Basis in Syria but Trump says he made no promises to them when working with the Kurds were going to relationship with the Kurds but we never agreed to you know protect the Kurds was for them and then for 3 and a half to 4 years we never agreed to protect the Kurds from the rest of the lands Turkey agreed to pause its military campaign to give the Kurds time to withdraw about 20 miles from the Turkish Syrian border Trump who has hailed that arrangement negotiated by his Administration says he doesn't think it would have happened without the Kurds going through quote 2 and a half days of hell Michele Kelemen n.p.r. News the State Department a bipartisan group of state attorneys general say they've reached a tentative national settlement with 5 major drug companies over the opioid crisis and are unveiling plans for how to distribute almost $50000000000.00 in cash and medicine to hard hit communities drug distributors Amerisource Bergen Corp Cardinal Health and McKesson Corp and drug makers Johnson and Johnson and Ti Vo pharmaceuticals Ltd proposed a deal last week valued 48000000000 resolve open had litigation against them separately for companies reached a $260000000.00 settlement with 2 Ohio counties today warning what would have been the 1st federal trial against drug companies for their role in the opioid crisis the House has blocked a largely symbolic effort by Republicans to censor House Intelligence chairman Adam Schiff as N.P.R.'s Susan Davis reports Republican leaders called for the official reprimand for ships management of the impeachment inquiry Democrats blocked a vote on a resolution by Arizona Republican Congressman any big to censure Schiff specifically Republicans want to reprimand shift for the way he depicted President Trump's July 25th call with the Ukrainian president during a committee hearing last month says his summary was a parody it was self evident to anyone watching Democrats control the chamber and block the resolution from proceeding it is part of Republicans broader complaint that the impeachment inquiry is happening behind closed doors it was never authorized by a full House vote. 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News this is All Things Considered I'm else the Chuang And I'm Ari Shapiro President Trump did something today that he has done at other trying times in his presidency he held an open cabinet meeting there for 71 minutes with the cameras rolling the president defended his decision to pull troops out of northern Syria and again decried the Democratic impeachment inquiry I think they want to impeach me because the only way they're going to win they've got nothing all they have is a phone call that was perfect it is the latest in Trump's efforts to manage his White House and his message and here to talk us through it is N.P.R.'s Tamara Keith Hi Tom Hi Ari this cabinet meeting lasted more than an hour as we said cameras rolling the whole time was there actual cabinet business being discussed what did the president have to say well there was an official purpose for the meeting which was to discuss deregulation in the president's deregulation agenda that did not become the focus of this president didn't really talk about that in his long opening monologue where he weighed in on any number of things talked about how wonderful he says the country is doing said his rally set attendance records and even for someone without a guitar he said he gave an update of sorts on the situation in Turkey with the Kurds and and Syria and he even weighed in on the spat between Tosi Gabbert and Hillary Clinton that's been going on over the weekend but as you hinted what President Trump does is he holds these Cabinet meetings at difficult times in his presidency to try to assert control over the news cycle when he's lost control of it to show himself at that big cabinet table looking presidential surrounded by his Cabinet calling on them asking them to say things and also he uses it to vent and he had a lot of grievances to talk about today Pelosi. Shifty shoes. Shomer these people are trying to destroy the country it's a very bad thing what they're doing the president of the United States should be allowed to run the country not have to focus on this kind of crap. His message was basically I'm doing all of these great things why don't you focus on the great things why do I have to deal with this impeachment stuff as you referenced there was a lot for the White House to deal with last week much of its own making from the pushback to President Trump's decision to pull u.s. Troops out of Syria to the announcement that the g. 7 would be held at a trump property in Florida which was then revoked rescinded the chief of staff acknowledging a quid pro quo in Ukraine before denying he said that did President Trump talk about all those difficulties Well he certainly acknowledged his frustration and vented his frustration but you know he reversed himself over the weekend and that is a rare thing for President Trump to do in an indication that on on the g. 7 being held at his resort he was having a hard time finding anyone to defend him and the one person who went out to defend him Mick Mulvaney then had to go back on t.v. That over the weekend he was on Fox News Sunday saying well gosh if we had made that decision a couple of days ago then we wouldn't have had all of these other events happening and the quid pro quo statements and then when he was there on Fox News Sunday he he sort of explained but didn't fully explain why why the president reversed himself on the g. 7 he was honestly surprised at the level of pushback at the end of the day you know he still considers himself to be in the hospitality business and he saw an opportunity to take the biggest leaders from around the world who want to put on the absolute best show the best visit that he possibly could he was very calm from doing that drywall