Days like today. When the sun came up, it looked like the stock market would make back some of its losses. First, we didnt know the cause of the shootings in california. We would just once again wake up to the sadness of a mindless, tragic incident and lament the trauma. There were no other incidents, a la paris, where there were multiple ones. It was hoped this was not part of a coordinated terror attack. That emboldened buyers. To them it looked like a rebound was in the cards. You could argue we live in a terrible hurt when people take heart that San Bernadino wasnt part of a larger mass attack. The market opened higher before we knew about a terrorist connection. European central banker who was famous for saying he would get europes economy by any means necessary, announced his next set of initiatives. Hes synonymous with global growth, so big money likes ahead of time to be invested, perhaps as much as possible, even borrowing money to take advantage of what his next really positi
Back some of its losses. First, we didnt know the cause of the shootings in california. We would just once again wake up to the sadness of a mindless, tragic incident and lament the trauma. There were no other incidents, a la paris, where there were multiple ones. It was hoped this was not part of a coordinated terror attack. That emboldened buyers. To them it looked like a rebound was in the cards. You could argue we live in a terrible hurt when people take heart that San Bernadino wasnt part of a larger mass attack. The market opened higher before we knew about a terrorist connection. We felt better because a European Central banker who was famous for saying he would get necessary, announced his next set of initiatives. Hes synonymous with global growth, so big money likes ahead of time to be invested, perhaps as much as possible, even borrowing money to take advantage of what his next really positive move might be. Hes creative fellow, theyre always surprised to the upside. But this
Cocktails, fires or shootings. A night of calm in ferguson, missouri after attorney general eric holder programses a fair investigation. A grand jury is now considering charges against the Police Officer accused of shooting an unarmed teen. Israeli hitting hamas at the top, blasting this building, killing three top military leaders, saying they posed an imminent threat. Hamas calls it a crime. We begin with breaking news about two americans being treated for ebola. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im del walters. Im stephanie sy. Dr. Kent brantley is going to be released from the hospital. The health of his colleague is said to be improving enough to remove her from isolation. Everybody is cheering the good news. We have more on these developments. We know the experimental drug administered to these two did its job. It appears that dr. Kent brantley could be released as early as today. Brantley is expected to take part in a press conference later this morning, discussing his condition an
There are 24 million birds, turkeys, chickens that have now been lost. Gerri all that and more coming up on the willis report where consumers are our business. Gerri brace yourself for the tax man. Nearly a dozen states are proposing a whole new slew of tax hikes. The roster includes raising sales taxes, income taxes capital gains, even property taxes. Some of these states led by republicans here with how much you could be on the hook for, pete seth head of National Taxpayer foundation. You are the perfect person for this interview. Thank you for coming on. I was stunned nearly 12 states now are trying to get more taxpayer dollars. What do you make of this . Is this a new trend. Even more than a dozen states when you factor the ones already done it and ones still hiding their tax increase proposals. Take a look at gas taxes for example. They have gone up in iowa, north carolina, idaho, south dakota. Theyre very well about to go up in South Carolina and other states. What do these state
It would create more opportunity, more equality, more more more entrepreneurs. But actually the reverse is true. Its creating these enormously powerful monopolyists which are very, very bad for innovation. We dont live i mean, amazon was we never saw amazon coming. We saw all these Little Stores and all the people who could do e commerce and sell never anticipating that literally there would be an amazonian monopoly. Yeah, i think were back if you want to think about the boom bust in history. Were back in the mid 90s where microsoft at that point was so dominant that it was stymieing innovation. If you think if microsoft hadnt been challenged in the courts we never would have had web book 2. 0, we never would have had google or facebook. At a similar point where we have the companies are actually also now antiinnovation, and ironically, regulation will make more innovation rather than the reverse. Andrew, why do you think the Silicon Valley doesnt have enough contrarians . Its a pretty