Oligarchy run government while a lot of very much have been rumors that chance the dutch of lancaster one of johnsons deputies michael gove is supported by Rupert Murdoch i dont remember donald trump in interview when i was 1st with the British Press here michael did the interview Rupert Murdoch was in the room the entire time and michael gove actually went on the sunday political shows here in the u. K. To defend Boris Johnson and he offered this kind of less than spirited response to some question it was a really really simple question is it correct that by late february the u. K. Sent 266000 pieces of protective equipment to china. But i wont get into details to and fro on the sunday times story more details will be not so really simple. Yes why not to get into the u. K. To foreign help did issue a statement later that day and every some eyebrows because its actually sounded like downing street spin offering a play by play reporter at the sunday times this one particularly interesti
Official and we are on record high watch today. The s p seven points above an alltime closing high and the nasdaq trading in record territory as well today. Joining us for the hour is stephanie link from atiaa company. The market moved higher in the morning and weve sat there all day, upward bias because u. S. China trade headlines we have three reasons the deals that you mentioned early on, theyre positive for shareholder Value Creation but more positive in my mind because the ceos are showing they have confidence and they have visibility in spite of the trade tensions which to me is a very powerful statement thats one of the reasons for sure one area thats not getting a lot of attention, the german Business Confidence ticked up month over month its not back to july levels, i get it, but theyre making progress, right . And then of course the china talking about ip theft and being more friendly, more positive gesture. Who knows how thats going to turn out but those are the three reason
Our second panel is chris brummer, Research Professor director, institute of economic law, and University Law center. Our second witnesses katerina pastore, and columbia law school. Gendler who is professor of the practice of Global Economics and manager. Mit sloan school of management Senior Advisor to the director, Mit Media Lab and codirector of. The next witness will be robert wiseman, president , public citizen, and the final witness will be chief Strategy Officers. Welcome to all of you. Without objection, your written statements will be made part of the record. Each of you will have five minutes to summarize your testimony and with one minute remaining a yellow light will appear. At that time i will ask that you wrap up your testimony so that we can be respectful of both witnesses and Committee Members times. You are recognized for five minutes to present your testimony. Thank you so much. Members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to testify. Im here in my academic cap
We have a Good Opportunity if we enable more people to participate to offer services that can generate revenue. This is supposed to be a Nonprofit Organization, is in the . Im talking about the calibra wallop which will directly impact facebook. Is it going to be a nonprofit . No, calibra is a forprofit entity and the entity that will dold the wallet that will be offered to facebook consumers. Is Digital Currency illegal in some parts of the world quick skinny touch on that . Gets congressman there are an number of countries that prohibit buying selling or using Digital Currencies. I also want to mention privacy violation concerns things that americans have been concerned with. The american consumer, do they trust facebook and do they feel comfortable with your company . Congressman i believe we have a lot of work to do to earn Peoples Trust and we have two definitely make though strong commitments when it comes to privacy and make good on those commitments for long periods of time. I
Captioning performed by vitac many have expressed concern that facebook could outcompete banks and nondepository Financial Institutions and become some sort of Financial Services monopoly. I understand facebook has demonstrated a dominance in the social media space but i want to better understand this Financial Services monopoly idea. The Libra Association is made up of 28 pounding members, more to come, many of which have played in the Payment Processing space for a long time. Some of these firms are very large, visa and mastercard have billions of cardholders and process trillions of dollars worth of transactions. Some have argued that this association is a thinly veiled attempt at facebook eventually attempting to create a bank. It may or may not be, but i am more reminded of another Payment Innovation that started in the 1950s and 1960s as associations of likeminded companies, the Bank Card Payment networks. Banks issued their own cards, but banded together as Regional Bank card as