michael mckee speaking to a fed official, john williams.ike: we want to welcome president williams, the president of the new york fed, to bloomberg television worldwide. you were also the vice chairman of the open market committee. second in command for the group that makes interest rate decisions. you have to decide what you are going to do and how fast you will do it going forward with the data you have. we just got retail numbers. inflation boosted sales happy percent. i know you have looked a little bit at the numbers. have we seen any decline in demand? john: first of all, nice to be here in person. like to do this today. i think we are seeing some early signs that consumers are shifting their purchasing patterns coming out of the pandemic, away from all the purchases of goods over the past few years and more into services. i will not respond too much to one month of data, but that is the pattern i'm expect to see continued during the year. i think it's an important part of the story, to see consumers as we get past the pandemic, movin

the new york fed president john williams was in the building today. he spoke with our own mike mckee. they talked about the hawkish shift from the central bank as they tackled soaring inflation. >> was very high inflation, we need to focus on bringing inflation down. to do that over the next few years. that is the number one focus, and i say that because the economy is not strong. the labor market is basically back to close to where it was before the pandemic, with the unemployment rate. it was 3.5%, and other indicators show that we have very strong demand for labor. i do think, from a monetary policy point of view, it makes sense to move expeditiously towards more normal levels of federal funds, and also to move forward on our college sheet -- balance sheet of reduction. mike: if there is one phrase that sums up where your colleagues are, it is get to neutral by the end of the year. would you be on board for that? john: we need to get back to a more normal level, whether it is at the end of the year, or exactly when it happened, it will depend on th

what does john williams have to say about that? broadly, john williams may be, not in his prepared speech, but in answer to a question, this has been right on top of his head, they don't have to rush to get there. they can do it in steps. what is the neutral rate? he said we need something that looks more like formal or neutral, whatever that means. i am showing you the bloomberg chart, two hundred 25 basis points of hikes this year, to encapsulate the neutral rate is the rate that when you get it high enough, but not too high, it is inflation, but it does not push into recession. that is tricky right down, especially when you are fighting inflation. how could we be sure we know what a neutral rate is? the median estimate for the federal reserve is 2.4%, but the range goes up to 3%. they themselves are not sure. -- our columnist saying i cannot doubt any confidence. jay powell in his first speech in jackson hole gave his first speech about our star and how difficult it is to guide a shift, or even policy with these traditional guid

tom: interesting to see john williams and his thoughts toward the fed meeting and of course later on we are absolutely thrilled, and original set of interviews with daniel juergen and putin's world is my book of the year, i've never had it sooner than this and the war in ukraine is a must-read. would love like to do is advance the conversation on the present economics of the world, that has been her tour de force at the international monetary fund for number of years but it is new duties for the first deputy managing director at the international monetary fund, gita gopinath. there was a celebration across all of economics with this announcement. what is different from your economic duties versus being first deputy managing director? gita: as chief economist, i would see my role as an advisor, but as managing director, i am in management are taking a lot more difficult decisions. i think that would be an important difference. tom: you have been spearheading the pandemic and i must ask on an update on the way asia and china is prosecuting their pandemic. why does the imf need from chi

jonathan: that was john williams in new york, fed president. are negative following last week's decline. we are down another .25%. yields off the highs of the session about a basis point at the moment. in the last couple of weeks you would have seen the column from bit -- bill dudley on an inevitable hard landing. he did not give us the win. this morning he offers us the win. -- when. tom: he is an academic and also steeled in market economics. what is so important in speaking to the former president of the new york fed is he addresses with courage not the easy guess of the 70's but things to learn from the 1960's. william dudley, senior advisor to bloomberg economics and rights for us at burke opinion. robert j samuelson of the washington post and his magisterial the great inflation and its aftermath. why is now like walter heller and vietnam? >> we have lots of fiscal stimulus like you did then. we had vietnam war spending. everyone is focused on inflation and has it piqued. what's really going on is the labor market has not been this type in

tom: the only equivalent in recent fed history would be john williams in new york. jonathan: cpi 7.5 percent. core cpi in europe still has a three handle. tom: you are killing me. you know how i feel on this. i have trouble with the parsing of inflation data. i'm sorry, what does it mean for the households? answer is the big number, everyone is getting crushed by core cpi. jonathan: amazon is down seven 5% . tom: jonathan: let's start with the earnings. can you reconcile the earnings in america with the worry over the future? >> you can talk about the wall of worry. we track 34 markets and only seven over the past week were up. the market is very worried now. all of the issues from the companies you talked about will way on the u.s. but it will affect what happens over the next three months. tom: are you looking out over the uncertainty of a rising earnings and focused on the gloom? do you just look out beyond that? >> we try to look young that. beijing is trying not to go into lock down. they announced people can go back to work but let's say you want to be positiv

he is the fed president, john williams. mike, what did you learn? joined the rest of the fed in feeling that something needs to be done a little more quickly, and a little more firmly, because inflation has gone higher than they anticipated it here is what he and --. here's what he had to say.

