Good afternoon. My name is liz kennedy and im senior director of democracy and government reform. Id like to welcome you to the center for democracy progress this afternoon. Senator whitehouse has been delayed doing the nations business at a Senate Hearing so well be doing todays program with our fantastic panel and well be joined by the senator later in the program. We are at a critical moment for our democracy, which faces grave threats. A lot of attention has rightly been focused on russias involvement in Election Hacking and in dysinformation campaigns in the United States and elsewhere. C. A. P. Has addressed these issues, the weapon nation of information. Just on mopz c. A. P. Had an event for the release of our report Election Security in all 50 states, which graded each of the 50 states and the District Of Columbia on their Election Security prepared ps. Todays conversation will focus on yet another element of the kremlins influence that we are deeply concerned about and that h
Support for limited gunshots in the wake of the Florida School massacre. Ramy good morning to you and to all watching around the world. Markets, close because of the president s day holiday. Not much moving except the dixie. It has been moving slightly to the upside. Lot of investors have been expecting this to fall farther down. The last time it hit that mark was three years ago. To ask be looking ahead some forex analysts what they expect in terms of that trend looking ahead. The interester rate differentials matter when it comes to the dollar. Really thin volumes. Liquidity in shortage given u. S. Markets are closed. We are seeing some markets come back after the Chinese New Year holiday. Hong kong still and holiday mode. We are seeing new zealand stocks flat, currency as well. Big earnings day for australia. We are looking ahead to the hp earnings. Bhp. To the earnings season not too shabby so far. The aussie he much trading water ahead of rba minutes this morning. The aussie 10 ye
Whats in it. The cash you carry around may be less and less useful. Because a growing number of restaurants and some other retailers are saying, no thanks, to your dollar bills. They just want you to pay another way. And its this weeks cover story. Avocado . If youre hungry for lunch at this restaurant, you better bring a credit or debit card. When Michael Kaplan opened two forks in new york one year ago, he accepted cash the first few weeks. We were noticing with every cash transaction, the payment process was slowing down significantly. After doing some research and seeing that generally, everyone was paying with credit cards anyway, we thought that that was a good next step. He made his restaurant cashless. No cash allowed. I dont really carry cash so i think its great because it makes everything go a lot faster. I think its great. But what if someone only has dollars . Real money . Maybe one person is like, they go for the cash instinct and theyre like, youre cashless . And like, y
Future. We begin with your wallet and whats in it. The cash you carry around may be less and less useful. Because a growing number of restaurants and some other retailers are saying, no thanks, to your dollar bills. They just want you to pay another way. And its this weeks cover story. Avocado . If youre hungry for lunch at this restaurant, you better bring a credit or debit card. When Michael Kaplan opened two forks in new york one year ago, he accepted cash the first few weeks. We were noticing with every cash transaction, the payment process was slowing down significantly. After doing some research and seeing that generally, everyone was paying with credit cards anyway, we thought that that was a good next step. He made his restaurant cashless. No cash allowed. I dont really carry cash so i think its great because it makes everything go a lot faster. I think its great. But what if someone only has dollars . Real money . Maybe one person is like, they go for the cash instinct and the
The judge set a money there. If you compose the money belt you get out of custody. Because if that risk that you post suddenly evaporates simply because you posted money belt, and so for that reason, increasingly theres an interest in moving away from that. Our district atty. Shares our interest in coming up with risk factors that would be more equitable and more appropriate to consider at the time. Deciding whether or not someone should remain in custody. Of course, one of the unfortunate things is that even in a city like San Francisco we are seeing a very disproportionate impact on certain communities of color. So, there are some very successful bail reform models that are occurring right now in other places. Washington dc has a very Aggressive Program that tries to release virtually everyone that gets arrested except for the very few individuals that pose a safety risk, and new york city has been exterminating now with some different programs. The impact on africanamericans, there