We have now publicly traded companies and we are unique in the way we are truly a Member Organization created 75 years ago under the guide of one number one vote. So nfib members vote the ballot and set policies for nfib. We dont decide what is good for Small Business. They tell us and we take that to state capitals and to the hill to lobby on your behalf. When it comes to going to build what is the main message you deliver at the white house if you have that relationship . One of the things most policymakers dont understand is Small Business makes up half the economy and have the job growth. Reminding them how important Small Business is to the wellbeing of the country through employment, growth and all that and reminding them Small Businesses are different, they are small, familyrun, in smaller communities having 1sizefitsall policy from washington that might be great for large corporations can harm Small Business. Does that apply to this accident to Small Business . Great point. We
And independents, 2027488002. You can tweet us your thoughts at cspanwj and post on our Facebook Page. That is at facebook. Com cspan. Joining us on the phone to explain this proposal from the Trump Administration is anna, she covers Homeland Security issues for the publication. A morning to you. Guest good morning, pedro. Host could this could you explain this proposal and how it changes from the current policy . 2015, a judge of the Central District of california ruled in a settlement that children in i. C. E. Custody and any person with that child could not be held in custody more than 20 days. This is under the Obama Administration and at the time, you have families going through dockets seeking asylum being held 45 days, sometimes 90 days. The issue at hand was you cannot just indefinitely detain a family. Now what we have is any family weather they present at a port and does not have documents or illegally crosses and says i have a credible fear of returning will be taken into cu
Nfib is unique. We represent the little guy. Small businesses and independent Business Owners. Our average member has five to 10 employees. They are very small. They are in all industries and all over america. One of the key things about nfib is you have to be an independent business owner. We have no publicly traded companies at all. We are truly a memberdriven organization. We were created 75 years ago under the principle and the guiding the guide of one member, one vote, and we follow that today. Members every year vote their ballot at the federal and state level and they set policy for nfib. We dont sit in a room in d. C. And decide what is good for Small Business. They tell us and we take that to the state capitals and the hill 50 to lobby on their behalf. Pedro when it comes to going to the hill what is the main , message you delivered at the white house if you have that kind of relationship . Brad one things most policymakers dont understand is that Small Business makes up half
A 5 billionwith fine off it scandal. Shery lets get you started with a quick check of how the markets closed in the u. S. To recordor indices saw a highs with the s p 500 topping 3000 for the first time. The dow gained. 9 . Tech in industrials leading the gains. The Energy Sector saw some gains as we had crude rallying on the potential impact of Tropical Storm bailey very. Barry. \ we had Producer Price inflation looking affecting the outlook of the Federal Reserve. Witht seeing record games the s p 500 gaining for a second consecutive week. Lets see how the markets are setting up as japan is away on holiday. Sophie investors wanted to contend with a stronger yen, which is below 1. 08 against the greenback. Eased theirhave earlier advance. Marginally higher. Could be set for another day of gains. Could see another day of close record closes. Tested as the be japan and korea spat wears on. We were expecting a cautious a data dump await from china, economists predicting the slowest annua
Moving into the thick of things as we move into these markets opening up in the next hour or so. In the asiapacific, it is friday. Lets get a sense of how we have done so far this week. Looking at one of our functions on the bloomberg terminal, a flow of the money into and out of different etfs around the world. Over thehe net flows next week or so. The u. S. Has obviously seen a fairly topsyturvy ride and where we are. Getting weakness come through earlier on in the japanese currency. ,he yen solvency also there reacting or perhaps getting offered up on the back of the gdp numbers coming out of japan. That inbe talking about a few moments. We are looking ahead to the data coming out of the chinese mainland. Around this time tomorrow, the all important inflation. Ppi numbers coming out, so it is. Airly big lots of guests coming on the show to tackle these topics, including bitcoin. 30 minutes away. Thats on the open up markets here in hong kong. Sophie is tracking all the market moves