you will to 40k. Certainly cents fed chair powell calmed the markets. It takes us to our talk of the table. What is next with stocks . Great to see you both. Here we are. Now what . It is a great backdrop. We have had a nice rise in markets. Equity markets calmed down from yesterday and so i think it is a good backdrop for stocks. Joe, what do we do here . Do we top out, do we keep going . Is there a message on how we rebounded severely from the april lows . There is and it is about profitability. Think about it, we set the lows heading into the earnings season, all about coming out of the earnings recession that has been the catalyst behind the appreciation to new alltime highs and i think collectively we have to breathe a sigh of relief from where we were in 2022 that we have the advancement of the technological innovation surrounding artificial intelligence. That has been the fuel for this bull market. I think it is well entrenched and you