The cover figure on this week. Fed chairman jay powell. Joel jay powell is probably the most important person in the world of finance. He has the Financial Institution that is probably the most important whenever institution anywhere in the world. For a year now, he has been the target of trumps twitter either. Trump just once lower rates, lower rates, lower rates. Wants lower rates, lower rates, lower rates. Carol they have been an agency for so long. We are wondering if they will remain that way. The market thinks they will be a rate cut. The bigger story is one that we wanted to ask chris to dig into. For a year now, we have been living through this tension between trump and how. More trump than powell. It is onesided. Chris got to is that there is not much of an effect on policy standpoint for the fed. This will take a few months to evolve. This could be radical. Shelton is nominated for the fed. We dont know how that will go nor what you might do if she gets into that seat. A good
Riley gaines has told fox news bottles are being thrown. Protesters are spitting in peoples faces. Profanity being yelled at children. Severe storms now being blamed for at least two deaths in the southeastern united states. More than a million homes and businesses have lost power, possibly tornadic activity across the south. There is danger out here. Trees in the middle of the road. Virtually all Commodity Prices are rising right now. Gas prices, up 30 cents in the last month. Diesel is up 34 cents. I am so tired of feeling helpless as a parent but there is a difference between struggling and drowning. Ainsley we begin this hour with this. President biden is on the road in arizona today. But he cant shake criticism of his sons growing scandals. Brian right. Just ignores it. His trip out west comes as we learn hunters long time Business Partner visited the Obama White House and vps residence much more than previously reported. Steve Gillian Turner joins us live from the white house whe
Host Rachel Louise martin the story you tell in your new book, a most tolerant little town, centers around clinton tennessee in the 1950s. Where is that and describe what it was like . Guest clinton is right on the edge of the mountains that make upppalhia. It is about anof knoxville and it is right on the gateway to coal mining country. Host if you and i were there in the 1950s what kind of a community would we find . Guest it was an interesting place in the 50s. It was very mixed up about itself. On one hand it was a small rural southern appalachian town full of coal miners and farmers and local business people. But it was also 7 miles from oak ridge, which was a secret city built as part of the Manhattan Project that built the first atom bomb and it was also about seven miles from nora stamm. Norris dam. So while it was isolated and small it was also very connected. In 1956 it was the sort of place that oak president ial candidates felt like they had to go and Campaign Even though t
Host Rachel Louise martin the story you tell in your new book, a most tolerant little town, centers around clinton tennessee in the 1950s. Where is that and describe what it was like . Guest clinton is right on t appalachia. Tains that make it is about an hour north of knoxville and it is right on the gateway to coal mining country. Host if you and i were there in the 1950s what kind of a community would we find . Guest it was an interesting place in the 50s. It was very mixed up about itself. On one hand it was a small rural southern appalachian town full of coal miners and farmers and local business people. But it was also 7 miles from oak ridge, which was a secret city built as part of the Manhattan Project that built the first atom bomb and it was also about seven miles from nora stamm. Norris dam. So while it was isolated and small it was also very connected. In 1956 it was the sort of place that oak president ial candidates felt like they had to go and Campaign Even though there
America about the waverley Train Derailment and and im sorry about a Train Derailment in waverly, tennessee dr. Ali is a cardiology and former president of the vanderbilt history of medicine society. She graduated summa cum laude from Vanderbilt Universitys college arts and science with a bachelors degree in molecular biology and and then she attended Vanderbilt School of medicine and she still lives near waverly, tennessee. So in turn the floor over to her, dr. Ellie, thank you. My reading is from the introduction to the book but the end after the taylor is of metal and machine have had their turn. We always eventually find that what it down to is the people involved the people who lived the people died, the people who endured with uncommon bravery, who cleaned the mess and who were to deal with the aftermath and all that entailed. This book, a true story told to me directly from the mouths of these very people, the ones who were there and lived it firsthand, who emerged from the wrec