Catalysts for investors on the horizon. With fed meetings this week and new tariffs set to go into effect this weekend. Joining us, ian winemore weve been paying close attention to these big trade headlines. How much is this influencing what were seeing on wall street these days i think its overstated as to how much its actually influencing wall street. I think theres two things at this point the first is that theres so much liquidity being pumped into the marketplace by central banks. They Just Announced another round of qe, even though theyre not calling it that. And youve got positioning, which is a very big deal a lot of hedge funds and active managers are lagging again some for the last ten years, and because of that, they cant afford to miss a rally you see this synthetic short base, where people are long cash, and thats why selloffs like today, youre not seeing a whole lot of followthrough, because need to hold until the end of the year. Ian is with us for the next hour we have
Director and get his take on democratic impeachment efforts as well. The rise of the robots. Nobody denies consequence, but what about the jobs, guest and essence of human life . We have a special segment you wont want to miss. The winners and losers of this week. That and more on making money. Charles new changes too the snap program formerly known as the Food Stamp Program will have work requirements. They are raising a lot of concerns how effective the Government Assistance Program will be if there is another economic downturn. The Trump Administration tightening requirements who receives food aid. The outrage is building. Some headlines out there today. Americans in cold weather states will suffer. 3 Million People could lose food stamps. Another actually calling it immoral and coldhearted. Here to break down the new plan is White House Budget Office acting director russ vought. Thank you for having me charles. Charles media says this is heartless and and cruel to the most vulnerab
Familiar with the alliance, we are a Nonpartisan Organization that is dedicated to convening and educating the Health Policy community through a balanced exchange of evidence. We are so thankful to bill pierce for supporting the alliance and putting on this series and with that support we have had the privilege of hosting many esteemed guests and Panel Discussions over the past couple of years including Joseph Grogan who im honored to welcome back today. I believe you have the distinction of being our first repeat guest. He joined us about a year ago when he was an associate director at omb and so we look forward to hearing about your new role and Health Care Priorities as the director of the Domestic Policy Council. Thank you for being here again, mr. Grogan. Thank you to all of you for being here and with that i will turn it over to bill to get us started. Thank you, kathryn. Welcome everybody, welcome on behalf of apco where with along with the alliance we think these are important
Ronald reagan president ial foundation and institute. Thank you all for coming this evening. In honor of our men and women in uniform who defend our freedom around the world lets please stanwhats pleasestand and joine of allegiance. [applause] [cheering] i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. And to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. [applause] [cheering] thank you. Please be seated. Before we get started, there are a few people i would like to recognize in the audience. I will start with the mayor and his wife shelby. [applause] for her congressman and his wife. [applause] iec ccharlie is here. [applause] [cheering] and i know hes supposed to be with us. Pat, here he is. [cheering] okay. So we have a great evening in store for you. I will be brief but before i introduced a special guest who will introduce the speaker tonight, i want to take a moment to also thank a handful of other people we
Cspan2 for filling tonight. Thank you very much. From little bit of history but the strand, was founded in 1927 over on Fourth Avenue as will grow. Stretching from union square to us in place, the probe gradually after over 92 years. Genesis will survive her and still run by the best family from the original family who founded it. Were running hundred events a year nearly. I still have new and used books after all this time. Tonight we are excited to be hosting andrew marantz, author of the brenda book antisocial. An extremist, techno utopians in the hijacking of the american conversation. Andrew has wig written for the new yorker since 2011 it is also appeared in evers new york magazine, jones the New York Times, among others. And contributed to the new yorker radio hour radio lab. Joining him is fellow new yorker staff writer, ensign cunningham. As magazines go critic. His byline has appeared in the New York Times magazines, New York Times magazines, and book review and alter, the ol