1979 when we had 14 inflation. So thats my tame on it. Amity, please. I would be a little more cautious than steve there and say maybe our problems are monetary, because the prices dont seem to accord with what the government is saying. So, if a certain price is way much higher, and we were told nonetheless we have no inflation, thats confusing. We need another data set. We need another philosophy. In the olden days, your family banks would not have spoken of inflation, they would have spoken of credit or credit tightening. Thats the lexicon of classical economics. Maybe that lexicon works a little better to explain the spongy, bubbly feel of the economy right now. Most of us believe that Federal Reserve policy has a lot to do with the stock market increase, that maybe the companies arent all doing that much better. That its just our next bubble, which means our next pop, our next trouble. And the way out of that is stability in money, even pegging money to something, and we shouldnt b
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Recommendations, and theyre in the process of doing them. Thats correct. We had informal discussions as well as the formal letter responding to our recommendations. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I want to thank our two witnesses. Lord knows where we would be if we didnt have gao and Inspector Generals. The alarming malfeasance and incompetence of the rollout of this plan is just stunning. And here we are, you know, we cant just simply brush it off and say, well, this was a bad start, but everythings going great now. The cost to the taxpayer probably well never know. But thank goodness that we have your organizations providing us information and spurring on a seemingly bureaucratic nightmare that exists within the federal government in terms of handling these kinds of programs. Anybody in the private sector that had done this would have been bankrupt. Investors would have lost all their money. Its just stunning to continue to observe what it takes to get these agenci
Guest ill be giving his speech on the floor of the United States senate. Tomorrows earth date and president obama is in new york will see many countries sign the top 21 agreement for 196 countries, 90 of the global admissions of the world will sign a commitment towards working together to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions. I was in france during the negotiations. Im a strong supporter of the u. S. Leadership globally and in this country to dramatically reduce our emissions. Caller did you hear senator in half on the floor and those 192 countries going two countries going to be disappointed. How do you work with someone like that. Guest ive known jim ever since ive come to congress we came in the same year, 1987. He is a good person. He is just wrong on climate. Totally wrong. The way i answer that is, look, lets let the scientist determine what we need to do in order to keep our globe healthy. What can we do in order to protect our environment and future generations. Scientists tell us w
Coming up on cspan 3, a hearing on the 2017 state Department Budget, and jason furman, medicare on the white house economic of council advise yores and later preventing military sexual assaults. Next a hearing on the president s 2017 state Department Budget request. The Senate Foreign relations subcommittee heard from officials from the u. S. Agency for International Development about the United States human rights and diplomatic priorities. The hearing is an hour and 15 minutes. Good morning, this is a hearing of the subcommittee on the western hemisphere transnational crime civilian security and global rights and womens issues an the purpose is to review the resource and priorities and programs in fiscal year 2017 budget requests from the president s and the u. S. Department of States Bureau of western Hemisphere Affairs and the bureau of democracy human rights and the usaid for latin america and the caribbean. Well have a panel with three witnesses. Tom malinowski, from democracy, h