Russell 1,000. The russell 2,000 and the s p 400 midcaps have all hit alltime highs. Ten dow components have set multi year highs in october with seven reaching alltime highs. As for its year in the markets, volatility has fallen almost 18 this month. Of course, the lineup has led some to question if things have gone too far too fast. Pim pimcos bill gross on cnbc yesterday after the fed decision. The markets are bubbling and all asset prices are bubbling down. Steve liesman has pointed out Profit Margins are bubbling. To the extent that any of them can be suspended i guess is the ultimate test in terms of tapering or, you know, the purchases by the fed in terms of adding to the down shape. But, yes, slightly bubbly. All right, a little spooky. Well talk more about his opinions through wrought the morning. The futures at this point are indicated lower. Right now, you see some red arrows there. Dow futures down by about 30 points below fair. The s p futures off by about 2 points. On tod
Spoke with the librarys president and ceo anthony mark, about the hoyt of the institution as well as its Current Operations and future. Lets start with numbers. How big is the New York Public Library . How many employees, budget, et cetera . Guest a Public Library combines the largest circulating Branch Library system in america, 88 branches, in every neighborhood in the burroughs, as well as four Important Research libraries, this one being the crown jewel at the center of the system and also the shop berg center in hard harlem. We have 2100 employees, a budget of 280 million a year, operating, about half from the city of new york, largely to pay for the circulating Library System in the neighborhoods. The other half comes from return of a billion dollar en. Com that employs me, a trust, and that we raise somewhere between 80 and 100 municipal a year. Theres also 100 million a year. Theres also somewhere in the vicinity of 40 or 50 million a year of capital improvements, again mostly
Remove the magnet from illegal immigration in five or 10 down years down the road you are dealing with the same thing. With the aflcio and some unions and leftleaning groups opposed to expanding the Guestworker Program i worry that the blanket pathways to citizenship or legal status where the want to call it and leave the guestworker part out of it and we dont solve any problem and gave politics are just as bad for us in the next 10 years. Quite frankly dont trust congress so if congress cant make the contracts, the first thing that will come down is who will be highskilled or if the was enforcement only and they said oh yeah by the way we are definitely going to do a lowskilled thing of future and do highskilled i wouldnt support the enforcement only because i dont trust them. I think they will stop after stop after that about this over the last couple of years when they did these peaceful approach is a lot of them failed. The immigration act that moved the countries of origin toward
This is a serious problem and one largely under the radar screen. Recent studies by the gao common pleas of the Federal Reserve and by the private company ill estimate there is a sizable amount of leakage from Retirement Savings, most significantly to cash distributions to change jobs. Moreover, Fidelity Investments in the Boston Research group provided 55 of a preretirement distribution from their defined contribution savings plan later regret having done so. The reality is plans to sell avery fund retirement. They serve as a Savings Vehicle appeared because of this the recommended contribution rate to these accounts should reflect not only what is needed to successfully from retirement but what will unlikely to reach on before retirement is slow. This suggests policy should encourage rates about as neat as the leeches on retirement or policy should limit the extent to which individuals can take her retirement distributions from these accounts. A shortcoming of the system is most empl
Good morning. Im jose diaz balart. New details about the insider attack that killed a twostar general. Senior afghan official said Major General harrold green was shot in the back four times by an afghan soldier. He was the highest ranking active duty soldier to be killed in a combat zone since vietnam. Eight other americans were wounded. Theyll be flown to germany later this afternoon. Were joined by retired army colonel jack cay jjacobs and re army colonel and vietnam and cold war veteran. The obvious question, how could it have happened again . Because, jose, unfortunately, the most dangerous enemy we have anywhere is the insider. And no matter how much we prepare people, theres someone who is going to pop up out of nowhere like major hassan and many other examples of people. Prabtly, theres no defense against the insider. Colonel jacobs, since 2008142 coalition deaths have come from insider attacks. Does the latest attack raise any concerns about our withdrawal strategy from afghan