Half. Good morning, we are going to call this committee to order. Thank you all for being here to discuss your fy 2024 budget priorities, i think this is your last appearance before this committee, we extend a particularly warm welcome to you and wish you the best in your upcoming retirement, and we dont really care whether you retire in maine or montana. [laughter] but either place will work. You can move back and forth, rather than kansas. [laughter] at any rate, i want to say thank you for what you guys do. The National Guard has all has always done more with less. The Weapon Systems in vehicles and aging i. T. Infrastructure and facilities. The men and women that you lead have one foot in civilian life and the other foot in the military. They juggle their homes, families, duties. While serving their countries here and abroad. The workload is not decreasing and the Ongoing Mission on the southwest border and your support to military command demonstrate exactly that. Over the last fi
Government can make a positive difference in the lives of San Francisco residents so really excited to take a moment to acknowledge and thank all of the folks who make the city run so well. I also like to [applause] i also like to acknowledge and thank our elected officials who are joining us this evening. San Francisco City attorney david chui. [applause] assessor recorder joaquin florez. Treasurer Tax Collector jose is former City Attorney dennis indiscernible and current general manager for sfpuc. [applause] and of course San Francisco very own mayor london breed, please join me in welcoming mayor london breed to the stage. [applause] alright good evening everyone it is so great to be here and after work hours never the less. Drinking in city hall, hanging out with our friends and family, and just taking a moment to pause and reflect on all the extraordinary work that so many of you have done and will continue to do for the city and county of San Francisco. In fact, i know we have s
Democracy. U. S. Army Charles Flynn talked about challenges during the Conversation Center for Strategic International studies. This is about an hour and ten minutes. Stop. We are really glad you e here. For those of us joining online and certainly in person, welcome to the second installment of the Strategic Landpower dialogue. On general bob brown let me start again by thinking csis for this partnership and we could not do it without the support of General Dynamics in making this series happen. Thanks for the great support to make this possible. Opening up the first Strategic Land power dialogue event a few weeks ago pointing out the long overdue need to have a form like this to discuss Strategic Land power. We could not have picked a better. Now chief of staff randy george really getting after the demands and changing character in the direction of the army is still going. There is no better way to follow up getting general Charlie Flynn for the army pacific really incredible war fig
Closing high for the s p and for the nasdaq and also extending that, 5300 on the nose there for s p 500, so we will track all of it over this next hour of trade. Rates are lower across the board and that means tech, utilities are leading the way, too. Lets take a look, there is text, utilities, and smallcap getting a nice bump, as well. Apple has been on the tear lately, now back above 900 per share. Or, 190, i meant. 190. Im getting a little bit ahead of myself. Lets get to the ai announcement first. Maybe an iphone refresh. You get where im going. Technology will be here later to give us that story. That gives us to our talk of the take, whether it is okay to be bullish on stocks. Lets talk to josh and cameron, josh is an nbc contributor. I got ahead of myself on apples price, but we are not getting ahead of ourselves on these new records for all of the major averages, so i just ask you, is it time to get more bullish . Well, i guess i dont get more or less bullish based on price act
Surveillance. Annmarie hordern and Lisa Abramowicz. Jonathan ferro will be back. However, today we are happy to have brian levitt with us for the hour. Who has been absolutely right at a time when everyone has been looking for signs of greater disinflation starting with data about 2. 5 hours from now. Good morning. We are looking at market that are doing pretty much nothing. They did pretty much nothing yesterday as well. Brian, are you still a fomo kind of guy . Brian i am. Everybodys talking about the fed, they are so concerned when the fed is going to move and by how much. The reality is, markets historically have done very well with the fed on hold and the economy reasonably strong. We are still in a good nominal growth backdrop. I know everyone is going to be staring at that tens place in every inflation point that comes up. I think we are in a place where inflation is going to moderate and these markets are likely to press higher. Lisa at a time when we are at the twilight of the