Thats a word for the in crowd to show their part of thesmart crowd. Brother robbie and i we dont believe in smartness in this isolation, we believe that wisdom in its deepest level and the smartness is tied to richness with no acumen to donald trump who believes hes the smartest and richest in the room, its a sign of his spiritualvacuum he and emptiness that hes a symptom of a society that has idolized smartness and richness. We wont even talk about obama, obama dropped 172,000 bombs his last year, he got the Nobel Peace Prize ties twice as many drone strikes. He got 506 he won the Nobel Peace Prize so what happens is this practical hide what your substance is when it comes to morality and spirituality. This is what breaks through ideology, not just rightwing leftwing cynicism. This substance is always deeper than any political ideology so what im trying to say in this introduction is we are in catastrophic times. Ideological catastrophe, nuclear catastrophe, war catastrophe of the fil
Not a surprise if you look to see whats happening with the shutdown of the economy, the forced shutdown because of coronavirus. Taking a look at the tenyear this morning, it looks like that is yielding about 0. 735 at least on the last time i looked at the boards it was. And then wti is the other big story today. Joe also mentioned opec plus deal it was an historic one opec and other nations agreeing to cut Global Oil Production by onetenth. Well talk about this in a few minutes. Wti is up by 1. 5 to 23. 11 a barrel. We have a huge lineup of squawk newsmakers including Mohamed El Erian, Richard Preston and dr. Scott gottlieb starting in a few minutes. Andrew thanks, becky hope everybody had a great weekend. Lets bring everybody an update on the pandemic. Of course, the number of confirmed cases in the United States now more than 557,000 and the death toll is more than 22,000 there are 190,000 cases in new york state with more than 9300 deaths that means new york alone has reported more
Coronavirus death toll has now hit 11 in america. The latest in california. The president and Vice President meeting with the ceos of airlines and diagnostic labs at the white house today, as the search for a vaccine goes on. One of the stars of netflixs docuseries pandemic is here. Jacob glanville, founder and ceo of distributed bio will break things down in a fox business exclusive. Less than an hour to the closing bell. Im Ashley Webster in for liz claman. Lets start the claman countdown. Ashley we begin with breaking news. United Airlines Says it is cutting domestic and International Flights by up to 20 in april, all in response to the slump in travel demand caused by the spreading coronavirus. The carrier also parking some wide body jets, also offering staff an unpaid leave of absence. United, the first u. S. Carrier to actually cut domestic flying. Check in on the stock, down a third of a percent. 58 a share. Billionaire Mike Bloomberg set to make a statement after suspending his
Off on the framework of a Ceasefire Deal and hostage release in gaza, and now its up to hamas to agree to the deal. This comes after the United States air dropped thousands of meals into gaza a this weekend. Welcome to fox news live, im mike emmanuel. The deal is reportedly for a 6week pause in fighting and the release of more israeli hostages and palestinian prisoners. Trey yingst is live in tel aviv with more on the fragile state of those talks for a potential ceasefire. Hello, trey. Reporter mike, good afternoon. Overnight if israel says their Military Hit Dozens of different targets inside gaza in a matter of minutes looking to put new pressure on hamas amid these ongoing cease fire conversations. The civilian population in gaza continues to pay the highest price amid the war. Mohamed calls out for survivors under the wreckage of his family home. Overnight israel launched a new round of airstrikes against central and southern gaza, killing both militants and civilians. [speaking in
Republicans, 202 7488001. Independencts, 202 7458002. You can also find us on facebook and twitter. You can send us an email at journal cspan. Org. The dodd frank act was named after its authors, and senator chris dodd and barney frank. It was a massive bill that required federal agencies to write hundreds of new rules. Here are some of the things that the dodd frank act did. It was signed into law by president obama on july joint first, 2010. It created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It attempted to an too big to fail bailouts of Financial Firms. In eliminated loopholes of financial products, providing shareholders a say on executive compensation, and enforce regulations on the books. Here are some polls that show just exactly the scope of this bill. A summary of the bill by a law firm shows that the bill was 22,290 six pages long. It has had 119 congressional hearings, and there have been 139 bills issued in congress to amend or repeal the act. The stats also give you a se