Panama canal would be subject to attacks from panama. They felt the United States use of the canal would be far muir secure if panama owned the canal. Carter agreed, but he added one additional element. He explained it to me in an interview. I felt like the canal issue was a key test of my overall human rights policy, to start treating other people as worthy of respect and not try to dominate small countries. I wanted to treat panama fairly. I had studied the issue fairly thoroughly and i was convinced it was an unfair original agreement that was forced upon the panamanian people against their will. That was one difference that set carter apart. The other difference was that he did something about his judgment. He fought and won the battle to get the treaties approved. Fascinated byen the canal as child when reading richard halliburtons book of marvels, in which the adventurer described the history of the canal and then told of swimming its length. He paid a total of . 36 because he wa
The transformation of american politics. Australia. Melbourne, numerousritten for publications including the new politico, and fox. Nicole i would like to thank both for that great introduction and all of you for coming out here today. Time oft is busy this year postelection and postthanksgiving. Thank you for coming out and for inviting me. About my bookalk and i thought i would focus on the relationship between conservative media and electoral politics since that seems particularly timely this month. To do that, i want to start not in the 1940s in 1950 passes when the book begins, but in the last few months. Donald trump announced in mid august another campaign shakeup. He was hiring steve annan, the breitbart. The world react as if wires had been crossed. From the media, jumping straight into politics. Even in the world of partisan media, it seemed unusual to give up all pretext of difference pretense of difference. Maybe that should not have been so surprising. Conservatives have b
this state wasn t just recently named the top state for business in america. so many huge businesses are down here, including delta air lines. ceo richard anderson joining us exclusively in just a moment. also, georgia governor nathan diehl is going to join us. we ll ask him how he s going to be tops on the business lid list next year. fed president dennis lockhart will join us after the bell in a news-making interview. and the person rumored to be home depot s next ceo, craig menear, also here exclusively and gives us a peek into some of the major changes they re making to their distribution network, bill. yeah, the economy s doing okay in georgia there, and it s contributing a great degree to what s going on on the east coast here, so we ve got a lot to talk about in that regard. the european economy is struggling, though, and the european markets were down today. the german dax was down enough to make it into correction territory today. it has since bounced back a little
same. we re pretty much at session highs. at the high today, the dow was up 90 points. so, again, we are at 85. yesterday we saw some buy orders on the close, so we ll keep a close eye on it here, and on apple, tyler, in particular. yeah, it could close at $100 or so for the first time since splitting 7 for 1, and that means apple would be back at $700 on a presplit basis. say that five times fast. we ll monitor how apple finishes during this final hour of trading. and could we see dow 18,000 this year? professor jeremy siegel thinks so. he s here exclusively, with no surprise, a pretty bullish market call for this year, and for perhaps beyond. we ll get into the details with him and talk about valuation as well, coming up. and how about that new deal from sprint? did you hear about it? 20 gigs a month of data for $100, but there is one catch, you ve got to be a new customer. so, what about someone who s been with sprint for years? why do they have to pay more? and this
dow having a pretty good day. it s the big industrial names that would be more impacted by an economic slowdown of any sort of magnitude. intel is holding up today ahead of the earnings. chips killed lately. those are the next best performers out of the dow today. i would suggest that s much more important than a chevron which is towards the low end sliding on oil. united health is a big hedge fund trade and maybe selling there. coca-cola, staple. home depot is a bad performer today and downgraded. jpmorgan off the earnings. you raise the point and one the need talk about with the group coming up here but to what extent is pressure on the hedge funds writ large responsible for some of the market declines we have been seeing? i looked this morning and you saw even in the face of an up market that a lot of the most popular hedge fund names were down and suggested they were selling the name and when the overall market bounced they got a bounce, too. remember yesterday thin