Im Michelle Caruso cabrera. The dow and nasdaq and s p 500 hitting alltime highs. The dow in particular has been unstoppable, on the longest winning streak since july. Up to the eighth straight trading session. Commodities are always volatile. Check out nat gas down 9 . Its been warm in the northeast. Huge part of the nation has been warm. Take a look at that. A decline of 29 for nat gas. Dont see that very often, tyler. Michelle, thank you very much. Because you can never have too many lunches, welcome to power lunch. Im tyler mathisen. We begin with this rally in the stock market. For that, lets go to bob pisani. Hi, bob. Hello, tyler. Happy tuesday, everybody. The important thing is this is a global rally. Its not just the s p 500. Not just new highs here. Germany hit a 52week high. Brazil hit a new high. Canada hit a new high. Some of this is on the commodity rally but theres a global rally going on, two powerful forces moving the stock markets around the world. The first one is th
Birth of federal housing policy, which saw its precursors in cities like new york and chicago. So you could make a strong argument that immigration itself is what gave birth to our federal housing policy today. Our panel will be a little less historical, except for the last decade. Our panel is going to look at recent trends, especially in like of the recent housing boom and bust, which coincided with a Significant Movement of immigration. We are offering connections between immigration and real estate. Jacobrst speaker will be vigdor, from the university of washington. That is the other washington, the one with good coffee and a little more rain, although i think we probably rival you in humidity. In addition to his many journal publications, vigdor is the author of from an address to americans the rise and fall of fitting in. Next guest will be gary painter, who serves as a professor at the university of southern california, as well as a director of Public Policy at sol. His numerous
Became human beings that god indeed was voting, that we are all equal. I suggest to you as dr. Forbes has said that our voice is indeed our vote and that we vote every time we speak out, we vote everywhere we go, on every issue. Now dr. Forbes also talked about 9 11, which everyone agrees was an act of terrorism. But i am a child of the 60s from birmingham, alabama. And there was another affect terrorism that hammed in september, four little girls were bombed in a church across 16th street. I remember the anxiety and angst that come around that day, every year, one of those little girls sister went to school with me. It is also an act of terrorism that this country should do great penance for. Because, that act of m terrorism, unlike the one on 9 11, is attach ed to the infl t inflected moral aptitude of this country. There is a lie being spread around and most of us are drinking the kool aid. The lie says that all people are not created equal the lie says somebody has to win and someb
Experts discuss several myths surrounding the starspangled banner and what led to the rise of the National Anthem in everyday society. Also, the law signed by president hoover in 1931 that made it the official National Anthem. The library of Congress Posted this program. It is about 50 minutes. Good afternoon. We are going to talk about the history of the starspangled banner, especially addressing certain myths that have grown up over the years about its composition, origins, and so forth. It is a thrill for susan and i to be here. It is great to see a full house. In for a treat, i have been doing rehearsals with robert the last couple of days. It has been incredible to see his process and the history the song tells us about ourselves and growing up as a country, to be brought to life by a great artist is incredible. We thought we would start off with some background on the starspangled banner, and talk about some of the misunderstandings. It is so much a part of our life. We sing it a
The desperate search for shoppers is on. Hoping to reel in buyers and confiden Consumer Confidence at a low. Does that mean that the economy is already scrooged . Hi, everyone, im he brenna buttner, this is bulls and bears, and weve got gary b smith, tobin smith. Jonas max ferris and susan and larry. Okay, larry, no deal on taxes and debt scrooging holiday sales and the economy . Thats right, brenda, you know, i dont want to be the grinch here, but in a word we are scrooged. The grinch very, very optimistic expectations and an outlook for retail sales that was very rosie and those optimistic expectations have faded as weve gotten closer and closer to the end of the year with no fiscal cliff deal in sight. And as a result, Consumer Sentiment is falling off a cliff, just like the fiscal cliff were going to fall off so weve got a problem on our hands and couldnt happen at a worse time and today, super saturday, the second busiest day of the year. Brenda well, a lot of retailers are saving