Here is how you can make your thoughts known democrats, 202 5853880. Republicans, 202 5853881. Independents, 202 5853882. If you want to reach out to us is cspanwjdia, it or journal cspan. Org. A lot of stories about executive order. Executive order, specifically when it comes to minimum wage. The wall street journal is reporting that they would raise the minimum wage for workers on to 10. 10l contracts an hour, according to a fact sheet from the white house officials. The current federal minimum wage is seven dollars . 25 per hour and has not been raised since july 2009. About 16,000 federal employees were paid at or below the minimum wage in 2012. The agency does not specify how many employees were government contractors. Starting at 9 00, our coverage thespan for the state of union. A lot of information. We invite you to go to our cspan. Org website for more information about our coverage tonight. Times adding that mr. Obama would call on americans on tuesday night to to closein the
Commodities our lower in major market averages are pulling back. With the 26 ipo opening at 45. 10 now is 45. 89. Now of the value is beyond facebook we have seen the backandforth action although they state it is still fairly priced. Back to you. With the opening price of 45 and 0. 10 a share the market capstans at more than toward the 4 billion hit for that kind evaluation it will top some icons like alcoa has a market cap of 10. 3 billion tiffany is in. 1 and twitter is even bigger than delta that is 22. 9 billion and at that level it would rank as number 164 on the s p 500 despite the optimism my first guest says it is overblown. Paul, we appreciate you being here. Why do you think this is more hype . Good day. First of all, in the social media space you have to look a. N. C. Where other deals are priced and where they are treated. If the deal opens in the mid20s it probably would have been better for the company over the short term but if you look at the past it feels frothy and ha
Despite hollow commitments to Work Together to resolve the issue, we were all blocked from including the simple and necessary regulatory relief. Eep oeach of these regulatory rs had bipartisan support, but now producers across the country are left without an explanation and, much worse, no needed relief. I am shocked at how far some members will go to protect this administrations regulatory agenda instead of protecting real hardworking americans. After all of that, let me point out that with any large piece of legislation, one can usually find some positives to point to, and todays farm bul bill is no different. While i support many of the programs in the less talkedabout titles of the farm bill, i am especially appreciative of the i inclusion. Our producers across the country, numberone issue that we heard over and over and over again in every corner of kansas, has said that Crop Insurance was their numberone rioter fo prior the farm bill. Secondly, they said get the regulations off o
Second term. He will focus jobs and the economy and lay out his agenda Immigration Reform and gun control and Climate Change. He will explain his plan to prevent 85 billion in automatic spending cuts due to kick in march 1st. For more on what the president will say tonight, wendall goller joins us. Tonights speech is all about the middleclass. President will say a rising middleclass is the true engine of Economic Growth. His aides will say inaugural and two acts in the same place. Is republicans didnt see much bipartisan in the first act. John boehner says he doesnt have the guts to stand up to his own party. That is preemptive strike likely the expected criticism of boehner not standing up to the tea party and agreeing to a balance of spending cuts and additional revenue to reduce the deficit. On international matters, half the 70,000 u. S. Troops now in afghanistan will be home by this time next year. We knew that. Hell criticize north Koreas Nuclear test saying that country will not
Very fortunate that i got in position to collaborate with others in trying to realize some of those things. In is a question from twitter that i was also interested in. The question is, how does the fed evaluate costs and benefits of Equity Capital requirements . How do you get to that number compared to where basel was . We did an awful lot of work on capital ratios, both the levels that seemed prescribed or needed in order to reduce e chances of financial instability but also the cost of the economy. We did a lot of that in collaboration with other Basel Committee members in a quite substantial exercise but we actually did a bunch of that on our own. So we actually formulated, i think, quite a good an lytic framework on both sides of that question and that informed our positions on baseliii and on the surcharges. In both cases we were in favor of somewhat higher numbers and eventually came out and that was based in part on the analysis we have done. With respect to the leverage ratio