Thank you very much for coming. [applause] thanks, everyone and good day. Delighted you can comthe way ths afternoon. Im delighted to be here in San Francisco and specifically to taktalk to jessie and john fremt who had so much to do with california as we know it and is so much to do with the creation of San Francisco as we know it. I got into San Francisco about 210230 this morning on a delayed for flight from los angeles, a couple hours of sleep and then woke up again because i was to be picked up by a car to do a te radio thing on the radio. The thing is that begins at the very exact time. The thing about going for San Francisco traffic at is you are not going to make your exact time. I was supposed to be 8 a. M. Specific time i would be there and im still on the road of keeping up the freeway and i dont know, 7 miles an hour, 9 miles, whatever it wa was plan looking out the side of the car and San Francisco bay is out there and the Southern Suburbs of and i am missing my deadline w
It is my pleasure and my honor to introduce our keynote speaker who is the assistant secretary of the army. He assumed his position following confirmation by the u. S. Senate in mid january of this year. His responsibilities include supervising Manpower Personnel and reserve Component Affairs to the department of the army and is the principal advisor of the policy of human resources, training, readiness, military health sales, equal opportunity in marketing among others which makes it striking that he finds time in his schedule to come talk with us today and we are grateful for that. Dr. Wardynski is a graduate of the Us Military Academy and hold same masters of Public Policy and a phd in policy analysis. During his 30 year career he served as a special weapons officer within the United States and in korea. He spent 10 years as an associate member of economics where he was also the director of the us armies office of economic and Manpower Analysis advising Senior Leaders on officer ret
Mobilization, military health affairs, for structure, equal opportunity and marketing among others, which is more striking hes found time in his schedule to come here and talk to us today and were very grateful for that. A 1980 graduate, policy john f. Kept from Harvard University and phd from policy from rand graduate school. During his 30 year army career he served as a special weapons officer in germany within the United States and korea and he spent ten years as an associate professor of economics at west point where he also was the director of the u. S. Armys office of manpower and analysis advising Senior Army Leaders on Office Retention and marketing. My favorite piece of this introduction is that he created the Award Winning stateoftheart Americas Army game which served as a Key Recruiting tool for the service as well as the virtual army experience. Im expecting that you should all ask him questions about that aft after. Excuse me. Among his military awards and decorations, ser
Likely be appropriate in the near term. The fed is also worried about asset price inflation. And remember, the fed always slow and loathed to call anything a bubble says quote several participants expressed concern about a potential buildup of financial imbalances. They worry that sharp reversal of asset prices could have damaging effects on the economy. And on tax reform quote it was noted that the expansion in businessfixed investment could be given additional impetuous if legislation involving tax reductions was enacted. A few participants judge that the prospects for significant tax cuts had risen recently. Back to you, trish. Trish all right. Thank you so much, adam. Joining me right now, bulls eye brief author adam johnson. All right. So the fed is still on track for its third rate hike in december. No surprise there. The markets taking it in stride. Were not seeing a huge reaction. I have a question, though. Yeah. Trish if were in the Interest Rate rising environment. Yep. Trish
Reporter Leslie Brinkley is live along dry creek road tonight. Leslie. Reporter hi, dan. Firefighters have told me they feel like they have a grip on this fire, at least for now. The winds are very light, but they are shifting. Lowering the thick great curtain over napa valley. You cant even tell that you are in a valley. You cant see the mountains at all up here. And then theres sad story after sad story as i stand by this checkpoint and the evacuees stop by. The heartache is as heavy as the smoke in napa valley. This mother is now evacuated from her home on dry creek road. Her son lived across the valley on atlas peak, and he already lost everything. Beautiful home burned to the ground. And they got out with just the clothes on their back. And then, you know, we now have things, their pictures and things. If we lose our home, we have nothing. So i dont know. I dont know how much you can take, really. The ominous smoke, the smoldering slowmoving fire crept up on homes here. The dry br