And its my pleasure to introduce dr. Arthur scott stephenson, the president and ceo of the museum of the American American revolution, who will be speaking tonight. His talk is entitled among his troops George Washingtons war tent and a mystic chords of memory. A native of pittsburgh, pennsylvania, scott scotts broad public history experience spans nearly three decades and has been marked by public and professional acclaim for his creative and innovative approaches to engaging audiences. He has developed and collaborated on exhibits, films and interpretive programs for numerous historical sites and organizations, including colonial williamsburg, the smithson in the canadian war museum, the National Park service, George Washingtons mount vernon, the heinz history center, and the museum of the other of the cherokee indian. From 2007 to 2018, scott led the development of the museum of the American Revolutions Award Winning exhibitions, multimedia experience as an educational programing, a
continue with the west east divide. a touch of mist and fog. showery rain in east anglia and south east england. still a breeze. three friday, that breeze will still continue. that will make it feel cooler on the exposed east coast with temperatures struggling at 15, 16. with the high pressure influencing the story in the west with the sunshine we may see temperatures peaking at 20. in the week and the high starts to push on across the country. do not get too excited. we will be chasing cloud amounts for time to time. the potential of showery rain in the far north west of scotland. on the whole, for most of us, drier and brighter and it will get that the warmer. and that s it from the bbc news at six. hello and welcome to sportsday i m jane dougall. novak djokovic s quest for another grand slam title is on track. another win takes him a step closer to defending his french open title. les blues play the lionesses in front of a crowd, but it ll be an empty hampden for scotl
Comes to the opec meeting on thursday. Spread coming in at 57 basis points. And bitcoin. Is it going to be 10,000 today . Time for the morning brief. At 8 00 this morning eastern steven mnuchin, William Dudley on the hill of the sec will all be speaking in new york at a conference on the structure of the u. S. Treasury market. At 10 00 all eyes will be on capitol hill as Senate Begins confirmation hearings for Jerome Powell. And President Trump continues to campaign for a tax overhaul. He will be going back to the white house for a meeting with congressional leadership on how to avoid a government shutdown. Thats all coming up today. The big story into ec is Federal Reserve nominee for the chair, Jerome Powell. The gap appears to be narrowing between short and longterm Interest Rate raising concerns on the future of the u. S. Economy. Joining us now is drew matus, metlife and that achievement metlife management chief market manager. Are we expecting to see anything different from the c
Facility with the los angeles review of books. One of its Board Members one of its Board Members john is going to be an interlock for this evening. I thought i would tell you just a little bit about who ourest goes guests are tonight. John who i know is famous for many things hes a professor at uci river side, irvine, he he owes a book on the 1960s it a publisher i think thats true. Thanks for bringing that up. Hes most famous if anybody this evening needs to know anything about john lennon or the fbi hes your goto person he spends a decade litigating to get access to this information. Hes a writer commentator and man about town. And a friend of mine. And hes going to be talking to a friend of his stephen ross who is a professor at usc not ucla a usc and i would say of the two of them that these are serious historians who are not serious about themselves. The work that steven will be reading or talking about tonight and perhaps reading from is a really amazings captivating story that y
Low. And its projected as the population continues to age in the baby boomers retire that that ratio will continue to rise in an unsustainable fashion. So, the addition to the debt taking what is already a significant problem and making it worse is it is of concern to me, and i think it does suggest that in some future downturn, which could occur just for whatever reason, the amount of fiscal space that would exist for fiscal policy to play an active role it will be limited, it may well be limited. Sam fleming with the financial times. Couple of longer term questions, first of all, midway through the year, hot weather inflation targets might need to be raised. Obviously been a lot more debate and have had systems since then about this it may not be an imminent issue, it may be something the feds may be discussing over the coming years. Some sort of change to the inflation target second of all, the amount of stimulus tools that the fed may have at its expo sal are fairly limited. One of