Finn, tonight at 9 00 eastern on cspan, our mobile app and online at cspan. Org be sure to scan the qr code to listen to our companion podcast to learn more about the authors of the books featured. Host we are back to talk about the speaker battle. Guest thanks for having me. 202 7488000 there are nine people running. What strikes you about the list . It is large. We have never seen anything like this. Steve scalise the majority leader versus jim jordan, scullys came out on top, jordan had his three strikes to try to get the full speakership and it didnt work. Now we have nine. They will go through rounds on tuesday in which the loser in each round gets pulled but this is a large list. Are you surprised so many people want the job . Guest it is the worst job. One candidate said he didnt like emmer. Host there is a speaker candidate at 6 30. What happens in that . That is a closeddoor hearing. Guest each member will introduce themselves for two minutes and then there will be a q a sessi
Gain today, you will be seeing the longest winning streak in more than four years because of the numbers of gains weve seen. The s p 500 and nasdaq gained for the last seven sessions in a row. The dow up for six this is the third month in a row that the dow put together a lengthy winning streak another day of new gains, another day of record closes it hasnt been a year since the election has not 24 those are numbers that have always im pining for the mid 90s. Longing for the days. 35 three straight years. Never happen again probably. People say never say never people in ray seal estate say please let there another boon. We have been told for years, 6 , 7 , thats all you get longterm average, 6 , 7 . It will regress, revert to the mean 6 , 7 is all you get. 24 . Things always look best before its been a run a really good run. We saw one of the reasons yesterday was you heard liesman with our survey. The highest level for optimism ever it helps to unshackle American Business it just does
Pretty much across the board. Theyre doing particularly well, we should say, in spain, and finally, if you are buying wti crude by the barrel this morning, the price tag is going to cost you 46. 84 its 600 million for the right shoe, and 600 million for the left shoe. Have you ever bought these things how much do those cost, and my wife says 400 i say thats not bad per shoe i was going to say, that is a mass i sale at 400. This 1. 2 billion is really drars 600 million for one shoe and 600 million for the right one they are pretty cool. I mean, i dont theyre beautiful shoes. I dont want to think about them as a do you know about rent the runway no. Can you rent shoes . Thats a good idea. These things are so expensive, right, and then we have two german shepherds, which doesnt help, obviously. Are the dogs being walked in the no, you leave your shoes around i thought that 1. 2. Its a great name. It is. Very high. It can help michael kors. A lot of respect in my house. I have them in my b
As much as possible all those families that are survived the difficult times as a result of the wall street crash. We will focus most importantly on the middle class. Than 10uild on the more point 5 million jobs created over the last 54 months. Thatn hope to continue progression of more than 200 thousand jobs created for the last nine months we continue to have more americans with Health Security that we take for granted in this room. We learn just recently that we have the highest rate of High School Graduation in our country ever. That five states, four of them red, the people in those states said, we should give americans who work for minimum wage arrays. The American People have spoken to us. Is all about helping the middle class. Those are working very hard make it. If you do that, than Everything Else will fall into place good we are ready to do that. Introduce my colleagues. They will say again order after the vicechairman. All my atoms congressman from the 31st congressman from
In just a few minutes. But first, the rest of todays agenda, earnings central will be hearing from General Motors, nbc parent comcast, chrysler, corning and sodastream, all before the bell. This afternoon, we have visa, facebook, comcast, kraft foods and many others. On the economic front, the fed wraps up a twoday fomc meeting in washington. This is a policy announcement set tore 2 00 p. M. Eastern today. The central bank is expected to maintain its massive bond buying campaign. Fed watchers say ben bernanke and company may point to softer readings on the economy to signal that the policy will be extended into next year. As for the other items on todays economic agenda, the october adp employment report is going to be released at 8 15 eastern time. Its expected to show 150,000 private jobs were added this month. The whisper number, though, is below that. Well see what happens. Coming up at 8 30 eastern time, we have the september Consumer Price index. It was delayed by the Government