People are paying attention to. We almost had a three handle. Youre in october, down 300 points, and, of course, germany is not cooperating. The tenyear is solo at this point. But still not as loy as italy. And and where would you butt your money . If you can take an italian bond or a u. S. Bond . I have so many things in my head, lisping to the fed comments yesterday, my whole idea about how the fed has potentially set us up for something that could be scary, its not going to be inflagdz. Its going to be that it didnt work. All of a sudden, europe is in its third recession since the crisis. Were in a slowdown. Finally, weve got no remedies and we finally and yeah. And weve tried to lessen the impact on everyone, which is you know, you cant blame the fed for trying to do that. But sooner or later, they finally get to the point where i didnt know about the comments until you said it. He is the minneapolis fed chief. And saying to raise rates in 2015 doesnt expect next year. The entire w
Partnerships to address a broad range of global challenges, building cyber space capability and confronting uncertainty with agility and innovation. This is a particularly difficult job today as we see a resurgent russia, and rising china, challenging us with Nuclear Capabilities, space and cyber space, as well as countries like north korea and iran, seeking greater roles in these domains, proliferation of technology, and information has increased risks, posed by nonstate actors in many of these areas, as well. In short, Strategic Deterrence may be more challenging today than it has ever been. This is why we at the Atlantic Council have been tackling many of these issues head on, including our work in russia, particularly our transatlantic Security Work as we chart a path for a europe, whole and free. Likewise we have been doing extensive programming on Cyber Security and cyber state craft initiative. Ranging from natos Cyber Mission to the recent cyberattack on sony. Our initiative an
Again, we are live here on this friday morning at the center for strategic and international studies. Well hear from paul kuzuk. He is expected to talk blt coast guards mission and the effect the economy is having on that mission. No legislative business in the house for today. There will be be a brief pro forma session today. The session is in and lawmakers will be gathering in about half an hour to the debate about the keystone pipeline. The house passed its measure on the vote earlier this week. You can see that at 9 30 eastern. House republicans continuing their retreat in hershey pennsylvania. Senate democrats held a meeting in baltimore with president obama yesterday. Today the president is back here in washington. He is meeting with british Prime Minister dave cameron. That meeting is set for 11 05 eastern today, and afterwards the two will hold a press conference at 12 20. Following the joint press conference, well open the phone line for your reaction. Well also look aa your t
Put in place to assure peoples privacy and to make sure that government is not abusing these powers, and on the other hand there are times when Law Enforcement and those of us whose job it is to protect the public are not thinking about those problems because we are trying to track and prevent the a particular terrorist event from happening. It is useful to have civil libertarians and others tapping us on the shoulder in the midst of this process and reminding us that there are values at stake as well and we welcome that kind of debate. The technologies are evolving in ways that potentially make this trickier. If we get into a situation which the technologies do not allow us at all to track somebody that we are confident is a terrorist, if we find evidence of a terrorist plot somewhere in the middle east that traces directly back to london or new york, we have specific information, we are confident that this individual or this network is about to activate a plot, and despite knowing th
You just wrote a book that says a lot of what the government does may not do any good and we spend i omitted the word may. Isnt there some point of having a Budget Constraint here which says to the congress, ok look, live within these things and lets spend more on the stuff that works and doesnt. Thats kind of the idea. Right. A, sent that a good idea . And b, why doesnt that ever happen . Why doesnt it ever happen . Why dont they set priorities and spend more on what they should and less on what they shouldnt . I think its just too hard. The government is gargantuan. Theres a book of Government Programs, if you dropped it on your toe, would you have to immediately go to the hospital. Thousands of pages. The government is just huge. How can you we cant even control the department of defense. We were in a meeting a couple months ago that had an important senior official and department of defense said they dont even know what the budget is. Is that correct . No, thats not right. Im talki