Three steps do not live in poverty. And a bipartisan theres theres bipartisan agreement this for voters i think for the elites, a mismatch. I think republican elites would support Something Like that in democratic elites are more skeptical of it. But for ordinary people i think like this is something that republican could actually sort of dwell on and focus on that actually agrees on this. So you can find to to promote that. Well, we really encourage you all to read robs book. It is it is great and you will definitely not want to put it down so please thank me join me in thanking rob for coming today and book. And now i am so pleased to introduce tonights speakers gerald epstein. Ian is the professor of economics and codirector of the Political Economy Research institute at the university of massachusetts, amherst. He has published widely on a variety of progressive Economic Policy issues, especially in the areas of central banking and international finance. His previous books include
Host in virginia, what happened there . Does that give you any sense of what might happen in 2018. Guest absolutely. A big sense but it seems that the democrats have the wind at their back going into the 2018 election. We are focusing on the candidates who want huge upsets in virginia. Campaign members donated t ig nearly 150,000. We are thrilled to see good authentic people who werent political hacks. Ic we inspire people to come out in the swing districts. One woman won a huge upset. No one expected her to win perch she had a healthcare issue in her family. She iran on medicaid i expansion and she defeated a longtime republican incumbent. She was one of many people who iran for office and one. Host on the independent newspaper out oft britain, this is taking a look at 2018, talking about a potential for weighing the victories in 2018. You see that potential. Guest we see the potential. Thats the key word. Our belief is progressive someone just ride the waves but help increase and cau
Political will to apply this tool, and i think its a very valid and useful tool for toolkit in the United States, and so we have examples for tunisia and egypt that well talk about, so well talk a little bit about the history of what are these things, how they come about, what can we learn from the past, how are some more recent ones operating, and finally, the most important thing is about the future because i think in some ways this was certainly ahead of its time and theres a lot of learning from the past, but i think there are plenty of countries where we ought to be applying this in new additional countries, but also may be in different ways given the fact that the world is changed from 25 years ago. The instrument needs to adapt the time. We have a very experienced group of panelists. Im excited to have all the smart folks on the panel. I wont go into detailed bios for each of them but i will ask my friend whos the executive director of European Cooperative for Rural Development
To see what mnuchin and the economic director hold a briefing at the white house. Look at twitter earnings. ,t looks like a pretty big be coming in at 11 percent. Monthly active users also coming in slightly better than estimates, coming in at 328 million, beating the estimates better than the fourth quarter. Also, revenue dropped the estimates as well. Looks like a good quarter for twitter. Youve that revenue, earnings up, monthly active users up as well. We will cover that throughout the next three hours. David you can get money for it and this might be a case where they figure out how to do that. And maybe video because they really have the video. Lets see. Today President Trump is going to release his plan for what he has called the big tax reform and reduction. Weve gotten hints about where he is headed. We are joined by our chief washington correspondent kevin cirilli. What we know so far is he is going to call for a 15 Corporate Tax rate tax break. We dont know the specific deta