I am here today to answer any legitimate questions and the House Oversight committee may have for me. Shall i allow hunter to give his Opening Statement first . It doesnt appear mr. Biden showed up for his public hearing. With any luck today marks the end of what may be the most spectacular failure in the history of an congressional investigations. State your iniry because we were a very important hearing what is your inquiry . It is not a stunned. I am simply asking you dont have a parliamentary inquiry . Chair recognize him mr. Chairman chairman recognizes mr. Does the committee how the Text Messages . Mr. Chairman we dont have time for games by democrats today. House Impeachment Hearing at 80 he did start, republicans and democrats taking shots at each other with two of Hunter Bidens former Business Partners. Hello and welcome everyone im sandra smith and dajohn craig to be with you. John great to be with you, what a hearing today, im john roberts in washington and this is america r
Because the pensions act came in in 1995, and in theory it goes 15 years of notice before the State Pension age and started to rise for women in 2010, actually, as the report spells out, the communication was not clear enough, and i think, one of the issuesis enough, and i think, one of the issues is that because the State Pension age for women rose over a number of years, which is obviously fairer than number of years, which is obviously fairerthan an number of years, which is obviously fairer than an overnight rise, it meant that individual women, they might know somebody who is, say, six months older or six months younger, but they could have a very different State Pension age to them themselves, which is why i think it was very confusing for the individual women to actually work out how they were going to be affected, that is assuming that they knew in the first place that they would be. ~ knew in the first place that they would be. , ~ ,. , knew in the first place that they would
Macro advisory in moscow. He said the situation for the russian currency is unique. You should not be looking at it in the same way as if there was a slide in a normally functioning economy or a european economy. The rouble is entirely managed now by the central bank in conjunction with the Finance Ministry, and has been since we last saw the rouble collapse down to about 130 in march of last year. So the Central Banks priority last year was to keep the Rouble Exchange rate high at around 60, because it was tackling inflation, but this year, because of the sanctions impact and because that has led to a big hit on the value of russias oil exports in particular, they have devalued the rouble in order to compensate for that fall in dollar terms. In other words, weaker rouble translating dollars into a higher rouble amount to balance the budget. Thats been the priority this year. It doesnt reflect an imminent crisis. Sort of a broad collapse in the economy. Its the result of the central Ba
An economic obstruction. So youre not seeing such impact as were here for them any impact for us in more broadly in the region . Very broadly economic impact. We continue to believe that the growth of the apac region excluding china and japan will be 4. 3 up from 4. 0 , so an acceleration of growth in 202a. If you read the report of our Economics Team there is virtually no mention of the red sea as having an economic impact. Certainly it has a Supply Chain Impact in the sense that orders have to be placed earlier and transit times are longer. Its harder to forecast if the time between when you order and when you sell your goods is longer by two to four weeks. In general were not seeing a huge economic disruption in this region. How have they managed to accommodate this or navigate whats been happening over there and being able to mitigate it for the end consumer . The simple answer is capacity. During the pandemic, the ocean carriers ordered a lot of ships. They had a lot of cash on ha
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