Hosted by the American Academy of political and social science. She is the recipient of the academies 2019 Daniel Patrick moynihan prize. Good afternoon. Can you hear me okay, everybody . Im tom kecskemethy, executive director the American Academy of political and social science. It my pleasure to welcome all of you to our seventh annual Daniel Patrick moynihan lecture on social science and Public Policy. Very briefly before you move into todays proceedings, i know we all want to hear from ambassador power, were pleased to such if the last as always, happy to be joined by folks who work with senator moynihan and to be joined by members of the family who have been so supportive of this enterprise from the start. I havent seen morena yet but she may be. She will be with us at some point today. Maura is his daughter and shes been a tremendous supporter of our organization and this initiative from the beginning. I also would like to thank Sage Publications your sage in the publishing world
The terminal. 57. 4. Withigure bang in line earlier estimates. A strong figure if you look at the pmi manufacturing figure five yearsst four or or so, that is equal to the high of a couple of months ago. So, manufacturing going from strength to strength. 57. 4, the actual figure 57. 4. Sets us up nicely for the ecb meeting on thursday, backing some view that the economy is Strong Enough to weather the beginning of the normalization of of ecb policy. Check out what is happening with European Equity markets. We are on track for a weekly gain. Weve been alternating on a weekly basis for the lesast six. Infell for a third month august. Worst losing run since february 2016. The u. S. Jobs report. The euro is down against the dollar today. After rising for six out of the last eight weeks. Be question will be well asking our first guest of the hour is has the dollars fortune changed . To. 10year yields, fell 2. 11 , lowest since november. Est month for the u. S. 10year talking about falling y
Who writes puerto rico is already an environmental tragedy. Hurricane maria will make it even worse. Then President Trump gives his first address to the u. N. General assembly, boasting about the size of the u. S. Military and threatening to totally destroy north korea. Pres. Trump the United States has great strength and patience. But if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. Rocket man is on a Suicide Mission for himself and for his regime. Amy we will get reaction from jeff sachs on north korea, iran, climate change, President Trump. As continues its ethnic cleansing with more than 400,000 people forced out of burma we will speak with andrea pitzer, author of the new book, one long night a global history of concentration camps. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In mexico, the death toll from the massive, magnitude 7. 1 earthquake has ri
Continues to climb. Tom that is the backstory and we touch on that today. Lets get to our top friday headlines with vonnie quinn. ,onnie we start right there how events will affect u. S. Economic growth. The fed decided not to raise Interest Rates for the first time in nine years. Janet yellen says most policymakers still expect to raise rates this year, but first they need more convincing on the economy. The committee continues to anticipate that the first increase in the fed funds rate will be appropriate when it has seen some further improvement in the labor market and is reasonably confident that inflation will move back to its 2 objective over the mediumterm. Vonnie futures contract imply a 44 chance the fed will raise rates in december. A flood of refugees has led croatia to close almost all its borders to serbia. In about two days, 30,000 refugees have entered croatia from the serbian side. They turned to croatia after hungary used force to push them away. General motors has agr
To enter the race today. Marco rubio of florida is holding a rally in miami. That is 6 00 p. M. Tonight. President obama and fidel castro met over the weekend in panama the First Encounter in more than 50 years. President obama said that the two difficult on issues and can turn the page. The tphebgsnext big step is whether they remove the designation as state sponsor of terrorism. The Obama Administration will be selling the Iran Nuclear Deal this week to a Skeptical Congress. Cabinet members will have a closed door briefingor members of the house today and brief the senate tomorrow. He argued they should be able to negotiate a final deal before Congress Ways in. John kerry we have earned the right with what we have laid out in this parameter that has been set forth we have earned the right to complete this without interference and certainly without partisan politics. Olivia the senate is about to take up a bill that would give congress 60 days to review any final agreement with iran a