and it was sort of this weird acknowledgment Mick Mulvaney the chief of staff going out there to try to fix stuff and then saying that the president who's been in office for 3 years still considers himself to be in the hospitality business there have been a couple of widely criticized appearances by Mulvaney now he still be acting chief of staff even though he's been on the job almost a year does does he have any job security right now. Well the job security may come from the fact that it's unclear who would want this job President Trump has made it quite clear through his actions and his statements that he doesn't want someone to manage the White House in a traditional way he wants to be is own communications director and his own chief of staff that's n.p.r. White House correspondent Tamara Keith thanks Tom You're welcome and now a closer look at one of the people President Trump says is trying to destroy the country if the president were making a criminal bargain with a foreign leader he would be no border protected than you or I that is the voice of Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff he chairs the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and he's been tapped by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to lead the impeachment inquiry into President Trump the president vilifies him a lot he should resign from office and disgrace that frankly if they should look at him for treason because Schiff is serving his 10th term in Congress though relatively few people outside his Los Angeles district would have recognized him before the Trump presidency and P.R.'s I know Jeffie has this profile of Adam Schiff Adam Schiff was not always a successful politician in his 1st race for the California State Assembly he got creamed we were terribly naive. Terribly naive says Schiff's longtime close friend and current campaign finance co-chair Carl Thurmond but we murder and a lot that's where Adam cut his city Thurmond and shift became friends at Harvard Law School when they both moved to l.a. They went for a long runs together even trained for a marathon and as they ran they talked about jobs we talk that way we talk about girlfriends we talked about politics and Adam made it clear that his true aspiration. He was running for office he wanted to be a public servant ironically m.p.h. Mint is what launched ships congressional career specifically the impeachment of President Clinton Democrats wanted revenge on incumbent Republican Congressman Jim Rogan and Schiff was recruited to take them on explains rape sunshine head of the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs at Cal State l.a. Rogan as one of the managers of the impeachment inquiry against Bill Clinton was very vulnerable because Bill Clinton actually got more popular during his impeachment rather than less popular and it definitely mobilized Democrats it was the most expensive house race in history at that time and shift beat soundly in Congress he made national security his specialty which doesn't usually make you a star says sunshine so that made him less visible but highly respected and ship had some history with the topic as a United States attorney he won the 1st espionage conviction of an f.b.i. Agent who'd been charged with selling secrets to the Russians the pressure was intense Karl Thurman says it never showed because we still want our runs still hung out socially he just never would have guessed that he was prosecuting such a significant case like that now the pressure on Schiff is on daily display Republicans berate him for conducting an impeachment inquiry they say is too secret and partisan in the House Republicans push for a vote to censure him which failed but that's just the latest effort to get rid of Chef Republicans on the Intelligence Committee called on him to resign his chairmanship last March in the aftermath of the Muller investigation Here's Congressman Mike Conaway we have no faith in your ability to discharge your duties in a commander consistent with your customers resource ability and urge your immediate resignation as chairman of the committee and an unusually emotional response shift called out Republicans for sticking with Trump despite his possible collusion with Russia I do not think that conduct criminal or not is Ok and the day we do think that's Ok. Is the day we will look back and say that is the day America lost its way shift may now be the bogeyman of the right but he's no liberal flame thrower he voted for the Iraq war and the Patriot Act He talks bread and butter accomplishments like bringing mass transit to his district he's been viewed as a centrist but now how he will be viewed by colleagues voters and history may be out of his hands and in Chafee n.p.r. News 2 tornadoes touched down last night in north Texas one tore through Dallas it destroyed houses churches and commercial buildings and even sideswiped Medical City Dallas hospital and forced to operate on backup generators until power returned late this afternoon from Dallas N.P.R.'s Wade Goodwyn reports at the moment the tornado touched down tens of thousands of Cowboy fans were glued to their T.V.'s watching the Dallas Philadelphia game on Sunday night football although tornado watches had been issued hours in advance the 1st that many realized or tornado was actually on the ground and headed their way was when the outdoor warning sirens began to wail standing in his front yard the cleanup well underway David Williams describes the tornado skipping through his neighborhood farms on off it we heard some in the house I guess it was it it's about it it was gone the tornado spun through upscale neighborhoods denuding trees of vegetation leaving them full lorn skeletons in advance of how lowing one man looking at a large tree laying on his lawn told a reporter in surprise this is not my tree the night manager at a Home Depot became