The dow plunged 179 points, the nasdaq 62, s p 23. Gold added 6 dollars and oil dropped 1. 09. Google is buying Home Automation Company nest lab for 3. 2 billion. Charter communications reportedly wants to buy time warner for 132. 50 per share. The government logged a 53 billion dollar surplus in december. Its expected to reduce the government deficit by 41 in the first quarter. The obamacare 2013 numbers are in. And show 2. 15 million americans signed up picked a health plan through Health Exchange websites. Jim richter of Performance Trust joins us on this Tuesday Morning for a closer look at the bond market. Good morning jim. Whats the bond market signaling about 4th quarter earnings . Good morning angie. Clearly bonds are strong this year. Had you asked 10 economists at the start of this year where rates were going they would all say they were going up. If you look at where 10 year treasury and long bond is trading they are down in yield and up nicely in price from the beginning of
Dollars funding to bike sharing some willo to the east bay and other existing cities in the pilot well be expecting to get some of that money and one use is to do the primary engineering for a large expansion in San Francisco. That will happen if you have any questions, ill be happy to answer them thanks. Was under a Public Comment on this item . Great so let open this up for Public Comment good morning or afternoon kate. I want to thank you for your careful attention this is about bike sharing Going Forward will effect our city. So thank you for that is there any other Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Director chang to thank our staff in collaboration with the t c and other stakeholders and nonprofits and Community Based on organizations around the region and amber crab a principle planner and others and we appreciate their hard work on this thank you. Great. Thank you lastly i hope sfmta has helped the region in terms of great Decision Making and n
Care costs and medical debt. Patient advocates and Health Care Officials testify this is. About an hour and 20 minutes. The committee of banking housing and urban affairs will come into order. Todays hearings a hybrid format. Our witnesses will testify in person. Thanks to all five of you for making the effort to be here. Some of you came as far from cleveland, so thank you for that. The members will virtually. Thinking of saying a loved one brush to the hospital in an ambulance or learning you have a chronic disease that is going to require years of k are and monitoring, these kind of medical ordeals or some of the scariest moments in a familys life. They can happen at anytime to anyone without warning. Suddenly, you are coordinating doctors visits and calls with insurance companies. You are nervously checking your savings account. Youre spending hours on in turnable phone calls trying to get answers. Youre dealing with it all while worrying whether your husband or your mother or your
Someone setting out to do this in a league of opportunity. But that leads to the second thing, which is i do worry that a leak as important as it is overshadows a decision that was leaked and then turned into law. I think your second point was mine, which is i think the fact of the league is so much less consequential than the content of the leak. And i think, to the extent that anyone whos questioning the Supreme Court, its not the fact that an opinion got out, but the fact that it is willing to just really make the law in its own conservative image. I think i might take a different take on that because the norms of the process is our trans substantive. So if you want to lead on this than, what about lower courts . What about confidentiality . Anywhere . So, im not institutionalist enough to think that yes, it shouldnt distract from the fact that dobbs is a major decision that revoked or read that existed for 50 years, but essentially if the Supreme Court can no longer do its work, th
That is the sternest you can imagine about confidentiality. It is an incredibly strong norm in the court because it is fraught enough without having to worry about these things. I would say two things. I clerked before the pandemic when most people work from their offices. We had laptops, but were not necessarily working from home. There is a greater possibility that the leak was maybe not intentional, or at least not the result of someone setting out to do this. More of a leak of opportunity. That leads to the second thing, i do worry that the leak overshadows the importance of the decision that was leaked. Your second point was mine. The fact of the leak is so much less consequential than the content of the leak. To the extent that anyone is questioning the Supreme Court is not the fact that an opinion got out, but the fact that it is willing to remake the law in its own conservative image. I might take a different take on it. The norms and the processes are trend substantive. If you