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About to see can be viewed in entirety by visiting our website booktv. Org and using the search function at the top of the page. First in february of 2015 the American Enterprise institutes peter appeared on our Author Interview program afterwards where he argued that Government Housing policy caused the 2008 financial crisis. Peter, your new book is called hidden in plain sight, what really caused the worlds financial crisis and why it can happen again. You were a member of the Financial Crisis Commission which was investigating the causes to have 07, 08 financial crisis. What did you see that they didnt . I had been locking at the housing system in the United States, doddfrank and well, ....
Peter your new book is called hidden in plain sight. You remember the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission investigating the cause of the 2,072,008 financial crisis not only democrats but also from the republican appointees what did you see that they didnt . The housing system in the United States fannie mae and freddie mac for quite a while before a lot of background of what has been happening in the housing sector. I was looking for the commission to look into what happened with fannie mae and freddie mac what role they couldve played in the housing crisis and i found the commission was not interested in that. They would not look at it to the degree that i tried to interest them and given all kinds of signals that is not something they would do but my differences with the republicans came from the fact that my view our responsibility on the commission was ....
And nasdaq. Strong market gains for the Bluechip Companies. Just using two of them as an example, we have apple up three dollars, microsoft up at 146. They have been higher than that earlier. Microsoft up earlier. Did they hit bottom this week . A lot of people have been buying them. Were asking that question. I hope a bottom for a lot of companies. Oil moving up to 25. Barrel. Its down 15 cents now. The government is buying oil but the petroleum written for the petroleum reserve. Whats he going to do about the russian and saudi attack on american drillers. We will ask that question to him. Gas prices tumbling. The National Averages 2. 17 a gallon falling about two cents a day. In oklahoma the averages a dollar 80. In california its 3. 25. According to gas buddy we will be down to a National Average of well unde ....
Out of his still in the but love that we may keep one another healthy and safe. It will therefore be unusual but mr. Speaker this legislation represents a bipartisan resolve to me the coronavirus challenge. It represents a focus on families and workers to the objective to make them safer and economically supported. It will protect workers and their families and our economy as we all do our part to flatten the curve. Public Health Officials made it clear that the only chance we have to prevent them from getting overwhelmed is for as Many Americans to stay home as possible. It is however necessary to be here, to pass legislation, respond on behalf of thees American People to the daunting challenge. Closure means large parts of the economy are temporarily shut down causing severe disruption for businesses and workers. We ....
Good friday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. I am Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt at post nine of the New York Stock Exchange record highs across the board as the dow is up 129. Session highs now. Absolutely. Were going to start with apple at fresh highs shares of the tech titan hitting records as three wall street analysts upgrade price targets on the stock mike molson upped his bet on apple from 270 to 290. Dan iefs sees it head for 325, and another raises to 290 from 280. Joining us, dan ives happy friday you too. Quite a run for apple from here, up 38 in the last 12 months, consequently up 30 in the last six months. Those first six months, wasnt doing much, what convinces you, is it mostly the iphone thats got that much more room, 24 or so from here to run . Great question. There are tw ....