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Retail sales and import export prices. Also worth watching today, november Consumer Sentiment and business inventories. Andrew, over to you. Corporate news this morning, Oil Field Services provider baker hughes confirming its now in talks with rival halliburton. This after the wall street journal reported on negotiations between the two. A merger would create a want korth 67 billion or possibly more. This years drop in Energy Prices has hurt and sent stock prices in the nasdaq much lower. Industry watchers note a deal would likely face antitrust concerns. Well talk to an analyst who covers the...

Commissioner ohlhausen, thanks for joining us. First of all, the commission is turning 100 years old this month. Guest yes. Host whats the mission of the federal trade commission . Guest well, thank you for having me here. Im delighted to talk about the mission of the federal trade commission. Our birthdays actually this friday, the 26th, and ill be hosting a celebration at the commission. But our mission is twofold. Its to prevent unfair acts or practices and unfair methods of competition, but to do that in a way that doesnt hurt legitimate business, and we try to keep those two goals in mind...

Henry halleck and advice to link and establish something called the lieber code, what was acceptable, unacceptable, which included a bunch a much wider territory that was acceptable in terms of civil society, the freeing of slaves, seizing of private property, the attack upon civilians under certain circumstances. And lieber was a very important person to the history of the rest of the war. So is a lot to be read into the. I dont think lincoln was looking ahead to what would happen after the war. He had a lot in front of him to conduct in the war he had at hand, so i doubt that he was thinking...

Some way going forward. That may or may not be clear. It may get up to the Supreme Court in the next few years. I think yesterday the 4th circuit heard a case heard oral argument on a case whether south side data is protected. 5th circuit says it is not protected. These are issues working their way up to the Supreme Court. I think in general justices tepid to be relatively sensitive to how Technology Changes privacy and this is a theme if you look back, the thermal imaging case from 2000. Jones versus united states, the gps case from 2012. Then riley versus california in just this past year th...

Bit, you have to take a stance. And my Technical Work is in maximum analysis of the social policy, and you have to take a stance of what the right question of the analysis would be, and what the decision of the government criteria would be. And so as well as the subtleties. Let me understand that point. So there may be circumstances where the government thinks that sitit is the National Interests to respond to uncertainty by taking the action now, but there may be other circumstances where where you come to the different conclusion . Well, i have a paper that came out this this past year in th...