Black sea and is well known for its charges of its light brigades. [ laughter ] who against all odds dont actually win. You pretty much let me tell you something. You want to bet the odds on the light brigade because they go down pretty hard. Nobody . Tennyson, nobody . All right. Americans know nothing about the crimea beyond what was assigned to them in that one english class in eighth grade. I think crimea is lost. I dont think theyll put owl the there. Crimea is effectively gone. Is it lost . Im afraid so. You think crimea is gone . I do. Jon where is crimea . Its all gone its gone. Crimea. Oh, crimea. We hardly knew ye. [ laughter ] seriously, we knew nothing about ye. [ laughter ] because ye are not really a part of our strategic or fossil fuel type interests. [ laughter ] so you may be wondering if we dont know anything about ye larry [laughter] why are such serious people in america so seriously sad about this Crimea Development . Is it because of how deeply this country believ
Races. Or bronco games, whatever you like to do. Americans are not ideological which is, sadly, why ideological appeals dont always resonate with americans. If you in this room represented, if you are a firm representation of the american body politic, wed have no problems. Youre not, im very sorry to say, and neither am i. Ideology is about ideas, politics is about winning elections. And you only win elections in the aggregate as divorced from any individual election where anything can happen. But when you take a look at this great nation of ours with 435 congressional districts and 100 senate seats, in order to be a Majority Party you have to put together a majority coalition. This is a twoparty system. Its going to stay a twoparty system for a long time to come. No minor party is going to emerge and suddenly displace one of the two major parties, the democrats or republicans. Not in my judgment anytime soon. You remember ross perot. Ross perot lost that election, 1992, helping bill
But i think we also feel like we should be custodians of their happiness. That is a very recent development. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Ive been around long enough to recognize the people who are out there owning it. The ones getting involved, staying engaged. They are not afraid to question the path theyre on. Because the one question they never want to ask is, how did i end up here . I started schwab with those people. People who want to take ownership of their investments, like they do in every other aspect of their lives. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill fresh fighting erupted in ukra
That is a very recent development. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Ive been around long enough to recognize the people who are out there owning it. The ones getting involved, staying engaged. They are not afraid to question the path theyre on. Because the one question they never want to ask is, how did i end up here . I started schwab with those people. People who want to take ownership of their investments, like they do in every other aspect of their lives. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill fresh fighting erupted in ukraine today, in a key city seized by separatists who want to join russia. Th
Over to david. Thanks. A lot of risk aversion continuing really across the region today. Were continuing to see that basically mostly across some of these markets and fairly pronounced losses i should mention. Looking at the nikkei. Its really about the japanese yen. We see a little strength. Just about at a oneweek high against the dollar. Look at taiwan. Down 1 . Australia, the one segment is keeping things are afloat are the gold mining stocks. Gold is continuing its gains. As the demand. Malaysia getting under way. President obama leaving and flies to manila later on this afternoon. So well continue to watch that closely. I mention it had safe haven trade lets quickly chick in on some things were watching. There we go. Gold above 1300 back about 1300 n ounce yet again. Anaheim ex crude here. Just a tad below 100. U. S. Dollar, dont let it fool you when its green that means the yen is stronger. So thats what the happening. A lot of macro concerns over the tensions in ukraine. Thanks