That led to a powerful rally today, continuing the momentum from friday after that white house meeting between president obama, and congressional leaders. Stocks rallied right from the opening bell the dow surged 207 points, the nasdaq jumped nearly 63, and the s p 500 rose 27. Tom those hopes about a fiscal cliff deal may be good enough for Stock Traders today, but is the economy in a position to deal with whatever solution politicians may hammer out . Its expected that the fiscal fix will involve tax hikes of some sort, and spending cuts as well. We spoke with economist dean baker from the center for economic and policy research, and economist Douglas Holtz eakin of the American Action forum. N. B. R. s Washington Bureau chief darren gersh began the discussion by asking baker what tighter federal policy will mean for the economy in the coming year. Insofar as we get austerity, we get tax increases, spending cuts, thats going to slow the economy. I anticipate a deal so we are dont see
Susie optimism was the word of the day here on wall street. Investors were feeling encouraged that fiscal cliff negotiations in washington are making progress. That led to a powerful rally today, continuing the momentum from friday after that white house meetingetweenredent obama, and congressional leaders. Stocks rallied right from the opening bell the dow surged 207 points, the nasdaq jumped nearly 63, and the s p 500 rose 27. Tom those hopes about a fiscal cliff deal may be good enough for Stock Traders today, but is the economy in a position to deal with whatever solution politicians may hammer out . Its expected that the fiscal fix will involve tax hikes of some sort, and spending cuts as well. We spoke with economist dean baker from the center for economic and policy research, and economist Douglas Holtz eakin of the American Action forum. N. B. R. s Washington Bureau chief darren gersh began the discussion by asking baker what tighter federal policy will mean for the economy in
[inaudible conversations] and welcome to booktvs live coverage of the 64th an usual book awards in new york city. These years awards are being hosted of morning joe. Coming up in a minute youll hear from maya. They sponsor the National Book awards. All evening booktv will be live tweeting and updating with the winners. If you would like to follow along booktv is our twitter handle and facebook. Com booktv is our facebook page. After these two awards are given out, there will be a break for dinner. You will see young peoples literature, poetry, nonfiction, and fiction awards give out. Now live coverage of the National Book awards. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats as we begin the medal ceremony. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen, [inaudible] good evening. How is everyone tonight . Beautiful im mika, cohost of
The focus now. Its what bart customers have been waiting for. The sounds of normalcy. The chance to step on to a train once again. Happy fourth of july. I was really happy. Are you worried it might happen again . No, i think its going to be good now. The battle is not over. The job is not done. Reporter with a truce, both sides admit they werent anywhere near negotiating their way out of picket lines and gridlock. How close is a contract . Close enough well be able to get there. We have withstood the assault and attack by bart on our members. Reporter the new clock is already ticking. You could strike again . We could. This is not a cooling off period. This is a a period to let bart know they have 30 days. Reporter passengers would rather saver the moment than stress about the future. This is huge. This is huge. Reporter worker, their pay docked the past week, seem relieved too. Its great to be back at work. Reporter everybody smiling . Yeah. Okay. Bye. Reporter as the system gets up t
Douglas egerton presents a history of america during reconstruction. He reports that during this time close to 1500 africanamericans assumed public office, including the first africanamerican u. S. Senators, hiram revels and joseph hayne rainey, and jasper j. Wright who sat on south carolinas supreme court. This is about 50 minutes. Thank you so much. Its really nice to be here. I went to graduate school in washington in the 1980s and its always nice to be back. Its my second appearance at politics and prose. Hello . So its good to be back. I was asked to talk for about 30 minutes and that the lease is time for question and discussion and maybe disagreements. Let me start with a story. Win the war ended a lot of black soldiers were serving with the u. S. Cd, United States code troops. They decide to stay put where they were in the south. Some had working backgrounds in the north, underpaid, but no compelling reason to go back home. The 180,000 blacks who served with the armed forces, 1