Good judgment, im the Christopher Preble the Vice President for defense and Foreign Policy studies here art cato. Thank you for being here today. And welcome also those to watching online at cato. Org and i think time delay hello to those watching on cspan. Id like to extend fecial spasms to our outstanding conference staff here who do a terrific job organizing our events. Im joined on the stage today by my colleagues john glacier, and trevor thrall and were here with heath, director to thank you molds of policy change at new america. John, trevor and i are the coraw authorize offered this book, fuel to the fire. How trump made americas broken Foreign Policy even worse and how we can proffer. Copies are available for here sale at cato and your Favorite Book sellers. Im going to tell you about the book, even though you can probably guess at a lot of it from the subtitlele. It includes a discussion tot a spoiler, includes a discussion of trumps critique of u. S. Foreign policy , it inclu
Hurlbert, director ofpolicy change program new america. Trevor and i are the coauthors of this book , fuel to the fire, helpful made americas broken Foreign Policy even worse and how we can recover. Copies are available for sale here for actually go for those of you in attendance and for allyour favorite booksellers, those of you watching from our. Im going to tell you a little bit about the book even though you can probably guess a lot of it from the subtitle. Includes discussions, this is not a spoiler, includes a discussion of Donald Trumps chief of us Foreign Policy. Includes why we think, why we the authors think americas Foreign Policy was broken and that there is a better alternative than what President Trump has offered. So its my responsibility today to sort of set the stage and that involves a little bit of history which is my forte and a little bit of strategic analysis which is all three of our expertise. I go back to trumps major Foreign Policy address the mayflower hotel,
Outperforming. The Philadelphia Semiconductors index outperforming. This rally on trade optimism set to resume u. S. And china set to resume talks in october and strong Economic Data with jobs and services. We are seeing a rush out of safe haven assets. 2. 2 . Utures are down you can see the big like lower came one week after the Services Data around 10 00 this morning. Gold is trading around its lowest in two weeks and it is on pace for its worst day since june of 2018. Also selling off is another safety asset. U. S. Treasuries. You have the u. S. 10 year bond yields searching 11 basis points. A lot of selling and bonds. This is the biggest move upward in yields we have seen since january. Investors are selling bonds. That is helping financial stocks. Banks getting a boost from the higher yields. Also getting a booster the tech stocks, particularly the semiconductors. That on pace for the best day and a number of months. Individual stocks moving higher. Nvidia up 5. 5 , macron up 4. 5
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Good evening. My name is tom. Im a member of the Clements Department of history. I cannot tell you what a delight it is for me to welcome you tonight on the special location. Before we get underway want to express our appreciation for the george w. Bush library. Theyre cosponsoring this event with us in cspan which is taping the lecture. Were happy to have general patrick, director of the bush library. I want to direct your attention to a major event on december 7 peter baker will be the guest to talk about his book, obama the call of history. The dj trip for june 2018 is fully subscribed were taken names and you may know that weve established a dedicated Scholarship Fund for this program so no student should miss the chance to take this journey because of financial need. You like to make a contribution we would be thrilled. Its a personal pleasure to present the speaker. Hard to believe it was five years i must say, it was almost as if he had been waiting for our call. We really lucke