Not spooked by anything happening at Federal Reserve and dow, nasdaq and s p at records at the moment after the Federal Reserve held rates stead i did for fifth meeting in the row and fed chair Jerome Powell answering questions for reporters. Lets go back there live. Early parts of the Pandemic Recovery have mostly been resolved. Youre seeing high job growth, youre seeing big increases in supply. Youre seeing strong wage growth but wage growth is gradually moderating down to more sustainable levels in many, many respects and the things are returning more to their state in 2019, which we can think of normal for this purpose. Thats job openings and quits and surveys of workers and businesses are interesting on this and how tight is the how easy to find a job and how easy it is to find a worker. Those have both those surveys have both come down. The labor market is in good shape. You know, you do see things like the low hiring rate. And people made the argument that if layoffs were to inc
Part of a history of humiliation which remains Unfinished Business good evening. Im fareed zakaria. Welcome to a special hour on taiwan the National Palace museum holds much of chinas most precious works of Arc Treasures from the Song Dynasty Vases from the ming dynasty 8,000 years of priceless history its chinas metropolitan museum of art. Its louvre but it is not in beijing it isnt taipei, the capital of taiwan race for territory began in 1949. There has to be no compromise at the end of a brutal civil war chinas leader, Chiang Kaishek, shipped those treasures to taiwan. The communist or in the young phi valley to keep them from im his rival. Mao zedong they carried those treasures with them because as the guardians of the chinese civilization, they felt that they had to also be the guardians of those objects. Year after year. The civil war goes on, chang and his nationalist party had been fighting mao and the communist as party since the 1920s in one of the bloodiest civil wars the
In a conversation with Henry Kissinger in the 1970s, chinas leader mao zedong said he could live without taiwan. For now but in 100 years, we were wanted. He said and whats more . We are going to fight for it maos one on hundredyear deadline may arrive ahead of schedule in a chinese documentary called chasing dreams the countrys bravest warriors declared their willingness to die. In an allout invasion of taiwan it was accidental. If its too hard to remove the mines and taiwanese waters. One says we would use our bodies to clear a pathway but we shouldnt go to my fighter jet would become a missile rushing towards the enemy if i used up my ammunition says a pilot i want to see the other side of the strait. A soldier declares ive been preparing for that day a war over taiwan would be an act of Madness Tens Of Thousands could die nearly one million jobs have disappeared. There could be a global Great Depression Nuclear Weapons would be on the table and attack would be a massive gamble for
the president meeting with ukrainian counterpart in what is being described as a defiant display of western solidarity. white house correspondent peter doocy is traveling with the president and reports tonight from warsaw, poland. good evening, peter. bret, if president biden stuck to his schedule he would still be in washington, d.c. right now. but, instead, he is here in warsaw after a daring dip into a war zone. and he is looking ahead to a big speech tomorrow where we do expect him to call out vladimir putin by name. putin s war of conquest is failing. but it s ongoing. so the president is committing 500 million more dollars in equipment for the fight against putin. thought he could outlast us. i don t think he is thinking that right now. the u.s. gave russia a heads up, president biden would be visiting ukraine but to keep the trip clandestine the president was driven in a white toyota suv instead of the customary black suburban and traveled with a much smaller
Steve cohen had to say about markets and a. I. , especially. Plus, it is a pivotal day for disney. The companys battle with nelson peltz is set to conclude at its annual meeting. That is set for this afternoon when we will get the vote totals. And tomorrow, 9 00 a. M. , right here, dont miss an exclusive with bob iger. Is it right here or out there . Its out there. Its out there. I will be going out there, hoping that the high winds that are blanketing the area wont prevent my travel to see mr. Iger. And by the way, just to make a point here, this is not saying anything one way or the other about the vote. Hes going to do the interview either way. Huh. Okay. Okay . Is that okay with you . Well, id be more inclined to do the interview if i won. I think thats his expectation and or disneys as ive been saying all along, at least. They have had a lot of confidence they will win. But you wanted to make it clear that it is not do you share that confidence . I do. The reporting i have been ab