Read him, to a remarkable man, jerry west. I would like to congratulate you on this tremendous atresia and achievement and congratulations to your family. We are delighted to be joined by jerrys wife, karen, and their wonderful family. Thank you very much, everybody. Look at that family, huh . You did a good job. Beautiful. We are also pleased to have with us senator joe manchin and governor jim justice. Two terrific people. Stand up, jim, in case they cant see you. Now you can see him. Thats great. Great to have you. Joe, thank you very much. Thank you both for being here. They are busy. They are very busy people, and i think we will meet on a certain subject later on, joe, and thats good. Jerry was born in West Virginia in 1938, the fifth of six children. He grew up hiking in the woods, fishing in the clear water and exploring the beautiful mountains of West Virginia, great, great state. I should not say this, but i won it by 43 points. Thats a lot. We love West Virginia. Probably he
On thursday, President Trump awarded the medal of freedom to Basketball Hall of fame player jerry west, who played for the los angeles lakers. This was about 15 minutes. President trump thank you very much for coming today. Its my privilege to award our nations highest civilian honor, the president ial medal of freedom, to a remarkable man, jerry west. Jerry, id like to congratulate you on this tremendous achievement and congratulations to your family. Congratulations, jerry. Fantastic. [applause] President Trump were delighted to be joined by jerrys wife, karen, and their wonderful family. Thank you very much, everybody. Look at that family, huh . You did a good job. Its beautiful. Were also pleased to have with us senator joe manchin and governor jim justice, two terrific people. Jim, thank you. Stand up, jim, in case they cant see you. Now you can see him. Thats great. Great to have you. Joe, thank you very much. Thank you both for being here. Theyre busy. Theyre very busy people, a
Now on booktv, your opportunity to talk with professors cornel west and Robert George lead cornel west has written many books including race matters and brother west living out loud. Robert george has written making men moral and conscience and its enemies. Robert george, when did you first meet the man sitting next to you . Must have met in the 1990s after brother cornell came and we were together in faculty, seminars under the auspices we didnt know each other very well. We would just say hello, we interacted a bit in the seminars. We began teaching together in 2007 and there is a whole story behind that. I dont know if you want me to go in that kind of detail but that is when our teaching and friendship began. Host how did the teaching profession again . A brother named andrew. A good student who studied with both of us. Called cream, my course, resin mucin, david hume, he was taking a course from me on civil liberty and he asked me who i would like to have dialogue with, who was a
Committee will come together without onbjection. This hearing is for the purpose of receiving the semiannual testimony of the chair of board of governors of the Federal Reserve system on Monetary Policy and the state of the economy. I recognize myself for 3 1 2 minutes to give an Opening Statement. Not with standing the greatest monetary and fiscal stimulus, the economy limp aid long for eight years averaging 1. 6 gdp growth. Wages remain stagnant and failing since the 2008 financial crisis. New phrase by leftleaning academics in an attempt to rationalize the phenomena namely secular stag nation. Far more descriptive phrase is high taxes and heavyhanded regulatory policy. Fortunately with the election of donald trump and passage of tax cuts and jobs act that has all changed. Employment is now at a 17year low. Wage growth is the fastest in companies all over america are anow ns bonuses to employees and skpap expansions in their communities. Economic growth is averaging 3 . There is grea
Attacking guam. We will have more on that throughout the hour here after this interview. To missouri now. Hes the president and ceo of the Federal Reserve of st. Louis. Here is James Bullard in conversation with my colleague, Kathleen Hays in st. Louis. Welcome to a very special edition of the hays advantage on Bloomberg Radio and bloomberg at the federal bank of st. Louis for an exclusive interview with president jim bullard. Great to have you here. Thanks for coming to st. Louis. Kathleen its always fun. Thanks to your team and staff. You have been saying lots of interesting things about the economy and Monetary Policy. Just recently you said, do you think its best now to leave rates where we are. Earlier in the year you were more willing to say, maybe another rate hike, but now you say no, lowered unemployment will not you will not lead to higher inflation. Jim, jobs keep growing. Gdp has rebounded. Its above trend again. Some people think it will stay there. Its one more rate hike