alan krueger was 58.y peter coy and michael mckee, both of whom knew turface or kruger over minute -- new professor kruger over several decades. peter, he was obviously known as a labor economist, among other things, and it great work from terrorism related economics to the gig economy. what are your best memories of alan? peter: he had a stellar career. he was the chief economist in delivered apartment under president clinton, the head of the council of economic advisers under president obama. labor economics was his specialty, but i would say what he is probably most women but for is his work on the minimal wage, finding that contrary to what you will find in any economy 101 textbook up until his work, it is not true that raising minimum wage necessarily kills jobs. he looked across the border between new jersey and pennsylvania as the natural experiment. one raised minimum wage, and one didn't, invest food. he found they did not have -- in fast food. he found they did not have the expected effect. that

chief harald krueger. mr krueger briggs it is three weeks away but it's still beset by uncertainty we could still be facing a delay of this whole process now how are you dealing with it as a business that has a very big u.k. footprint at the clear flexibility you have to plan with volatility we have a very flexible production system we can react on changing to mons and we will see what the politicians will finally come and what will be the outcome but flexibility is all a key we have prepared for that. in the u.s. of course now tariffs on european cars remains a threat your biggest plant is in the u.s. now what will these tariffs mean to you if they come to pass i mean we have very proud that we have the biggest plant and from b.m.w. in south carolina we have a net export of from spot we are exporting more than seventy percent to the wood to europe to china and we are clearly in favor of free trade so our business model and all the investment we have shown in the united states is based on free trade and i

. >> reporter: last week, new york state senator krueger introduced a bill allowing any child 14 years or older to be vaccinated without parental consent. other states including oregon and south carolina already have similar laws, jeff. >> glor: jon, those numbers you had there, pretty dramatic. all right, thank you very much. his d up here tonight, r. kelly support payments-- what the judge had to say.

know about you, but i don't want my brain inflamed. ep reporter: last week, new york state senator krueger introduced a bill allowing any child 14 years or older to be vaccinated without parental consent. other states including oregon ed wsouth carolina already have similar laws, jeff. en glor: jon, those numbers you had there, pretty dramatic. all right, thank you very much. coming up here tonight, r. kelly wants to reduce his child dupport payments-- what the judge had to say. say.

alan krueger was 58 years old. thank you for watching. nicolle wallace starts right now. >>> well, everyone, aloha and namaste. it's 4:00 in new york city and i'm john heilemann in this chair for the missing in action nicolle wallace. we will officially usher in the dangerous chapter of donald trump's pregnancy that can be spoiled by mueller's report to be handed over any day now. will that be the beginning of the existential peril for president trump, which could come with more indictments criminal referrals and intensifying investigations on capitol hill, and if any of the findings of any those inquiries are damning enough, impeachment. so it's against that grim background that president trump seems to be having long public meltdown on twitter. its so long it's raising questions about his competence and fitness for office -- not the first time -- as well as speculation trump is suffering a panic attack related to the mueller report we were talking about. regardless of whether trump is freaking out for good reason or simply losing it or

former obama economic adviser alan krueger has died.as the chairman in council of economic advisors from 2011 to 2013 and was a long-term economics professor at princeton. he was 58 years old. global news 24 hours a day, on air and @tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i am courtney donohoe. this is bloomberg. david: thank you. it is often the races for the democrats seeking the white house in 2020 with better will rourke raising funds at a record click. just today kristen gillibrand saying she wants into. we welcome our political panel. thank you, gentlemen, for being with us. let me start with you. what we make of it will rourke -- of beto o'rourke. does this get your attention as a democrat raising that much money that fast? jim: he has raised a lot of money online. he has done better than bernie sanders. he can win in the online world. he can draw crowds. the question is can he translated into votes? this is a long race. sometimes you start out and that is your high watermark.

