Invest in laborsaving is it not possible that improved wages themselves can help lead to improved product activity, which can create a virtual cycle with wage growth officer time yes, thats exactly what we hope is happening right now. So youre committing to keep your foot off the brake . When i was getting ready for this hearing, i went back and read something that you said in your very first year on the fomc committee. You noted you havent seen anything in the wage data yet to support that it struck me as interesting. It got me to thinking about my frustration, and how its been 2 1 2 years since he hit the supposed definition, yet it keeps dropping and the definition of full employment keeps chasing it it made me wonder, as it relates to what you said earlier, why dont we just use woo wage data to help define it. For a lodge time there was slack in the labor market. Weve reached the point where the risks are really twosided now. If we do get behind and the economy does overheat. If th
The absence from view for the north Korean Leader kim jongun. According to the spy agency, hes been having ank having ankle surgery. Welcome once again. A commander from the Rebel Free Syrian Army told bbc he have sent reinforce ms to the syrian town of kobani. The colonel said 200 of his soldiers are there to support those fighting Islamic State militants. It comes several hours after the group of iraqi peshmerga troops arrived in turkey on route to syria. One group flew from iraq to a south eastern turkish airport. Another group carrying weapons including artillery are traveling separately over land through turkey. The battle on the turkish syria boerd has lasted six weeks. Fighting has forced 200,000 to flee across the turkish border. 800 have died during it will fighting. We are joined from the syrian, turkish border. Youve been speaking to a kurdish leader there that a says there are no extra Syrian Free Army troops traveling to kobani. Reporter yes exactly. I just talked to one o
A former source. Corey lewandowski says hes in a position to know what happened and didnt happen in New Hampshire. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I mean wolf blitzer. Youre in the the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Were following breaking news. President trump fills a gaping hole if his National Security team naming respected arm Lieutenant General h. R. Mcmaster as his new National Security adviser. Mcmaster taking over the job after Michael Flynn was fired and another top contender turned the president down. For the first time vicepresident paengs pence is acknowledging that Michael Flynn misled him. Pence revealing his disappointment during a News Conference with the head of nato. The vicepresident in brussels trying to reassure allies of President Trumps commitment to nato and europe. Top officials in sweden are expressing anger and dismay with President Trump for spreading inaccurate information. Speaking in florida
Antiimmigrant and antieuropean union position. Reporter polls wont be closing across the country here in france for another two hours. But we are getting indications of how the french are voting in this crucial president ial election. Belgium and swift media citing a variety of polls are indicating the 39yearold centrist Emmanuel Macron is in the lead against rival Marine Le Pen. Our own election source inside france say the voting is going in the same direction. If this is accurate, the french have chosen more moderate of the two candidates. Macron is no nato and no european union. La pen has been critical of the european union. Tough on immigration and terrorism. While her message has been playing out. The early signs are showing turnout is lower in this general election than we have seen it in past elections. Also the number of abstentions, people who go to the polls and leave a blank ballot. The Major Party Candidates were knocked out in the first round. This is a runoff. There are
a serious escalation by pong yang. what is going on? well, the intelligence community is saying, there are two tests in february and march where they assess it is part of a new north korean intercontinental ballistic missile. that means it could potentially reach the united states. the penn took the extraordinary step of putting out a statement saying it was going to increase collecting intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance against north korea. the most sensitive intelligence there is, and increase the readiness of u.s. ballistic missiles in the asia region. the press secretary john kirby explained a little bit more about why they re doing it. clearly, these continued tests are a provocation. they are a violation of u.n. security council resolutions, and they give us as well as so