Bring more and more people into, at least contact with some of these issues. That doesnt mean they will learn the right things but it opens doors. I think back all to what moved the needle. What changed the course of Human History here in our country and its always been popular movements. The civil rights movement, the womens movement, lgbt. Thats just national. Americans linked with people in west africa and even angola during the blood diamond years to help bring about change there. Popular movements are where things are rooted. I think thats where those folks that have a high profile that have sandwiched themselves in their artistic endevours. The light is coming at us and people like akon have taken the mirror and shifted it at this issue and listen to these people. I think thats what ive seen in most effective is when a celebrity goes into a country that offer very little. Lets let lets have this person tell the story from that country. Giving a platform to africans to tell their
Its statement to drop the pledge to keep rates close to zero for a considerable time. The feds twoday policy meeting begins tomorrow. The oil shock continues as crude Oil Prices Bounce back after volatile early trading. Brent had dropped to a 5 1 2 year low after the further price declines. Also in the headlines, opecs chief defending the decision not to cut the output. Wti is up by 40 cents only sitting at 58. 21. Last week 13 decline in oil prices sent waves throughout the Global Markets in the last five trading sessions. The yield on the tenyear tnote posted the biggest weekly decline in terms of a drop in terms of basis points since june of 2012. And the dow dropped almost 4 over the course of the week. That was the worst week since november of 2011. Weve been watching the equity futures this morning that look to be bouncing back, at least in early trading. You can check it out at this point, tripledigit gains for the dow futures up by 102 points. The s p 500 up by 11 points and th
As we saw volatile day for oil, bill, as well. One of the days where bad news was bad news. You could have argued once an upon you could have said bad news would mean that the fed would delay raising Interest Rates and the market rally on that. That didnt happen today. And you wonder if thats the kind of action we will see going into 2015 here if suddenly now bad news is bad news and vice versa. Volatility bill seems to be here to stay. Yes, maam. It is. Well talk about that. The volatility index is moving up as well today. Theres the dow up 120 as kayla was mentioning. Down about 99 points at the apex of the day. The low of the day. Now down 30 into the final hour of trading and the volatility index. Made a liar out of me. Down to 1831 and rather elevated level when you consider the rest of the market has been doing. S p down 5 points today to start the new year. And the nasdaq down 17 at 4719. Before we sta start our panel discussion, we want to hear from you at home. Log on the to c
Stocks. That way you can be ready for days like today, where the market flies, with the dow soaring 212 points, and the nasdaq climbing 0. 13 . Go back and think about yesterdays Late Afternoon pummeling. Or at least try to remember what caused it. Some European Central banker arguing with some greek politician. That kerfuffle gave you a chance to pick up Great American stocks at prices much cheaper than you otherwise would have gotten. We all get flyers in the mail with coupons. I get ones from costco. Im eyeing this 60inch tv for 1,300 bucks. But lets say i go in and pick it up and see these shirts that are on sale for 35 smackers. Thats ridiculous. I see that sale and i have to buy those shirts. I dont say, wait they lowered the price because somethings wrong with the merchandise. I dont think, wow, zainya i cant pick those up because tomorrow they might be worth even less. No, i think, ive discovered a sale i wasnt even counting on. Next thing you know im buying the tv and the shir
They wanted to make sure that the taxes began in the peoples house rather than in the senate and if you are going to simply rely on the congress to determine whether or not it is unconstitutional or not our fundamental procedures like this, then i think that we have some problems as the constitution mean anything anymore. So i think the court can look at it and not be terribly worried about the issue especially based on what they did in years ago. Other questions . Okay we will thank our panel on behalf of the National Review and the foundation. I know i had a great time. Interesting discussion. Thank you. [applause] im mark warner and i approved this message. The largest fraud in history and ed gillespie lobbyist. They paid him 700,000 to block the regulation of the Energy Market that they could raise utility rates. Former leaders headed to prison. The milliondollar lobbyist to put enron and had a few. Not directly through to the trade we are going to put a price on carbon. Mmike warn