noted economist alan krueger passed away over the weekend.amily issued a statement saying he took his own life. he served as chair of the council of economic advisers for president obama before adjourning -- before joining princeton. for more on his legacy, we are joined by economic editor for bloomberg businessweek. i've been really struck all day by the outpouring of positive feelings people had towards alan krueger, people from all different fields. academia, media, politics. talk to us about the legacy and policy,e had on government, and so on. >> there was something magnetic about him, charismatic. he appeared regularly on bloomberg tv, gave quotes to bloomberg reporters for news stories. he was giving. he was the kind of person -- i have seen it, grad students, he would come up to them and want to talk to them. and he cared about policy. a lot economists are very taken with their own theories, but he made it real world. one of his key legacies is the work on minimum wage. the conventional thinking on the minimum-wage's was that if you r

and we're all heart break and -- we all heartbroken about alan krueger's passing. a great economist in a great man. a generous colleague. i first met him in grad school and i watched his career take off and i was humbled by the fact that he accomplished so much. i think that paper you are talking about has a lot of food for thought. restrictive covenants have skyrocketed in the economy and it is something we are studying at the white house seriously because there is a lot of food for thought in his work that suggest these restrictive cover line are creating -- restrictive covenants are creating monopoly. it is probably much less than half of workers that have those restrictive covenants. that is one reason why the wages have gone up. we are looking into the fact that it is possible that restrictive covenant space is where wage growth is a lot lower. we have taken that paper seriously and it is something we are digging into. david: i appreciate your time. kevin hassett. kevin: our thoughts go out to allen's family. david: kevin hassett. white house counsel of econom

allison:"yes please,"allison krueger and her mom tina are signing cards of encouragement.e awesome, rawr" but to understand why you have to step into allison's bedroom. which shows off her two favorite things.tina krueger: "yeah that's her room. pink and police."allison:"from police officers all over the world almost."she's been collecting police badges for almost half her life..because she knows exactly what she wants to be.allison:"a k-9 officer"so when she heard another milwaukee police officer had died in the line of duty... she had a question. tina:"she was sad about it, and she was like what can i do to make them feel better?" that's how the card making began.they made cards and passed them out that day.but allison hasn't wanted to stop. allison:"there are more police officers that probably feel bad."with the help of some friend's they estimate they've passed out almost 200 cards. she even wanted to keep going today... despite the subzero temperatures.allison:"we can put on jackets."wanting to keep going... for the same reason she wants to be one of them one day.alli

. >>> princeton university professor alan krueger has died. he was also the chairman of the council of economic advisers under president obama. he was known for his work on workplace economics, including the impact of minimum wage alan krueger was 58 years old. >> way too young they haven't said what the cause was at this point. a labor economist. jamie dimon was talking about the bifurcation of the economy that was precisely the research alan krueger had done during his career to find out the impact of the minimum wage and whether it in fact leads to a higher unemployment rate for lower-wage employees which he said it did not. >> correct. >> and finding ways to bring up the lower minimum wage part of the economy here i mean, he was a great guy, very, very smart obviously out of princeton there >> 58 years old. way too young. >> a big loss that will be felt. >>> we'll take a break here. when we come back, we'll be joined by the ceo of the company behind such an abrdss arby's and buffalo wild wings stay with us see that's funny, i thought you t

. >> but first, prominent economist alan krueger has died.rinceton university where krueger was a member of the faculty for three decades said he passed away this weekend. he served as labor department's chief economist under bill clinton. he was also assistant secretary of the treasury and the chair of the white house council of economic advisors under president obama. mr. krueger was 58 years old. truecar is great for finding new cars. you're smart, you already knew that. but it's also great for finding the perfect used car. you'll see what a fair price is and you can connect with a truecar certified dealer. now you're even smarter. this is truecar. ♪ ahhhh! ♪ we're here. ♪ ♪ - [woman] with shark's duo clean, i don't just clean, ♪ i deep clean carpets and floors, so i got this. yep, this too, and this, please. even long hair and pet hair are no problem, but the one thing i won't have to clean is this because the shark's self-cleaning brush roll removes the hair wrap while i clean. ♪ - [announcer] shark, the vacuum that deep cleans now clean

joining me now is my colleague michael krueger i have to talk about an extraordinary story indeed that was made into a documentary film and got the an oscar now before we see the seat here behind yeah yeah they're going to the oscars before we see a bit of the film tell us about the but because this is a true story yeah well the whole story started with an english teacher and has student. at a school in los angeles. and the papa school in india and that flicks production twenty six minutes full of emotion hope and love for really strong women and girls. and the school topic was in the beginning how many stray sharon changes the life of a girl and how different the situation is in india this group of quite normal american girls were just thinking about how they started to learn to handle demonstration and that they had so many opportunities here we are we see the girls because of the background education freedom and wealth they have first period sometimes perhaps missing one day in school but in india that often means the end of classes for ever period should be the end of a sentence no

