Up Citizens Rights especially the right to dissent. No doubt, there is a need for intelligence communities to operate, to exist. Foreign and domestic threats are real. But for over a century in addition to taking action against real threats to the lives of american citizens, bureaus and agencies within the American Government have surveilled those who have expressed what they Cato Institute Strong Political views that run counter to the prevailing government political paradigm. This challenges the notion that those who support the state in some sort that if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. I will come back to that later in our discussion. Maybe you adhere to that view, maybe you are on the fence about it, maybe you rejected. That is fine. We will discuss it. But the history of surveillance necessitates that discussion. Can the same tools used to protect be used against citizens for sometimes nefarious reasons. Going back in history, Teddy Roosevelts attorney general
Next, the Smithsonian Associates host an event looking at the life and death of president garfield. This is two hours. , the one that i find the most interesting is the one we are going to discuss tonight, James Garfield. For quite a number of reasons, first of all, garfield is one of the most intelligent president s we have ever had, he is up there in the top half dozen. When we go through his life, by the end of it or a middle of it you can start laughing, because you are going to say no, that cant be. He cant be that good in that field. It is not possible. And then we find something else. And you are going to say no. He is just incredibly bright. The hope for his presidency was enormous. We are going to discuss and absolutely brilliant human being. I was chatting with a friend before and he has me five are garfield most intelligent, i dont know how you test Something Like that. Its not like you give president s iq tests. Its easier with things that are easy to measure. Tall and shor
Nasdaq hit so right hold. On reality the pandemic devastates indigenous communities across latin america. Counting the. Number of fire is case in russia has been soaring overnight and i think. The last time. I said. It was the fine. Spring break. Hello im Richard Geres britain youre at the listening post working from home the media stories were looking at this week will take us from moscow to minsk via manila we examine russias fake news problem with covert 19 the official numbers just dont add up bellow ruses state of denial on the coronavirus and the bloggers to change the narrative and freedom of the press in the philippines hits a new low with the conviction of rattlers maria ressa and the subtle ways in which socalled non racists let racism thrive its crew thought no thanks russia is currently in 3rd place on the list of countries with the most confirmed coronavirus case the official figure there exceeds half a 1000000 but that is in dispute as is the countrys fatality rate which
Phenomenal. Ist is also phenomenal whether the bond market is speaking the truth. Lowyears, near an alltime in the u. S. It is quite sensational globally where we see european bonds completely negative. This desire for highyielding assets continues. We want to take it back there for ron temple. Just your thoughts on these levels we are seeing not only in stocks, but in the bond market. I do think the really important point back to the fed liquidity, i was looking back at fedweekend of march 25, the balance sheet. We should all be mindful that the fed is decelerating its purchases and that will have an effect in my view on yields and different parts of the market. We need to be thinking about the supply of Financial Assets as the u. S. Deficit and other National Budget deficits grow, there will be a large amount of supply in the sovereign debt markets. In may, we saw a record high issuance of highyield debt. Just that month, not every month. There is a lot of supply out there and people
Business owners are already facing after months of lockdown and ceo response social issues facing Corporate America and the companies to do the right thing. It is tuesday, june 2. We are watching Worldwide Exchange. You are watching here on cnbc. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening from wherever in the world you may be watching. Im Brian Sullivan thank you for joining us wherever you may be. We hope you are all healthy and safe optimism from the markets looking ahead. Thats what the stock market appears to be telling us some investors clearly believe in 9, 10, 12 months, the economy will look very different than it does now with 40 million out of work and many states in various lockdown stock futures right now are higher indicating an open of 100points to the upside. Indicating at the highest level. About 3 to the nasdaq 100 hard to believe. They all rose overnight as well. A similar story. The markets are higher despite the protests that began here and now happening in various