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Inflation had markets wondering what comes next. What comes next is the cpi at 8 30. Crude oil prices are slightly higher. Up. 80 . Now to the latest headlines in israel. The minister of energy and infrastructure saying overnight the siege of gaza will not be lifted until the hostages taken by hamas are returned home. In the meantime, u. S. Secretary of state blinken arrived in tel aviv today. He is meeting with Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu. The Palestinian Organization posted on x that bli...

However, the recent additional decline in oil prices and further appreciation of the dollar, mean that it will take a bit more time for these effects fully to dissipate. Charlie joining me now is glenn hubbard, the dean at columbia business school, a Top Republican economic advisor. Gillian tett is a managing editor at the financial times. Alan blinder is a professor at Princeton University and a former fed vice chairman. David leonhardt of the New York Times will be joining us. He has joined us...

My name is Arthur Laffer. I am an economist. I live in nashville, tennessee. And we are here in washington, d. C. At the w hotel. I was in the omb. I was the chief economist at the omb then. I found my friends up in the omb really boring. So, i always came down and hung out with the oao people. Bill bradley was in that group, and Christine Todd whitman, and jim leach they were interns, as i recall. Yeah, interns. It was just a fun group of people. Art laffer, dick cheney, and i would have dinner...

Take one. Arthur my name is Arthur Laffer. I am an economist. I live in nashville, tennessee. And we are here in washington, d. C. At the w hotel. Arthur i was in the omb. I was the chief economist at the omb then. And id found my friends up there in the omb really boring. So, i always came down and hung out with the oao people. Bill bradley was in that group, and Christine Todd whitman, and jim leach they were interns, as i recall. Arthur yeah, interns. It was just a fun group of people. Don ar...

Over the past year we welcomed the actors and directors. Tonight, we bring you conversations with those nominees. This years oscar field has one thing in common, it is a passion for storytelling. we begin with selma. It is the genetic story, the civil rights marches of selma, alabama. In the attempt to liberate dr. King from his legacy, we see him in the context of the movement. Hes captured marching and fighting alongside the men and women who have moved the needle of racial progress. We are no...

Service that will offer cloudbased access to watson supercomputers. I am pleased to have the ceo of ibm at this table for the first time. Welcome. Ginni thank you. Charlie tell me where ibm is today. Where you want to take it. Ginni i have a great company. It is 104 years old. We said we are transforming. I say to everyone, you dont get to be 104 years old by doing the same thing. You talk about the Tech Industry a lot but it is an industry that violently represents itself over and over, and you...

Chair tom wheeler it was interesting, how interested everybody is to learn exactly what the rules are about and how we structured them in such a way that they are built on the mobile model. We built them around what has worked for the last 22 years in terms of regulating the Wireless Industry in the United States. So that we could make sure that there was adequate investment that would continue to come as a result of the fact that there is no rate regulation, no tariffing, and those traditional ...

The most interesting thing is how to learn exactly what the rules are about and how we structured them in such a way that theyre built on the mobile model and we built them around what has worked the last 22 years in terms of regulating the Wireless Industry in the United States so that we could make sure that there was adequate investment that would continue to come by the fact there is no rate tariffing or the kinds of monopoly regulation you heard during the debate. The feeling im getting her...

Lower profit in four years. The company also says it is having another 11,000 jobs after an earlier announced plan to cut 9000 positions. It is all in response to declining crude prices. It did announce it is paying another quarterly dividend. Congress reveals key legislation to boost president obamas International Trade agenda. The bipartisan deal allows congress to approve an amendment. It is to smooth over a multilateral trade deal with nations on both sides of the pacific. Imf chief Christin...

Even though he is no longer the editor, what does that mean . John if you choose miliband you are risking the british economy. If you choose cameron, you are risking britain leaving the European Union. Charlie with miliband, you risk the economy because of the austerity policies . John osborne has done a fantastic job keeping the economy going. A lot of skepticism about it. Britain is growing faster than most of the other developed countries, europe as a whole. You have the thing of reducing the...