Zinke. Good afternoon, everyone. To get started this afternoon, i just will give lay of the land herer i i will proceed with my Opening Statement and then senator cantwell with hers. After senator cantwells remarks we will hear from our colleague, the montana senators, senator dains and senator tester. Senator danes is on the complete here and senator tester, good to have you here as well. They will introduce our distinguished witness and other member of the montana delegation, representsive ryan zi zingk zinke. I will swear in the witness and ask him three questions we address to all nominees at confirmation hearings. So thats how we will proceed this afternoon. I think its important for us all to recognize we also have a vote that is scheduled about 4 15. So that will cause a little bit of an interruption but we do want to try to move as expeditiously through this hearing as we can. Before i proceed, id like to recognize an individual who is wellknown to this committee room. Thats th
In london and midday in hong kong. This is Bloomberg Markets middle east. Lets start with how markets closed in the u. S. On friday. We had a big day on friday thanks to the payroll report coming in at 235,000 jobs. Put all the major indexes in the green. 33 and the russell 0. 38 percent. It should give you some indication of the optimism taking place in markets. Here in the middle east we are two hours away run the opening of the emirates market, dubai and abu dhabi. Theyntrast to the u. S. , had a bit of a rough close. All three of those indices down last week. A lot of optimism around oil and into this to feed equity prices. A different story elsewhere in the region. Egypt almost up 1 . A good end of the week for catch our. Quatar. Talk about bitcoin. We had a major decision from the u. S. Securities regulator about the proposed bitcoin etfs. Take a look at this chart. You can see the timeline of the proposal of this bitcoin etf in the summer of 2013 at a now we have the decision to
The cancer votes campaign is also here as they hope to spread their message to both candidates and the community about how cancer is an election issue. Joining me now is spokesperson stephanie mccorkle. Talk to me a little bit about some of the recent polling youve done in nevada. How important is this election to issues like Cancer Research . Brittany Edney well continue to follow all the action here outside of Canyon Springs high school as more groups show up to have their voices heard. For now, reporting live, Brittany Edney, 8 news now. Christianne Klein thanks brittany. Now its a much different scene on the inside where shakala is standing by as crews add the finishing touches to the room. Shakala . Shakala alvaranga it is, dave and christianne, with just two hout weve seen dozens of lighting and audio crews here making sure that tonights debate will run smoothly. Theyve been preparing for this debate for days. Getting the stage ready and doing several run throughs. The focus toni
Then at 10 00 p. M. Eastern time, on book tvs after words program, capital Founding Partner discusses income inequality with the former chair of the council of economic advisers during the bush administration. We wrap up in prime time at 11 00 p. M. Chuck collins will be the author hes the greatgrandson of meatpacker oscar meyer and he talks about wealth inequality and his decision to give away much of his inheritance. Of morning welcome to the Cato Institute. I am a senior policy analyst and also editor of Human Progress which is an educational website that tries to put together as many statistics as human wellbeing as possible in order to present to our users and our more real picture of the world than the headlines would suggest thinking about the headlines, it is perhaps an understatement to say that we live in an era of great pessimism. This pessimism is not distributed evenly across the world. It is felt very acutely in many western democracies including ours here in the United S
Get really nervous and thats much the same way donald trump, as you say a new yorker to the bone is a suddenly plain that you may not have guessed we first heard him talk. You can watch this and other programs on my netbook tv. Org. Good morning and welcome to the Cato Institute. Im an analyst here and also editor of Human Progress, which is an educational website that tries to put together as many statistics about human world being as possible in order to present to our users and the general public a more real action of the world than the headlines would suggest. Speaking about headlines, it is perhaps an understatement to say that we live in an era of great pessimism. This pessimism is not distributed easily evenly across the world. But, it is felt very acutely in many western democracies including ours, here in the us. Some three quarters of americans believe that the us is going in the wrong direction. The choices that the electric will be presented with comes november, exaggerates