Politics. Hi, priscilla and brandon. You have to unmute. Nice to be here. Thanks for having us. When i was asked to sort of moderate this, one of the thing that it brought up brought to mind or brought null mill enemy he was now in the early how 200s there was a panel u. S. Discussion of the future of books and people making prediction about he future of books and how things had to change and which way they needed to go and that was all tied to the emergence of ebooks and ebook technology and most of the people saved at that time did not turn out to be true. Ebooks did not take over from print books. And in particular, younger readers more than any other Demographic Group preferred print books. So, the idea that Book Publishing needed to change with this technology, maybe it did some ways but not maybe in ways that people thought, and im wondering first, priscilla, i dont know if you remember that time or the kind of craziness that win along with it, but do you feel that i dont know ho
Younger people, it is a huge issue. Announcer share your experiences dealing with the coronavirus pandemic and ask. Xperts your questions join our live conversation every morning on washington journal which starts at 7 00 and week nights at 8 00 p. M. Eastern for washington journal primetime. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp held a briefing yesterday in update on give an the states efforts to handle the coronavirus pandemic. He took questions on the states hospital Equipment Shortage and enforcement of the stay at home order. Good afternoon, everyone. I apologize were running a few minutes late. Being you so much for with us today. As usual, i have the Public Health commissioner, dr. Kathleen toomey, adjunct georgia tom carden, Emergency Management and Homeland Security director homer brison, all the people operating under the direction standing leaders behind me are truly remarkable. Including them. Theyve been working, as you imagine, long hours, with very little sleep. All those t to tha
Program might be used to or result in some way a crowding out of a significant portion of the economy shortterm private credit liability. And then it goes on to consider this is where i got into trouble. Such a Development Might conflict with the fifth Monetary Policy octave i got confused i will tell you i was on an amtrak south of washington behind a Freight Train when i read that section. That had something to do with it. But ting that section and one or two others could have been simplified a little bit and then clarified. I probably said enough by now to signal my high regard for this book, i can do it. I can do it. [laughter] but in closing let me salute that the very strength of the book for me actually highlights if the fed and the fdsc needs strong and essentially discretionary Emergency Powers to prevent or confront o runs how do we reck are sile such powers with legitimacy requirements of a democratic society. This is a Critical Condition in today political environment with
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to our discussion of health scotts new book, connectedness and contagion. Here it is. If you didnt notice, we have copies for sale. Its my pleasure to remind that youre welcome to buy a copy and how will be available to autograph them. Here we are in aei stylish new Conference Center to discuss a very old problem, namely how best to survive panics of which there have been many across the centuries and survive fear and distrust when financial actors try to withdraw to protect themselves, a rational strategy for each but as we all know not when they all do it at the same time. Highly interested historically but much more pressing when we consider as his book does in detail and what should we do in the next panic which would surely arrive sooner or later. Two centuries ago David Ricardo observed a general panic may seize the country when everyone becomes desirous of treasury metals, banks have no security on any system, that is to say the private banks on th
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