To those in person and those online and on cspan. Before i introduce our distinguished guest, i thought id give you a little sense of how we proposed to run the program today. Youre going to be 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 submitted online. We do ask if you are going to ask a question, identify yourself and any appropriate affiliations. Lets get on with the program. The brookings institution, and the government studies program of which i am part. I am a visiting fellow here at brookings program. We are honored to welcome back to brookings chair of the economy stc assistant attorney general Jonathan Kanter from the Justice Department. Let me quickly introduce both of us. He needs no introduction but i will give him a short one. Most recent job prior to the ftc was on the faculty of columbia law school. Before that, she was council of the house subcommittee. Before that she was an atto
Commission chair lena con and attorney general for antitrust Jonathan Kanter discussed antitrust enforcement during a conversation hosted by the Brookings Institute in washington dc. Topics include the need to revise the guidelines for mergers, labor market impacts, importance of protecting competition and innovation and how the courts look at good morning, everybody. Welcome to brookings. Welcome to those in person and those online and those on cspan. Before i introduce our distinguished guest, i thought id give you a little sense of how we proposed to run the program today. Youre going to be 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 submitted online. We do ask if you are going to ask a question, identify yourself and any appropriate affiliations. Lets get on with the program. The brookings institution, and the government studies program of which i am part. I am a visiting fellow here at brookin
Assistant attorney general for antitrust, discussed antitrust enforcement during a conversation hosted by the Brookings Institution in washington dc, topics include revising the guidelines for mergers, labor market impacts, the importance of acting competition and innovation in how the courts interpret antitrust regulation and how the courts interpret antitrust regulation. Good morning everybody. Welcome to brookings. Welcome to those in person and those online and those on cspan. Before i introduce our distinguished guests, i thought i would give you a sense of how we propose to run the program today. Were going to do 60 minutes of discussion among the three of us. Then we will open up for 30 minutes of questions, from before, as well as question submitted online. We ask, if youre going to ask a question, identify yourself, and any appropriate affiliation. Lets get on with the program. The Brookings Institution and the governance studies program, of which i am part of. Im in the brook
Forced it out, and that ruined the Affordable Care act. Host apologies, try to find a better line and called in again. That does it for todays washington journal. Happening in washington right now, the chair of the federal trade commission and u. S. Assistant for antitrust are going to be discussing efforts to enforce competition in business. Live coverage here on cspan. Good, everybody, and welcome to those in person and those online and on cspan. Before i introduce our distinguished guest, i thought id give you a little sense of how we proposed to run the program today. Youre going to be 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 submitted online. We do ask if you are going to ask a question, identify yourself and any appropriate affiliations. Lets get on with the program. The brookings institution, and the government studies program of which i am part. I am a visiting fellow here at brookings p
These are your markets and we see a little pullback when it comes to european stocks, down by 0. 2 . S p futures gaining 0. 8 . The further correction we saw overnight is putting a little bit of anxiousness out there on the market. We spoke to a lot of market artisans and they say, look, it is too soon to see if the situation will stabilize. We will look at the opening of the was market to see if there are any tensions there. Its just too soon to make a call on whether or not the markets will be quiet right now. That is what we will discuss throughout surveillance. We will keep you updated on all the action throughout the morning. Plus, we speak to Iain Duncan Smith about how long theresa may can hold onto power. We also have an exclusive interview from milan. And later on, we hear from the chief executive of loreal. First, to the bloomberg first word news. U. S. Senate has passed a budget bill. That is as lawmakers seek to end a partial Government Shutdown that began at midnight local