mr. chairman. chairman simons, many leading economists agree the concentration in labor markets gives corporations the ability to hoard profits at the expense of workers. it's clear that the antitrust laws address anticompetitive harm to everyone including workers. we know this because the antitrust agencies joint guidelines and human resource policies and subsequent enforcement makes this clear. but what remains unclear is whether specific transactions will have anticompetitive effects on labor markets. we have heard concerns that the agencies may not have adequate data to effectively police the anticompetitive conduct in labor markets. with this in mind, how are the antitrust agencies ensuring that they are asking the right questions as the danger of potential harm appears? >> we look at every merger very carefully. we look to see where their plants are located, where they do business, and the extent to which they are overlapping on the labor side. the staff is instructed to look at every merger for labor issues

mr. simons. your career has been distinguished as well and i would be remiss not to point that out, my time has expired. thank you. >> thank you, congressman. >> the chair now recognizes the congressman from georgia, mr. collins. >> thank you, mr. chairman. a few questions, it is good to see you both as well. the ftc, not antivirus organization, piracy is a growing threat to consumers as a source of malware, the 1/3 of parasites exposed to users. the mainstream websites, the longer a consumer spends and does not realize that the legitimate service, the greater the risk. the studies were conducted by citizens, i would like to include those into the record. >> thank you. >> you participated in the event with the u.s. intellectual property enforcement concerning piracy. >> i don't think so. >> okay. the issue is coming to a concern, whether you did or not, it is becoming a concern on other areas of how we would combat this in the area of streaming. is that something -- >> we are focused on how this

mr. simon, the judge is clearly worried about it. >> in court pg&e explained it was not able to complete tree trimmings near electrical lines because of lack of qualified tree professionals. hearing comes one day after pg&e filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. look for the story on abc7news.com, scroll down and find a form where you can submit a question directly to us. >>> runaway on the runway, a small plane in central valley crashed without a pilot. >>> silicon valley power player says he fasts 22 hours a day, talking about intermittent fasting and what it means for productivity, next. >>> yes, we have our challenges. i see them every day. >> sharing her vision for san francisco, big plans laid out by mayor london breed. >>> "jimmy kimmel live." >> thanks dan and dion. if you don't watch tonight, i won't be mad, i'll be disappointed ♪ he's working for this donut, going to give >>> take a look at this. small plane went rolling away without a pilot today in central valley. small propell

mr. simon, the judge is clearly worried about this. >> in court, pg&e said it was not able to complete tree trimming near electrical lines because of lack of qualified tree professionals. the hearing came a day after pg&e filed for a chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. >>> the kplok clock is ticking r congress to keep the government open. the president made clear in a tweet, no wall, no deal. in a new interview president trump blames paul ryan for reneging on a prooms mise to gi him the wall. please don't do that. we'll get you the wall and then he went lame duck. house members left washington dbs and won't return until tuesday, the same day as the state of the union. president trump told the daily caller part of the speech will be border-related. >>> governor newsom will decide whether charles manson's younst follor will stay in prison. she received a life sentence for the murders of grocery is he ske executive and his wife in 1969. van houten was 19 at the time. this is the third time the parol

mr. simon: how's that. >> much better. mr. simon: ok. the commission seeks to promote competition through vigorous law and enforces u.s. antitrust law in many sectors of the directly affect consumers and their pocket books, such as health care, consumer products and services, technology, energy.uring and one of our principal responsibilities is to prevent mergers that may lessen competition. since the beginning of 2017, the commission has challenged 48 mergers. the commission took action to prevent harmful mergers in a range of industries, from pharmaceuticals and medical instruments, missile systems, industrial gases, cooking oil, agricultural chemicals, and something as mundane as cement. these casesy of were resolved through settlements, the commission has also been active in merger litigation. alone, the year commission sued to block five mergers. two of those ended successfully when the parties abandoned the transaction after the commission initiated litigation. three others are still pending in litigation. the commission also maint