an impromptu hero watching the super cells form on his computer he decided to close the store by the time the tornado tore into their front doors an hour later there was no one left inside even though the tornado formed at night Philip Ellis shot of the. Ennio on his new iphone 11 that lit up social media the rope the funnel is backlit by lightning electric transformers blowing like 4th of July fireworks guys this is no joke this is a tornado touching the tornado in Dallas. Tell us explains it 1st he hit in the bathroom with his extremely frightened dog until his roommate yelled at him to come up on the condos roof a tornado was coming. You know I was actually wondering how far away that they haven't scored it was actually very exhilarating because when it touched the ground at that point you know I was on my knees like I'm worried about the light and you know I was that like scared for sure although the Dallas tornado caused millions of dollars in damage it did not kill or seriously injure anyone Wade Goodwyn n.p.r. News Dallas. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. 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The Department of Justice the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general from across the country have all begun to investigate the tech giants like Facebook and Google and with Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren leading the charge Democratic presidential hopefuls now have to stake out their own positions I'm not willing to give up and let a handful of monopolist dominate our economy and our democracy I agree with Senator Warren that in fact monopolies have to be dealt with they either have to be broken up or regulated and that's part of it anybody does not think that we have a massive crisis in our democracy with the way these tech companies are being used not just in terms of anti-competitive practices but also to undermine our democracy that's Cory Booker and before him Tom Styer to explain why this has become a leading political issue and what breaking up big tech might even look like I'm joined now by someone who has spent years thinking about it Columbia law professor Tim Wu welcome pleasure to be here so I know you explain this to lawmakers on the hill already but I want you to explain it to us now what do you think the harm is that these companies are creating because they do offer free services so we're not talking about like price gouging is this more about say elimination of choices you know it's the harms that come with monopolization which is the ability of a company to get away with stuff so if you take a company like Facebook facing very little competition they've been able to decrease the privacy protections that they offer people if you look at a company like Google with not much competition in search they've been raising and raising their advertising rates so it's less in the old fashioned price fixing kind of conspiracy in but more about. Users having less choice less places to go and therefore companies being able to get away with more so do you think the Facebook's or the Googles Amazons of the world are actually violating current antitrust law you know it depends on the company in the case but I think there's enough evidence to look hard at the question I've spent the most time looking at Facebook they bought out a lot of their most dangerous rivals in the early 2010 pts it's against the law to buy your competitors Instagram and what's up are 2 of their competitors they bought so I think there's at least you know probable cause that they've done something the case against Google a little more complicated but some people believe that there's enough there to take a look as well no to the war in is she has said that big tech companies specifically Amazon Google and Facebook should be broken up she says Amazon should not own Whole Foods for example should not own zappo So the shoe company Google should spin off google search you know things like that so let me ask you is breaking up these companies the best approach it depends I mean I think sometimes it is returning to Facebook I think there acquisitions of what's happened Instagram were illegal and into competitive and so if they were af still spin off those companies and do the acquisitions it would be a form of breakup but one I think that would reintroduce competition I think break ups or undoing of mergers are actually called for more than we have appreciated in the last few decades but you don't want to create new problems what kind of problems do you foresee in any action there's unintended consequences if you imagine for example breaking up Apple into 3 Little many apples there might be more competition but it might be that people's phones don't work as well or you know that they lose whatever magic mojo they had so you don't want to actually make things worse for people but that said I think break ups have the positive effect. Rebooting an industry starting things afresh and frankly historically have often been better for people in the long run than anyone predicted that's to move Columbia Law School He's the author of the curse of bigness antitrust in the new Gilded Age thanks very much for joining us today a pleasure. Support for All Tech Considered comes from ultimate software dedicated to putting people 1st the solutions for h.r. Payroll and talent management learn more at ultimate Software dot com ultimate software people 1st and from c 3. C. 3 dot a I's software enables organizations to use artificial intelligence at enterprise scale solving previously unsolvable business problems learn more at c 3. He bikes electric assisted bicycles are popping up in many places including at national parks on roads and trails now some parks are struggling with how to regulate the bikes from member station k.o.s.u. Mark Earhart reports it can be tough sometimes to tell anybody apart