I am peter carmichael, the director of the Civil War Institute and the director of the History Department here at gettysburg college. It is my pleasure to welcome my good friend Stephen Berry. Stephen berry is the gregory professor of civil war at the university of georgia. I have a few rules, and this is one. Everything Stephen Berry writes ive got to read. He brings incredible writing with rich insights. His work is so good that you want to succumb to the jealousy, but you cant. He is a terrific guy. At the university of georgia, he scholar,nly a prolific he has written or edited six books. My favorite is all that makes a ambition, and the civil war south,s dissertation at the university of North Carolina. Bardi was still teaching at North Carolina. Edited is a he fantastic book called were doing the war. , he iss another thing engaged in a lot of Digital Projects and has his graduate students working on his projects as well. My favorite of all the Digital Projects is titled private
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The market dealing with a fed induced whiplash today we are well off the session highs but in the green for the s p 500 swelz the nasdaq, the dow. The nasdaq though in negative territory down by. 2 check out the etf that tracks the Home Builders down today, but it is up 5 in just the past week well tell you which names are driving that move. Well the hawks are out in jackson hole, wyoming. Fed officials not saying what the market wants to hear today Steve Liesman is there talking to all the xwbig names. It was really harp rer that sort of sparked that turn around in the market he wants to stay neutral. More on that in a second, but i want to show you the gyrations in the outlook for the Federal Reserve through the fed funds futures market still a 99 of a rate cut. 66 for october december cut seems to be on the b table. Whether or not the 75day point for the rest of the year or just 50 another Interesting Development in september, a 1. 3 chance that the fed remains on hold. It was a 40
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He is the great professor of Civil War History at the university of georgia. Let me say i have a few rules i live by in our field, this is one of them. Anything that Stephen Berry writes ive got to read. He always brings to his research incredible, beautiful writing with rich insights. We like him so much. His work is so good. You want to be jealous but you cant, steve is a wonderful guy. A fantastic teacher as well. I have sent many students to work with steve over the years. And at university of georgia, he is not only a prolific scholar, he has written or edited six books. My favorite is all that makes a man, love ambition in the civil war south. That was his dissertation. Done some time ago at the university of North Carolina. William barney was his adviser who is still there, teaching at carolina. Another book that i would highly recommend he edited, fantastic book called weirding the war, stories from the civil wars ragged edge. And other things that he has engaged in, a lot of D