Where you dont have to have a background check for purchasing a weapon at a gun show. In massachusetts, all of new england, youve got to have background checks. In connecticut, youve got to be practically licensed to buy ammunition. Psychiatric evaluations is a simple solution to make your medical records public information. Then you can go and the people who do the background checks i had to go through this with the Police Department here. They look at your records and they see whether you have had any instances where you would be suspect to owning a gun. Governmentw why the has not done this a long time ago. I think the nra has promoted this, that they wanted to have peoples records made public so they can easily check and evaluate the old instant background check. Thats about it. Very simple solution. Bernie sanders was saddened by the on air shooting. As a selfdescribed socialist, Bernie Sanders has not been a gun control advocate necessarily given his state of vermont. There is a
Probably a net good thing. Host at the same time its not going to change back to what it was before. Weare where we are so the question is really , there are companies now that in recent comes months, Big Companies and at t was one of them that says were not going to give quarterly updates. We will tell you where we are going, you want to join us, join us but were not going to give you every quarter guidance and predictions. Thats no way to make good, healthy longterm decisionmaking. Host next call comes from symphony cynthia, oak ridge new jersey, you are on tv, please go ahead. Caller mister friedman, i had heard you speak and you talk about Lifelong Learning and i agree with that completely. But i am 63 years old and i have a lot of trouble dealing with the computers and i live on a fixed income of less than 1100 a month and i have tried to teach myself and i just dont have anyone to help me. So how do you direct people like me with fixed incomes and not, who grew up with the techno
[inaudible conversations] morning everybody. Let me start, if i can with a very personal note, and that is i have known her for a little more than a quartercentury which means we got together in what was another millennium and it sure feels like another millennium. She was an extraordinary friend and colleague and i, along with my colleagues here at brookings and form policy are so glad that once again she will be colleagu colleague. I think the timing of this part of the program fits very well with the panel that we have just heard from. Perhaps victoria, you were there for close to half of it and you heard a number of observations about whats going on in europe and in the eu. My sense is that there was a feeling that may be the troubles of the eu are bottoming out and the eu is getting its act together again with of course the leadership of two countries in particular and that is germany and france. How did you react to the conversation we just heard. I am so delighted to be at brook
Im nejra cehic. Still seeing a little reaction from the fomc meeting. Ive got the stoxx 600. We were seeing stronger gains. It softened a little bit. We are still up 0. 2 . Stronger dollar against most major peers. Bloomberg dollar index up 0. 1 . It did gain more than that in yesterdays session. The 10year yield rising two basis points. We are at 2. 27 . Pretty steady right now. Also keeping an eye on crude oil. We are a little lower in todays session. 50. 52 dollars a barrel. Weve also got breaking news for you. Leaving its key rate unchanged at 0. 5 . Lets get the bloomberg first word news. Sebastian the bank of japan kept its monetary stimulus unchanged, but a dovish board member opposes the decision. He argued there was little chance of reaching the banks inflation target and the effects of the current yield curve program werent strong enough. That was an unexpected dissension on a board chosen by Prime Minister shinzo abe. The u. S. Secretary of state has told european allies the
Spreads business on the table amid rumors three private equity players are taking a bite. Good morning thank goodness its friday its been a bruising week for the spanish equity markets before that, i want to show you how the european markets are faring off a tad, 0. 1 . We are pretty cautious going into the jobs report in the u. S. That will be very, very skewed number given the hurricane effect in the month of september. European markets one by one. We see a split picture cac 40 off by 7 or 8 points. The ftse mib off by 0. 7. The xetra dax holding on close to those record highs we saw earlier this week. Obviously i want to draw your attention to whats happening with the spanish market. The ibex is off by half of a percent again after it rebounded nicely yesterday it was up by more than 2 . And obviously were focusing on the banking sector, we did see that recovery trade yesterday, but it was very fleeting yesterday we did see that relief on the backs of these Companies Moving or mulli