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The oil news really make up for that . As you can see, crude is up about 25 or so, but the rest of the market trying to hang in there as well. Every economist was very surprised here that the jobless claims were double what they were last weekend, more so than a lot of economist had been expecting. Indeed, 10 million jobs claims in two weeks, that really gets your attention. What is going on with bonds . I want to take a look at the bond market, i do think we have the board there, david. I dont ...

Correct balanced way. Youre watching R T International bring you your line news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. And the rapid escalation of the conflict iran has officially designated the u. S. Armed forces as a terrorist organization thats according to local media parlance a boat comes in response to the killing of the countrys most powerful general and then the us air raid at iraqs Baghdad Airport on friday iran views the killing of as an act of state sponsored te...

Professor west has written many books including race matters and brother west. Professor george books include making men moral and conscience and the enemies. Host Robert George, when did you first meet the man sitting next to you . Mustve been in the 1990s, a little while after brother cornel came to princeton, and we were together in faculty, seminars a think under the auspices of the center for human values that we didnt know each other very well. We would just say hello. We interacted a a bi...

Bestselling author, tom friedman. [inaudible conversations]. From the failing New York Times, the truth is, that the times succeed on some fronts. And the central reason is that it is home to outstanding journalists, a standout among them, is tom friedman. [applause] you may have noticed in the program that there is a photo that purports to be tom friedman. You know, tom is young but looks like he is accelerating in reverse in that photo. Tom has spent his life getting out into the world doing t...

Book, inside job, how government insiders subvert the Public Interest. His book looks at the sources of national decline. Typically when people think about national decline, they often look outside government, add special Interest Groups that try to coop governments for their own benefit. However, mark takes a different approach and looks at the sources of national decline. Com from inside government, from government insiders. It may cause even more harm to countries and civilizations than the h...

Dr. Zupans book look at the sources of national decline. Typically when people think about the sources of national decline they often look outside of government at specialInterest Groups that try to coopt government for their own benefit. However dr. Zupan takes a different approach and looks at the sources of national decline that come from inside government , from government insiders and it may cause even more harm to countries and civilizations than the harm that comes from outside of governm...

Numbers. Abigail looking at mixed trading for the major averages headed into the close, down ever so slightly, held back by energy. We do have the nasdaq trading modestly higher, helped by Technology Strength and carving out new record highs on the day. Not a lot of conviction, but one thing that all three major averages have in common is apple, the biggest point used for each of the major averages. Today, great fun fact, this is the precise tenure in 10 Year Anniversary of the introduction of t...

Good morning, everybody. It is 6 00. And it is saturday. We made it to the weekend. Were certainly glad youre with us. And be prepared its a little chilly out there. Definitely a change in the air mass. Nice to have you back. Its good to be back. Missed you last week. Thank you. Were back in action. Were back in action with the nippy stuff already. Kerry is wearing a big heavy winter coat. Ear must haves enter lets go to the earmuffs. Lets go the b now. The try ton regional middle school, 48 thi...

Are expecting the clouds to be decreasing tonight, a low will be another windy day but i think we will see more sunshine. However, it is still going to be cold up to 40 for degrees. We will take a look at the rest of the forecast coming up. 36 rescues and 36 hours, that is what the loo got Fire Department had to accomplish during the october floods. News 19s Mary Stargell said sat down with two of the rescuers who had just received their swift water rescue training 11 months before they really n...