Texas. Meantime, covid19 cases continuing to rise with 4 million reported across america. But today, the u. S. Centers for Disease Control that is control is advising schools to open, after originally highlighting the risks. It added up to another down day for stocks. Joining us, abigail doolittle. Abigail a lot to digest, and you nailed all the issues. A big piece of it has to do with the big xl off, but the rising tensions with china have been the backdrop for the past two years, but really coming into the forefront here. And economic data, frankly, not right. Investors are paying attention to that. You put it together, nasdaq 100 down. 9 , down on the week for the second week in a row. Stocks hit even harder, down 1. 6 . What intel really disappointing, at lowes down 18 per soient, worst day at that point since 2000 to one Third Quarter guidance for that chip to let you talked about, and also the idea that manufacturing of their trips could be changed. We had investors going into a
Our weeklong look at political podcasts continues with fox news digital politics editor chris tire will, cohost host good morning. 8, 2019. Rsday, august the flags at the capital remain at halfstaff today following the shootings in dayton and el paso. We begin our conversation with gun owners. Any,nt to know what, if gun restrictions you support. If you are a gun owner who does not support any new gun laws, 2027488001. If you are a gun owner who supports new gun laws, 2027488000. You. D thursday morning to hour as weonly this show you the front page of todays usa today. Protesters rallying outside the hospital in dayton, ohio, where President Trump visited shooting survivors on wednesday. Trump opens the door to background checks. The president making that opening in those statements before leaving for el paso. [video clip] i think background checks are important. I dont want to put guns into the hands of mentally unstable people or people with rage or hatred. What about assault rifles
Republican convention. As chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, congressman ben lujan is in charge of democrats efforts to win back a majority in the house of representatives. He spoke about the dcccs history and the effect that donald trump is having on house races. From the National Press club in washington, this is an hour. Good morning. Good morning, everyone. My name is thomas burr. Im the washington correspondent for the Salt Lake Tribune and the 109th president of the National Press club. Id like to welcome our guest today, congressman Ben Ray Lujan, chairman of the Democratic Campaign committee. The National Press club has hosted nearly every president since our founding in 1908. I should note weve had a lot more visit in modern times from our friends in the legislative branch, including a good couple dozen house and Senate Members in the last couple of years. Congressman, thank you for joining us. Im going to turn the microphone over to bob wiener from our
Is what Michael Luber caps on, i have to very strongly contest that. What Michael Bloomberg tried to do was tell people what they could purchase with their own money. Passed provision restricting people from buying things like alcohol or cigarettes with welfare dollars. These programs are supposed to be for helping people cover their basic necessities as they get through a tough time in life. Programs that are supposed to enable people to live unhealthy lifestyles at the expense of the taxpayer. Theres a big decision to be made between some of spending their own money and someone spending their taxpayer money. A Program Designed to give people in poverty nutritional a misuse of taxpayer dollars. Any additional discussion . Those in favor, signal with i. Ay. , signify with ne amendment defeated. Next amendment, page four, line 37. It is on the screen. I noticed they do not seem to be a strong statement about Nuclear Energy. You is that we suggest that restricted to allow responsible dev
Force is growing plus how efficient our economy is becoming. If you add those two up, gdp growth. So what were seeing the last four years productivity growth averaging less than 1 . Historically thats low in the United States. Thats kind of really retarding u. S. Growth. How are we why arent we growing faster in this kind of Data Revolution where we hear all these great things about data . Theres this big conundrum there. Maybe what it is we have all these businesses gathering all this information and they really havent yet materialized the benefits from all this data. But from a macro perspective thats a huge, huge question. So how much all this data stuff were talking about, how much can this improve the u. S. Economy, okay . So im just going to throw out a couple real rough numbers here. Theres lots of studies out there who always talk about trillions of dollars and billions of dollars and so on and so forth. I always find those numbers really hard to understand. So im an economist.