Growth as solid and said that the labor market continues to strengthen but the fed pointed out that wage growth has remained moderate and that inflation has been below the feds 2 goal this year. In the report, the fed said that it remains firmly committed to its inflation objective. Here at home, the fed is still forecasting more moderate growth during the Second Quarter and that the slowdown in business fixed indepth could be persistent internationally, the fed said that growth has stabilized during the first half of the year, albeit at a restrained pace it also said that International Financial conditions were supported by accommodative communications by major Central Banks. Now, as you said, this all comes from the feds semiannual report to congress fed chair jay powell will be testifying on the hill next week there was a special section in this report on trade the fed found that tariffs lowered u. S. Imports by about 70 billion. It also said that higher tariffs are having a materia
I started, to past president s of this. They were among the generous people who welcomed me for my up secure and new right wing bill. It is nice to be here, and an honor to be on stage. Ive the others who were just honored. Slideshowe end of the. Give me one second here. All right. Webtopic of this is social good for jonah was him his social web good for journalism . I do not know how it got into my bio. By the social web, what i mean basically this isnt the future, but the present. One people open their computers or their phones, the application may open, they do not go to your website. They go to twitter or facebook. The challenge is how do you get into that stream . Reporting,make the the kind of entertainment that people want to share and will on whatever the next platforms are. I guess i wanted to start with i notice theth how social web had replaced the old. Ashioned blog a sphere happened in 2008 when i was writing for politico. There were probably a dozen political blogs in tha
The American Enterprise institute beginning at 1 30 p. M. Eastern here on cspan2. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies this 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. Host and best selling author tom standage has a new book out, and its called writing on the wall. Tom standage, what do cicero and twitter have in common . Guest well, the idea of the book is that social media is a very old idea. We think that its recent and only people alive today have ever done it. But really what im arguing is theres a very long and rich tradition of social media that goes back to the era of cicero, so thats the First Century b. C. , and the point is that you dont need a Digital Network to do social media. If you have one, it goes faster, but you could actually do it in the old days. Cicero did it with papyrus rolls and ore members other members of the roman elites were linked to him and all spoke to each other, and its very much a social environment. But there are many
It has more memory. Not enough memory that you just billed one two months ago, but more. Ipad is the most fastest, vivid way to not log onto the obama care website yet. Okay. Good morning, its wednesday, october 23rd. Welcome to morning joe. I suggest he stays right there on the shot of new york city. What a beautiful city. That is a great shocht robert, do you have your jacket on . I dont want to know. Im going to look away. Bill was wearing bermuda shorts not even 30 seconds. Its like snl. Just go back stage. A little different. Next set. Im just glad its okay. With us on set, we have watchingor catty kay looking fabulous. Fully dressed. Former white house dressed for a while. Former White House Press secretary and msnbc contributor robert gibbs t. Conversation goes off the rails already. Are you ready for the news . Please, god, dont touk u talk about the red sox. Let me do this just once. You mean the newspaper. You should see somebody do the montage of you interrupting me. Its hil
[inaudible conversations] tom standage appeared on cspans communicators to discuss his latest book writing on the wall social media going back to the times of cicero. This is about 30 minutes. Bestselling author tom standage has a new book out called writing on the wall. Tom standage, what do cicero and twitter have in common . Guest well, the idea of the book is that social media is a very old idea. We think that its recent and that only people alive today have ever done it. But really what im arguing theres a very long and rich tradition of social media that goes back in fact to the era of cicero, the late roman republican of the First Century bc. The point is you dont need a Digital Network to do social media. If you have one it goes faster but cicero did it with papyrus rolls, and members of the legion were linked to him and they spoke to each other. And there were many other examples that occur throughout history. Martin luther, using pamphlets. Poetry. Tom paine and his pamphlet,