Hello, everybody. Im gerri willis. Tonight no progress on the fiscal cliff as democrats and republicans trade barbs over the issue. One group of americans is finding a way through this regardless of congress and the president. Smallbusiness owners in this country are preparing to hire. Join me now, chief u. S. Economist for i may just pll one side. Heart of America Group founder, and member of the Jobs Creation alliance and actual job creators in this country who say their voices not being heard inhis office took with debate. Also with us from the weekly standard, stevn haze. Welcome. Great to have you here. I want to start with the conversation in washington and what t speaker had to say about the status of the fiscal here is mr. Boehner. This is in the Progress Report because there is no progress to report. When it coms to the fiscal cliff that is turning our economy and jobs, the white hhuse is wasted another week. Gerri what do you say . We wasted another week. We seem to be gettin
Speech hell hello, everyone. I am gerri willis. It has been a tumultuous year for the markets. Nd of so much uncertainty for tax policy in washington. Somenalyststhe election itself. Analysts predicting gains for ps 2016, as 14 o much as 20 in te markets. 14 . It is not working for me today. Ink wouldout e scott, i cant say your name and utock market together. To tabo but i am going to get you to talk about santa claus. Will we have a true santa claus rally . Listen, think itll b it wile tough to get one this year. I think there will be a lot of repositioning in portfolios coming toward the end of the year. A people are getting very nervous about the fiscal cliff. I was on the show a couple of weeks ago whe and i was not a tn concerned because i thought we would get a deal done. Al it is starting to hurt people. Ut a good call by you. Frankly, gerri, that is what will hurt stocks and investors spending or appetite as s well. E gerri i love it when you tell me i am right. It often doesn
Gerri hello, everybody, i am gerri willis. It has been a tumultuous year for the markets. Weak economic growth, and of course the election itself. Some analysts picking games 2013 as much as 14 of the market and others lost as much as 14 . It is not working for me today. I think we should talk about else. Ig i will get to talk about a santa claus rally. Ral is there a santa claus rally . Ra will we have a true santa claus rally . Listen, think itll b it wile tough to get one this year. I think there will be a lot of repositioning in portfolios coming toward the end of the year. A people are getting very nervous about the fiscal cliff. I was on the show a couple of weeks ago whe and i was not a tn concerned because i thought we would get a deal done. Al it is starting to hurt people. Ut a good call by you. Frankly, gerri, that is what will hurt stocks and investors spending or appetite as s well. E gerri i love it when you tell me i am right. It often doesnt last very longy i have got t
Weary. They had the oas which had been doing symbolic monitoring and this was western. They didnt want that and there was a pushback on the u. N. Being the watchdog, the overall monitor, and that led to fragmentation of the monitoring machine. So it game regional organizations, ngos that took up mantle of monitoring which led to issues down the road of who gets to act as a monitor and are they all of equal quality. Host where today does the authority lie . Guest nowhere. Nowhere really. Theres no accreditation that an International Monitoring organization host should there be . Guest probably be a good idea. There is a declaration of principles out of the United Nations and some organizations have signed on to that but that done in any way guarantee they abide by it. They could just sign on to it. Theres no auditing of whether that theyre actually following the practices the declaration seeks to aspires to. Then if you want to have an accreditation process, who does the a decreed accre
International election observers. This interview as part of book tv College Series and it is about 20 minutes. Duke professor ken judith kelley, the author of monitoring democracy when International Election observation works, and why it often fails. Professor, when did International Election monitoring come in to vote . This started ticking off in the late 80s, beginning 90s. I think, you know, there had been election monitoring under un regimes in different ways, but this is a new flavor of it. Outsiders going in the sovereign state some of turner elections. And the way it came and, the way it rose is very important for understanding how works today. Initially we had all lot of governments toward the end of the cold war that had not been democratic. Now they wanted to show off their intentions to behave more democratically. And so they have an incentive to invite monitors and even though this is sort of a sacred thing. It is the heart of democracy, one could cite. But to invite someo