Welcome, to the enterprise institute. I am the director. Aei is my great pleasure tonight to welcome you to discussion of important new book by my good friend and colleague michael strain. Michael is the director of economic studies here and is a widely published scholar in economics and Public Finance and many other areas. In his new book is an exceptional clear and broad overview of the space of American Economic life. Actual conditions we face, the trends over recent decades and have us relate to some of the most dark stories that we hear in our politics about the conditions the americans are experiencing. Also where prospects are pretty he finds i think it is fair to say that things are much better than the mood of our politics and the critics of the market economy sometimes suggest prayed that we do face risks and that maybe that mood and this critics are among the most important of those risks. His controversial thesis and a conservative, i am resistant to be sheared up until eve
Badly behaved children, will be asking should parents be penalised for their kids actions . Penalised for their kids actions. 7 thats our debate this morning and in the sport this morning, its advantage Manchester City as they beat spurs to go to the top of the premier league with one game left. Spurs manager Ange Postecoglou is not happy at all about something. Rory mcilroy has filed for divorce and will have an olympic flame update. Chilly and damp across parts of the east today, but for many there will be some warm sunshine. Top of the temperature charts likely to be across parts of northern scotland again today. Join me later for a full forecast. Okay, well, the story were starting with is knife crime and its rising each year since the pandemic and the government has told police to increase their use of stop and search. I do laugh at this because i think who would have told the police to stop , stop who would have told the police to stop, stop and who would have told the police to
Into new year of current spending is really the most likely outcome here with emergency help for the Child Health Program and National Security courts and Disaster Relief which is actually the specific issue that the house is mulling at this very moment. Republican congressman fred up ton of michigan gives us the inside scoop on the Government Shutdown. He was also one of those select tax reform conferees. We will quiz him about why that socalled welfare for the rip loophole with carried interest was left safe and sound in the bill and new york citys top government investor scott string er is a little torn. He says the tax reform bill is terrible for the citizens of the city, but the 186 billion new york city Pension Funds he overseas could see solid gains and those pensions are for city workers. Well ask him about his rock in a hard place here in a fox business exclusive. On wall street, i already mentioned the s p right there, both are ready to snap a twoday losing streak when you in
As they try to put problems behind them. And the new heart drug may outweigh the benefits. Welcome to street signs, everybody. Lets look at the markets here in particular i want to show you whats going on with the da x. We have only one stock in the green. It is starting the trading week down by seventenths of 1 after a flat week last week over the past year to date period it is still up by 6 not doing too badly. It is telling about the struggles this index has been under where it is down by 1. 3 one of the reasons we could be seeing a number of these stocks down is the strength of the euro on the back the euro is at two and a half year highs against the green back thats when a number of companies go red and were seeing some Energy Related assets move lower in light of what steve was saying about Hurricane Harvey theyre taking activities off line, costs money every single day, ramping up costs money as well, and if theres damage to infrastructure, that costs even more lets look at othe
So, you know, as claire was saying, there are so many more substantive allegations now including this misuse and abuse of a highly classified Intelligence Community Computer Network system. And for people to say that this didnt fall under the dnis purview is wrong. The dni is responsible for maintaining the integrity of those systems. And if it is being used to cover up political corruption, that requires an investigation. And whether or not the senior official was asked to hide that material inside that Computer System. So i do think that donald trump and his associates are in a heck of a lot more political trouble right now than they were 48 hours ago because of the substantive flow of these allegations coming through,
again all reinforcing the theme that this is a corrupt white house that will stoop to doing anything in order to prevail in elections as well as to cover their krucht trackcorrupt track. Weigh in on the idea that President Trump took all of the conduct detailed in the