Officials from the Social Security administration, National Archives and state department testified about federal services backlogs due to the covid19 pandemic. Modernization efforts and staffing issues. The House Oversight and accountability subcommittee hearing is about three hours. The subcommittee on Government Operations and federal workforce will come to order and we will welcome everybody to this board hearing. Without objection the chair may declare recess at any time. I recognize myself forthe purpose of making an open statement. Before we go to the floor id like to if i can acknowledge that even formal settings like this we recognize that its important to remember we are all people. And we have families and understand that some of the people who do Business Today have been visited by some hard luck in their life with a loved one and without saying anything in particular. Perhaps many of us more than one or two are affected and its my wishes for them and their family in these
Officials from the Social Security administration, National Archives and state department testified about federal services backlogs due to the covid19 pandemic. Modernization efforts and staffing issues. The House Oversight and accountability subcommittee hearing is about three hours. The subcommittee on Government Operations and federal workforce will come to order and we will welcome everybody to this board hearing. Without objection the chair may declare recess at any time. I recognize myself forthe purpose of making an open statement. Before we go to the floor id like to if i can acknowledge that even formal settings like this we recognize that its important to remember we are all people. And we have families and understand that some of the people who do Business Today have been visited by some hard luck in their life with a loved one and without saying anything in particular. Perhaps many of us more than one or two are affected and its my wishes for them and their family in these
Is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d. C. Im barred shelter. Coming up some apple shareholders want to test the effects of i phone and its addictive tendencies plus the new year is here but whats in store for commodities in twenty eighteen in a few minutes we will be joined by peter schiff the Euro Pacific Capital for a look into what to expect and later well talk about the looming Government Shutdown showdown and about how it could actually cost all of us money now lets get to the top stories in todays business and financial advice. Apple is being pushed by two significant shareholders to investigate the risk of i phone addiction among. Children and adolescents activist shareholder firm gentle partners and the california state state teachers retirement system cal stirrers wrote to apple over the weekend to suggest that apple look into the development of software that would enable the parents to place time limits on their Kids Smartphone Usage and research the br
Ask peter schiff the c. E. O. Of Euro Pacific Capital who joins us from connecticut peter happy new year and thanks for being with us again weve certainly had a crazy good equity markets in the last thirteen months or more what about commodity marker markets going on so far in the last year or so and going on in the future. Well im very bullish on commodities in fact more so than on most stock markets particularly in the United States and of commodities had been in bear markets up until i think just recently weve broken out of some rather substantial down friends that have been in place not just for commodities in general but for Commodity Companies many of these companies have been heading down since two thousand and eleven when a lot of clout of these peaks and weve seen some down trends break there as well so as an investor in both commodities and commodity stocks i think things look very courage ing but i think you know overall a lot of the inflation that investors were happy to ha
Among children and adolescents activist shareholder firm general partners and the california state state teachers retirement system cal stirrers wrote to apple over the weekend to suggest that apple look into the development of software that would enable the parents to place time limits on their Kids Smartphone Usage and research the broader effects of smartphone use on Mental Health two entities writing to apple control two billion dollars in stock and callous toures as one of the biggest Pension Plans in the United States some resurgence of found indications of a relation between online social networking and depression among teenagers and theres even reactions that they have uncovered dealing with the loss of a smartphone access to at least partially resemble a withdraw from drugs alcohol or even nicotine. Meanwhile more controversy is stirring in the tech world as analyst and lawyers rakes questions about a major sale of intel stock by intel c. E. O. Brian chris an itch following re