Appreciate if we hold those until we get to that agenda but you are free to do as you wish. Im bob [inaudible] im leer as a member and also Spokes Person for the Informal Association known as friends of ethics. Last week a public polling of california completed a polling about Ethics Commission and potential ethics matters happening in the city. I want to give you brief summary of some the results. It was a simple bakers dozen of question squz people can say yes, punch 1, 2, no, 3, i dont know or 4, i dont care. The one i want to mention that i think stands out is there is a ballot measure drafted that will ban lobbyist from contributing to officials which you support or oppose. Out of 521 people, 60 percent said yes they support. Only 14 percent said no. I want you to understand you seem to be on the right track with the public at large. There are other questions if a ethics measure would put on the ballot who would you have most confidence in based on the agency putting it on, ethics
To raise rates it could increase in inflation. He doesnt conclude that would happen but we need to think about that. He repeats kind of the normal argue amount for raising rates and says f1 policy remains extreme and inflation is close to target. Not strictly endorsing but saying thats the normal argument for why rates should be normalized. Former Federal Reserve chairman ben bernanke out with a blog about negative Interest Rates and says the fed is not out of ammunition but there are signs Monetary Policy is reaching its limits. They include lowering rates but not much to do there. A quarter point. Forward guidance could be powerful. More quantityive easing and negative Interest Rates. What does he say sna that evidence from europe suggests they might be more powerful than had previously been thought and argues anxiety over negative rates could be overdone. Banks could still earn a profit by charging a higher rate than they pay. Bernanke also says negative rates have modest benefits a
Several residents in the metro thousand are still without power tonight. Kccis ryan smith is live near south west 26th and watrous with a look at some of the serious damage. Ryan neighbors say it is a truly grueling cleanup process, some of which has already begun. About two dozen massive oak trees came crashing down. The homeowners tell me in a matter of seconds. Now, you have six heavy branches just like this one here scattered throughout the entire yard. You have to truly watch your step. We want to point our direction over here to the edge of the street. That is where a power pole snapped in half. This is also due to the very high gusty winds that came across our area at about 3 45 right now, every home in the street is completely pitch black. As long as multiple crews with Midamerican Energy have been on and off seen, there have still been some midamerican pound midamerican power crews trying to assess the damage. A lot of work for the city of des moines, midamerican, and the home
Buy . Well ask the ceo of macys himself as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. The House Judiciary Committee planning to hold a hearing on what it says is, quote, president obamas power grab. This following the president s announcement last week of unilateral executive action on immigration. Congressman Bob Goodlatte is the chairman of that committee. Congressman, good to have you on the program. Good to be with you, maria, and your viewers. So what is the response to the president s action . Well, we have a number of avenues to pursue, and there are lots of consultations going on about that right now. But we can take spending actions. We can take legislative action. We can take legal action. And there are a lot of different ways to do each one. Weve now seen the president s specific proposal for a couple days now, and my staff and many other members of congress and others are hard at work examining the correct approach, but i can assure you one thing, and that is that this is a m
Is that if they have been doing this in the past i mean technically just because we now have a specific process for the Registry Program does that mean that they still had to register in the past with the tax and Treasurers Office. So there will be consideration for businesses do need to give consideration about whether individuals need to give consideration as to whether they are going to be honest about their past years because there will be back Business Registration and back taxes, you know, the transit occupancy tax that will be due. So we will have some discussion with folks around that in terms of, you know, making sure that they give consideration about that, you know, because basically if a claim is filed against them and if there is looking into them, finds out that they werent honest and that they did back Business Registration and transit occupancy tax, there will definitely be penalties assessed to them. But that process the Planning Department does have it up. Its also no