Come in and hear from the candidates. Watch live on cspan and cspan. Org or listen live on the freecspan radio app. Your place for an alternate view of politics. Thank you so much. It is so great to be here with debbie, not here here. I wish i was there. I wish all of us were in the same spot but in lieu of that its great to be able to do this and thank you all for joining us as we are having this chat. Again, when we were planning to store i sent to debbie i cant wait to do appearances with you though we can have conversations again. This is not anything we ever would have imagined when we were going towards the end of last year but we are nothing if not adaptable and we will take solace from the fact that we know any of you who are watching right now could not have physically gotten to crowders books tonight but you can join us virtually. Again, i will reiterate what was said that you should treat this as if you were in the bookstore. When youre in the bookstore for reading, you buy
Chat. And again when we are planning this tour i cant wait to get into the conversation. And again this is not anything that we ever wouldve amended when we were all having or towards the end of last year but we are adaptable. We will take in that we know any of you are watching right now probably could not have physically gotten here tonight. But you can join us virtually. Again, i will reiterate. You should treat this is if you are in the bookstore. It when youre in the bookstore for reading, then you buy books. So please do that. And it would be great if they were debbies books. But really, buy a lot of books. You know by just one opening the bookstore coming by a lot of books. But i imagine debbie, needs no introduction. But i will just briefly say. I think was what is great if you look at her body of work, you see two very strong claims. Amongst the social justice and the theme of defining america and who gets to define america. She is dennis and looks like freedom summer and esse
Why not, with the latest. Reporter why not. You heard it there, zero Interest Rates basically until through 2023. The Federal Reserve in their Committee Statement saying that they will maintain the accommodative stance until monetary policy, until their goals are achieved in the monetary policy. The Federal Reserve aims to have inflation moderately above 2 . To reach the two target a period of time. This is what chairman jay powell said what is moderate and for how long. Listen. We want to achieve inflation that averages 2 over time and if we do that, Inflation Expectations will be right at 2 and that will help us achieve 2 inflation over time and avoid the situation where the central bank loses its ability to support the economy. Reporter he would not define what moderate was, for how long. Powell fiercely defended Forward Guidance on rates being zero. The fed also made their economic projections, they revised it up. Unemployment rate 7. 6 . 9. 6 in june they thought. End of this year
Do appearances with you to have these conversations again this is not anything we would have imagined toward the end of last year but we are adaptable and we will take some calls that many of you are watching could not have gotten here tonight but you can join us virtually. You should treat this as if you are in the bookstore. You buy books. Please do that it would be great if they were debbies books you dont just buy one but you buy a lot. I imagine that you need no introduction but what is great if you look at her body of work to see very the two strong teams of social justice and defining america and who gets to define america shes done this in picture books and she did it in the intersection of the trilogy and got so much acclaim for that now she has done it again with kent state. It is a Remarkable Book one of the best things i worked on as an editor in 25 years. It is a masterpiece and the book that defies categorization and is with the sixties trilogy traditionally they like to
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