And by the way, youll get a pretty good b. S. Monitor as you watch this more and more, who really means what they say. The key is does the person who is running for office saying what theyre going to do, if they get elected, do they actually do it . Thats really what matters. Is it just fluff . Is it just bluster, or are they actually pushing the cause, fighting for the idea . And the last point i would say is get beyond emotion. Dont base your decisions on emotions or make your arguments based on emotion. Go deeper than that. Go to reason. Rita quinas here at georgetown, base your decisions based on reason, logic, principle, and find out if a person actually has that. If theyre taking their decisions and filtering through a set of principles that offer solutions so that theyre going in a consistent direction, so theyre not pandering or being simply a populist or simply running in circles. That, to me, is what i found is helpful when youre trying to judge whether or not a person has ea
D. C. Good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to a beautiful Nations Capital today. I think its no exaggeration to say that today the biggest, most consequential decision, the one that will affect the most americans in the most immediate way is being made right here today in washington in the building behind me, the headquarters of the Federal Reserve where the men and women of the open Market Committee have been meeting. Mandy . Will today bring the first rate hike in nine years . That is the big question. In less than one hour from now the feds decision will drop. Where do policymakers stand right now headed into the big decision . Senior economics reporter steve laesm liesman is also in washington live. What are you hearing . I think its worthwhile to go back and say how did we get here . How do we go into a meeting of such consequence without really being sure whats going to happen. 50 50 on both sides. You heard at the top of the show some of the brightest minds are disagreeing. I
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The indices ahead of the feds. Dia is down. You have the qqq, the qs down. 5 . The spy that tracks the s p 500 and that is lower. The iwm that tracks the russell 2,000 and that is down. There is the tenyear note, the yield at 2. 02. Gold up at 11. 53 an ounce. The euro is down i guess the euro is up against the dollar at 1. 06 and west texas crude is down another 2 . Look at that 42 quote on west texas crude. Lets get right to our senior economics reporter Steve Liesman on a roof somewhere in washington. On the feds roof. And i want to spend a minute because certainly someone just tuned in and said why are people spending all this time on the wort patient and why does it matter . And the reason why it matters so much is it gives the fed flexibility to hike Interest Rates. That word meant they would not hike Interest Rates for two meetings. It comes out as expected and gives them flexibility and begins a debate that has to do with valuing stocks and bonds over how quickly the hike rates
Authority he is currently exercising and impose a scope of combat limitation and a time limitation. Thats what you might expect from a very Progressive Center not commanderinchief. So Congress Already has the ongoing power to declined to fund or to otherwise limit combat against the Islamic State and they can do so in response to conditions as when they unfold over the next years. As congress does for every other military conflict. To commit to those limits in advance adds nothing to the president s power, may limit his successors power and theres congresses time on oversight rule. Its bad policy and its worst constitutional practice. Next is the treaty power. By providing for the sin its role in consent decrees, the cost to should also provides the congressional of a binding commit tran the me into with other countries. Now, as the professor outlined the president has Broad Authority here and congress can accept to support alternative ways that agreements can be reached including the