There is a bit of a slowdown. We have mario draghi facing questions on quantitative easing. Can you believe it . People were wondering when it might end. We have questions of structural reforms. What are they doing . You have it easy to spend and come by. Lets take a look at the market and the drag on the australian dollar. It is a big area of commodities and they supply china and show a little bit of a wobble economy. That will head foreign currencies. Chief and i on this. Lets have a look at the commodities. Oil is up in the United States because iran is the second member to come out this month. They say, maybe we should cut production in oil and the supply is hitting to us and driving down the oil price for a year now and urges a cut. We see as fight in oil. Ahead of the rate decision, we expect nothing for Interest Rates. We are seeing the euro trading down. Interesting for the bond market. A lot of talk of the lack of liquidity in the bond market. The fed is starting to increase I
Alison activities have resumed after a bomb threat this morning, officials closed the Lake Braddock secondary school out of an abundance of caution. They searched school for six hours and they say nothing turned up and they say the building is now safe to occupy. Leon turn to the weather now. Folks, beautiful looking day. But it wasnt as good as it looked. Still chilly outside. Alison i know you look outside and you want to go for a walk and you get out there and you change your mind pretty quickly. Leon thats right. Alison doug hill is in the Storm Watch Weather Center with what to expect tonight. Sound like actually a crazy week, doug. Doug well be all over the place. Today, beautiful. No doubt about it. Clear skies sunshine outside. Belfort furniture Weather Center. Temperatures running from 10 to 12 degrees below average. Lets get you started. Live look for the weather bug camera on the campus of Laurel High School annex in laurel maryland. 43. Thats it. Well below average. Look at
At booktv. Org. Now from 2012 mike book fair, book tv sat down to discuss the book heroes for my daughter. Host now joining us on our book tv set in miami is a affirm familiar face. Brad melt sir. Its not often we talk about lisa simpson and Dollie Parton and the three stooges. I bring only the highest of high brow wherever i go. Youre talking to me because of my love for my daughters, and seven years ago, on the night my daughter was born, i did a trick i did for my son. I rote heroes for my daughter. And when it started writing the book on the night i was born, my father bought a bottle of sham page, and he said he would hope it when his son got married. And then my man lost his job and we moved of maryland to florida. We had no job no place to live, nothing. And the stuff you put in your moving van, your clothes, thats your stuff. But the things you keep in your car the movers cant touch, thats your life. The things no one can touch. And when we moved down, my mom and dad in the fro
Morning, i am Vice President of studies at the Carnegie Endowment for international peace. I want to thank you for joining us for this important discussion of the future of her rack of iraq. And for joining the conversation with his excellency, ambassador lukman faily. Cover much of the events in iraq in the last monthm, including the capture ofos mosul;. Ago, they announced the of part of the iraqi state. These development have put Prime Minister maliki under intense pressure, international as well as domestic, to form a new government as soon as possible. Hopefully, that will include representation from the sunnis in order to give the government additional credibility in its fight against isis. Host, we are honored to ambassador lukman faily to discuss the challenges facing a new inclusive government as well against isis. Sincebassador has served since july, 2010. He also lived in the United Kingdom for 20 years working in Information Technology sector and serving in Senior Managemen
North carolina and is part of the book tv college series. It is about 40 minutes. Said the one professor, in 1863 what was generally this late population in the u. S. . Guest probably about 5 million in the American South at that point. Slavery had been abolished in the northern states. I think it is important to say that just because many people dont realize there had been slavery in the north. But by the 18 twenties it had been abolished and places like new york and massachusetts. And so slavery then continued in the south. Host of those 5 million, how many do you think were displaced from their family . Guest it is so difficult for me to speak in terms of numbers. It really is. I get bits and pieces of information. Nobody was really keeping track of these people. And so the work that i have done, i. Out that not everybody experienced separation. Not every enslaved person, but large numbers of them did. I cannot say most of them did or if a third of them did. I just a geographer as e