mr. simondge is clearly worried about this. >> in court, pg&e said it was not able to complete tree trimmings near electrical lines because of a lack of qualified tree professionals. the hearing came a day after pg&e filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. >>> the clock is ticking for 17 bipartisan legislators to reach a deal to keep the government open past february 15th. the demand for a border wall remains the toughest obstacle. he made clear in a tweet, if there's no wall, there's no deal. in a new interview with the daily caller president trump blames former house speaker paul ryan for reneging on a promise to give him the wall saying, quote, i was going to veto the omnibus bill and paul told me in the strongest of language, please don't do that, we'll get you the wall. and he went lame duck. house members won't return until tuesday, the same day as the president's state of the union and president trump told the daily caller part of the speech will be border-related. >>> a sting led to more than

. >> mr. simon, the judge is clearly worried about this. >> in court, pg&e said it was not able to complete tree trimmings near electrical lines because of a lack of qualified tree professionals. the hearing came a day after they filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. the clock is ticking for legislators to reach a deal to keep the government open past february 15th. the president's demand for a border wall remains the toughest obstacle. he made it clear in a tweet, no wall, no deal. in a new interview with the daily caller, president trump blames former house speaker paul ryan for reneging on a promise to give him the wall saying, quote, i was going to veto the omnibus bill and paul told me in the strongest of language, please don't do that, we'll get you the wall and then he went lame duck. house members have left washington and won't return until tuesday, the same day as the safety union. president trump said part of the speech will be border-related. >>> a three-day traffic sting led to mor

mr. simon. the judge has cleis clearly w0 i about this. >> and clearly no response. in court today pg&e explained it was not able to complete tree trimmings near its electrical lines because of a lack of qualified tree professionals. pg&e filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday arguing it cannot afford to pay what is expected to be billions of dollars in liabilities related to the wildfires. >>> 7 on your side's michael finney is here. he has answers to questions that you asked abc 7 news about pg&e's bankruptcy. >> neil writes in to ask will the bankruptcy allow pg&e to defer planned maintenance? michael. >> we've been asked that quite a bit. pg&e tells us it is committed to making critical investments in system sxaft maintenance. there's quotes around that. to that end pg&e is asking the court to approve a $5.5 billion financing plan to pay for essential maintenance projects. we asked pg&e if the company will defer any projects at all such as gas line maintenance. a spokesperson would not respond directly saying pg&e does not expect any impact to elect

ray dalio did very well, as did mr. simon. thing that struck me in this piece is six out of 10 hedge funds lost money last year. reporter: isn't that amazing? lisa: the highest proportion since the financial crisis. reporter: you read this story, and you are like hedge funds are doing ok. no, you read that, and oh we have been talking about the existential crisis and hedge funds, and it is six and 10. lisa: they are two of the most consistently outperforming hedge fund managers out there. they use neutral strategies. they are not looking at bonds or stocks and going full on either one. and they use hard-core math. jim simon created the math museum in new york. this is very much algorithmic trading, but not all algorithmic trading is the same. they have the secret sauce, and right now they are cashing in. david: it is a good point. each of them have a system. these are not stock pickers. lisa: that's exactly right. but to your point, two very different systems. proving that you can do it different ways, but you can't just be fe

mr. kudlow. simon kennedy, it is amazing how you get three or four different economic views.t growth is going to weaken? that you are going to see a quote, unquote boomlet afterwards? simon: after the government reopens, you could expect to see this boom. -- how people who are working for the government are actually looking for other jobs. if you look at the website that people can register their interest for jobs, increasingly looking for other work and manpower. there is a good chance people will go and find jobs elsewhere. that might provide support for the government -- for the economy. does somebody need to blink? how long can the shutdown actually last? rosalind: nobody expects a breakthrough today. the bills they are putting forward our cut. the bill the republicans are putting forward puts funding for the wall. the democrats are supporting a bill that says funding for the government but not for the wall. how you can have a compromise between the fundamental issue of one side wanting the wall and the other side not wanting a wall. there is simply no way through that at

