Declining. We saw a constructive things. Waiting for the eighth or ninth year of expansion is not a perfect strategy. There is an issue of wanting to do as much as we can to avoid exacerbating the longstanding inferences and get back to a Strong Economy or we can start making progress again, which is what we were doing in february. Senator smith as the fed chair and at the fed you have the mission of low unemployment and managing inflation. And this need to spur job growth. We said there is not been a big worry about inflation. What if the fed were to lower its target for employment, even under 3 . What impact might that have on addressing longterm needs for addressing inequality. Changeowell we made a in our operating framework which addresses that directly. We will have an estimate of the natural rate of unemployment. We will not act on that, even if unemployment goes below that, unless we see inflation or some other problematic thing that seems to be late to where our rates are. We
Speaker paul ryan. Lets begin with the election. What do you think is the state of the Republican Party after november 3rd . You know, its surprising, its an election where you had the rare event of an incumbent president getting voted out and yet republicans seemed pretty happy generally with the outcome not because hes lost but because downballot they did so well. I think there was a lot of expectation after this election, if the polls were right and it was going to be a blowout for democrats, that there would be a lot of grappling within the party about what it stands for and what the future is and where to go from here. I havent seen that at all. In a lot of ways republicans feel like what the outcome particularly down ballot is justification of everything that the president has been doing and that trumpism, if you will, has worked. You had a situation where democrats were expected to take another 10, 12, maybe 15 seats and in fact had lost close to 10 in the house. Certainly, demo
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And chair, eddie junior. A conversation on the u. S. Military readiness and the Global Threats we face. Defense Program Senior research fellow, served two decades in the marine corps. Assessing u. S. Military strength, a pretty major undertaking. How does the Heritage Foundation try to do that . Guest we gather all publicly available information we can come across, official testimony from the pentagon, acquisition reports on major programs, general news reporting from the defense reporting community, our own personal contacts in the services and the pentagon and on capitol hill, and we gather all that all year long, go through a several month analysis and writing process, compare last years information to this years information, and then basically issue a report card on the military, and this year on a scale of one to five, we would give it a three, or in the words we use, we call it marginal, and we feel that the u. S. Military writ large is marginally able to meet the demands of u. S
President elect, joe biden announces his 1st key cabinet choices. Its a team that reflects the fact that america is back ready to lead the world. Not retreat from it. Joe biden is moving quickly to fill all key positions in his administration. Now that donald trump has stopped blocking the transition im anthony. How its good to have you with us lengthening the lockdown. Gemini, 16 state leaders have reportedly agreed to extend coronavirus lockdown measures into the sand and possibly into the new year. But exceptions ah, being made for holiday celebrations, restrictions already in place have led to a leveling off of infections. But germanys chi slowed remains stubbornly. The pressure is on for the German Government to ease restrictions for the most important time of the year. For many christmas celebrations, right, no bellinis john dam unmarked square. Would usually be packed with people enjoying the christmas market. Its been cancelled. People will be allowed to gather at home for chri