Will keep shortterm rate, the fed fund rate, low, well past the point, the Unemployment Rate hits 6. 5 but quote, participants agreed that with the Unemployment Rate approaching 6. 5 , it would soon be appropriate for the committee to change its forward guidance. The Unemployment Rate fell to 6. 6 in january as you recall. The minutes say, also, quote, a few participants raised the possibility that it might be appropriate to increase the federal fund rate relatively soon. Sounds like the hawks at work there. The minutes show fed members watching the weather, emerging markets, and the debt problems in puerto rico but not overly worried about them at the end of january. Ad cam, back to you. Adam peter, you bring up puerto rico. Well get the bond offering from them in march. Go back to the federal fund rate. Usual suspects look at we may start raising that and is this something we should Pay Attention to, because just a couple weeks ago we had them saying no, we are not talking about Inte
Nothing more than pick among winners and losers by region and industry. At its core, its the purest of Wealth Distribution programs. My amendment would eliminate funding for the e. D. A. , totaling 247 million. S bied on current levels, this will save over 2. 5 billion over the next decade. Even though i ran two Small Businesses for 16 years, i had never heard of the Economic Development administration before coming to congress. I suspect many of my colleagues are similarly situated. So first let me describe what the e. D. A. Does. It takes dollars from across the country. That money comes to washington, from the e. D. A. Takes about 20 of it off the top. Thats cost of the administrationive Administrative Burden of running the Economic Development administration. It then asks companies and communities to apply for free money from the federal government to renovate a Movie Theater or bill a new industrial park. While many of these projects are not necessarily bad, some are ridiculous. T
Time. She also taught in the Political Science department at the Us Naval Academy and has been a candidate for both the u. S. House and senate. Its really a pleasure to welcome you amy and to have you join brookings very own Michael O Hanlon the defense analysts, analysts, author of articles and books and numbers that are way too high for me to count. And of course the philip h. Knight chair in defense and strategy. A reminder to our audience that you can send questions to events at brookings. E d. U. Throughout. And thanks to those of you who have already done so. In march 2020 commandant of the u. S. Marine corps. General david h. Berger released force design 2030. His plan to match the capabilities of the marine corps to what he understands to be the work that the nation will need the marines to do in the contemporary operating environment. General berger and his staff describe f. D. 2030 is being directly responsive to the 2018 and 2022 National Defense strategies which instruct th
Mission in the fa18 and completed three combat deployments before continuing her service as an advisor to the u. S. House of representatives Armed Services committee, working at the state department and also earning a masters degree in International Security from Johns Hopkins university. As though that werent enough to make many of us wonder what weve been doing with our own time. She also taught in the Political Science department at the Us Naval Academy and has been a candidate for both the u. S. House and senate. Its really a pleasure to welcome you amy and to have you join brookings very own Michael O Hanlon the defense analysts, analysts, author of articles and books and numbers that are way too high for me to count. And of course the philip h. Knight chair in defense and strategy. A reminder to our audience that you can send questions to events at brookings. E d. U. Throughout. And thanks to those of you who have already done so. In march 2020 commandant of the u. S. Marine corp
Armed services committee, working at the state department and also earning a masters degree in International Security from Johns Hopkins university. As though that werent enough to make many of us wonder what weve been doing with our own time. She also taught in the Political Science department at the Us Naval Academy and has been a candidate for both the u. S. House and senate. Its really a pleasure to welcome you amy and to have you join brookings very own Michael O Hanlon the defense analysts, analysts, author of articles and books and numbers that are way too high for me to count. And of course the philip h. Knight chair in defense and strategy. A reminder to our audience that you can send questions to events at brookings. E d. U. Throughout. And thanks to those of you who have already done so. In march 2020 commandant of the u. S. Marine corps. General david h. Berger released force design 2030. His plan to match the capabilities of the marine corps to what he understands to be th