Calls the growing partisan nature of the u. S. Senate. Cspans washington journal live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Coming up wednesday morning, Oklahoma Republican congressman steve russel will join us to discuss the latest on the deal to avoid a Government Shutdown and the governments waste watch report. Were live from jackson, mississippi, for the next stop on the cspan bus 50 capitals tour. Joining us will be Mississippi Attorney general jim hood to talk about key policy issues his state. Then new York Democratic congresswoman Carolyn Maloney on efforts to avoid a Government Shutdown this week and volatility in u. S. Financial markets. Be sure to watch cspans washington journal live at 7 00 eastern wednesday morning. Join the discussion. Following last months false alarm missile alert in hawaii, a house panel looked at the reliability and accuracy of Emergency Alerts. Well hear from representatives from fema and the new york and rhode island Emergency Manag
Attorney general jim hood to talk about key policy issues his state. Then new York Democratic congresswoman Carolyn Maloney on efforts to avoid a Government Shutdown this week and volatility in u. S. Financial markets. Be sure to watch cspans washington journal live at 7 00 eastern wednesday morning. Join the discussion. Following last months false alarm missile alert in hawaii, a house panel looked at the reliability and accuracy of Emergency Alerts. Well hear from representatives from fema and the new york and rhode island Emergency Management agencies as well as Wireless Technology industry officials. Congressman Daniel Donovan of new york chairs this Homeland Security subcommittee hearing. The subcommittee on emergency preparedness, response and communications will come to order. The subcommittee is meeting today to review our ability to timely and effectively alert and warn the public in the case of an emergency. I want to welcome our witnesses here this morning on an issue that i
Results of the survey so stay tuned. So let me set the stage for a few minutes on a project on cyber enabled Economic Warfare really got started. It really had its genesis back in the 1990s in discussions with incredible smart people at the Smith Richardson foundation that is sponsored this work, but the intersection of economic and security. In 1997 the Asian Financial crisis it, remember . Began in thailand and the contagion quickly spread to indonesia, south korea, malaysia, the countrys throughout the region. Foreign debt to gdp ratios rose over 180 during the worst of the crisis. Writes occur, governments fell. The causes of the crisis were varied but most experts think it was the combination of crony capitalism, and economic bubble flooding the market with cheap money, and a simultaneous slump in semiconductor values with the rise in u. S. Dollar. What would it mean to relations, taiwan and china . What would it do to radical groups . It was the malaysian Prime Minister at the ti
The dow was down about 135 points at the lows of the session. Before ending the day higher by 55 investors initially piled into risk off trade gold at its highest level in a year, but that turned negative the dollar getting crushed earlier, hitting two and a half year lows before gaining back all the lost ground then some. The vix which was up as much as 17 today ended up not even 4 higher, so, is this the market that you cant sell . And theyre in a risk to the market what is . Obviously, you cant at a certain point, but we had this conversation, the news about missile broke about 20 minutes into the show night. We had an interesting conversation, but one of the take aways was it wasnt the actually Missile Launch in our opinion that was going to be the side effect for the market it was whatever the response was going to be. Quite frankly, we havent seen a response, so i think we try to keep cool heads last night turned out to be the right advice the vix, that tells you all you need to
Floods challenging our future starting november ninth on. This week global three thousand is looking at the topic this affects us old Climate Change. Eight tenths of a degree celsius thats how much its average sufis temperature has risen since eight hundred eighty. Weve been too much fossil fuel drive too much and fly too much. As temperatures rise glaciers retreat Columbia Glacier in alaska is melting especially fast losing as much as thirty meters a day. Its not only glaciers that have been melting over the past thirty years half of the ice in the arctic has disappeared. With devastating consequences less and less solar radiation is being reflected back into space. As a result that two speeds up Global Warming in the oceans as well. With a rise in water temperatures comes a rise in sea levels the results are especially dangerous for low lying coastal regions where much of the worlds population lives. Fast growing megacities are at risk. For example the pudong district in the chinese