from a regular road or mountain bike the motor and batteries are integrated into the bike frame and often the only way but start pedaling and you can sure feel the difference so the harder I paddle. The more juice to give me. As I'm now you can ride your bike in national parks across the country there are many parks were traditional bicycles are currently only allowed on Park Road so in those situations adding electric bicycles there might be it's a bit of concern for us Natalie Levine is with the National Parks Conservation Association and in a place like Cuyahoga National Recreation Area Acadia National Park they have trails that are park roads where we think there should be more analysis of the impacts of these bicycles in Ohio Cuyahoga Valley National Park which sits between Cleveland and Akron there are miles of dedicated mountain bike trails and this trail here was not built with the bikes in mind Steven Metzler heads the Cleveland area mountain bike Association and says with the added motor the bikes are much heavier and that raises concerns speeds on a downhill with a heavier bike it could potentially cause injury to the rider until the trail users Cuyahoga Valley rolled out a draft policy allowing Ebonics on roads and multi-use paths but banned them outright on its mountain bike trails park official Pamela Barnes says they're playing it safe for now we at this time don't have enough data to be able to answer the question is an email in bike different than any traditional mountain bike is far is impact on the trail or on resources bike shop owner Chad Martin has no problem with people of any ability using either. In national parks but he's against allowing them on mountain bike trails if someone laughs and physical prowess or skills to handle that providing them an engine doesn't necessarily change those facts but Pete's Maki alone who owns an IED bike shop in Akron disagrees people who have different abilities will still look at a section a trail and go oh yeah I can do that or I can't but ban or no ban mountain bike or Cody rider says the mountain bikes are already on these trails Anyway I think it's a lot like cars you can also drive considerably over the speed limit and make it an unpleasant experience for everyone around you and I would say for that matter too with the popularity of the bikes on the rise even Chad Mark who doesn't want to see them on trails recognizes that he's fighting a losing battle I've. Asked the opinion of a lot of the different bicycle people that I trust and the resoundingly team is it's inevitable quit fighting it manufacturers are indeed racing to put out more and more bike models as cyclists who want a little extra boost continue to embrace them and its popularity that's pressuring national parks to figure out whether to welcome or restrict them for n.p.r. News I'm Mark. This is n.p.r. News. On the next morning edition catching a spy is no easy task now computers can be programmed to find insider threats they don't just predict the future they cost the future but are their conclusions reliable Also a new h.b.o. Series puts a different spin on superheroes a little worried about people who. Listen for all kinds of stories on the next Morning Edition from n.p.r. News. No need to spy on the next morning edition all will be revealed tomorrow 5 to 9 am with local host right here on Southern Colorado's n.p.r. Station. 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In Los Angeles I'm Carl Rochelle It is Monday today the 21st of October good as always to have you along everybody ticker symbol be a is where we begin the program today the Boeing Company a global aerospace manufacture as the company itself would surely like to remind you but a company known best at the moment for the fatal problems with a single model of a single plane the Boeing $737.00 Max still grounded still driving Boeing's share price lower and the effects of which are still spilling out into Boeing suppliers and customers and the economy as a whole Marketplace's Mitchell Hartman gets his go let's start with the airlines it's not like air travelers see a bunch of empty $737.00 Max planes grounded on the tarmac but Maduna Krishnan at Airline Weekly says this is affecting the industry it's all tickets against what they expected to have in their fleets and now for example on American and Southwest cases they have 20 odd fewer aircraft and that means fewer routes they can serve meaning fewer options and higher ticket prices for flyers Boeing is trying to get regulators to recertify the $737.00 Max as safe to fly so airlines will start taking delivery and ordering new planes again the company hasn't stopped production but it has slowed the assembly lines for more than 50 planes a month to just over 40 says analyst Scott Hamilton at the lead him company near Seattle if they further reduced production then you're going to start seeing some layoffs labor force in the administration it may be and. They've got their hands full as it is how about the impact on u.s. Growth Oh. Overall Paul Ashworth it Capital Economics says Boeing has slowed its purchases of raw materials an airplane parts which is contributing to the slump in u.s. Manufacturing So I mean what's been going on has been a factor in all of this as has the strike in General Motors but some analysts still think the company has a bright future Here's Jim corridor at c.f.r. a Research you're looking backward there's a lot of blame to its time to the company if you're looking forward but wing is one of 2 companies in an industry that has being very high demand they will be generating profits for a long time he says when Boeing does start selling 737 Max aircraft again they'll be priced cheap to move on Mitchell Hartman for Marketplace Boeing's board by the way meeting as we speak in San Antonio Texas today. We have reported often on this program about the troubles