The latest on ukraine. Michael mckee previews president obamas move to expand overtime pay. We begin with peter cook on capitol hill. And stanley fischers confirmation hearing. Good afternoon. Did he receive a warm welcome he did. Ho there is no doubt that he will be confirmed. By the full senate. Senators today particularly impressed with his resume. They have been since the president first nominated him. He is a legend in the economic circle. As centralears governor for the bank of israel and pressing senators appear on capitol hill. It is his resume that grew the most intense questions today. His time at citigroup. He spent three years with the bank on wall street and he was questioned about that by Elizabeth Warren. Of wallo big fan street. He defended his time at citigroup saying it made him a better central banker and regulator. Without that experience, i not have seen the inside of the bank. I thought that experience was extremely valuable. Toughestas about the moment for fische
To Monetary Policy. Rates will be staying where they are right now, which is close to zero, of course. Until at the very least the jobless rate falls to 6. 5 . We can only cross our fingers wherefore when that might be. Ben bernanke says these changes will make the central bank more transparent adding they can only help the markets. The central bank ramped up its Asset Purchase Program adding 40 billion to its 40 billion a month purchases of mortgagebacked bonds. He spoke about the objectives during wednesdays news conference. The asset purchases and the rate increases have different objectives. The asset purchases are about creating near term momentum in the economy, trying to strengthen growth and job creation in the near term. And the increases in the federal funds rate are about objectives. On that note, lets get dinos take on the latest move. Grpg month. For you, this was expected. The 85 billion was expected. The move to the thresholds, that is, i think, we expected it was happen
Few minutes explaining some of the implications of all of this. But here i am trying to get across the notion that the data factory benefits from unpaid contributions from lots of people and hear, to give the sense that the data factory is actually selling a whole bunch of services, that most importantly allow the purchases of those services to make money for themselves. But you can see now how powerful the position of these data factories has become. So, here is one example in this is the only example that i will give you of unpaid contributions but think youtube, think yelp and think of a whole bunch of other services and at the same precise thing. Linked in about a year ago started to beef up its content effort and invited different people around the world to contribute content. If these werent ordinary people. Among the contributors are bill gates and the president and other people like jamie dimon, head of jpmorgan. They are all contributing content to linkedin for free. The resul
Image, season two. This week, Lady Bird Johnson to roslyn carter. And highlights weeknights at 9 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Leaguenational consumers held a daylong conference earlier this month in washington dc that focus on Identity Theft and data security. The discussions from that conference. It deals with how Identity Theft has evolved through the years as well as what consumers can do on their own to protect their personal information. This is an hour and 20 minutes. Thank you. Im rob pegoraro, or so you have been led to believe. Lets why dont you all introduce yourselves briefly, explain how you get to this issue and well get to it . My name is andy bonillo, im from verizon, director of cybersecurity and public safety. At verizon, we handle hundreds of data breaches for our clients around the world and we have this unique position where we get to see what happens when security fails. So as we are traveling around the world investigating crimes that leads to ultimate data theft and w
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