com. mcsweeney: the ftc is the primary consumer protection authority in the federal government so we have a very broad jurisdiction but we work closely with the fcc when it telecommunications issues. for a number of years, we shared some areas of consumer protection jurisdiction primarily. the ftc prevents us from having too much jurisdiction in this space and i m sure we will get to that in our conversation because it exempts common carriers. peter: commissioner ohlhausen, one of the issues semi-settled is the net neutrality issue, something the ftc had been involved in. how has your work changed, how has your role changed since the fcc decided on net neutrality? com. ohlhausen: you are a true optimist if you think it is semi-settled. i think there s still more to go in that story. the issue isn t the common carrier exemption. now that the fcc has reclassified broadband internet service as title ii service, it is common carrier service. it creates a hurdle for the ftc to bri
continue on. the u.s. moving to we will take a look at mba mortgage applications. earnings before the bell. tiffany s, michaels, express. more retailers. more retailers. here is one item to note. anti-aa college football season begins today. labor negotiations began last week. tiffany s will be interesting because of the japan influence. absolutely. i find there to be a big asterix around it. substitutable goods. yes, they are. let s do a data check. stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities. 2002 was the closest. 500.on the s&p there is the vix. the dow well above 17,000. was really smart on this yesterday. flatter yield curve, higher two-year yield compared to what you to a lower 10 year yield. let s go to the other side of the world. versus south korea. here is the asian crisis. this is ugly korea. japan does better. this is the churn. stronger yen. this is the abenomics pullover. this is really moving. stronger korean. this profoundly affect south korea. theou
after a secret diplomatic mission freed them from prison in north korea. kenneth bayh and matthew miller had been sentenced to years of hard labor for what north korea called hostile acts. james klepper negotiated their release and a one-day trip to north korea. he bears no ill will to them. he would not have wished the two years upon himself. nobody does in a labor camp. he looks back and he wants good to come out of all this for everyone involved. kenneth bayh is a missionary north korea said matthew miller was trying to exacerbate the human rights situation. the united states is trying to figure out if it killed her wonder the leader of the islamic state. meeting.e 30 leaders previously states there was killed in a u.s. airstrike in 2006. new revelations about general motors faulty ignition switches gm ordered half a million replacements which is almost two months before telling federal safety investigations that i had a problem. have a problem. it led to a recal
the veto, only the third of obama hospira and see. janet yellen obama s presidency. the fed chair got the attention of investors when she told the senate banking committee that an interest rate increase is in the works. the modification should be understood as reflecting the committee s judgment the conditions have improved to the point where it will soon be at the case that the change in the target range could be warranted. betty: yellen will faced questions from house financial services panel. greece has more work to do if it wants to keep getting aid. the new reforms from alexis tsipras clear the way for a four-month extension of the bailout. the imf managing director says the plans may not meet the lenders benchmarks. christine lagarde says greece must do more. ukraine talks yesterday between foreign ministers broke down to finger-pointing. russia and ukraine lane each other for violating the cease-fire deal. president obama s national security advisor has sharp word
but, you know, without an american advisory effort and american units to partner with, there s no one there to oversee bad commanders, to say this guy needs to be relieved. when we were there, for instance, maliki removed every single bedivide commander in the brigade commander in the national police and two-thirds of the [inaudible] some of them twice. so we forced accountability on the state. but when we removed that check on maliki s baser tendencies, he was able to do whatever he wanted to do starting with the attempted arrest of the vice president of the state of iraq. and just to follow up on that , maliki has his own set of political considerations only some of which are to have an effective fighting force and some of which are to create patronage networks and all those sorts of things. one of the things that was interesting to me about your account of the charge of the knights is it wasn t clear to me whether maliki thought the u.s. was actually vital in his inn