They need to develop programs to worker, retain, and graduate eterans. I would like to introduce you to a korean who marine who got a degree in accounting, but after he got a job he did not uite work. It is hard to go to from liberating baghdad to being an accountant. So he went to syracuse university. Entrepreneurship, boot camp for veterans with disabilities. Its a program that helped the colonel and helped a lot of others. Using the skills he learned along with his accounting degree, john founded patriot contractors in waxahachie, texas. Its one of the Fastest Growing private companies in america. John is not only providing for his family, but some of his employees are fellow vets. Where are you, john . Are you here . John, thank you, welcome. Glad youre here. [applause] his is an important story of how a university committed to veterans can facilitate a meaningful and productive transition to civilian life. But his story also highlights another challenge facing veterans today. When
Decision and economists not forecasting a change. Mike mckee our chief economic correspondent will be focused on the 8 30 a. M. Press conference with mario draghi where there is a lot to talk about. Including the possibility of a fed tabor here and what it could mean for rates rising in europe as well. A lot of Economic Data in the u. S. 7 30 a. M. , challenger job lot job cuts, then initial jobless claims of gdp and then bloomberg and Bloomberg Consumer convert and then factory orders and then 8 30 a. M. Eastern treasury secretary jack lew will outline his 2014 regulatory agenda and discuss wall street Reform Efforts in the buzz word will be the volcker rule. 950 pages. Lets do a 950page data check. Stocks, bonds, currencies, flat footed. Treasury yield elevated. 2. 83 . Of two 97. 57 a barrel. Yields,ds, the the the twoyear has not moved. Gold gets a bit finally today. Alix steel, why did gold get a bid . And perhapsering some Hedge Fund Buying coming in and buying a little bit. Mark
Well bring you the latest on where things stand on that. And america loves apple again. Huge sales of the this weekend of the iphone 5s and the 5c. How did wall street get this one so wrong . The stock is up more than 4 since the september unveil of that product and up 8 in just the past week. Sue, meanwhile, is at the nyse and lets check in with here. Good to see you. Noticeably Stronger Security today because of the breaking news we start with from kenya. The kenyan army is attacking terrorists inside that nairobi mall. It has been three days since the initial attack on the crowded westgate shopping center. That mall right now is on fire. Eyewitnesses say it caught fire as the army tried to storm the building to kill or capture the remaining terrorists. The government says 62 people were killed in that attack by al shabaab, a group with ties to al qaeda. This is going to be video of what it looked like inside that mall saturday when the terrorists began that horrific rampage killing
This week on q a, pulitzer prizewinning author and columnist, gretchen morganson discusses her new book with Joshua Rosner titled Reckless Endangerment. Cspan gretchen morganson, in your book, Reckless Endangerment, next to the picture of James Johnson county rate this the calculating political operative, johnson was an ominous architect of the homeownership rate that almost destroyed the economy in 2008. Why so much on his shoulders . Guest brian, we have to go back in time. A crisis doesnt happen overnight and if you want to understand what happened to create this mortgage bubble and the ensuing crisis, you have to go back to the early 90s when fannie mae and freddie mac were under a little bit of pressure from congress because the the s l crisis. Congress was concerned maybe there were losses sitting in these Mortgage Finance giants that were caused by public, was a pirate. The republican at the government had started them, that they had private shareholders, said they were operatin
He was set up the next thing you know, the man was assassinated. It becomes history. Guest it may be that you have been watching oliver stones movie, too often. My personal opinion is there was no conspiracy. That is not a popular opinion with some people. I have looked into it. Ive read the warren commission. Ive read books on it. That is just my personal opinion. We may never know the truth, but on the face of it, it appears it is what the majority of people think that there was a lone assassin. Host back to your piece in the smithsonian. How did you come across this story . Guest i cannot talk about that. [laughter] a source in the intelligence business whispered to me about it. I was able to confirm all the details. I know a lot of people who are in that business or who had retired from that business. They know me. They trust my ability to try to get the facts unvarnished to try to write a very straight story. I do not have an ax to grind, i just want to tell what happened. Because