who try to figure out what the new trump era regulations mean. in particular this new travel rule. if you look at the big tech , who ceos have been outspoken against that travel ban, many of those shares are trading lower. technology is a big weight on the overall averages. looking at the contractors who do business in iraq. in response to the u.s. saying there will be a 120 day delay in allowed to come into the united states, iraq has made a similar proclamation. we also see oil decline in prices. energy is the worst performer in the s&p 500. it expects the eventual collapse of the opec cannot opec production deal. even if it could get as high a 65. immigration is reverberating around the world. industry groups. all nine are trading lower today. all 19 are trading lower today. and five. week just a highlight of a move we have seen. german boones reflecting the move. yields falling in germany. healed swear rising earlier. this is a spread between the german 10 year and th
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serves a a chief staff attorney at court of appeal in virginia. the committee for responsible federal budget and member of the campaign to fix the debt committee. she served alongside bob as a member of the bipartisan policy the president of ceo of the center for american progress and counsel for american progress fund. she was one of the first here. we opened our door as serving as senior vice president for domestic policy. since then she has served as legislate i have director for senator clinton. presidential campaign and domestic policy director as president obama and campaign in 2008 and senior adviser for health reform at the department of health and human services. david is the chief washington bureau at the new york times company. and writes the weekly economic scene column for the business section. se serves as staff writer for the new york times and magazine and contributes to the economist blog. in 2007 he was awarted the pulitzer prize for commentary. prior to
th a ton of respect, because bob and maya know this very well and have been working for a long time, but on the near-term economy, i think you had it backwards. one of you said the economy has done better than we expected. in fact, pretty much every forecast, almost every fellow reserve forecast has been marked down because the economy continues to be worse than we gao gdprrently growth year over year is currently barely two percent. we do not have second-quarter yet. the forecast coming in around one percent. revenues came in higher than expected there it it was not a policy. that is the second when i wanted to disagree with. demonstrably that is not a function of a faster growing economy. i grant you it is part of it. it would be good to know how much.someone should decompose that. in my first comment, i talked about $2.8 trillion in deficit savings. the tax increase deal they were talking about. the fiscal cliff. anyway, holiday, the expiration of the payroll tax. w
better word, politically activist terms. i do not think eleanor roosevelt, as much as i admire her, was the most influential first lady in american history. she had an enormous amount of influence wash was there. not. not only in terms of articulating president s president roosevelt s andiatives from attack expanding the democratic party coalition. you know, having a huge role in shaping social security. the homestead pottage act. the youth administration. the federal loan oh grams. to antecedent, if you well, be national endowment for the arts. she helped influence the administration. and were profoundly effective party organizers. some of those students that i grassrootsk for organizations campus and use eleanor roosevelt s training manual for canvassing. she was influential in shaping policy. i think that nancy reagan and hillary clinton were more across-ial on specific the-board policies. let me interrupt you for a second, i am fascinated with what you say. i m tr