Inflation had markets wondering what comes next. What comes next is the cpi at 8 30. Crude oil prices are slightly higher. Up. 80 . Now to the latest headlines in israel. The minister of energy and infrastructure saying overnight the siege of gaza will not be lifted until the hostages taken by hamas are returned home. In the meantime, u. S. Secretary of state blinken arrived in tel aviv today. He is meeting with Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu. The Palestinian Organization posted on x that blinken will meet with abbas tomorrow. That is coming up tomorrow and the expectation is any invasion of gaza will not happen while blinken is there. That is in the next sixtoeight hours. White house officials saying they arie leaving open the possibility of refreezing the 6 billion after the prisoner swap with the support of hamas attacks on saturday. U. S. Spy agencies have obtained intelligence that shows iranian leaders were surprised by the attack. A second source describing intelligence that
However, the recent additional decline in oil prices and further appreciation of the dollar, mean that it will take a bit more time for these effects fully to dissipate. Charlie joining me now is glenn hubbard, the dean at columbia business school, a Top Republican economic advisor. Gillian tett is a managing editor at the financial times. Alan blinder is a professor at Princeton University and a former fed vice chairman. David leonhardt of the New York Times will be joining us. He has joined us now. I am pleased to have him as well. Alan, give me a sense of what happened today. And because you have been there, what might these deliberations have been like . Alan i think they were contentious in a polite sort of way. Everything is polite. The committee is divided. From the statement, you can tell clearly that janet yellen was on the dovish side and was in her own polite way not getting resistance. There was no little bone thrown to the hawks in this statement. At all. I was surprised t
My name is Arthur Laffer. I am an economist. I live in nashville, tennessee. And we are here in washington, d. C. At the w hotel. I was in the omb. I was the chief economist at the omb then. I found my friends up in the omb really boring. So, i always came down and hung out with the oao people. Bill bradley was in that group, and Christine Todd whitman, and jim leach they were interns, as i recall. Yeah, interns. It was just a fun group of people. Art laffer, dick cheney, and i would have dinner from time to time, or lunch from time to time, or just have meetings in the white house from time to time. In 1974, we came to the Hotel Washington to the two continents restaurant. Thats where we sat down and talked about tax policy. And art drew the laffer curve. I invited jude wanniski, who was a writer for the wall street journal at the time. He passed on. But he kept all the records of this stuff. And in an article much later, it was called taxes, revenues, and the laffer curve. He recount
Take one. Arthur my name is Arthur Laffer. I am an economist. I live in nashville, tennessee. And we are here in washington, d. C. At the w hotel. Arthur i was in the omb. I was the chief economist at the omb then. And id found my friends up there in the omb really boring. So, i always came down and hung out with the oao people. Bill bradley was in that group, and Christine Todd whitman, and jim leach they were interns, as i recall. Arthur yeah, interns. It was just a fun group of people. Don art laffer, dick cheney, and i would have dinner from time to time, or lunch from time to time, or just have meetings in the white house from time to time. Dick in 1974, we came to the Hotel Washington to the two continents restaurant. Thats where we sat down and talked about tax policy. And art drew the laffer curve. Arthur i invited jude wanniski, who was a writer for the wall street journal at the time. He passed on. But he kept all the records of this stuff. And in an article much later, it wa
Over the past year we welcomed the actors and directors. Tonight, we bring you conversations with those nominees. This years oscar field has one thing in common, it is a passion for storytelling. we begin with selma. It is the genetic story, the civil rights marches of selma, alabama. In the attempt to liberate dr. King from his legacy, we see him in the context of the movement. Hes captured marching and fighting alongside the men and women who have moved the needle of racial progress. We are not asking, we are demand in. This is a film about voices. Yes, great minds. It was really about the power of the people. And more than one person. Clearly, the people the risk their lives, the people around king. Also within his camp and the people of selma. And the governor of alabama. And all of the voices, not a monolith. These are people that have all kinds of ideas about how to achieve quality, justice. That is one of the things we try to create, there were a lot of conflicting points of vie