Good afternoon i hope everybody had a good thanksgiving break. Welcome back to washington, welcome to brookings im bruce jones the director of the policy program at brookings and its my pleasure to welcome you to our event for east Asian Pacific affairs. David stillwell is appointed as assistant secretary of state by President Trump of the 20th of june he served in the air force for 35 years beginning as a Korean League west in 1980 and retiring in 2015 as a Brigadier General he was the asia adviser to the chairman of the joint death of staff from 21 to 2013 you also recently served as the director of the u. S. Focus group. He was also an adjunct fellow thank you to your service to this country. As you can see from his background the david has been at the forefront of managing the policy questions the shape the u. S. And china friendship. Working tirelessly behind the scenes to build policy with china is also then keeping our wider focus on the region as a whole. Where we have a huge n
Good afternoon i hope everybody had a good thanksgiving break. Welcome back to washington, welcome to brookings im bruce jones the director of the policy program at brookings and its my pleasure to welcome you to our event for east Asian Pacific affairs. David stillwell is appointed as assistant secretary of state by President Trump of the 20th of june he served in the air force for 35 years beginning as a Korean League west in 1980 and retiring in 2015 as a Brigadier General he was the asia adviser to the chairman of the joint death of staff from 21 to 2013 you also recently served as the director of the u. S. Focus group. He was also an adjunct fellow thank you to your service to this country. As you can see from his background the david has been at the forefront of managing the policy questions the shape the u. S. And china friendship. Working tirelessly behind the scenes to build policy with china is also then keeping our wider focus on the region as a whole. Where we have a huge n
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Indiana. Yeah, we did. Tornadoes. Thats a cold front. That will make its way for us, but the good news it will weaken considerably. Thats still a few daysway. In the meantime this morning still starting off pretty nice. It is 68 degrees right now. This is a live picture from the raleigh and Durham International airport starting to be a little brighter. As it does we can see an area of clouds out there this morning hanging over the northern portions of wake county. Well watch for these throughout the morning. All in all, i do think youll see more sunshine than no rain, though, on the satellite and radar composite, so thats also some good news. Lets get straight to the temperatures around the region. 61 in louisburg and clayton. Dropping now to 60 in roanoke rapids. We have the mid60s in henderson and durham. 65 in lillington. Also the midsix tee around fayetteville. Mid60s around fayetteville. 84 at lunchtime. Id say mcat worst, 90 our afternoon high. So yes, this could be so far the ho
And it will cost them millions of dollars. Welcome to Market Makers. I am stephanie ruhle. My partner, Erik Schatzker, will be here shortly. Lets take you to the bulletin the top business stories of the morning. We havent seen the dollar this strong against the euro in almost a dozen years. It is now approaching parity. Earlier today, the euro crashed through the 106 bubble and the dollar is up 11 this year, 22 since last june. The stronger dollar will hold down inflation and consumers will see lower prices on important imported products. Bond guru on the west coast has a message for the fed raise rates at your own risk. Even janet yellen may make the same mistake as counterparts in europe, raising too soon and then having to cut again. In an investor presentation, he also predicted that gold could climb 20 this year, and he says you should not bet against the strong u. S. Dollar. Airlines in the u. S. Are expected to have a great spring break. The trade Group Airlines for america says