john williams to talk with michael mckee in a number of days, but the answer is that we are coming off such a low base that even lyle brainerd does not know where restriction clicks in and that is a huge part of the debate. jonathon: we have seen some big move so let us whip through the price action. s&p 500, futures lower down 56 -- .5%. on the nasdaq down .8%. yields higher on the 10-year. seven or eight basis points, to 6238. the dollar has been surging. the dollar index, very close to a 100 handle. lisa: how much is it basically pricing in it, the fastest pace going back to 1994 which is what we are seeing currently. 10:00 a.m. we listen to janet yellen testifying to a house subcommittee. how has her language shifted? and how has the overall language a policy makers from the u.s. to europe shifted in terms of the economic fallout as deutsche bank projects a potential recession in the united states? janet yellen saying that this will have enormous economic repercussions for the world and perhaps we will see insight to what she sees that meaning for the u.s. economy. i know that you

tom: let's go john williams on you, maybe david branch.-appointment rate trends down in a fully employed america in terms of an implement rate, the other side is the rate restructure. can you say the great moderation is over? julia: i don't think we know that. we have been hit with one of the biggest shocks we have ever seen in our lifetime. not just in terms of the pandemic and all that came with it but the structure of the economy has been shocked. the shift to good spending is the biggest we have seen since world war ii. this is an enormous shock to the structure of the economy. we are still reeling and dealing with the pandemic in terms of global supply chains in china. it is hard to say that with the dynamic looks like on the others. it has been shock aftershock aftershock. the economy is reacting and adapting but it does not happen overnight. in terms of what the labor market looks like on the others of these shocks, do we get to the other side of the shocks? what did those wage inflation dynamics look like? obviously the fed is conc

well, as john williams reminded us, using the balance sheet is the second channel to tighten financialons. when you buy bonds, you will make it easier. when you start selling them, that is tightening. why do they need to get more aggressive? because they have to address a level of inflation that has become, quote, "particularly acute." the san francisco president has been in the dick: camp. she is moving to the aggressive camp now -- she has been in the dovish camp. she is moving to the aggressive camp now. saying the data shows the job market is, quote, "very strong and tight to an unsustainable level." that means it will fuel inflation. let's get to this neutral rate. our colleague in washington, rich miller, wrote an excellent piece about the neutral rate, why it is not written in stone and what it means. he said, the fed doesn't have to get into it immediately, they can take steps to get to neutral,, quote, whatever that means. whatever that means. why did he say that? because nobody really knows what that means. people are expecting 250 basis point rate hike by the end of the year

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english writer john william polidory's 18 19 short story the vampire is often credited to kick-starting the genre something stroker may have known as a teenager when he spent hours trolling through the ancient often illustrated text of irish folklore in dublin's marsh library, but in dracula he gave the phenomena or twist worthy of the industrial age dracula is the son of dracul about that typically means dragon, but can also mean devil strokers devil lived in transylvania and traveled to your london wire ship and then railroad to reach london before he began ravaging the city. both the vampire hunters and the novel john seward and abraham van helsink or doctors as well as experts in vampire laws. they're on a mission to destroy the invader. during this time medical and literary opinions were often reflections of each other. dracula is essentially a collection of victorian era medical anxieties. it's written at a time when outbreaks ravaging british colonial outposts ended up at the doors of the colonizers the most devastating example of this was the color of pandemic of 1817, which beg

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. >> john: mouse house is expanding in at least ten anti-gay middle east countries. william this seeming contradiction, william. >> john, you know some disney executives here in burbank have been open about expanding and introducing, promoting more queer and nongender specific characters in disney programming. yet also very vocal about opposing that florida law you refer to. yet, seemingly silent about doing business in countries like chain or introducing disney plus in countries where homosexuality is banned. florida governor desantis signed a bill that ban schools from teaching sexual orientation and sexual orientation to children under eight. disney said the corporate goal to get the law defeated and repeated in court. florida lawmakers said hey, we may strip disney of their special tax status that allows them to operate as their own city. this coming as new leaked video shows disney executives will have more story lines involving gay and trans characters. >> kind of the only way to have the trans characters, and conical bisexual characters, to give them stories they can

