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All persons having business before the honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States are admonish to give their attention landmark cases, cspans special history series, produced in partnership with the National Constitution center, exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12th historic Supreme Court decisions mr. Chief justice, former mayor please the court quite often, in our most famous decisions, theyre one that the court took that were quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate, very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of different people who help stick together because they believe in the rule of law. Hello and welcome to landmark cases. This is the first of 12 historic Supreme Court cases that we will look at this season. Mcculloch v. Maryland is our case tonight, and we will learn more about this significant case in the people and issues behind it and why it is so important in our American History process. Later,
Unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of different people who help stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Hello, and welcome to landmark cases. This is the first of 12 Historic Supreme Court cases well be looking at this season. Mcculloch versus maryland, our case tonight. And for the next 90 minutes well learn more about this significant case, and the people and issues behind it, and why its so important in our American History process. Later on well take your calls, well also take your questions on facebook and twitter, and make you a part of this conversation. We have two guests at the table tonight to help us understand what mcculloch versus maryland is all about. Let me introduce them to you, farah peterson, and mark killenbeck. The first question, of course, why does this belong on the list of landmark cases . Well, one of the most dominant controversies in the interpretation of the
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Borenstein. Amanda lets check in with our Bloomberg Team for indepth coverage. Miller in berlin as german low, andp to a record andr current enda curran simin demokan. David we begin in london. Mario draghi and company have begun buying Corporate Bonds. Lets bring in guy johnson. What do we know if anything about which bonds they are buying . Guy they are looking for the most liquid bonds. This is a new phase for mario draghi and the ecb. It is looking to step up its program, boost its Balance Sheet, trying to get money in different areas of the economy. It is buying the most liquid names in the corporate sector there, anheuserbusch. They have been buying spanish telephone companies. Liquidig names with big pools of Corporate Credit that they are stepping into. The Bond Buying Program has been rippling into other assets so you see it affecting the equity market. Affect also. Year buy aroundoking to 5 billion each month, and we will find out where. That the market has been front running