former obama economic adviser alan krueger has died.krueger served as the chairman of the council of economic advisors from 2011 to 2013. he was a longtime economic successor -- economics professor at princeton university. he was 58 years old. global news 24 hours a day, on air and @tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i am mark crumpton. bloomberg. back to you in london. guy: let's check where european stocks have settled. the london market in the french market both picking up during the auction process. the dax dropping. lundy -- london finishing up around 1%. the dax dropping today despite the fact we did see a significant rise in deutsche bank share prices. do not forget if you are leaving the trading desk to be getting the car or heading home, you can find ongoing bloomberg coverage on dab digital radio in the london area. plenty to discuss on the brexit matter over the next couple of hours. we'll be seeing quite significant and elements over the next hour. stick around. all o

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joe: noted economist alan krueger passed away over the weekend.ily releasing a statement saying he took his own life. krueger was an expert in labor economics and served as chair of the council of economic advisers for president obama before joining princeton as a professor of economics and public affairs. talk to us about the legacy of the impact he had on colleagues, in media, the government, and so on. peter: there was something magnetic about him, charismatic. he had a lot of friends here at bloomberg. he appeared regularly on bloomberg tv. he cared about policy. a lot of economists are very taken with their own theories, but he made it real world. one of his key legacies is the work on the minimum wage. i think there has been an understanding and macroeconomics that pure theorizing has run its course, and that we have to go back and gather data, understand the way the real world works. he was one of the leaders in bringing that style of thinking to economics. ♪ scarlet: social climbers, these are the stocks making waves in social media today,

it's the freddy krueger of political theories. every decade, new nightmare.it is all of us. we must resist resist those who don't see the scan behind socialism. that offers the fantasy of free everything, hoping you never asked but how. the only winners in the social estate are those who run the state. every leftist dreams of standing up on the platform and reviewing the parade of workers and tanks. that's how you prevent a venezuela. you just describe it, a fat tyrant and lunch from garbage trucks. from zimbabwe to albania, one socialism fails, we should always does, the whole thing goes. and that triggers the survival instinct of those in power who ultimately rely on force. of course people can cite social programs as socialism but safety nets and charity can only thrive the other free market. today's left is prefers all net and no market. that's disastrous. no wonder when you look in the eyes of a true believing socialist, you see something off. it is fervent belief untethered to reality and in that fervor is an acceptance that if it doesn't work out we wi

alan krueger was 58 years old.ly friend, mentor to my husband peter for many years. his professor. it's heartbreaking. >> he was someone, when i covered the white house, he would always pick up the phone and help me understand economic policy from the view of the administration. he's a kind man. >> people close to him had no idea how he was feeling? >> no idea. wonderful husband to lisa and father to ben and sidney. i think president obama in his statement sums it up. he says, through it all, he had a perpetual smile and gentle spirit even when he was correcting you. that's what made him alan. a fundamentally good and decent man. it just goes to show you never know what someone is going through and experiencing. thinking of his family today. we should let you know that the national suicide preference lifeline is open 24 hours a day 1-800-273-8255. >>> reuters says the suspected gunman in a deadly shooting in netherlands reportedly fired at a relative over family reasons. that's according to a turkish news agency. p

. >> reporter: last week new york senator krueger introduced a bill allowing any child 14 years and oldted without parental consent. other states including oregon and south carolina already have similar laws. dr. jon lapook, cbs news, new york. >>> coming up on "cbs this morning," five months ago astronaut nick hague survived a dramatic launch abort on his way to the initial space station. today he's counting down to ape second chance. mark strassmann has the story. >>> plus, we'll take you to the utscery rrcte that recently found the res >>> in our series "note to self," the host of "top chef," padma lakshmi shares a message with her 5-year-old self. >>> that's the "cbs morning news" for this thursday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. >>> starting with this shot of the golden gate bridge, fairly clear conditions out there this morning. thanks for waking up with us. it is thursday, march 14th. good morning. i'm kenny choi. >> and i'm anne makovec in for michelle griego this thursday morning. and -- >> friday junior, right? >> you are right! and more sunshine