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john. you wrote a book on roger williams and the title also included the reference to the creation of the soulf america and i was wondering how the issues in that booklete reflect today where we are in the discussions we are having. >> thank you, susan. >> a friend of mine that wanted to get me into the conversation i guess. [laughter] that book actually began with a book on the home front world war i and i had planned to and identified certain characters. one of the characters i was going to follow in just doing due diligence i started going back to the beginning of the argument of church and state and the role of politics and so on and i discovered if you change the grammar that the argument between john winthrop and roger williams and of course he's the guy sitting on a hill, that was exactly the same argument that we are having today. so things don't change, people don't change. the view of whether we are a christian nation or not that has gone back to the very beginning of american history. >> to have you lives in new orleans and one in tennessee. does living in the south in new orleans h

>> i think bob and tennessee williams drank a little bit too much in drank a bit but after a whileit was a problem . >> go ahead, speak up. >> my next question is for john barry. you wrote the book on roger williams and the title also included a reference to the fellowship of america and i was wondering how the issues in that book would resonate today and with the discussions we're talking about? >> tank uses an. a friend of mine, wanted to get me into the conversation. that book actually began with a book on the homefront, world war i. and i had planned to, and identified certain characters that were going to and culminated since 1919, a very difficult any young american history, one of the characters i was going to follow his billy sunday and just doing due diligence, on billy sunday i started going back to the beginning of the argument over church and state and the role of politics and so forth and so on. i discovered if you change the grammar of the argument between john winthrop and roger williams, winthrop is of course the guy that said sitting on a hill, that that was exactly the same argument that we are having today. so things don't change, peo

yesterday when the new york fed president john williams came out and who is typically a dove and was very hawkish. maria: yeah, we have seen a bit of that of that as well when we are watching markets react to this commentary, the ten-year yield topping 2.8% yesterday. that was the highest point since 2018. jillian, when you see rates moving higher the way we are, expected to pick up even more, does a debate intensify in terms of whether or not to take money out of stocks and put it in treasuries, 3 federal reserve presidents are set to speak next week and obviously talk about record inflation and the federal reserve's plans, we are expecting a half a point hike in the next meeting in may. is the market ready for that and what do you think we will hear next week from the fed presidents. do you want to cut exposure to stocks here? >> so i've been -- every time we have been in the show really since the start of the year, maria, we have increasingly cautious. we have been invested and i personally invested in stocks but not in some of the big place like the apples. i've been picking up c

that the argument between john winthrop and roger williams winthrops, of course a guy that said, you know sitting on a hill that that was exactly the same argument. are having today? so things don't change people don't change the view of you know whether we're a christian nation. are not that you know, that is gone back to the very beginning of american history so two of you live in new orleans and one of you lives in tennessee, so it is living in the south or new orleans help you be a better writer. yeah, yeah. yes. okay. no. all right, so and the water you've lived in nation's capital you think the country be better off if new orleans was the nation's capital? yeah. no, no, okay. okay, so we are out of our time. so, thank you all very much and thank you. ociate professor wilfred reilly author of taboo. good morning, and thank everyone for coming. my name is parker van houten. i am a fifth year senior at the university of kentucky. i study vocal performance and arts administration at the university and i'm very happy to be h

and i discovered that if you change the grammar that the argument between john winthrop andnd roger williams, winthrop s of course a guy you know, sitting on a hill, that that was exactly the same argument that we are having today. so things don't change, people don't change, the view of, you know, whether we are a christian nation or not, you know, that has gone back to the very beginning of american history. >> so two of you live in new orleans, one of you lives in tennessee. so does living in thehe south or new orleans help you be a better writer? >> yeah. >> yeah.gh >> yes. >> okay, all right. [laughing] [applause] >> walter, you've lived in the nation's capital. doe you think the country would be better off if new orleans was the nation's capital?ye [laughing] >> no. >> okay. so we're out of our time, so thank you all very much and thank you. >> thank thank you, david. good job, good job. [applause] >> american history tv saturdays on c-span2 exploring the people and events that tell the american story. at 2 p.m. eastern on the presidency part seven of our eight part series first ladies

just watch prosecutor john lewin make the case against him. >> william marshall knew before he walked he was going to kill her. so, this was just a heartless, her rift big, unconscionable crime. >> the motive? drug money. then, eliminate the witness. said prosecutor john the one. marshall had been arrested before robin's murder for possession of pcp. a man who need to cash, who knew, who thought, where to get it. then, if on a hard road told her story, looked over at marshall with his bible, hadn't seen him in two decades. >> i wanted to walk over to him and say, you hurt me. you not only hurt this family, but you hurt me, but i wasn't allowed. so, once i gave my testimony, i guess you can say it was a done deal. >> two days later, the jury agreed. they found william marshall guilty of first degree murder. he was sentenced to life in prison. >> i always knew he was going to pay for what he did. but i mean enough that i want him to see him pay on earth. i hope he looks to be 100. and spends a lot of years and that little six by nine cell. >> robbyn deserved to see justice. and, you kno

