Eastern, here on cspan2. Thursday a talk on security challenges in the middle east. Former president of the American University in cairo Lisa Anderson delivered remarks at the center for strategic and international studies. That is live at 10 a. M. Eastern here on cspan2. In both iraq and afghanistan, i helped both countries with their constitutions being sort of facilitator of agreement on key issues among afghans. The influence is considerable and has the government anxious to meet with you. Sunday night on q a. Former u. S. Ambassador to afghanistan, iraq and the United Nations discusses this journey. We saw the extremist and how we corrected it toward the end of the period i was there by the surge and reaching out to the sunnis and building up iraqi forces and establishing a government to bring about security and violence was down. But unfortunately we left and the vacuum was filled by rival regional powers. A discussion on the book, the smartest places on earth, looks at innovatio
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Nasdaq climbed. 98 . You want an impressing stat . Dows lost more than 1,000 points this week, the s p more than 1 trillion worth of market cap has been wiped out. Sobering and i need you to think about that because thats what were dealing with right now. You think that this market would have been able to go higher with china being able to mount a pretty big bountiful job gains this month. But if you thoughts that, you would be wrong. First the Chinese Government propped up to the market last night with all sorts of buying, it wasnt real people. Terrific that it didnt go down. We all know the drill, the communist party is making it up as you go along. The massive rally in 2014, when the shanghai was at 2100. In may of last year when it climbed to 5200. Made no sense whatsoever, it was it, and while the Chinese Market has managed to come down from 4300 to 3200 the currently level. The sheer number of people who wanted out when the government instituted Circuit Breakers earlier this week
Sobering and i need you to think about that because thats what were dealing with right now. You think that this market would have been able to go higher with china being able to mount a pretty big bountiful job gains this month. But if you thoughts that, you would be wrong. First the Chinese Government propped up to the market last night with all sorts of buying, terrific that it didnt go down. We all know the drill, the communist party is making it up as you go along. The massive rally in 2014, when the shanghai was at 2100. In may of last year when it climbed to 5200. Made no sense whatsoever, it was just people throwing money at it, and while the Chinese Market has managed to come down from level. The sheer number of people who wanted out when the government instituted Circuit Breakers earlier this week while devaluing its currency, it got rid of the Circuit Breakers because it has no idea what its doing. I think the shanghai market would is have at least started the process of roun
Only on, we know it, nasty wig. Thank heavens it is over. Fortunately, i guess, it ended with a pathetic whimpering sell off and not a bang of a selloff, and as i told you all week, do not expect anything good from this market, not now, no way. Dow seeking today, 168 points, nasdaq climbed. 98 . You want an impressing stat . Dows lost more than 1,000 points this week, the s p more than 1 trillion worth of market cap has been wiped out. Sobering and i need you to think about that because thats what were dealing with right now. You think that this market would have been able to go higher with china being able to mount a pretty big bountiful job but if you thoughts that, you would be wrong. First the Chinese Government propped up to the market last night with all sorts of buying, it wasnt real people. Terrific that it didnt go down. We all know the drill, the communist party is making it up as you go along. The massive rally in 2014, when the shanghai was at 2100. In may of last year when