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Investors, and the American Financial system. I will now give an Opening Statement for five minutes. Today we are here for a hearing on its books proposed Digital Currency, libra, and digital wallet, and the impact on consumers, investors, and the Financial System. David marcus, following his testimony, a panel of experts will share their views on this book plans, is there are serious concerns about the creation of a Digital Currency and digital wallet to expand its reach, like mastercard, paypa...

[gavel] committee will come to order. Without objection the chair to declare recrest of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitledle policy and the state of the economy. I now recognize four minutes to an opening statement. Today we convene on Monetary Policy and the state of the economy. Chairman powell, welcome back. Oday i would like to start by addressing the current elephant in the room when it comes to policy and the fed. This president has made it clear or he has no understanding...

Captioning performed by vitac many have expressed concern that facebook could outcompete banks and nondepository Financial Institutions and become some sort of Financial Services monopoly. I understand facebook has demonstrated a dominance in the social media space but i want to better understand this Financial Services monopoly idea. The Libra Association is made up of 28 pounding members, more to come, many of which have played in the Payment Processing space for a long time. Some of these fir...

And the state of the economy. The committee will come to order. The chair is authorised to declare recess at any time. This hearing is called Monetary Policy and the state of the economy. I would like to start by addressing the elephant in the room. This president has made it clear that he has no understanding or respect for the independence of the Federal Reserve. Doesnt fed, have a clue. Most lled at this time difficult problem for the u. S. Hes ing to media reports discussed firing chairman p...

The tenyear bull market makes new history as the fed chair appears to make the case for a rate cut plus big tech is at the center of the president s tariff fights as france vows to tax some of the largest American Companies. The white house hits back. And forget f. A. N. G. Jim has a new basket of stocks to watch you saw it here on squawk on the street. The s p surpassing 3,000 yesterday for the First Time Ever after the fed chair did signal a rate cut is on the horizon. This morning it goes bac...

To political lobbying and haranguing, whether it comes from this end of pennsylvania avenue or the other end. I think youve stuck to your guns so far, but i want you to keep sticking to your guns i would like to turn to some questions about facebook and its proposed cryptocurrency, libra im a supporter of innovation in the Financial Sector, and if done right, this notion of a cryptocurrency could really deliver, i think, real benefits to the for increased friction, more access to consumers. But ...

Consistently speaking throughout this nation, one of the fastest ways forward is in fact education. Your comment do you disagree with that . I totally agree with that the comment with senator cotton is a part of the challenge we had with upward mobility in our society that put the focus on education is the importance of understanding globalization and technology and the chasm that it creates for the workforce for those on one side are going to be impacted by the grow iing technology and gap bein...

Across the nation one of the fastest ways forward is education. I totally agree with that. Your comment with senator cotton got my attention. A part of the challenge we have with upward mobility in our society, which put the focus on education, is the importance of understanding globalization in technology and the chasm it creates in our workforce for those on one side who will be detrimentally impacted by this growing technology and technological gap that is being created. This gig economy requ...

I think you have stuck to your guns so far but i want you to keep sticking to your guns. I would like to turn to some questions about facebook and its proposed cryptocurrency, libre. I am a supporter of innovation in the Financial Sector. Cryptocurrencya could really deliver real for increased friction and more access for consumers. As somebody who has spent the last couple of years dealing with social media and facebook in particular, i think it would facebook hasy that developed something of a...

Africa 54. 00 of 55. 00 leaders attending the recent African Union summit in nigeria has signed an agreement to create the african Continental Free Trade Area the proposal under discussion for 4 years advanced after Regional Power nigeria was convinced to support it. As one of the remaining holdouts on the continents agreement which would eliminate most tariffs has been ratified in the National Parliaments of about half of the African Union members the unions trade and industry commissioner pred...