besetting the retail sector falling revenues closing stores layoffs but amidst all that there is one big retailer opening an enormous new store in Manhattan Nordstrom the new women's store is going to be 320000 square feet 7 stories high lots of room for clothes and shoes obviously but it seems a big part of the business model is going to be about services marketplace model cigar explains out on the Nordstrom website there's a page that advertises the new flagship store and there are 2 lines on that page that stick out to me no matter what you need just ask we're looking forward to serving you there's a law in list of services the flagship store will offer you can get your leather jacket repaired or you can get your pants hemmed in an hour you can meet with a personal stylist or a beauty advisor for free they also have a number of high end restaurants and eateries there they have the ability to protect him or to order food while they're shopping and even I believe drink more it with liquor like cocktails served to you while you browse for shoes Sanyal Pinsky is a managing director Alex partners Nordstrom is providing a reason for the customer to walk in the door the theory she says is if Nordstrom can get people in the door those people might stick around and buy some of the stuff that's hanging on the racks department stores have been struggling but Charlotte chatter g. Who teaches marketing at mit Sloan says there is still a place for them if they can give customers what they're looking for which in many cases is an experience a please with the right card offerings and saw this all move beyond as something customers will buy one of the other services Nordstrom's offering which might appeal more to locals 247 pick up for online orders because people are doing a lot more shopping online these days might as well lean into that to. For marketplace Boeing but the on what could have been a better day for the Dow We will have the details when we do the numbers. Says the labor statistics show the fastest growing part of the American labor force people $65.00 and older which means we now have the most age diverse workforce we have ever had there are 4 sometimes even 5 distinct generations working side by side in this economy it works all right for the most part but when you remember we've got more ways to communicate than ever before. Sometimes you end up with complications marketplaces Megan McArdle. Millennial Stuart Horgan doesn't buy into a lot of the tired stereotypes about generational difference the operations manager at a tech startup in Boston has never taken a photo of his food and knows plenty of selfie obsessed boomers but when it comes to communicating with older colleagues he sees a big divide on one small point they use periods a lot which realize this but they sound very stern very final or even worse they'll do this thing where they and their emails are there in some messages or attacks with an ellipsis. Which for a millennial is just like the high passive aggression even vaguely remembers one instance on a Friday afternoon when he said all the big presentation to a 56 year old manager and he just response Banks dot dot dot enjoy the weekend. And that completely ruined my weekend I definitely looked at the present there. And for probably like 6 hours that we've been trying to figure out what was wrong with it we're going to is part of a generation that grew up replacing a lot of face to face time with text based communication so every last character is precious pregnant with meaning that's why he likes to use shorthand visual cues like gifts or remote G.'s to clarify his tone but not everyone is on board insert the face now you look like you're 10 like oh my God Do we not have language anymore 48 year old Gen x. Or Alex Maki likes to think of herself as hip with the young crowd she's worked as a project manager in gaming and entertainment the when it comes to the written word she's old school as like you can't be bothered to write a sentence like how does this reflect on her detail oriented Are you a recent survey from writing software Graham really found workers under $35.00 were 50 percent more likely than older workers to be told their tone was too informal even though more younger workers said they spent time agonizing over meaning tone and grammar in their emails miscommunication between different age groups is hardly a new phenomenon says Bob McCann a management communications professor at u.c.l.a. But the fast pace of technological change is deepening the divide between generations every 3 weeks we have a new platform that we need to do whether a new app is coming out and we have to adjust and we have to change he says communicating fluently over a broad range of channels from conference calls to group chats is becoming ever more important and sometimes that should include m o g says Vic Burma c.e.o. Of workplace communication platform 8 by 8 and former smiley face hater until it started dawned on me that if you send a bold text the probability that it will be misunderstood is massive and. Changes it's all about context he says and tailoring communication not to fit the learned. Preferences of one generation or another but the demands of the task at hand so e-mail for deliberate complex thinking chat for shoot from the hip collaboration or phone for urgent matters and sometimes there's really nothing better than some good old fashioned face time like the real thing not the app the reason I wanted to talk to you today is about how you sign off most of your messages remember Stuart Horgan and his ellipsis problem I asked him if he'd be willing to meet with his boss Tom Murphy to get to the bottom of all those dots in the culture that signing off with an ellipsis is like the height of passive aggression. I do feel like understand class and no one wants to tell me 75 he told me so I guess that's good news now if