Rouhani. So the war in afghanistan continues. We remember, of course, how it began. Soon after the terrorist asack taxeses of september 11th attacks of september 11th, 18 years ago. President bush used a bullhorn to tell the world that the people who brought down the twin towers would be hearing from america soon, and sure enough, the campaign was launched. Since the First American troops hit the ground in october of that year, more than 2,000 have been killed is and thousands more wounded. In addition, more than a thousand allied soldiers supporting the u. S. Led effort have per riched as well. So has the longest war in American History produced the desired results . In other words, is the direct military action in afghanistan as part of the overall war on terrorism actually making america safer or not . Plus, what does it mean that one of the biggest hawks in the Trump Administration has gone . Well, here to talk about that is retired Army Lieutenant general douglas lute. He served a
Off. We are looking at markets this morning, firmer tone. 102 points higher, nasdaq up almost 50 points, all three majors rebound yesterday on trade and currency fears, beijing and washington still in stalemate with china digging in for drawnout fight, pretty good market yesterday, lindsey, your reaction . Yeah, im actually surprised the market is taking everything that we learned through the last couple of days in such good stride, again, today like you said at the top of the show you see the yuan being weakened. Not to the extent we saw sunday night which sent the market into kneejerk reaction. I think what we are seeing the two countries are in it for the long haul and i dont expect us to have any resolution before tend of the year and we go to a point of no return, we go too far and the Economic Impact around the global is really too, too far to come back from. Definitely stoke uncertainty, dagen. Dagen uncertainty that the Federal Reserve cant fix, uncertainty is the greatest enem
My hope springs from the fact that so many people understand this s threat and are willing to stande up and advocate against this threat to a womans right to choose. This is a moment because not only are they passing these bills which are so harmful, but they are going into other relatede fields like stem cell research. All things that relate at the moment of conception where life begins. Without going into it, for 25 years, my first 2 25 years in congress, it was so unbelievable that people are like, i dont believe that and ifle i believed that i would never vote republican. They dont believe in birth control. They dont believe in family planning. Nowthey have Reproductive Health initiatives for women all over the drive. So until they defund planned parenthood, which is not exactly what they did, but the effect was to defund planned parenthood, people got all arouse and lost that fight. Now we have to again make sure, they lose that fight. So women have p to speak up in theirr communi
A persistent Gender Pay Gap and sexism in the city as bad as ever, is there much for the Business World to celebrate . And, groomed for success how the pampered pooches at crufts are part of a booming pet economy tipped to hit half a trillion dollars by 2030. A very warm welcome to the programme. The greatest Comeback Story never told thats how President Biden has described his handling of the us economy, as he delivered his state of the Union Address in the last few hours. It is a Comeback Story for sure. Since the president took office in 2021, the us has put the pandemic firmly behind it, performing better than most other developed economies, with strong jobs growth and buoyant consumer spending. But that is not how Many Americans see it. Soaring inflation means the cost of living is simply much higher than when he took office. And the polls reflect that. President biden s average Approval Ratings are at a record low ofjust 38 . When asked in an nbc poll who would do a betterjob ha
Right now. We will have analysis with tim fiore. Im alix steel with my cohost guy johnson. Welcome to bloomberg markets. Guy the ism hitting a bottom. The jolts number comes in shy. Mike mckee joins us to break down the numbers. What do you see in front of you. Guy jay powell mike it is down from the forecast. That is a little bit better improvement in terms of jolts. The ism number comes in at 46. 4. Not as good as the 46. 9 people thought. Prices paid at 2. 46. Employment is also down. New orders for ism. Maybe you are right. Maybe we see a bottoming out for the numbers but in terms of the ism, certainly, not anything that screams good news. Back to the jolts. Hires decreased as well as the number of job openings. Hires fall by 326,000. The quit rate is at 2. 4 . That comes down from 2. 6 . A little bit more good news for the fed which will see this as the labor market loosening up. Alix great breakdown. The market where you are seeing a Little Movement is in the front end. Lets get