Minute. I am the interim director at Baylor University press. We are a small academic Publishing House attached to the largest Baptist University in the world in waco, texas. At baylor press, were very focused editorially. Almost all of the 40 books that we publish each year are focused on academic conversations surrounding religion. Melissas book is a natural fort for our list, and were proud to be the publisher of it. I suspect that for many of you Melissa Rogers needs no introduction at all. Shes served as special assistant to president barack obama and executive director of the White House Office of faithbased and neighborhood partnerships. She holds a law degree from the university of pennsylvania and a b. A. From Baylor University, and she now serves as visiting professor at Wake Forest University withs school of divinity and a nonresident senior fellow at the brookings institution. She has received an honorary doctorate both from Wake Forest University and the John Leland Center
Officials lifted expectations yesterday in proposed tax cut. The central bank raising rates for the third time this year and in the final News Conference is Federal Reserve chair gina gallant says the u. S. Economy is performing well. She also targeted bitcoin concrete to occur in the highly speculative asset, but not enough to cause a meltdown. More coming up this morning. Futures look like its indicating a market continued momentums this morning. The dow industrial up 30 points at nasdaq, s p 500 higher. Investors waiting on the European Central bank decision. Mario draghi will bring you those headlines. Markets are down across the board a quarter of a percent lower in half a percent lower in germany and the dax index. Lower across the board, as you can see the kospi indexed on one half of 1 . The latest have a smiley accuse by the network of his misconduct allegations. Details at smiley intends to fight back. Way more to fight on. Still refusing to concede following doug jones shock
Close several dozen sams clubs across the country. Steven mnuchin phrased walmarts use of tax benefit. Walmart is the latest company to make such announcement directly result of the tax cuts act and they join over 130 other Companies Across the nation who have already given such relief. We are now up to over 2 million workers that have seen either special bonuses or additional wages. We have been talking with lots of companies for a long time and we are thrilled with how people are responding. Maria secretary mnuchin delivered good news to American Worker saying we can expect to see the windfall in our paychecks next month. The momentum will not quick, the major indices all closed at another alltime high. Dow industrials, s p and nasdaq in unchartered territory yet again with 205 point rally. Futures indicating the market wills open higher again, the momentum continues this morning, dow industrials expected to be up 100 points as we await for Bank Companies to report earnings, nasdaq u
Creditors what he called terrorism. Meantime, greek banks remain closed today. The atms are running out of money. The ecb is holding a Conference Call today tole try and decide how long to keep a life live at the banks. Meantime Germanys Angela Merkel will meet with Frances Francois hollande today. And theres a meeting of creditors today. We were talking before the show it just is confounding to me just watching it happen. It almost looks like you get so defiant at some point, youd almost rather inflict your own demise, than have it inflicted by somebody else. And i think thats part of what happened here. Merkel saying by the way, she thinking the greek Prime Minister basically drug his people into a wall. If youre a creditor if youre a socialist and smart money like thought that would never happen. Once it happened i guess all bets are off. You cant assume that theyre going to have some sort of all attitude about in the middle east, about democracy, no longer do i think we can expect
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