someone could just explain the meaning of the 10 different Smiley m o G's. I'm making McCarty Corrino for Marketplace. It's never easy being a farmer right uncertainty got to goes with that job description from whether to crop yields to market braces to nowadays trade wars and tariffs so with harvest gone full swing and a whole lot of the country another installment of our series Economy about people out there just trying to get by many Ms Blake urged and I farm in northwest Missouri we grow corn and soybeans and also serve as president Farm Bureau. About 2 weeks in harvest. And it is without a doubt my favorite time of year and the most beautiful time in years well I get the opportunity to do a lot of different tasks during the year because of the seasonality of farming so just a different job every day and I think that's right because. I mean we really have had a very. Year and harvest is late it's delayed in a rush to get it done before we would normally you know expect snow in winter and just a lot of stress and people are feeling that and then they add that to you know just economic stress that we're feeling because of low prices so yeah people are people are not happy. As it turns out of course the flooding in the summer has supported market prices by cutting production but we can't sell as many soybeans 2 years ago. We sold one in 3 bushels we raised. One and 3 we raised in China. And those those sales have essentially gone away we're still selling. But not nearly what we used to and that's been the price lower than it would have been otherwise so that's how it affects us. Culture community I mean our town has 1500 people our county which is about 5000 people living here so very low population almost all of them dependent on agriculture in some way they work at the local sea dealership they work at the grain elevator they work at the ethanol plant all those businesses have seen a drop in revenue and so edges it's just neck up economic burden on everybody in the community. And I'm 62 years old and I don't know anything better so it's a little bit it's a little below. You know charming Having said all those things farming is cyclical . And when you put on that free seed corn cap you know like to give us. When you started farming and you know we're all excited about your 1st planting season you knew that it was a year of Disney's were some years are good and some are good. But you know that it will get better you just ride it out. To be in a financial situation where the next down cycle will put you out of business that's that's the key. That was Blake her 1st he's a corn and soybean farmer in Missouri we need you and your stories to make this series work right so take a 2nd. Doing what you can do that marketplace. And I want to pay so much more not something you hear from your boss all that often but 1st. Do the numbers. 57 points percent 26827 The Nasdaq up 73 points percent 8162 the s. And p. $500.00 gained 20.6 percent 3006 at the. At the plane. Credit Suisse u.b.s. And Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Closed down 3.7 percent. As much was talking about starting to spread some of its suppliers takes. U.b.s. Downgraded its outlook for the company today share the down 4.8 percent Meanwhile Southwest Airlines which is grounded more $737.00 matches than any other carrier fell 4 tenths of one percent today bonds fell on the 10 year to no it rose to 1.80 percent it was less on sort of better you're listening the market marketplace is supported by c.f.p. 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This is Marketplace I'm Heather Long the economics correspondent for The Washington Post had a story this weekend that resonated with us the basic gist of which was that economists just aren't doing a good job telling economic stories that maybe what the economic world needs is more English majors a course of study that as Heather pointed out in her piece has seen a 25 percent drop in college majors since the Great Recession Heather it's good to have you back on the program great to be back we should say here at the outset you are by training and background an interested party in this idea of storytelling and economics right. Yeah you called me out the disclaimer is I majored in both English and economics Ok but more to the point it's not just you who picked up on this this phenomena phenomenon about English majors Robert Schiller no less a personage than a Nobel laureate in economics you also point out the importance of storytelling in economics tell me why it matters tell me why. Yeah it's really fascinating I mean one of these prominent economist Bob Shiller he just has a new book out narrative economics is the title and the whole point of his book is that stories matter basically economists have spent so much of the last 50 years trying to build these super elaborate data models to predict human behavior and at the end of the day he says Actually they should have been paying a lot more attention to what was in newspaper articles and one people were telling each other on internet forums or by word of mouth such as oh get rich quick you could buy this Bitcoin or hey you don't really have to put any money down to buy a house and it's really interesting to hear want to one of the foremost economists in the profession basically saying that we need better storytellers and we need to be paying attention to stories but it's also interesting because when you talk about this often in your writing economists don't do themselves any favors and the most recent example is is the big Federal Reserve conference out in Jackson Hole where everybody and their dog gives a speech but there are economists giving speeches and nobody is sitting on the edge of their chair figuring out what they're saying yeah that's right again there are lots of papers that are very technical and trying to put new models but the one person's