Take one. Y name is Arthur Laffer of thehe chief economist omb. I am an economist. I live in nashville, tennessee. And we are here in washington, d. C. At the w hotel. Arthur i was in the omb. I was the chief economist at the omb then. And id found my friends up there in the omb really boring. So, i always came down and hung out with the oao people. Bill bradley was in that group, and Christine Todd whitman, and jim leach they were interns, as i recall. Arthur yeah, interns. It was just a fun group of people. Don art laffer, dick cheney, and i would have dinner from time to time, or lunch from time to time, or just have meetings in the white house from time to time. Dick in 1974, we came to the Hotel Washington to the two continents restaurant. Thats where we sat down and talked about tax policy. And art drew the laffer curve. Arthur i invited jude wanniski, who was a writer for the wall street journal at the time. He passed on. But he kept all the records of this stuff. And in an arti
I found my friends in the omb really boring so, i always came down and hung out with the oao people. Bill bradley was in that group, and Christine Todd whitman, and jim leach they were interns, as i recall. Arthur yeah, interns. It was just a fun group of people. Don art laffer, dick cheney, and i would have dinner from time to time, or lunch from time to time, or just have meetings in the white house from time to time. Dick in 1974, we came to the Hotel Washington to the two continents restaurant. Thats where we sat down and talked about tax policy. And art drew the laffer curve. Arthur i invited jude wanniski, who was a writer for the wall street journal at the time. He passed on. But he kept all the records of this stuff. And in an article much later, it was called taxes, revenues, and the laffer curve. He recounted this dinner. So it was the four of us. And that is the dinner we are talking about today. Dick during that time, what we were trying to do obviously was manage the trans
Welcome to the pulse. Im francine lacqua. If filtered through here in the european stocks. It we opened lower. In the last 20 minutes we saw complete reversal tiered the dax is gaining. European stocks are rising. We are seeing some haven buying. Oil still dropping. Did the screen for you. This is china trying to stabilize the yuan. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news with nejra cehic. Take it away. Nejra chinese stocks have extended last weeks plunge. Thees data fueled concerns slowdown is deepening. Extending declines to a record 46 months. The cost of borrowing has jumped by the most on record. Followingy suspected intervention by the chinese banks. The biggest ever ipo. Jpmorgan and Deutsche Bank are in position to win a role if saudi arabia goes ahead with the offering of aramco. They are considering selling parts of the business. David bowie has died at the age of 69 after battling cancer for 18 months. He was one of the most influential Music Artists of his generation. He
Radio partners statewide as well as w. Jdl and batteries kpbs in shreveport cspan in the pbs newshour for sharing this Evenings Program with our viewers and listeners. I am very earned present the council for a better louisiana or cable and thank you for being with us tonight. Over the next hour we will delve into many issues of importance to our state and country with their three invited candidates. Participating tonight our commerce and bill cassidy retired colonel rob maness and senator mary landrieu. Thanks to all of you for being with us this evening. A panel of journalists include Shauna Sanford coanchor and producer of lbb louisiana the state we are in, allen english editor of the Times Newspaper here in shreveport stephanie grace a columnist for the advocate and jeremy offer editor and publisher of politics. Com. We drew names to determine the seating in order of questioning and the format this evening is designed to learn more about where the candidates stand on key issues fac
Obviously the Afghan People have produced if we keep saying we want to open the door for people. We cant walk through that door. Theyve risked their lives and i dont know how many Afghan Soldiers have lost their lives, huge numbers have lost their lives in this fight and i think that on our side of the relationship could be the most important thing to happen because there would be a great willingness to be a true partner in afghanistan which is so important. I think we have seen today an example of this sound steady leadership showing. Hes been a supporter of the usaid and when you step down from the responsibilities he will be sorely missed on a range of issues. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] on a related program note we will be covering the discussion with the pakistani ambassador to the u. S. Later on. Look on cspan. Org for coverage on broadcast in