International development and deputy secretarygeneral of United Nations to talk about global progress on economic, social and environmental issues. This is liev coverage on cspan3. Sustainable development who took time out of their busy schedule to be with us today. We are very honored by your prepares and your participation. The launch of the center is a historic moment for the Global Program and brookings. At a time of massive dislocation in the Global Economy the need for improved policies to build back better, more inclusive and sustainable economies have never been greater. Policymakers and all other stakeholders around the world will have in this center its scholars in brookings leaders on various aspects of Sustainable Development. We are grateful to all of our partners whose support has been instrumental to the inception of the center. A special thank you to richard who supports through brookings highpolicy roundtables and Sustainable Development for years has inspired creation
Still trying to get the final meetingfrom opec in the that started two hours ago. Those details continue to come through. I want to take a look at the s p 500 on a four day week. It is a shortened holiday week, so the bond markets will be closing in a few hours. It does mean the market is still having some of the best week, going back at one point since 1974. David thank you so much to taylor riggs. As we said, it has been largely a day about the federal reserve. Cioing us is rick rieder, for Global Fixed Income for blackrock and also head of their global Asset Allocation team. Welcome. When i heard this this morning i said my jaw literally dropped. What was your reaction . Rick i am right there with you. This is an incredible amount. It is followed by chair powells presentation afterwards. Not only are they getting into already what they have announced has been incredible. They are going deeper in terms of what they are doing. They are getting at wide swaths of different marketplaces.
Room. Our going to introduce Panel Moderator and let him theyduce the panelists so can introduce themselves. I am very pleased to introduce the director of the heritage foundations Margaret Thatcher center for freedom. His key areas of special place of specialization include the United Nations and the role of Great Britain and europe in the u. S. Led alliance against international terrorism. He was recently named one of the 50 most influential britons in dailys. By the london telegraph. And a leading authority on transatlantic relationships, he has advised the executive branch of the u. S. Government on a range of issues from the role of International Allies in postwar british. Britain leadership. His policy papers are widely read on capitol hill where he is regularly soughtafter. He received his doctorate degree from yelp universe from yale university. Let us welcome him and the rest of our panel today. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to todays event. Thank you everyone for joining u
Include the Anglo American special relationship, United Nations and the role of Great Britain and europe in the u. S. Led alliance against international terrorism. He was recently named one of the 50 most influential britons in the u. S. By the london daily telegraph. And a leading authority on transatlantic relations, he has advised the executive branch of the u. S. Government on a range of issues from the role of International Allies in postwar iraq to u. S. British leadership. His policy papers are widely read on capitol hill where he is regularly sought after for his advice. He received his doctorate degree from yale university. Let us welcome him and the rest of our panel today. [applause] good morning, everybody. Welcome to todays event. Thank you everyone for joining us in such extremely cold weather. Brutally cold weather. It is more like moscow and moscow than washington. We will be talking about the russians later. [laughter] and we have two superb washington foreignpolicy ex
Transatlantic relations, he has advised the executive branch of the u. S. Government on a range of issues from the role of International Allies in postwar iraq to u. S. British leadership. His policy papers are widely read on capitol hill where he is regularly sought after for his advice. He received his doctorate degree from yale university. Let us welcome him and the rest of our panel today. [applause] good morning, everybody. Welcome to todays event. Thank you everyone for joining us in such extremely cold weather. Brutally cold weather. It is more like moscow and moscow than washington. We will be talking about the russians later. [laughter] and we have two superb washington foreignpolicy experts with us today. You will see both rebecca and michael frequently on cable news shows here in washington on a regular basis. Would like to introduce rebecca first, a National Security fellow. Rebecca specializes in nuclear deterrence, Missile Defense and counter proliferation. She has served