alix: notable economists talking about alan krueger.aught him about economic policy for two decades. to the point of the struggle between income mobility and equality, that is front and center and almost ingrained in our society. you see it every single day with various candidates. he was also concerned with wages and why they are not going up. he thought there was a concentration and some restrictive covenants among employers there were curtailing wages. alix: something we are still struggling with here. david: many thanks to michael mckee. krueger, professor of economics and public affairs at princeton university has passed away at 58. his family encourages those wishing to honor him to make a contribution to a charity of their choice. this is bloomberg. ♪ this is bloomberg. ♪ david: angela merkel sat down with john micklethwait at the global solution summit in berlin. she discussed her government stand on cybersecurity in the expansion of 5g networks. >> our approach is not to exclude one company. we have certain requests and demands

. >> reporter: last week, new york state senator krueger introduced a bill allowing any child 14 years or older to be vaccinated without parental consent. other states including oregon and south carolina already have similar laws, jeff. >> glor: jon, those numbers you had there, pretty dramatic. all right, thank you very much. his d up here tonight, r. kelly support payments-- what the judge had to say. so how are you enjoying your it's just lovely.ament? i'm here to let all these folks know how easy it is to save money on their car insurance with geico- oi oi oi set the pick! kick it outside!! shoot the three! shoot the three!! yessssssss!!!!!! are you...ok? no, no i'm not. i think i pulled a hammy. could we get some ice? just one cube of ice? geico®. proud partner of ncaa march madness®. ybut life...can throw them off bbalance.of bacteria, (vo) re-align yourself with align probiotic. and try align gummies with prebiotics and probiotics to help support digestive health. >> glor: the senate is now investigating the theft of thousands of guns and gun parts from an a.t.f. facility in wes

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it's like freddie krueger, if instead of killing you, he entered your dreams to perform an emergencymy. ( laughter ) a federal judge in texas struck down the law. now, trump's justice department says they won't defend it, indicating, "the entire statute must fall, from coverage for pre-existing conditions to the medicaid expansion and everything in between." and when it comes to healthcare, there is a lot of in-between. my doctor checks my in-between very thoroughly. ( laughter ) he says, this year, i have to have a camera stuck up there. ( laughter ) this is a crazy move going into an election year, because people really love parts of the affordable care act. in fact, in a poll last year, 90% of americans said that they thought it was important that guaranteed coverage for pre-existing conditions remains the law. 90%! ( cheers and applause ) that's huge! nothing's that. ninety%! >> jon: that means everybody. >> stephen: the only thing with a higher approval rating is tom hanks on a unicorn throwing you a birthday party where the theme is "cupcakes and orgasms!" ( cheers and applause

professor alan krueger and i thank him for particular to show how bipartisan this issue is because he works for president obama did a survey and found that 47% almost half of prime age men were not in the labor force took a pain killer, not last month, not last week but yesterday. 47% of men, 25 to 54, not in the labors force took a pain killer yesterday and the follow-up question was it a prescription painkiller and about one third said yes. a third of men not working took a prescription painkiller yesterday. that is a problem folks. that's a real problem. not just for those individuals but for our economy. and so, you have to work together is opioid issue. it is so important. the department of labor is sponsoring some pilot programs when individuals going into treatment facility for treatment can often take months and what are they doing are they being tweeted? are they watching television or preparing for the next phase of their life can with the department of labor, what they are doing is providing funding for workforce training someone undergoes treatment because -- [applause] at

. >> laura: it's like freddy krueger. it just keeps coming back. house down at cpac but sent a warning shot to the democrats. mock as you may, but a new poll finds that nearly two-thirds of registered voters believe that the democratic party support socialism. here now to expand on that message, larry kudlow himself. nice job. >> thank you. appreciate it very much. >> laura: you worked for reagan. i worked for reagan right out of college. and i can't believe this is how the democrats are answering this booming economy with, let's do socialism. why do they do this? why is this the path they're taking? >> well, they've been moving left. it's an odd story, i agree with you. you think they might learn from our success. i was watching a very dear friend who was an obama economist. even he's defending this stuff. it's wrong. it's funny. at the very moment when things were turning up the last couple of years and the new set of policies of tax cuts and deregulations and opening up energy, and 3% growth and men and women buying small businesses again, they

