Near 70 jump in profit after turning around its customer image. The cfo tells cnbc digital is key to the strategy. Theres a new mobile website coming out in the autumn. That will help us get to know our customers a lot better which will help drive it. So were listening to the customers. Signed and sealed. Charter communications ended a 55 billion deal to buy Time Warner Cable. Sending altice lower in holland. A very good morning to you. Lets get straight to markets after a holiday for a lot of markets yesterday. Including the u. K. Germany and the u. S. We opened up this Tuesday Morning in the red. We open slightly in the green but you can see its just sold off over the last hour or so. Were down 0. 34 . Last week was a positive week for european equities. We just corrected as the weeks kicked off. Yesterday the markets were meaningfully down. Lets look as you can see pretty much the same. Ftse 100 down 0. 7. Germany down more than that and france down less than that and italy down 0.
Undermines to some extent our credibility when we seek to advance human rights. They feel like there has been too much in the way of like it surveillance, that perhaps shouldve been more targeted or more carefully focus on people who are actually suspects . Well, first of all youre making some assumptions that are not fully qualified anymore to comment on. I guess i probably wouldnt any weight even if i knew what the Current Situation was. But i think you should assume, i think its fair to assume that we have collection priorities. We know what we want to collect against. These are targets where we think some threat may emanate. You will quickly say, what about Angela Merkel . My answer to you on that would be it seems to me that anytime somebody in the Intelligence Community is thinking about collecting against a friendly foreign leader, that kind of activity or proposed activity needs to be reviewed by people at a high political level and its not clear to me that that was done in the
Lay out the reality. If you can solve a problem you have to recognize and acknowledge that reality. I think we have a good panel. I would ask consent to enter my written Opening Statement in the record. It is always granted because our Ranking Member is such a kind gentlemen. I would like to talk a little bit about an sis message warning of 71 trained soldiers in 15 u. S. States 23 signed up for missions. I will read some experterts here. This is a perfect example of what isis is trying to do and how they are trying to use social media. Their post and of course this is claiming credit for the attacks in texas. We knew the target was protected. Our intention was to show how easy we give our lives for the sake of allah. 23 signed up for missions like sunday. We are increasing in number. Of the 15 states virginia, maryland illinois california and michigan are the ones we will name. The disbeliefers who gave their body were watched in public eye. They go on to say the next sixmonths will b
Chapter starts with a quote which ill read to you in its entirety. This talks about economics specifically wrong and microeconomics talks about things economists a wrorng about generally. Jokes aside, i dont think that does justice to the profession. I think in micro, i believe that is well published on which most academics agree, and by the standard of social sciences, a rigorous way of settling this agreement that is some scope for rigorous conclusive agreement, and they like to say micro is one true theory with many applications and macro has no true opinions. I think thats a fair assessment. Think about basic social relevant policy questions like did the obama stimulus, the agent of 2009 increase employment or not . If not, was it because it was too big or too small . It becomes really remotely resembling the policy question, and so theres always a lot of answers surrounding the answer, notwithstanding the fairly certain claims made by people who sort of know or think they know for
I think the obvious ideas are the best. They are latent, out there, but dont gel until someone names them. And when you do, it is obvious. I think people are sensing that there is something deeply wrong and troubling with the narrative that tells them the United States is in trouble because there are no so many minorities. They need another story, though, before they can say i am throwing that aside and dont want to be associated with it. So i think if i were speaking to this audience, midwestern republican audience, i would Say Something like this we need to stop for a second and talk about the demographics of the Republican Party. You know that party is 90 white. 98 of republican elected officials are white. All persons of good will need to stop and ask how did that happen in a country which whites are 64 of the population . What is going on . And some of you may find this hard to hear. I want to be clear this isnt a story about bigots. It is a story about all of us. I would really t