Shock over what they found. Reporter it is beautiful out here just like all weekend but there is a dark close over what is going on with the statue. You could see the red paint at the base of the statue and then when you look up you could still see the red paint, the remnants of it on the Christopher Columbus statue. We got video of the native americans celebrating Indigenous People day by alcatraz and some came up to show disdain for the Christopher Columbus statue. Workers spent the day taking the paint off and at the base including all of the words, destroy all monuments of genocide. A dispute whether columbus was a spanish or italian explorer but many locals are upset with the show of protest. The colonization of the United States, i guess, initiated the pride of the indians here which is a shame so there is something to be said about that. I dont know if this is the way to express that. They probably dont want it there but it is part of the history of our nation and also a monumen
Cost be index with the south reaching its july highs against the u. S. Dollar. Lets have a look at where we are in chinese markets. We will talk about blockchain a little later. Hang seng index flirting with 27,000. Dollar china, sterling on the u. S. Treasuries. He had the doj coming in shortly after. The fed widely expected to cut rates. Trick or treat is how bank of America Merrill lynch is calling that. Among other things topping our minds as we get underway this friday. Su keenan is waiting for us in new york with an update of your first word news. Su President Trump is calling on the world to continue fighting Islamic State. This, after announcing its leader is dead following a u. S. Military raid in northwest syria. Becomes thebaghdadi highest ranking terrorist leader killed or captured since obama trump said the u. S. Is now targeting his likely successor. He is a sick and depraved man. And now he is gone. Was vicious and violent, and he died in a vicious and violent way, as a
Thank you all for coming here. We are acutely aware that we are the first session after you have come back from lunch. We will try to keep you awake and lively as well as we can. We have a terrific group for this discussion today. To my leimmediate left your rig isnd comaer Steven Fogerty of the United States army Cyber Command. Rick howard, old friend, key Security Officer at palo alto networks. Jeannette mantra, the assistant director for Cyber Security at the department of Homeland Security and of course is its still relatively new agency sissa. And Tanya Ugoretz the deputy direct for cyber at the fbi. This should be a great discussion. Tonya, let me start with you and ask you to just describe, if you can, the rfbis role in cyber space and the threat environment, how you think it has changed over the past year. Sure, thank you, david, and thank you to insa for hosting us today. As we at the fbi look at the threat environment from a macro level it is not necessarily the best news sto
Bill also works to lower the compliance burden on Financial Institutions, most of which are Community Banks, by establishing several tools to allow for more targeted sharing of b. S. A. , is bsaamlrelated information. Studies kes modest and waste ways to reduce the cost associated with researching and writing suspicious activity reports. The bill also creates a new privacy and Civil Liberties officer, as well as an innovation officer in each of the federal financial regulators. And importantly, the bill imposes new penalties on Financial Institutions and personnel that violate the law and creates a Whistleblower Program to encourage and protect those who identify such bad acts. R. 2513, as amended, has the strong support of Financial Institutions. It is also supported by n. G. O. s like the aflcio, global witness, oxfam america, friends of the earth, jubilee u. S. A. Network, and the Small Business majority, all of which are members of the transparency focus fact coalition. Its widely
O. E. C. D. Would address the problem of corporations exploiting official locations of licenses or patents to lower or totally evade taxes followers of big tech reporting noted the inclusion among the proposals of some from u. S. Delegates as well as targeting companies outside the u. S. Dominant tech sector those 2 developments were taken to signs that the proposal may be likely to receive an official green light from the new from the United States the u. S. And the European Union have been clashing recently over whether and how to rein in the big names from the u. S. Amazon facebook and google among others. Joining us now to give us a handle on the economic events of the day is professor Richard Wolfe Professor Emeritus of economics at the university of massachusetts amherst and the author of democracy at work a cure for capitalism welcome back professor wolfe and 1st on this tax avoidance tax avoidance push by the o. E. C. D. Does it go far enough in your view is it likely to have.