alan krueger came up with that title when he was at the council for economic advisors.he interesting point to keep in mind, we do see much greater intergenerational stickiness. the inability to progress in places where inequality is high. that means it's a lottery of birth where where you -- where you are born affect how your life turns out is so much more important in these places. if you are born at the bottom in a place where the bottom is relatively much lower, there is also a good chance you are more likely to stick their and not climb up. >> what do you take away in terms of what needs to happen structurally, systemically? >> one of the studies comes out of the international monetary fund and they find in these places we are talking about with low economic mobility and high economic inequality, you see more growth. it seems to hurt a country's potential and the idea is that if you've got a lot of kids who might be innately talented but are born at the bottom of the income scale and don't have equal access to opportunity, you might see a real loss of talent. you ar

alan krueger famously came up with that at the council for economic advisors. think it is a really interesting point to keep in mind, that we see much greater intergenerational stickiness, this inability to progress where inequality is high. that means this litera -- this lottery of birth is so much more important in these places. if you are born at the bottom of the income ladder, it is relatively much lower, there is also the chance you will likely stick there and not be able to climb up. jason: what do you take away in terms of what needs to happen structurally, systemically? jeanna: one of the things i think is really interesting comes out of the international monetary fund. they find that in these places we are talking about with low economic mobility and high economic inequality, you see lower growth. those things paired together to hurt a country's potential. the idea is if you have a lot of kids who might be innately talented but born at the bottom of the income scale and they don't have equal access to opportunity, you might see a real loss of talent.

alan krueger came up with that title when he was at the council for economic advisers.s an interesting points to keep in mind. we do see greater intergenerational stickiness. that means that this lottery of birth, where you're born affects how your life plays out, is so much more important in these places. if you are born at the bottom -- bottom of the latter come with the bottom of the letter is much your, there's a good chance will stick there and not climb up. jason: what do you take away in terms of what needs to happen structurally, systemically? jeanna: one of the studies are referenced comes out of the international monetary fund. they find that in these places we are talking about, with low economic mobility and high economic inequality, you see lower growth. those things paired together seem to hurt the country's potential. the idea is that if you have a lot of kids who might be really innately talented, who are born at the bottom of the income scale and they don't have the access to opportunity, you might see a real loss of talent. you're not tapping all of yo

alan krueger will be well remembered there's the quote from jason he brought us into a new era of empeekal has a book forthcoming or had a book forthcoming in june called "roccon ho mics, what rock 'n' roll can tell us and i actually participated and alan was committed to use rock 'n' roll to teach about regular economics. >> that's so cool. that's shocking, so young. >> 58 years old. >> frequent guest on business television. >> yeah. >> as you mentioned, the definitive piece is really about minimum wage, and whenever, you know, people make it, and it's become a partisan issue, but really he wrote as you said an economics paper about it, the case for why higher minimum wage is better, they looked to his piece which showed that the net benefits outweighed the cost say in the fast food industry if you go up to a certain level on minimum wage, it helps the low-wage workers and it helps the overall economy. >> and what's so interesting is how he did that. he found two communities, one in new jersey with the higher minimum wage and one in pennsylvania without it, and -- and that was kind of a b

and i just felke i'm -- i am freddy krueger.">> so my life from that point know -- you know, sort of rod serling type. >> jimmy: it is so -- it is really well written and well done this movie. it's very scary and creepy. i will tell you that as well. but it's so smartly written. and i go, "what is this?" no, that's not it. oh, it's about that. no, no, it's not about that. don't get scared yet. >> yeah. >> jimmy: i don't know what's going to happen. that's why i loved it. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. suspense is everything. i mean the -- what the audience doesn't know -- >> jimmy: yes. >> is the best thing. and it's actually like -- it's the perfect position to get a a laugh too, when the audience is like, "no, no, no, no." and then -- >> jimmy: yeah. >> you know, you can just -- pretty easily, you can give them something that will kind of give a release valve. and then they'll get back into it. and so -- >> jimmy: i swear i did that. 'cause i was like -- oh>>eao!" >> yeah, it's all about that back and forth -- >> jimmy: yeah. >> for me.