clifford�*s tower was once the seat of royal power for northern england, as john maguire reports. first built by williamfrom, certainly where yorkshire was governed from, and sometimes where england was governed from. it has a very, very long, very eventful, sometimes tragic history. the stone tower, built for henry iii in the 13th century, is the largest remaining part of york castle. hundreds of years in all weathers, sun and snow, just like today, have taken their toll. so, to conserve the walls, every single stone has been tested as part of the major conservation works here. you can see the pink stone there and the pink is actually fire damage from the catastrophic fire that occurred in 1684. these walkways, part of the £5 million project, will offer visitors views not seen since the floors were destroyed by that major fire when a ceremonial cannon salute for st george�*s day went horribly wrong. and they also allow access to some fascinating stories. welcome to the smallest room in the tower. this is the guardrobe, to give it its proper name. the toilet, a latrine, built for henry iii. the most ext

john to bring trevor home. we're also grateful to montel williams for his support for allowing john to spend so much time on trevor'suld like to thank president biden for his kindness, consideration and to bring trevor home. the president's actions may have saved trevor's life. we would like to thank ambassador john sullivan and the moscow embassy staff for believing in trevor's innocence and their zealous advocacy. similarly, we would like to thank nsa's jake sullivan, alexander miller, and victoria bonacerra. in particular, we want to thank roger carson, fletcher shown, steven gillom and others. we can't say enough about the importance of the work they do every day for hostages and wrongfully detainees. we would like to thank our congressman, congressman mccall, leader mccarthy, congressman castro, and so many others who worked together in bipartisan member to bring trevor home. finally we stand proudly with the weiland family and the other families of wrongfully detained americans still waiting for their own release moment. we will continue to advocate for the rapid release of hostages and detainees using all too

became more controversial if i were to be careful he represented in the modern times the john burke society williamuckley had ostracized in the republican movement and they felt in the spirit of that is the continuation of buckley policies that it was their job to excise but my problem was 91% of the republican party had voted for them and he brought eight to 10 million people back into the political process. they had not 151% since 1988 the presidential vote and they lost seven out of the last eight popular elections and that was at a time that they won very well for the state and local level under the obama administration but they were not appealing on the class terms to a lot of working people of the democratic party had seemed to have given up on. there was one article somebody asked me and said i didn't think that it was my job to be the internal auditor. i've never been a registered republican. i was a democrat and independent of though i vote for more republicans than not but i felt that i was a problem for them and i think if people were to look at what i wrote versus what was being written

you think people like william garrison and john brown, others who were white. black abolitionists were very active in it. democrats who, as i said, almost completely the white party and the party that even people like van buren who didn't want to abolish slavery, who didn't want to abolish slavery was critical of slavery expansion but he was not an abolitionist. and democrats tended, again, to call abolitionists and people wanted women to vote. people wanted the prohibition of alcohol. they had a common term for them. they called them fanatics. a wonderful story i quote by nathaniel hawthorne, a great democrat, who wrote a biography of pierce before he was elected. >> did anyone read it? >> well, democrats did. about sort of a story where all these people gather in the countryside and throw all these traditions into a bonfire. including bibles and lots of other things and democrats believe that you wanted poor folks democracy, yes, but you didn't want to disrupt the whole social order to get it. in fact, they often had a sense of golden age thinking that before

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susan: this is william f buckley talking about the john birch society. [video clip] >> the soviet union was winning the cold war, and the reason for this was the whole government of the united states was riddled with traders. men and women who were reconciled to commonest victory. that is hard to believe, but you said senator goldwater was reluctant to announce the john birch society? he did not want to single out that organization when he was nominated for president. the only one so far to announce extremists. there was a ton of pressure to name the society, but he said he did not want to do that, denouncing some of his best supporters as a matter of fact, his own campaign manager was a member of the john birch society, so was my mother. susan: throughout the history you tell, the reality is political parties are coalitions. here is an example. his famous statement about extremism, was that ultimately the nail in the coffin? matthew: there is a funny anecdote i tell where he delivers a famous line, let me remind you extremism is no vice. one journalist

john plumb, maria's deborah rosenblum and doctor rhys williams at that hearing and look forward to discussing how we work together to address some of the most critical national security challenges facing our country, our allies and our partners. weapons of mass destruction are a complex trans regional problem that continues to present a direct threat to u.s. and allied interests and requires the application of specialized expertise and authorities across the whole of government. i welcome discussion related to u.s. succumbs role as the defense department coordinating or 34 counter wmd. the new challenges we face, the work we've done against both current and future wmd threats, and our priorities for the coming year. over the past year in concert with our partners within the department and across the inner agency, we've contributed to the development of the national defense and national military strategies, enhanced joint force resiliency through the implementation of wmd forecast ready assessments, and proved global exercised and training by incorporating realistic nuclear, chemical and biolo

