The smithsonian institution. To his right is dr. Eric conway, historian and former langley historian. He spent some time year before jpl, and then our last, currently with aims. And lets go to bill. Will moderate our panel and give us some great stories. Thanks, bill. [applause] bill thanks, everybody, and this is a great opportunity, what hath than 40 on years ago today and tomorrow. Happened 40 years ago today and tomorrow. Hat happened. Reason, it is really attempting to land on mars. No one has been able to do it before. Of until six attempts that point, and none of them completely successful. Were about 40 seconds of data transmission. 3 not a great success. We got to the moon in the first 20 years, but getting to mars was harder. Rooms many of you in the as i guess from the looks at things might have been involved in that project, or were younger and were not there, but it was an exciting time, reaching out to try to take a big leap in terms of understanding if there was life on
Kinds of words, all manner of words, that paid sure of a healthier economy that paint of a healthier economy, words like solid, strong, and strengthening. Still absent in the statement is a reference to balanced risks. As you know, there was much focused on this heading into the meeting, and again, the balanced seen since theen december statement. There are plenty of to be sures. Slowing growth and Household Spending as well as little change in inflation expectation. What is the overall takeaway . Much sums it up. The fed is trying to create enough room to raise rates at its june meeting without surprising the markets, and, of course, the june meeting comes with a revision of Economic Projections as well as a press conference with janet yellen, the fed chair. The fed also this time reiterated its desire to tighten policy at a gradual pace. That important . Because the fed is going to have to raise rates soon if it was to increase arming cost by 50 basis points before the end of the yea
I dont now. If anyone in my family or anybody you know where shopping this year it sure sounds like it were at nike. They killed it yesterday. Lets start with the first word. Vonnie thank you so much, human Rights Groups russia could be guilty of more crimes in syria. They are dropping unguided weapons on densely populated areas. The group says hundreds of civilians have been killed. Government troops are fighting Islamic State forces. He was spokesperson says and a rocky victory is inevitable but once the greg or easy. American drivers up at 1. 6 billion back into their wallets during the holidays this year and it is all thanks to cheap gas. Prices are under two dollars a gallon. Bloomberg newss power 24 hours a day in more than 150 markets around the world. Firste a look at off futures. Up across the board. Back again back to sticking off the week. Could this be day three . 0. 2 . Ht now dow jones up about a third of one percent. Upe a look right now at wti, for a third day. Big gain
Bearish on stocks even after the s p has closed at record highs 52 times so far this year. And we will be speaking with former American Airlines chief executive bob crandall. He will help us understand how another passenger jet could vanish. Plus, a special guest host in the next hour, the former president of cnn and current ceo of his startup will discuss the current state of media in light of the sony hack attack. The movie made 15 million over the holidays. Political and financial turmoil in greece today. The country faces early elections as soon as next month after the defeat of the Prime Minister, who failed in his third and final attempt to persuade parliament to back his choice for president. The favorite in the elections will be the party which opposes the greek bailout agreement austerity with the eu and imf that has the Stock Exchange down as much as 11 in trade. Investigators say the missing airasia passenger jet is probably at the bottom of the sea. It disappeared on a flig
Election. Heres a sampling, its my opinion that many of the leaks coming out of the white house are fabricated lies made up by the Fake News Media. And this, when you see the words sources say in the Fake News Media and they dont mention names, its possible those sources dont exist and will are made up by fake news writers. Fake news is the enemy. And this does anyone notice how the montana congressional race was such a big deal to demes and fake news until the republican won. V. Was poorly covered. Thats what the president wrote this morning. Lets not forget that the president s lack of a single News Conference with reporters on his nineday trip was unprecedented. The press corps traveling with the president was boxed out. It wasnt just the president. There were no oncamera briefings or access to the major players, one exception. But does the weeks lack of accessibility overall reflect a bunker mentality thats setting in. Amid the russian investigations back in d. C. And how will the