Cspan 2 and watch anytime on cspan. Org. And listen on the free cspan radio app. Next, a discussion on the future of u. S. Trade policy and current trade Protection Measures proposed by President Trump. Well hear from former clinton and obama trade officials as they talk about protectionist policies. The role of the u. S. In the World Trade Organization, and President Trumps proposed renegotiation of the north American Free trade agreement known as nafta. This is an hour and a half. Glad to see everyone here. I am john mayo, a professor of economics, business and Public Policy at Georgetown Universitys Mcdonough School of business. I am also the executive director of our Host Institution for today, the Georgetown Center for business and Public Policy. I will tell you that we are delighted today to have a discussion on something very important, near and dear to the Georgetown Center, and that is the subject of trade policy. And in particular, we are going to examine the issue of whether
, sitting on their hands ahead of the announcement from the fomc in just under three hours time. Here is what is happening across your markets. Declines in belgium, spain, portugal, and sweden. The dollar off record highs. You look at the bloomberg dollar. Up against the dollar today. Those are the Government Bond yields. Down today. Go is a wonderful function. A lot of corporate stories to tell you about, shares up i40 percent today. By 40 today. Preparing to split its medium marked away from the cash and res up by 4 ood sto today. The big story we were talking about today, sending shares of actually on by 4 today. The lower. Shares earlier sinking a bit lower but still 10 lower over the day. J j abandoning talks for the 21 billion swiss drugmaker because the two sides couldnt agree on terms. I want to focus on some data out of the u. K. Today. Employment data, fascinating data, employment falling for the first time in a year. The labor markets showing some signs of weakening as the n
University of wisconsin. Every 40 years, we are going to have him back. Gordon wood is recognized as the premier historian of the early american era in when i say that, i do not mean only active historians, i mean of all historians. For all time. He is recognized as at the top of his profession. It is an honor to have him here in madison. It is an honor to be associated with them. Professor wood went to tufts and harvard and studied under bernard bailey. It is pretty difficult to top that. Just marvelous. Professor wood is noted for his productivity and the quality of his work. I had lunch with him today and i asked him how many books he had published. He was not quite sure, i told him, i counted 26. He said, that is far too many. He has so many books, he doesnt know how many that he has. He has at least 26 books. Three of them stand out. The creation of the american republic, a seminal book that tied everything together in a discussion of the American Revolution. He believes that is h
Substance of his arab spring lecture to the Wisconsin Historical society as part of their lecture series. This talk is just over one hour. It is a pleasure for us to welcome professor wood to madison. It has been 40 years since professor wood has been here. Every 40 years, we are going to have him back. Gordon wood is recognized as the premier historian of the early american era in when i say that, i do not mean only active historians, i mean of all historians. He is recognized as at the top of his profession. It is an honor to have him here in madison. Professor wood went to tufts and harvard and studied under bernard bailey. It is pretty difficult to top that. Just marvelous. Professor wood is noted for his productivity and the quality of his work. I had lunch with him today and i asked him how many books he had published. I told him, i counted 26. He said, that is far too many. He has so many books, he doesnt know how many that he has. Three of them stand out. The creation of the am
Lose a key vote in the house of lords. Good morning. This is bloomberg surveillance. We have a packed show. Theres quite a lot of movement on the markets. This is a picture for your data. We are getting eurozone manufacturing pmi. This is for the month of february. They are rising to 55. 4. Anything above 50 means they are expanding, but it is a slight miss compared to what economists had been expecting. Im looking at euro. We are seeing a little pressure on euro. We have a market expert to give us all his thoughts on whether it is linked to some of the political turmoil we may see in france. Eurozone manufacturing pmi, 55. 4 for february. Onto your markets and without a doubt, everyone is looking at , hisdonald trump has said softer tone masking a little bit of difficulty for his agenda in congress. This is what investors are trying to look at. They are looking at donald trump, but they are really looking at the wirp function on the bloomberg terminal. Were looking at fed moves. The g