Political reporter at the washington post, and welcome, dr. Anthony fauci. Dr. Fauci is the director of the National Institute of allergy Infectious Diseases at the n. I. H. And hes a member of the force on the sk pandemic. And as you might have seen, he first pitch at the opener on thursday night when the Washington Nationals played hometown new york yankees. Dr. Fauci, we appreciate your time. Bob. Auci thank you, its good to be with you. Bob so was that a flat curve . [laughter] dr. Fauci it went in the wrong direction. And said i nd after used to be a shortstop when i played ball as a young boy and i was supposed to throw to first base. [laughter] bob well, were not going to hold it against you, doctor. Were my first pitch, both glad baseball is back. But is it too soon . Know, i dont think so, bob, if its done carefully. The protocols that Major League Baseball has both theher to protect players and other personnel the iated with organization, getting them ested frequently, doing
Socialism sucks, is more irreverent than most Public Policy books we usually organize events around here at cato but i can assure you the authors we are featuring today are serious accomplished economists with decades of scholarly work. Inevitably, they have drinksn their hand, probably because we chat at receptions, hotel bars and the like. But the conversation is always interesting, informative, and fun. Thats also true of this new book. This is a light book about a heavy topic. So its fortunate, fortuitous rather, that we are featuring today on the birthday of the late milton friedman, one of the greatest economist of the 20th century and the champion of economic and overall human freedom. We were lucky to have known him, or some of us to have worked with him to a limited degree. Im sure he, too, would agree with the title of the book, though i i cant really recallm ever putting his opposition to socialism in quite those terms. Today, socialism has gained an appeal among some americ
Good monday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt at the Stock Exchange it is a historic day of trading. We will begin with the selloff which did include a break with Circuit Breakers richard on the stress test for stocks, mike santoli on the crude awakening in oil prices as the saudis launch a price war. Rick santelli on a bad yield trip for treasuries and Steve Liesman on the fear and the feds response bob pisani, lets begin with you and think about whats important this morning. Whats important is how did the system respond to the immense stress that we had today. This is the first real test of the margin Circuit Breaker system set up back more than 30 years ago and we did have a halt on the s p at 9 33 for 15 minutes. The by all appearances it looked like it went well it reopened understandably some bargain hunters there, a mild lift in the markets so the mechanics seem fine. What was distressing to see what happened to Oil Stocks Pu
Lets just get you right up to speed with what we know 2 leading militia commanders one iranian one iraqi have been killed in a u. S. Airstrike about 1. 51. 6 kilometers outside the bag that International Airport they were near an area where there was an antiterrorism unit an antiterrorism building was within a secure compound there the key casualty there is custom in the money killed by u. S. Forces people have been demonstrating their support of what has happened the joy at what has happened inside Baghdads Tahrir square lets just play you that video and give you a sense of the atmosphere right now in the iraqi capital back that. Was the the. The and. It. Was. And you have been watching pictures there of people in baghdad stuff or is square celebrating the killing of Senior Iranian commanded. By u. S. Forces on stan grant here in doha of course taking over this breaking coverage live coverage of this strike by American Forces inside iraq now weve had information confirmation from the
Gilroy garlic festival. You might remember three people died in july in shooting. 17 others were shot. There were metal detectors here at the entrance at Christmas Hill park and a fence around the perimeter but the gunman, were not naming, bypass the security measure and got in with an ak47 that he purchased legally in nevada weeks before the shooting. We did reachoit to the Gilroy Garlic Festival Association and this is what the Statement Reads on the website. The gilroy garlic festival has brought our Community Together and united in honoring those lives who were lost and forever changed by the tragedy on july 28th, 2019. Were deeply grateful for the ongoing support of our volunteers and vendors and visitors as we look forward to gilroy garlic festival 22 in july of 2020. The chamber of commerce declined comment and those that gathered donations for the victims and mayor none responded to our request for comment. At this point this is the only lawsuit that is filed related to the gil