Currency, shareholders protections and climate related financial disclosures. This is an hour and a half. Today we will receive testimony from the securities and Exchange Commission jay clayton regarding the work and agenda of the sec. I thank you for your willingness to appear before the committee today, mr. Clayton, your willingness to testify is essential to our oversight of the sec. The mission of the sec is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly and efficient markets and facilitate capital formation. It plays a Critical Role in ensuring that our nation has Capital Markets that the public can have confidence and trust in and for investors as americans prepare for their futures they may not only have a wide variety of financial opportunities, but they also have the information necessary to make informed investment decisions. Chairman clayton, you came before this committee a year ago and assured us that you would continue to take steps to ensure that the u. S. Capitol markets
Is wall street continued a record run, due in part to strong Economic Data and the Federal Reserve and progress on the u. S. China trade front. On friday we got a new gdp number and it was the final reading for the third quarter, and it was up 2. 1 for the third quarter. Now all phase one of the u. S. China trade deal is done, there are some questions that are lingering. While the chinese honor parts of the agreement like the pact against intellectual property theft . And when can we expect the actual signing to happen of phase one . And is phase two on the horizon of the First Quarter customer jointly right now to talk about that a lot more as the founder of the atlas organization, he is author of the book chinas vision of victory. In his doctor jonathan ward. Jonathan its a pleasure to have you thinking so much for joining you. Hello mary its great to be her. s overuse apprise the president decided to do this phase i deal . Do you expect to see the two sides signed this thing . Whats
Items. Ill make the standard order of Public Comment and instructions when we get to Public Comment at 3 30. Do we need order to go into closed session. Public comments . Seeing none, if someone wouldnt mind closing the doors. Ill turn the flor over to mr. Coker of the eight items that were listed on the closed session item there shall only be seven. With the matrix would be number seven we need a motion to cover the attorneyclient privilege as we go into closed session is there such a motion so moved second. All those in favor say aye. Public comment. All those in favor say aye. Aye. So, im going to read the motion approved by the board in regards to gregory latman versus the retirement board. The motion that was approved reads as follows set aside the hear offices november 1st, 2019 denying the application in march 2017 denying the petition for the hearing and remand the case in retirement system staff. Remand the case of the office of administrative hearings foray signment to a hear
Record run, due in part to strong Economic Data and the Federal Reserve and progress on the u. S. China trade front. On friday we got a new gdp number and it was the final reading for the third quarter, and it was up 2. 1 for the third quarter. Now all phase one of the u. S. China trade deal is done, there are some questions that are lingering. While the chinese honor parts of the agreement like the pact against intellectual property theft . And when can we expect the actual signing to happen of phase one . And is phase two on the horizon of the First Quarter customer jointly right now to talk about that a lot more as the founder of the atlas organization, he is author of the book chinas vision of victory. In his doctor jonathan ward. Jonathan its a pleasure to have you thinking so much for joining you. Hello mary its great to be her. s overuse apprise the president decided to do this phase i deal . Do you expect to see the two sides signed this thing . Whats your reaction to it . I th
Agreement ratified House Speaker nancy pelosi announced the agreement Tuesday Morning calling it a victory for American Workers listen. This is a day weve all been working to and working for on the patch to yes we were in range for elia but until we could cross a certain threshold of enforcement for our workers rights floor and environment and point of view drug issues as you know they learned the areas that we had played out there. Well so heres the problem though everybody on capitol hill is patting themselves on the back for this historic incredible deeply meaningful trade deal that will impact workers in such a positive way but can we just tell the truth here because politics aside the u. S. Embassy a isnt a great trade deal its in fact only a little bit better than nafta so lets go back over here to the wall where we can break down exactly what is different about this particular deal compared to the original nafta. Because remember President Trump campaign that nafta was the worst