As a result, you have the two sides stuck. There is broad agreement to that something more has to be done to address the challenges created by covid19 and the covid19 related shutdown. The other issue discussed is we are headed for a Government Shutdown if we do not get government funding within the next two weeks by september 30, we are headed for a Government Shutdown in the middle of the election, in the middle of a pandemic. Not only is there the question of how we stimulate the economy, there is the question of how we keep the government open. David taking the immediate thing, we have heard from Speaker Pelosi as well as secretary mnuchin they think they have some sort of a deal whether it is written down or not. They think they will have something clean, is that a big problem . Lanhee they do apparently have an agreement. He challenges what clean means republicans view a clean extension of existing government funding is just that, a clean extension without any provision stuck on
He had Health Issues in the past that he has managed well during his tenure as Prime Minister. He resigned abruptly the last time he was Prime Minister in 2007 because of his health condition. David he is the longestserving Prime Minister, but he was quite influential. One of the things bloomberg is concerned about is abenomics. He came in with three arrows. Was that a success . Sheila i think it is a mixed bag. I will leave it to the economist to delve into the details. There two details are two pieces of what he did manage to accomplish. One is structural reforms. He and his government were impressive in agricultural reform, one of the structural impediments to participate in the ttp, the regional trade pact. He tried to increase womens participation in the economy. Some people would have liked to see more women, but he managed to make some strides there. Progress in slight the labor market reforms he tackled, but he did not accomplish what the japanese wanted, which is to see their
For shinzo abe. The pound is big today. We are up by 1 . Governor of the bank of england indicating we are going to see the possibility of negative rates. We are, as you can see, seeing a big bid for the yen as well. Dollar is down. Stoxx 600 is low. S p absolutely flat. Kailey i want to bring you news. Mgm resorts, the casino operator, is cutting 18,000 jobs. That cut impacts over one quarter of its u. S. Workforce. It has been a hard time for casinos during this pandemic. Mgm operates not just in the u. S. , the las vegas strip, but also in macau. All macau travel was shut down, they have yet to catch up. Las vegas market makes up half its revenue. Mgm cutting 18,000 jobs. At the moment, the stock is higher by about 4 . Guy back to that story relating to the bank of england. Governor Andy Beshear Lee says there is plenty of room for more monetary stimulus. He spoke at the feds virtual jackson hole event earlier. He talked about what is in the box. We are not out of firepower by any m
Good evening everyone. Im so excited to see such a full house. Before i start i want to give a few housekeeping items. We are more than happy to have you taking photos but please turn the flash off. If you will put your cell phones on silent. If you want to post on social media we would love for you to tag at at politics pros and oevent. I first want to thank all all of you for coming out on friday night for tonights event. We are pleased to bring you jen maddest in conversation with david brooks tonight. Before we get to the next program i want to tell you a few other Exciting Events we have coming up with partnership with gw. Next week september 11 we have an event with Malcolm Gladwell at lismore for his new book talking with strangers. Which will be part of a live recording sam sanders podcasting mpr. September 12 here at betz we have Samantha Power as well as Josh Campbell with james comey on september 16. September 24 patty smith will be at lisbon for a memoir. The year of the yo
We know they are buried in secret. We know that in the summer of 2014 one of the most popular organizations in russia was the mother of russian soldiers. Because some of those mothers we are talking about russian soldiers dying and dead boss they were made an illegal organization, they were allowed. We know that family members to talk about their sons or brothers or whatever it is dying as onduty soldiers in ukraine they are threatened, we know the reporters who written about this have faced unpleasant circumstances. So its real. Its real. We also know that first of all the fighting in done boss has not gone away scores of fire incidents every day. There are ukrainian casualties most weeks and certainly every month several or more ukrainian deaths including very recently. We dont have very good information on deaths on our side for obvious reasons. But it is true that there been no major of essence. We know that that offensive a whirl as the offense in the airport of fall of 2014 were