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abolitionist movement included blacks and whites, you know often we think it's mostly people like william la garrison and john brown others who were white but black abolitionists not just federal government. the others are very active in it but democrats who were as i said almost completely white party and a party that even people like martin van buren who didn't want to abolish slavery who didn't want my boss lady was critical of slavery slavery expansion, but he was not an abolitionist and sympathize abolitionists and democrats tended again when the majority party to call abolitionists and people wanted women to vote people wanted the prohibition of alcohol. they had a common term for them. they called them fanatics. there's a wonderful story. i quote by hawthorne nathaniel hawthorne the great novelist. who was the democrat who what a campaiography of franklin pierce before he was elected president 1852 anyone read it about well democrats did about sort of a story where where all these people gather in the countryside and throw all these old cherished traditions into a bonfire including bibles and lots of o

think if i were to be fairly characterized they felt he represented in modern times the john birch society that william buckley had ostracized the republican movement and they felt in the spirit of that as a continuation of buckley policies it was their job to exercise trumpism but 90 percent of the republican party had voted for him and he brought 8 to 10 million people back in the political process and republicans to be frank and i'm not exempting .donald trump but they have not one, 51 percent since 1988 got the initial vote and they lost seven out of the last eight of their election. and that was a time when they won very well. they did well at the state and local level. they picked up 1100 but there was something wrong that they were not appealing on class terms to a lot of working people that the democratic party seems to have given up on so i didn't understand that . i think i parted and amicably. there was one article where somebody asked me and i said i didn't think it was my job to be the internal auditor of republican thought. i've never been a registered republican e. i've been a democrat a

william in ohio, you are next. caller: good morning, john. this is the old crazy tennessean again. it is a shame. we don't have no government. we have a giverntment. i will never go to a voting place for as long as i live again. host: william, in terms of never going to vote again -- caller: i will never, whether it is local, city, state or federal. they are all crooks. they get their pockets lined by the speculators and the lobbyists. we have a lot of that going on in ohio, didn't -- ohio, and i will say i am a democrat. i voted for one republican in my life. you asked me before who i voted for. i voted for mike turner the first time he ran for mayor. and i will never vote for mike turner again. host: you have a primary date coming up next week in ohio. doesn't matter to you who wins the primary -- does it matter to you who wins the primary? caller: there won't be a primary next month because they cannot get the cooks to all get together on anything. it has been in the courts three different times and they say the redistricting favors the republicans, so there isn't going to be a

. >> john: sandra, we are expecting the pentagon briefing with john kirby any moment, but for now, william taylor. former ambassador to ukraine. more intense fighting in mariupol, and here, where the attack was against the rail station, trying to encircle that, we are hearing some more activity here up in izyum as they try to reconstitute the russian military, and even attacked the airport south of dnipro here in an attempt to soften up the forces and move to the west. what do you assess is going on here now in the new push to the east and the south? >> john, you are exactly right. the russians need to do something. they were foiled in kyiv, the ukrainian military stopped them up there, so, they are back, the russians backed off in response to that, and they are moving back around and there are, seem to be massing in order to come this way, and you are right, they would like to come here, izyum here and dnipro, but that's interesting. they could be cut off, they could be attacked from both sides and a lot of these forces we know have been beaten up, really beaten up. ukrainians also have t

ambassador john sullivan almost does not appear seems to have shortened his trips around the city his predecessors lived more cheerfully. take a look at the pictures. here is ambassador williamthe exit of sheremetyevo airport in moscow. he has represented washington since 2005. here is john taft, ambassador of the united states in the fourteenth. and this is his successor in the seventeenth year , john handman. here he meets with a religious figure in the center of the capital. and this is his weekend on novy arbat, the diplomat did not deny himself introductory procedures in the picturesque corners of the country. in all these photos, next to the diplomats, the same a person for a long time, he was the personal bodyguard of the official representative of the united states in our country, in fact, he worked for 15 years in 2005 to 2020 . these are the report forms that the guards handed over at the end of the shift; they recorded the results of observations of a suspicious car, people around the embassy or, together with the appearance of their boss, these skills were sharpened by sergey in the usa at seminars with the telling name counterintelligence training. at some point