Iran president said armed forces admitting their mistake is a good first step and that all involved in the accident will be punished renault denies reports of a possible split with nissan and france finance minister calls the rumors malicious welcome to the show. One of the main stories moving markets overnight, chinas yuan strengthened to the highest level after the Treasury Department removed the label of the country as a currency manipulator. Steven mnuchin said the country made moves they first attached the label when they accused them of using the yuan to get an unfair trade voontage the first rise in export since july signaling a recovery in demand following a preliminary trade agreement. Imports rose while the countrys trade surplus increased. An on annual basis Interest Rates rose 0. 5 . Chinese vice premier liu he a arrived in washington. Reporter two days ahead of the signing of the phase one trade deal in washington, d. C. The news has to did with china trade numbers for dec
Them in the back. More than 270 arrests as Extinction Rebellion block bridges and roads in westminster in a protest over climate change. Police forces across england and wales are battling rising levels of knife crime. Figures today show offences involving knives are rising sharply outside london, but with the capital still the most dangerous area. The trauma team at the Royal London Hospital in the east end is one of the busiest in europe, dealing with knife and gun attacks, and the bbcs clive myrie was given exclusive access to their work over a period of several months. You may find some of the images distressing. This the pained face of knife crime in britain. Still early, the guys arent even tipping out the pubs yet, and absolutely anything could happen tonight. These are stories over a three month period, from the front line of the epidemic. When he came in, hed lost a lot of blood volume, his pulses were very weak. Stories of courage, kindness and honesty. Lets face it, it doesn
[inaudible conversations] this meeting will come to order. Good afternoon and thank you all for joining us. Today our committee is honored to welcome secretary secretary steven to testify for the budge. Secretary, we are grateful for your time and thank you for your testimony. Members of this committee know our annual hearing with the trect secretary on the president s budget plays an incredibly important roleing our world. Todays conversation sets the stage for collaboration between congress, the white house and treasury department. Todays conversation helps us identify in advance efforts to grow the economy, create jobs and increase americas pay checks. We will have an open dialogue on the challenges facing our businesses workers, community and countries as a whole. Reading through the fiscal year 2018 budget it is a welcoming change to see this budget balances in the next decade. The president s proposal takes much needed action to glow economy and help americans move from welfare t
[inaudible conversations] this meeting will come to order. Good afternoon and thank you all for joining us. Today our committee is honored to welcome secretary secretary steven to testify for the budge. Secretary, we are grateful for your time and thank you for your testimony. Members of this committee know our annual hearing with the trect secretary on the president s budget plays an incredibly important roleing our world. Todays conversation sets the stage for collaboration between congress, the white house and treasury department. Todays conversation helps us identify in advance efforts to grow the economy, create jobs and increase americas pay checks. We will have an open dialogue on the challenges facing our businesses workers, community and countries as a whole. Reading through the fiscal year 2018 budget it is a welcoming change to see this budget balances in the next decade. The president s proposal takes much needed action to glow economy and help americans move from welfare t
Now from a Panel Discussion on retirement economics. Researchers presented their work during the 19th annual meeting of the Retirement Research consortium posted by Boston College in washington d. C. This Panel Discussion is 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] thank you. So the sixth panel is a topic would Social Security changes prompt people to change their plans in the first paper is a behavioral or consumption of Social Security changes. Melissa and our advisers will be the discussants. Thank you. Thank you all for having me. Again Social Security thank you for funding this research and all of you for listening to the speech twice but i want to thank my coauthor who worked on the paper with me and i also want to thank allen and constantine who have been allowing us to use their model and i want to thank them for that. This is really about how changes in Social Security affect two things behavior and consumption. A variety of changes. Something has to be