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former mep who is voting for the government's brexit deal next tuesday, the deal mrs may has negotiated with brussels. simonsceptic group the european research group. he'd be happy with a no deal and thinks that fears about a no—deal brexit are exaggerated. rupa huq mp is a labour mp who will vote against mrs may's deal next tuesday. we had booked the shadow brexit ministerjenny chapman but she had to pull out because of the diary clash, so rupa huq stood in at the last minute and we are grateful for that. who actually wants a no deal? introduce yourself and tell us why. i work introduce yourself and tell us why. iwork in introduce yourself and tell us why. i work in a factory manufacturing alarm systems. i have got to say this. i had a chat with the purchasing manager of the factory, and he said that at the moment there is uncertainty, that is why components are not getting through, and the politicians need to get their act together. it is then we are waiting for. we can trade on wto rules. no deal, i don't like the term no deal. wto is what it is, a new trade deal with the rest of the world. bring it on.

mrs. may having to take instructions from mp's. anna: simon, your thoughts?t up the pound chart, options positioning around the pound. option traders in white, adding upside exposure ins sterling before key votes. have to maybe have a brave stomach for that. simon: if i look at what happened yesterday, the fact we only have three days between the meaningful vote and plan b, and then of course also the story about the votes of no confidence likely on wednesday from jeremy corbyn. i think what we saw in movements in sterling yesterday really suggested a market that suddenly rapidly there's a decreasing chance of the deal going through. iton't think anybody expects to go through on the first take, but if there had been that opportunity for the government days, the deal down in 21 with parliament facing a cliff edge, a lot of people maybe thought they would get it on the second pass, and now that's less likely. anna: there were times when sterling traded around certainty versus uncertainty, and times when sterling seems to trade around specific end outcomes. you

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for the name after the whole fuck around mr hates it for jim and then where i hope that our family in the course. of the. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. so after running fast for life needs to be if you are going. to invited us foundry time for the twenty fifth anniversary of the founding of the episode. on october fifth or in the past this plane was shot down to make a mark for the group. playing dropping. corporate turf at reagan in front of a train. and there was one crew member the parachuted to shake the. usual props many of them for its. minute wisconsin cure me after we arrived. the nikken are when your dish or tribe you know is taking house of course out to the crash site and asked us to events we wanted to go on a helicopter with us to the crash site wasn't a shock to us about all the flights you've been on all these covert flights of army air corps and he was course angry because he had been abandoned by the reagan administration he was basically a covert operator mercenary he was proud of. his capture would revea

mrs may but also questions for her opponents. norman, thank you. norman smith. let us get the weather. here is chris fawkes. thank you, simonre i come from. the snow has been causing problems for manchester airport and liverpool airport, both runways were shut earlier and schools in the greater manchester area, summer, are closed. we have showers coming in from the irish sea. for most that stays dry with sunshine. a cold day coming up. showers for the

mrs may but also questions for her opponents. norman, thank you. norman smith. let us get the weather. here is chris fawkes. thank you, simonther watcher picture shows you a beautiful canal with snow on the banks. this is taken from station road bridge, that is where i come from. the snow has been causing problems for manchester airport and liverpool airport, both runways were shut earlier and schools in the greater manchester area, summer, are closed. we have showers coming in from the irish sea. for most that stays dry with sunshine. a cold day coming up. showers for the south—west of england and showers for the highlands of scotland. there will be a mixture of sleet and snow mixed in as well. overnight tonight clear skies and it will be a very cold night, there could be mist and fog patches around but for many, it is the frost and eyes that is of more concern. temperatures in the towns and cities down to minus six celsius, colder in the countryside. more trouble on the way on thursday. an area of low pressure running into that cold here and obviously some snow again. targeting the south of england, wales and the north of

