Today. Our road map begins with Global Growth concerns. China posting the weakest gdp in 27 years aed my fallout from the trade war. Well wrap up the first week of earnings season, two names in focus, coke and American Express, both rallyi ining aheaf the bell. Rick perry set to leave trumps cabinet. He will join us live this hour going to start with that slowdown, china saying the economy grew 6 in q3 from a year ago, believed to be chinas slowest gain in nearly three decades. Markets here largely shrugging it off Industrial Production was up from the prior five to 58. Retail sales up from 75 back to 78 so kind of mixed. This one we can say, look, there is something for everybody. Fed can still cut. But im doing a lot of work on American Express this morning. Consumer is still strong consumer strong, business, corporate spend, as barry said, still a lot of negativity among ceos, extends to the election, negativity extends to china, european woes. Go back to the ibm call, we didnt talk
Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff a raft of consumer, business and Government Spending pushed u. S. Economic growth into betterthanexpected territory. Gross domestic product expanded at an annual rate of 3. 7 from april to june, according to the commerce department. Thats more than a percentage point higher than initial estimates. For comparison, japans economy shrank and germany and the u. K. Grew by less than a percent for the same tim
Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station fewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff a raft of consumer, business and Government Spending pushed u. S. Economic growth into betterthanexpected territory. Gross domestic product expanded at an annual rate of 3. 7 from april to june, according to the commerce department. Thats more than a percentage point higher than initial estimates. For comparison, japans economy shrank and germany and the u. K. Grew by less than a percent for the same time peri
Thank god for San Francisco. Now, fifteen thanks to seattle and then california and new york and localities across the country, but also we need these moments for an agenda that works for all, contracts for the 21st century, so thank you, david, for this amazing piece of work, this book and all that you have led in our continuing to lead in the world that has been captured in the book and for creating this moment and Similar Movement to groups across the country to come together to reflect and animate us. I also want to thank mark and nikki and all the colleagues. A few years ago we began talking to have a series of books, uplifting powerful stories, the voices in the agendas of leading activists and change makers that rules will change. We also launched a few years ago , Domestic Workers alliance and ford has been proud to partner with you and super excite to go see this second book and the series come into the world and i know david will, indeed, has been a powerful tool as the Movem
David rolf on the movement to increase workers wages. And those are just a few of the programs youll see this weekend. For a complete schedule, go to booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. Television for serious readers. And now we kick off the weekend with vicki algers critical look at the u. S. Department of education. [inaudible conversations] hello and welcome to the heritage foundation. Im andrew parks, the assistant director of lectures and seminars. Thank you all for joining us today. I just wanted to take the opportunity to remind everyone in house to silence your cell phones. For anyone watching on line, youre welcome to submit questions by emailing speaker heritage. Org. Hosting todays program is Lindsey Burke, the wills gellman fellow here at the heritage foundation. She focus on empowering families with School Choice. With that, ill hand it every to lindsey. Thank you, andrew, and thanks to everyone for being here today and everyone watching online a