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Affordability, tax reform and health care. This is live coverage on cspan2. For those of you out there who want to comment on twitter the hashtag is sanders brookings, thats at, not the sign. I want to say at the outset before i do the formal part of the introduction that it is a pleasure to welcome a selfdescribed proud democratic socialist here to brookings. You know these days the word socialist is thrown around as an end that the, and the socialists i know are insulted when president obamas called a socialist because they argue he is too moderate to be a democratic socialist. But the thing we forget is the vibrancy of the democratic socialist tradition in the United States. And bear in mind were talking democratic, small d socialist ie scandinavia not the old soviet union. And in the american tradition were talking about people from eugene debs to Michael Thomas to people ....
Releases its minutes. This is Ben Bernankes last meeting. We will see if they had champagne. Maybe they had a party, we will find out. Its about the handoff. What happened inside the fed and what was the conversation as chairman bernanke he was handing off to janet yellen . What else do we have . We have earnings before the ball from carlisle and him jim resorts and six flags. After the bell, tesla along with marriott and avis. President obama is traveling to mexico for trade talks with the leaders of mexico and canada. Treasury secretary jack lew will speak today on the economy in San Francisco. Its a very busy day. Lets do a data check we have elevated hydrocarbons. The next screen shows us Foreign Exchange. Golub will join us with a hugely bullish call in this hour. R. On the bloomberg terminal, its the ruble basket. ....
Adam verizon. Pretty good road there. I read one analyst who said the new connection is good, but not as good as it could be. The mac that was kind of surprising. I agree with you. It sounded like a positive number when i first read it. Adam there was another positive there with verizon as well. 50 of their wireless base is now smart phones. Smartphones are taking over. Adam i am sitting next to a woman who just got her 5s. Lori i have not even told my husband yet. I think you just busted me but i was entitled to an upgrade, though. Shares of ibm are plunging to a two year low. Ibm chief Financial Officer says the company will be dealing with the impact of the china slowdown for another couple quarters. Adam president obama says no shutdown caused completely unnecessary damage to the u. S. Economy. Peter barnes is live for us outside the white house where we go next. Peter we got a little bit of a preview of the future budget a ....
He talked to a lot of analysts. We have an exclusive interview with Paul Otellini. The first that he has given since that announcement in his last year as ceo of intel. We will ask him about what characteristics they do ceo has to have at intel to take them into the future. Also, coming up, tim tebow. When this guy, the Heisman Trophy winner in the nfl quarterback, everyone drops to their knees and does that tebow thing. We will speak to him about how money Endorsement Request he gets a year. Yes, do not worry, i will ask him where his next team maybe if he leaves the jets. A lot of people said he would. I heart competition. We will be asking about bona fide, groupon, there is so many groups out there. Incredible competition. Lets take a look at this rally that we have. Not bad at all. Take a look at the dow jones in ....