Good morning, everybody. And welcome to brookings. Welcome to those in person and those online. On cspan. Before i introduce our distinguishedho guests running e program today. We are going to do 60 minutes of discussion among the three of us then we will open up for 30 minutes of questions from the floor as well as questions online. We do ask identify yourself and identify any appropriate affiliation. Lets get on with the program the Brookings Institution and the governor of the studies program off which i am part, i m a visiting v fellow here at brookings and government studies program. We are honored to welcome back to brookings the assistant attorney general jonathanto kanr from the Justice Department. Let me quickly introduce both. They need no introduction, but i will give them a short one here. Leah. On the faculty at columbia law school. Before that she was counsel of the house antitrust subcommittee before that she was an attorney advisor to then the commissioner who was now c
Companys ceo as it also gets ready to report after the bell speaking of earnings, it is the busiest week of Quarterly Results, nearly onethird of the s p 500 and 20 of the dow are reporting. F apple and amazon lead the way this week. Lets begin with tesla, rallying in the premarket today, following musks visit to china. The company, winning approval to roll out its full selfdriving technology in that country, jim. This is a partnership with baidu, being called a watershed moment for fsd you need to have i remember when i rode in a waymo, which is googles product, you had to have the google map you just need this infrastructure in order to be able to make it. It was obviously being withheld. Is it worth 22 points . I think that people were short tesla, betting there had to be more lets say, more earnings problems i mean, theres an evercore piece, lowering price target, that was probably prechina. But david, there is a sense among the companies that make selfdriving that theres this holy
Meeting this week along with the jay powell press conference. That will be the focuses for the markets. Right now, the tenyear yield is just about where it has been the last tcouple weeks propalestinian protests continuing on College Campuses over the weekend some schools requesting Police Intervention to stop encampments. Jill stein was arrested at a protest. She said it was about freedom of speech which needs debate and dialogue at ucla, protests by propalestinian and proraisrael supporters and at state university, they paused connections to boeing after they demanded to cut ties with the weaponing Manufacturing Division the school has no investment in boeing it accepted 150,000 in donations. Boeing providing 28,000 a year for scholarships the University Paper aresident d in response to the issues. Officials in china removed restrictions on tesla cars after the vehicles passed the Data Security requirements. Just this morning, the wall street journal is reports that chinese officials
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