my name is jean paris and i weren't. u.s. fed leaves interest rates unchanged but it leaves the door open for a later cut so what does that say about the american economy and about the central banks independence from a pushy president. also on the show the u.s. hopes to bolster its coal power plants unveiling new rules that scrap of emissions targets and will likely slow the shift to renewables. and we'll take you to a school in world gonna where the power of play is helping to keep the lights on. welcome to business i'm stephen beard sambolin thanks for watching. the federal reserve has left the key lending rate unchanged in the 2.25 to 2.5 percent range but some fed officials apparently expect a rate cut by the end of the year announcing the decision fed chairman jerome powell pointed to concerns over weakening global growth and volatile international trade relationships just a day ago similar preoccupations prompted the european central bank to signal that it's ready to introduce fresh stimulus measures to boost the eurozo

my name is jean paris and i weren't. u.s. fed leaves interest rates unchanged but it leaves the door open for a later cut so what does that say about the american economy and about the central banks independence from a pushy president. also on the show the u.s. hopes to bolster its coal power plants unveiling new rules that scrap of missions targets and will likely slow the shift to renewables. and we'll take you to a school in world gonna where the power of play is helping to keep the lights on.

first, my wife was mary louise roberts, and her mother moved from paris during the depression, and her sister jean married a frenchman and lived there for quite a while. i am just wondering if "roberts" is that common of a name or if we are somehow related. guest: well, i think roberts is my father's name, and my father was from mena, and he supposedly was the descendent of the drunk of the plymouth colonies, so he was on the mayflower, and he was kicked out of the plymouth colony, so that is my ancestry on my father's side. it is a welsh name, so i do not know. of youill say that a lot have talked about marriages between americans and french, and that was one of the very happy results of the g.i.'s being on the continent. the french women and the love.an g.i.'s fell in that love lasted, and when the war was over, the americans came back to get there brides. you wrote a book called "what soldiers do, sex and the american g.i. in france." why did you write that book, and what sort of reaction did it get? guest: well, i just got interested in the relationship between the american g.i.'s and the fren