Plus alphabet and meta are in talks with Hollywood Studios. Canva takes on adobe users. Lets get a check on the markets. Lots of green on the screen. A nice way to end the week. The nasdaq tech heavy, the semiconductor index, both rebounding, moving higher after inflations expert patient Inflation Expectations data made us feel more comfortable with rate cuts. We are going to talk about this throughout the program. It is down one percentage point but on track to have its best week in a year. Lots to discuss with the potential of spot etfs with sonali basak. Lets go to the private markets. Bloomberg is reporting spacex is considering an offer that would value the company at 200 million. That is where a company allows staff, employees, and some early investors to sell the shares they already own, existing shares, to outside investors. The price is set by elon musk, the cfo, and a lead outside investor. We are hearing the price could be up to 110. You do the math and that would be a jump
Dax is off by a half percentage point. The cac is off by 0. 4 the ftse relatively flat but still down finally look at crude oil prices crude was up by 2 yesterday in the market trading, but it dropped significantly after hours after there was a big increase in api crude inventories. That came as a surprise. This morning things are down by 13 cents heres some of the other big stories. Jury selection in the trial of Martin Shkreli will enter its third day today. Its not going well. Some potential jurors said they could not be fair to a man who gamed ed gained fame on raising drug prices over 5,000 . Shkreli himself has complicated matters by seeking public attention on his twitter account since charges were filed lashing out at critics and boasting of his wealth he even launched a Charity Auction for people who wanted to punch him in the face. He was banned from twitter in january for harassing a journalist shkrelis own lawyer said unfortunately the twitter history is horrific. This is a
Of state for two reasons. The first of which i know, kentucky so excited that we are the 31st state in the nation that got online voter registration. Argue . [applause] we had thousands of votes, over 20,000 votes that utilize the service but now begins the hard part. And that is actually turning people out to vote. So my question, my question to you, kentucky, is are you ready to go vote . Let me hear you say yes. Yes. Depression is backstage and he needs to know youre going to go vote. Let me hear you say go vote, kentucky. Unita say it loud does yesterday i told the president that looked like maybe only 20 of kentuckians registered voters would show up. So are you ready to go vote . Go vote, kentucky. The second reason im here today, folks, this is someone who is close to my heart come economic that is literally seen it go up since i was but a weak teenager. Proud to welcome them at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in frankfort. He asked the president , she as the first lady and ho
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Cant learn about whether programs are working or not. The problem is the action that takes place as a result of learning, the evolution. That is where any organization resists getting rid of things that dont work. It will do anything to avoid that. It was different in the private sector. I have been in the private sector and if you are not confronted with the discipline of profit and loss in a big way, you are not inclined to undertake evolutionary change yourself. So i think you can get useful evaluation internally and from contractors but in the end you wont get the evolution. A very brief comment. Very good example which i discuss in the book is head start where outside evaluators and the department of health and Human Services has done very costly and extensive assessments for the program over the course of many decades and they have pretty uniformly, there is in defense but uniformly show the effects of head start, positive effects of head start erode by the third grade and even o