[scattered applause] security is supposed to stop her at the door, who can say no to that smile? so is our friend from alaska, jamie lasalle. [scattered applause] sarah palin once said of jamie s career, i can t see it from my house or anybody else s. so what was one of the most repeated phrases in last few years to describe america? other than china s bitch? how about polarized? every expert in media crank says we are at each other s throats and maybe it s true if you re on a new york city subway, or worse, married to this. but for the most part, if you go to the gym, the supermarket, or the park, anywhere jamie sleeps, you ll see people getting along buried americans pretty much get by on the universal belief leave me alone unless i ask for help and i will do the same. if it s the same words kat says to her tapeworm. we know your secret. so why the perception that we hate each other? the belief comes from the top of a pile 50 feet high. press, which which is the least popul
No more drama. The imf approves greece for 1. 8 billion conditional loan and two years of speculation on whether the fund will join in another rescue. There are 29 minutes until the start of the cash trading, but the futures are managing to reprice everything of u. S. Equities. Pips. Own three the question for markets, we survived the boj, no shock. Mario draghi, destination and persistence procrastination and persistence. We survived both the bank of japan and the open but the politics are back squarely on the agenda as the extension into Donald Trumps Business Affairs runs wider and broader than perhaps we originally anticipated. Trumpt extent do politics the dollar . You go slightly softer in the asia equity session. The Deputy Governor said, you have gone far too ahead of yourself in terms of potential rate cuts. The aussie dollar came back to earth. Deputy governor guide to bob basically said the Deputy Governor basically said the probability of a rate hike in february slips from
Few housekeeping announcements before we get going. Most of you have been to events here, see you know the drill. If anybody doesnt, michael will speak about his book for about the first half of the program and then he will be happy to take questions. We only have microphone up tonight. Its right here. Hopefully you. Hopefully you can make it to microphone. This is being recorded. So its helpful to hear the question so we ask that you try to make it right appear if you do want to ask him something. If you have a cell phone or other noisemaking advice it but you could turn off, now would be a good time to do that. At the end of the event we have plenty copies of the book, its a cool looking book. Plenty of copies upfront so you can go get one and have michael signed it appeared the stable. If. If you would not mind just folding up the chairs and putting them to the site. That will expedite the signing and expedite an easier exit and make our staff happy. We appreciate that. I want to ma
If you look at the s p 500, you will see what looks like some swings, but you are talking about narrowing of the index here. Drop of volume going into the holiday weekend. We are not seeing that much on the big scale. Material stocks are down as a group. Financials as well. Defensive groups are doing better today. That is the push and pull we are sector level. On the individual level, stocks facebook is higher as is apple and costco. Companyising after the came out with earnings that beat estimates. Antiscience yellen, regarding what they are expecting in that event . Uptake uptick in bond yields. We heard was seemed to indicate the fed clearly saying the market is not pricing in as many increases as could happen. That is at least taking a pause going to her talk tomorrow. A little drop in the yield. Futures, Interest Rate we see a little bit of a drop. Big upward move. Similar movement there. 1 . S down by one quarter of the recent trend has been up in yields. Mark crumpton has more f
Our interview with former lawer and politician mark green. Mr. Green discusses his book bright, infinite future. A memior on the progressive right. Memoir. This is your 23ered book. Why did you write it . Guest i wrote it for ava and otis who are my grandchildren. There comes a point when you have to leave the world a better place than you had and i wanted them to learn lessons from my public life. I was living being a protoage of ralph nadir i was struck by two things. A famous conductor said in 1953, a liberal is someone that believes in a bright, infinate future. And bill buckley said for the Mission Statement for the National Review foundnd in 1955 is a conservative is someone who stands for history yelling stop. I said that is it. A progressive believes in progress. As fdr said in his 1936 convention speech. Government can error and help people but better it help peoples life than be frozen in indifference. Food stamps sound like good for them. Who is giving food to hungry people