New york city who is helping us to h great and educated guide fr teachers speeded you canan finih watching this if you go to our website at cspan. Org. We will live there to take your life to a conference on federal spending and debt. Current debt, which is around 100 of gdp is at a level we havent seen since world war ii and is a growing cause of concern. Tackling this problem presents a variety of challenges. Today were fortunate to have a group of very smart and accomplished people who are going to share their insights. Well get to hear a variety of perspectives. To do this, we have a mix of panels, discussions and speakers. Well hear about the economic and fiscal challenges caused by the debt. The impact of debt on invests and consumers, the roles played by Social Security. Approaches for analysting fiscal policies and finally a discussion of potential policy options. And a number of dimensions of the debt challenge. For our first panel we have two distinguished speakers, arguably
Nasdaq up by almost 10 points. S p down by a point. This comes after the markets closed at record highs again the longest streak of record closes for the s p 500 in years, going back to 97 or something and its six in a row, but remember two weeks ago and three weeks ago and four weeks ago, we were saying how many records there were back then this one didnt start until last thursday so the one that takes us back to 1997 it was 130 points yesterday on the dow or 113 after all these moves. 22,775, almost 23,000 on the dow. The s p 2552 and since the election, its 24 . 25 since the election 25 after yesterday widely predicted by so many if you want to see what happened overnight in asia, lets look the nikkei was up by 0. 3 , similar gain for the hang seng the kospi was up by 0. 9 in the early trading were already seeing taking place in europe, you can see things are mixed. The dax is slightly positive the cac is weaker. The ftse is up by a quarter percentage point stocks are weaker in ital
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