Invest in laborsaving is it not possible that improved wages themselves can help lead to improved product activity, which can create a virtual cycle with wage growth officer time yes, thats exactly what we hope is happening right now. So youre committing to keep your foot off the brake . When i was getting ready for this hearing, i went back and read something that you said in your very first year on the fomc committee. You noted you havent seen anything in the wage data yet to support that it struck me as interesting. It got me to thinking about my frustration, and how its been 2 1 2 years since he hit the supposed definition, yet it keeps dropping and the definition of full employment keeps chasing it it made me wonder, as it relates to what you said earlier, why dont we just use woo wage data to help define it. For a lodge time there was slack in the labor market. Weve reached the point where the risks are really twosided now. If we do get behind and the economy does overheat. If th
We are asking our viewers to call us with your thoughts on hosting the lipids in the United States. Do you think it is worst worth the cost to cities . If you are in the eastern or Central United states the number 202 7488000. If you are in you as a victory done the number is 202 7488001. And if you are a boston or A Los Angeles resident that number is 202 7488002. You can also catch up with us on social media, facebook or twitter. And a very good friday morning to you. Beijing celebrating this morning on its olympic bid but plenty of olympic headlines already this week in this country. Here are the dueling front pages from the boston globe from tuesday this week, noting that the games were over after boston organizers were able to halt the bid in that city for the 2024 Olympic Games. On the same day that that headline ran, here is the front page of the los angeles times. They are at the headline is 2024 games. Los angeles is a player again as boston and its bid to host the olympics. O
That would be a substitute for nuclear testing. They have not allowed us to go there. In the agreement, it says very little except there will be a separate arrangement tween the iaea and iran on park in. There is a lot of negotiation left to discuss. The iran issues may shift a bit in a good direction. As you all know what we think of those capabilities and intentions, at least on a softer human side of covering iran, there are now at least some relationships. We have now been able to establish some kind of human contact with at least some of the key players in iran. We are not getting anywhere close to the leader and we dont really know what happens in the inner sanctions in iran but at least now there are channels that will be aggressive relief after so many decades where we were following iran remotely and new we could follow large movements of military forces but we really felt very handicap at not knowing enough of the internal politics. We all know this agreement was negotiated b
Wants to lower Prescription Drug prices. Hes with stat news. And for viewers unfamiliar with stat news, what is it . Were a national publication. We Cover Health Care and medicine. Were based out of boston, owned by the boston globe, but we have reporters across the country including us here in d. C. That cover the politics. Stat news. Com is the website for viewers who want to follow along and look at some of your reporting. What did President Trump claim when it came to Prescription Drug prices . He said he wants to bring down Prescription Drug prices. How had ewants to do that is whats unusual. He says he wants to change how the federal government pays for its Prescription Drugs that it buys through medicare and medicaid. He wants more direct negotiations between the federal government and the Drug Companies. Thats usually what you hear from democratic politicians, not republicans. Whether hes able to rangle his party to do what he wants to do will be interesting to watch. Special p
Of the predecessor to the Governors Office for the need to reclaim the lost opportunities of the past. Read the book. Firstever will refer you choose that. [laughter] republicans are not unscathed. Democrats the Supreme Court they all get on my radar and the torpedoes had been launched they have hit the targets there is nobody perfect and nobody walks away unscathed and appropriately so. Nobody has done that perfect what about Medicare Prescription Drug program . Read the book. [laughter] hello governor. I am a texan. Well come to washington d. C. Is great to be ranked in the top 25 for both polls. Of one to ask about the Health Care Bill were hoping Speaker Boehner will replace although it will not happen over night so what can you do to help slow them with the burden put any by the federal legislation and . One of the real aspects of the book is to talk about how the states can be engaged in a conversation as i said to my remarks there is a lot of political figures to talk about Soci