contemporary america as so many believe, then paul simon remains champion of the counterculture in music. "bridge over troubled water," "sound of silence," "mrsbinson," "graceland." you'd be hard pressed to find a music fan of any age who doesn't know one of his songs. his career spans decades, from the most famous musical duo of all time, with art garfunkel -- they began as tom & jerry in the 1950s -- to a blockbuster solo career. now paul simon is out with a new album, "in the blue light." i'm on the heels of a global farewell tour. i caught up with him recently at his office in new york, thinking deeply about whether he can keep applying his healing balm to these troubled times. we got off to a rather impromptu start. [ harmonica plays ] >> i do this as overdose. but look at the size of this. >> that is amazing. and on that note, can we start our conversation? >> let us. let's begin. >> because i want to ask you what that is. is it a throwback? yeah, i guess you could say a throwback. when i first came into contact with this in nashville, i used it on "the boxer," with simon & garfunkel. >> i wasn't gonna start with this, but you brought u

and president simon ramaphosa of south africa is in davos for his first time since attending the world record i meant for it since the assume the presidency rather mr ramaphosa spokes person made clear even before his arrival that the president would discuss the issue of official corruption that the davos audience was anxious for him to address and remarks mr ramaphosa touted management changes at the state owned companies and a four hundred forty percent increase in direct foreign investment in south africa to africa to over seven billion dollars. and german chancellor angela. burkle also spoke fighting back against insurgent populist movements around the world saying quote there is a new approach that we see in the world today an approach that harbors doubts as to the living the international systems i have my grave doubts that this is the right way to go the chancellor went on to say we should always remember that others have vested interest factor them in and then shape a win win situation. even before the world economic forum officially kicked off a cohort of investors executives in a fish elected officials who attend davos we're already buzzi

mr. mcdonald was a dapper gentleman. he generously gave of his time. he was a member of the screen actor's guild in the 1980s, he was part of the cast of simon and simon, murder she wrote, chips. he portrayed himself, a dapper gentleman. we are very, very thankful for the years bernie gave to the port organization and how he welcomed visitors. he will be greatly missed. we ask the port commission that you have the meeting in his memory. that concludes my report. thank you. >> any public comment on the executive director's report? >> item 9:00 p.m. port commissioner's report. >> anything to report, commissioner adam? >> tomorrow, the 12th of december, will be a year of the passing of mayor lee. the city has went on. i know a lot of what we are doing at the port, mayor's lee vision is in front of our eyes. we have a new mayor. it is nice to know the citizens are resilient. i know mayor lee would be very proud. i want to personally thank the public for your support this year with the sea wall bond and coming to the port commission supporting the commission even when you didn't agree with the commissioners, we need to hear that. we understand we work for y

mrs may to come up with a plan b pronto. norman smith, thank you very much. joining me now from westminster is the conservative mp simonctly a month ago, of course, theresa may called off the meaningful vote because she knew she was going to lose it — can you honestly say hand on heart this time around that anything is going to be different? well, i think norman smith's comments were pretty accurate, actually. it doesn't feel like a significant change. the threat of a confidence vote in the prime minister has obviously gone away. but i think even pragmatic people realise this may be difficult to get over the line first time or even second time. but the crucial thing to me about that sort of introduction was the fact that, what are the alternatives? and those people who are yearning for the purist brexit possible face a real opportunity next week of losing everything. so i think this emphasis on supporting a deal, even a deal you have got to hold your nose about, is really important, because the alternatives could be pretty bleak. so will you back the prime minister's deal next week, is that your intention? yes, it is.

mr. schwab and talk about globalization. translate it for us. what our team says actually is globalization. simonory coming in the works. [laughter] tom: i know this. i never talked to simon. simon: with respect to the form, what i think they would like to do is come up with titles that are slightly provocative. what does this title mean? lots of talks of resilience, dynamism. richard baldwin, a friend of this show, has been writing about it. we'll try to grab late with what it means. the next form of globalization is what they're looking at. and that feeling about populism, just how things fit into that. francine: thanks so much. watch out for that story hitting the bloomberg terminal at our website. bloomberg executive editor, and in charge of our alice coverage -- davos coverage, david riley. coming up, we have plenty more from davos. we have the imf releasing their world economic outlook later today. also, city managing director and chief global analyst. this is bloomberg. ♪ tom: good monday morning, everyone. francine lacqua and tom key. first day here with meetings beginning tomorrow. globa