Im lauren finch, acting director of the museum. On behalf of all of my Library Foundation colleagues i thank you for coming this evening. And id like to extend a warm welcome to those who are joining us online as well. I would also like to acknowledge the deer support of our underwriters for the Kennedy Library for moms, bank of america, the Lowell Institute and our media sponsors, boxing glove, xfinity and wbr. Richard aldous agreed to sign books, our bookstore has copies of his books available for purchase. This year marks the centennial of the john f. Kennedys birth. As we honor his life and legacy during this centennial year, we cannot be more pleased to explore the life and the birth of our dear schlesinger junior in more detail tonight. I am delighted to introduce theparticipants in tonights program. We are pleased to welcome richard aldous, author of the new biography schlesinger, imperial historian. He is a professor of history at bard college and the author of 11 books includi
Changed by that. Index fort 1. 9 bce 2018, hits the target of 2 in 2020. It doesnt change Interest Rates, the dot plot stays about the same and the median forecast consensus of three may removes next year and two and 2019. Rate ofange terminal 2. 8 . As for todays decision, the members decided an economy growing at a solid pace with solid job growth, as you average through the hurricane related fluctuations. As the forecast shows, they do expect inflation to pick up, though as they said in september and in november, their monitoring inflation developments closely. Instead of expecting it to continue to strengthen somewhat further, the field linguist. The new language expects the labor market to remain strong. Perhaps a little bit of a downgrade in terms of monthly job growth ahead. Dissents, the first time that weve seen dissents in favor of loser policy. The First Time Since 1983. What to make of it all . Not too much. This possibly we will have four new bank policy numbers. They rota
On wall street, and squawk alley is live good friday morning, welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with john fortt, Morgan Brennan is at post 9 for the hour, sara eisen is off. S p 500 tech sector is the best performer this year by a long shot, up almost 40 . The question is, will this continue into the new year mark mahaney joins us to start off the hour, just published his 2018 internet sector outlook mark, always good to get your take happy friday good morning, carl. Whats the headline on this one . Going into 18 we have three constant and one change. At least for the internet aspect, theyve been extraordinarily consistent and we think those Revenue Growth trends can continue into next year second, the multiples are the same they havent changed over the last three years, which should mean the outperformance weve seen in the stocks to date, its all bottom line driven or Revenue Growth driven. Theres less downside risk, despite the outperformance going into 18 and the third th
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Julian malvo, steve forbes and nobel prizewinning economist joseph stiglitz. Of this is a topic that interests you go to our website at booktv. Org and in the search bar type economics book and you will find a large archive of authors and materials would all of these are available to watch online. Host welcome to nashville and the southern festival of books. He will hear from many offers throughout the weekend including National Book Award Finalist Patricia Bell scott and nancy maclean, talk radio host eric erickson, basilica other liza monday and many others. For complete schedule visit booktv. Org or follow along on social media sites on facebook, twitter and instagram at booktv. We are kicking off todays coverage with biographer jonathan i on the life and politics of mohammed ali. This is live coverage on cspan2. [silence bracket good morning, everyone, thank you for coming and welcome to the 29th southern festival of books. It is my pleasure to have the opportunity to introduce jon