Want to highlight energy. It is at the bottom of the barrel, down 1. 6 . Part of thousand of cyclical trade we saw the beginning of the week on monday. 8 also have oil lower today. I want to stick on oil. Even though it is lower today, it is still up in a massive way on the month. It has gained nearly 80 in may, the best month on record. Supply and demand in the market starts to look more balanced and wti is ending the month around 33 a barrel. David . Waiting to hear from President Trump. We have already heard from jay powell. Earlier today our colleague Michael Mckee sat down in an exclusive interview with Loretta Mester, the cleveland fed president. They talk about euro curve control. Yield is flater at the short end, so maybe with the Forward Guidance it is not necessary to do something to emphasize the Forward Guidance. I do not want to take it off the table is something for me to think about as a possible tool. I do not think we needed at this phase, or do i see so much forward w
What do you remember about june 14, 2017 . I remember waking up excited about going to practice. As the day before the congressional annual baseball game and a great tradition. I was Just Announced to be the second base starter so i was excited about that you get out there early in the morning working with your colleagues and its kind of lighthearted because most of the real practice has already been done and youre just kind of going through the motions of getting ready for the game, and all of a sudden a shot goes out. Youre not thinking its a gunshot because why would somebody be shooting a gun on a baseball field. By the time we figured out what was going on, i got his and went down. Did you know you had gotten his . I knew that my legs gave out. I didnt necessarily instantly feel i was hit by just felt like something hits me that i wasnt thinking a bullet. When my legs went out and i was down in the gravel i started crawling away and i heard it coming from the thirdbase line. I nev
Challengesscusses facing taxpayers with the complexity of new tax laws. We will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. Its tuesday, july 30, 2019. The Senate Continues its workweek today. At 10 00 a. M. Eastern, theyll have votes at 11 30 and lunches afterwards. The house will meet in the brief pro forma session later this morning. Were with you the next three hours on the washington journal. We begin today gauging your level of concern about the security of the 2020 elections. We want to know if you think congress and the white house have done enough to ensure the integrity of the incomes vote, which is now just over 15 months away. Give us a call this morning. Phone lines are open. Democrats, 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Independents, 2027488002. You can also catch up with us on social media. On twitter, its cspanwj. On facebook, its facebook. Com cspan. Very good Tuesday Morning to you. Start
Book, 26 words that created the internet by jeff kosseff. General housekeeping notes, week, for the first time will have our offer and two commentators reflect on this book followed by a question and answer session. Then about 1 30 p. M. , we shall have lunch and more conversation about these issues. Lets go to the subject matter today. Legislators and regulators work on a greater burden that facilitates intimate speech. Left and right receive whats treated as the publishers of the users speech. That means subject to all the rules that go for number publishers, its unknown but utperhaps very damaging effectsn speech or freedom of speech. Australia content, a recent law include jail social media executives, uk created social media regulator. They do not remove harmful content. This morning, parliament voted for antiterrorism bill which required requires them to act on reports of terrorist content within 60 minutes. As large of 4 of their revenue. Think about what that would mean for Lar
We have to understand the history of why Congress Passed itliable if they knew or had reason to know of illegal content. Once we had early online compuserve, the courts said, well, if you dont moderate user content, you can receive that protection, if you are like a store like a bookstore. But if you moderated, you are more like a newspaper. In 1996, Congress Passed the Communications Decency act, section 230, which says if you dont moderate or moderate, if you have reason to know, you will have this very broad immunity for content users post. Host go back to 1996. What would the development of the internet look like without section 230 . Guest it would be difficult to have some of the current platforms under their Current Business models. Yelp is a great example. If you didnt have section 230, yelp could be liable for every negative review someone posts, if they dont take it down immediately upon receiving a complaint. How useful would yelp be if they removed everyone every one star r