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Come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. Today, a select subcommittee is pleased to welcome our distinguished panel, dr. Ben bernanke and dr. Janet yellen. Dr. Bernanke was appointed chair of the Federal Reserve by president george w. Bush in 2006 and oversaw the Federal Reserves response to the Global Financial crisis. Before his tenure as fed chair, dr. Bernanke served as the cha...

Every direction. The s p saw an even bigger gain. The nasdaq up by almost 3. 6 the dow futures also up. Keeping an eye on the Treasury Department seeing how the fed news will play out there the fed news is back about 0. 6 . Sitting at 0. 612 . If you watch oil prices, which has been a big indicator of demand around the globe and what is happening, this morning, wti is up about 16 . All the way back up to 17. 49. Wow, all the way back up. 17 unbelievable lets get an update on the pandemic the num...

Order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled Monetary Policy and the state of the economy. I now recognize myself for four minutes to give an Opening Statement. Id like to welcome back chairman powell. As i discussed earlier, and at our last hearing with you, i remain very concerned about the president s efforts to interfere with the feds independent Monetary Policy. A recent news story noted that trump has tweeted o...

Well get into that as well. Deirdre bolton has all the fast moving developments from the big board. Neil what a week, what a week indeed. This is the worst week for the dow weve seen since 2018. Just the volatility alone today. As we can see down 470 points. We were down more than 900 points earlier. I want to highlight quickly some of the stocks that are limiting the losses on the dow. You have two pharmaceuticals, not a huge surprise in the backdrop of these fears about the coronavirus spreadi...

We bring that to you live. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. The markets. N on the hs is closing shortly and hang seng index sores soars. Carrie lam is going to withdraw her controversial extradition bill. That is the bill that kicked off the last 15 weeks of protests. Some of them with more than an estimated 2 Million People which is an incredibly impressive figure. They got that, hong kong has a total of 7 million citizens. From babies to the elderly. That would be like if you had a protest i...

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Zero is a concern and we have less scope than i would like to see or expect us to have in the longer run. Now, i think it would be worthwhile for other policymakers to think about what role they could play in addressing negative shocks should they come, and i mentioned specifically automatic stabilizers because i think thats an important way in which fiscal policy serves to cushion shocks to the economy. And it would seem to me, without getting into specifics, that there are ways in which the re...

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Lets take a look at the trajectory of futures throughout the morning here. Here you have futures going throughout the night. This is the leg lower than i am about when the testimony came out. She talked about the financial conditions of being a challenging at this point in time. She tried to walk the line between being cautious and leaving the door open to rate increases. Welooks like that is when saw the leg lower. Things are holding up relatively well. Take a look at the imap sectors on the mo...