Would be to fortify the protections, the Privacy Protections for americans in the law but the law has evolved and exactly the opposite direction and indeed since 9 11 there has been a sea change in the law. If you back up a few decades following the church committees revelations in 1970s there was a series of laws and policies put in place that establish a kind of golden rule. Intelligence agencies could not collect information on americans from within the United States without some individualized factbased suspicion of wrongdoing. Now the purpose and the effect of this rule was to constrain the abuses that had come before it. In the past 14 years a cardinal principle has been utterly jettisoned from the law. So lets talk about the three legal authorities that we know of under which mass surveillance is currently occurring. The first is section 215 of the patriot act. This is the provision that allows the government to get a fisa court order Compelling Companies to turn over Business R
In europe, a bloodbath. Major indexes down more than 1 , the dax off almost 2 europesu get economy going again . Mario draghi and the finance minister different answers. Draghi spoke. Wolfgang schaeuble urged governments to keep up budgetary discipline. Cap up the drumbeat on the necessity for budgetary reforms. I do not sounding argument compelling. Microsoft Ceo Satya Nadella ts a do over on a question about women asking for wages. Womena was asked what should do when they feel uncomfortable asking for a raise. He repeated advice believe in the system. Eeted. Ards, nadella tw close gender must pay gap. As ceo of microsoft, he is wellpositioned to do that. Has unveiled an allwheeldrive version of its model as. The new tesla has a radar that can see through fog, plus two motors to better handle snow. Here we go woah. Did you see that. Out, with aound test drive with elon musk, 691 torque. Er, 687 feet of seconds. N 3. 2 musk told her its not all about speed. Can have theou a moreoperat
Apple, and its also a big day back there in new york does what else is happening there and apple . Carl icahn drafting a letter, and hell be joining us at 2 00 p. M. Eastern. The internet of things will be a 19 billion industry, and we are saying we agree. I want to get straight to our top headlines and our editor at large, cory johnson, back at pier e p three three. Unless we quickly contain and stop the ebola epidemic, nothing less than the future of not only west africa but perhaps even africa is at stake. Ebola has killed more than 3800 people in africa since december. Hackers connected to the massive j. P. Morgan chase breach may be responsible for attacks on more than a dozen other financial companies. Federal and state officials also investigating. And facebooks Ceo Mark Zuckerberg is in india, and he has been talking about improving Internet Access around the country, calling in a basic human right. Because you have embraced science and research and education, the next generati
Expected. A bit of a poll back from where we were in the service industries. 56. 2. The thing you want to see is growth in new orders. They are still strong. Not where they were. They had grown to 55. 4. For fridays jobs report, an encouraging sign. It looks like the Manufacturing Sector is holding. The Service Industry sector is holding. The was economy is a bright spot in the world. The u. S. Economy is a bright spot in the world. Glitzy of this somewhat positive news helped the market find some legs lets see of ee if this somewhat positive news helpeds the market find some legs. Nowhere near the kind of volatility we saw the first four days of consecutive losses since 2003. While equities appear to have stabilized, there is a quick snapshot of whats happening in the dow industrials. That is not the case in treasuries and oil. The 10 year continues to drop lower. Cap messing yields like this since october we have not seen yields like this since october. Oil crude continues to sell of
Stuff. The federal government all but closing down do you to weather. Winter storms costing the u. S. Economy according to estimates a billion dollars so far this year. There is the white house time lapse video. Weather in los angeles may be sunny but port strike casting a cloud over business. Levis warns that the dispute could affect sales for their companies. Here to discuss walked on to the set, Charlie Gasparino is here. Jack hough, Senior Editor of barrons, my good friend david asman host of after the bell. Good to see you. This shutdown is costing taxpayer money. Im not so sure. Lets pray d. C. Shuts down for a long sometime. Less work they do the less costs. I was brought up in washington d. C. , so help me, if they get inch of snow the city shuts down. When there is gridlock in d. C. Nothing going on, i think better for the country better for the economy anyway. Cheryl shutdown in 2010 was 71 million a day. If you buy it. Cheryl the figure from the washington post. Im straining