talk that really got people started I was the head of the Australian Central Bank us daily hasn't had a recession in more than 25 years so people are paying attention a little bit more into what they're saying and he got up Philip blow got up and basically looked around the room and said we need to be better storytellers we need to be better communicators and particularly at this moment in the economy one of the best things you could do is tell people a plausible story why should they continue to invest why should they continue to spend why is this economy going to keep rocking one note here the j.p.l. The chair of the Federal Reserve is advertising for a speechwriter the chairman of the Fed has come under some criticism in recent weeks that his computer. Cation has been unclear and somebody reached out to me after this article went up over the weekend about the importance of English majors instead of economists are going from why we still need English majors to remind me that the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank has a whole team that's basically dedicated to improving communications for the fat and translating econ speak into more palatable the scutcheon one note of peril here and this is in your piece as well the idea that the president of the United States is is forming his own narrative his telling his own stories about the economy even though they are not grounded in fact Yeah that's right Bob Shiller actually pointed this out to me he said you know someone and President Trump seems to be trying to encourage this lifestyle of buying more and spending like a trump which may have some influence on the economy and on people's idea of what they should be by but a lot of his comments that this is the greatest economy in u.s. History are simply not true and not grounded in fact and all has a long she's an economics correspondent also an English major by the way at the Washington Post Heather thanks a lot thank you. I'm not on the out on the. On. The minimum wage you know right government mandated pay $7.25 an hour federally unchanged since 2009 By the way a lot of states set their own related but different and usually higher is something called a living wage in some parts of the country if you do business with the local government the law says that's what you've got to pay a living wage from w.a.m. You in why. In d.c. Where the cost of living is pretty high such and Simons as an eco Hobbs' owns a small African inspired fashion and beauty boutique called Nubian human in Washington d.c. You know the functional form of the local. Woman she's not required to pay the city's living wage of $1415.00 an hour because she's not a government contractor but she pays it anyway epee the living wage and I want to pay so much more I want people to work for newbie and human and say I can't leave them they they're just so awesome D.C.'s living wage dates back to 2006 and has been adjusted twice over the years for inflation most cities with living wages work the same way in d.c. The wage is $0.50 higher than the $14.00 an hour minimum wage Jason Anderson has worked at hob store for a year he's $44.00 and today he's working a Saturday shift on what would normally be his day off he says he needs the money and he appreciates that his employer is paying a bit more he says it sends a message Ok well I feel you this valuable to detain and I need you to be able to make it to the same way that you are invested in magic and I want me to make it but as Washington gets more expensive the father of 2 says 1450 an hour isn't really enough to get by so he works 2 other jobs what we accept as social norms is live work and all that he's ours and get in his ways and trying to piece money together check the check to try to provide it is ridiculous Hobbs knows several of her feel this way she says paying the living wage is a sacrifice for her I don't get paid they'll be spurts of Tom when it's like Ok we've got some good money and you know the holidays is a really great time so I'll pay myself around that time it depends on where the business is that I'll cut a check and when D.C.'s minimum wage rises to $15.00 an hour next summer it will be greater than the Living Wage Ed Lazear heads the d.c. Fiscal Paul. The Institute think tank the minimum wage is a floor the living wage should be something that is much closer to what it really takes to live on in Washington d.c. That would be just under $18.00 an hour for a single person and about $30.00 if they're raising a child that's according to a nationwide living wage calculator created at m.i.t. The calculator looks at costs like rent food transportation Some advocates in Washington say it's time to raise the living wage again Raj Agarwal is a co-founder of think local 1st d.c. He says there are also other ways employers can think about compensating employees are there other things that you're doing as a business pain health insurance provided for for a one k. Should be calculated into this concept Agger walls group is trying to determine how many employers already pay the living wage and get more on board there are many businesses that we've already identified that are pain a living wage and that there are there are people who don't know that they're doing it and eco Hobbs the owner of the African boutique doesn't offer health insurance but she does give employees birthday gifts and discounts at the store she would like to offer more if I'm not able to offer my staff benefits in your are you really employing people for her and other small business owners there's another question how much more can you pay employees and still survive in an increasingly expensive area in Washington d.c. I'm Sasha and Sons for Marketplace. This final note on the way out today about we work the real estate company that wanted to be a tech company which was. 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