i have to say number one, socialism is, as i have said, the freddy krueger of ideologies. decade it comes back and kills a bunch of people and then we forget about it. these young people, generation z are coming from the campus where the cultists, the professors, refused to expose the evils of their religion which is socialism. however, we've got to talk about sxsw. we're letting them off the hook here. how do you know sxsw is over? when cnn is there. cnn is doing a trivia contest. that's how you know when you quit pot, when your parents start up. when your parents are going to sxsw enduring trivia contest, you are no longer edgy. what would have been edgy is if someone held a socialist happy hour. open up the bar. free bar. behind there, a live feed of venezuela of all the looting, lack of electricity, power outages. you can have your free beer, socialist, but this is what you're ideologies are causing. that would have been edgy and unusual in sxsw. >> jesse: you should do a pop up next season. >> dana: why doesn't "the five" go next year? >> greg: conspicuous consumption

alan krueger was8 years old.ll to comon the newshour: how the massacre in new zealand highlights conrns of hate spread bsocial media. questions over how the bingpr 737 max got apoved to fly. breaking down president trump's latest twitter storm, and much more. >> woodruff: we return to our top story, the aftermath of friday's terror attack on mosques in christchurch, new zealand. as that nation reels from the massacre, and the true scope of the horror comes into focus, public anger is being directed not only at the gunman and his racist ideology, but at social media companies whose platforms are used to traffic such hate. john ray of independent television news is in christchurch and begins ourco verage. >> reporter: it is the way only new zealand shows its strength,a against dversary that violat everything they hold dear. some who were school children. their short lives symbolized by candles. and celebrated in song by their classmes. there are womewho mourn both children and husbands.ed naim rasheied as he was tr

and, noted economist alan krueger has died.was a top treasury department official and chair of the council of economic advisers seder president obama. before and after t positions, he taught at princeton university. his groundbreaki research ranged from economic inequality to the economic effects of opioid addiction. alanrueger was 58 years old. still to come on the newshour: how the massacre in new zealand highlights concerns of hate spread by social media. questions over how the boeing 7 max got approved to fl breaking down president trump's test twitter storm, and much more. >> woodruff: we return to our top story, the aftermath of friday's terror attack on mosques in christchurch, new zealand. as that nation reels from the massacre, and the true scope of the horror comes into focus, public anger is being directed not only at the gunman and his cist ideology, but at social media companies whose platformsd are o traffic such hate. john ray of independent television news is inch christch and begins our tverage. >> reporter: it

. >> we should mention before you leave one of your predecessors krueger passed away my condolences irueger a joint amongst xhie.s collegial would say did you think this way rather than hit you in face when you are wrong just right almost always when he came at with you that, going to be very, very missed, a terrible tragedy. >> very sad. >> thank you, maria. >> total tragedy took his own life kevin good to see you this morning thank you kevin hassett condolences to his family. back in a minute. ♪ ...red-blooded. right this way. you thirst for adrenaline, you hunger for raw power. well, you've come to the right place. the road is yours, dig in. a business owner always goes beyond what people expect. that's why we built the nation's largest gig-speed network along with complete reliability. then went beyond. beyond clumsy dials-in's and pins. to one-touch conference calls. beyond traditional tv. to tv on any device. beyond low-res surveillance video. to crystal clear hd video monitoring from anywhere. gig-fueled apps that exceed expectations. comcast business. beyond fast. >> welcome b

ito, princeton professor alan krueger, he worked for president obama.urvey and found that 47%, almost half of prime age men who are not in the labor force took a pain killer not last month, not last week, but yesterday. 47% of men 25 to 54 not in the labor force took a pain killer yesterday. and the follow-up question, was it a prescription pain killer? and about a third said yes, so a third of men not working took a prescription pain killer yesterday. that's a problem, folks. that's a real problem, not just for those individuals, but for our economy. and so we have to work together on this opioid issue. it is so important. the department of labor is sponsoring some pilot programs. when individuals go into treatment facilities, treatment can often take months. what are they doing while they're being treated? are they watching television? or are they preparing for the next phase of their life? so what the department of labor is doing is providing funding for work force training while someone's undergoing treatment. because that's -- [applause] at the end