What we are doing here and why were doing it. This is part of an ongoing series sponsored by the center that brings Historical Perspectives to current issues. The center itself is strictly nonpartisan. The purpose of the program is not to advocate for any particular policies, but in fact to provide sort of Historical Context to help inform policy makers and the public as they deal with difficult issues. I want to thank or acknowledge the Financial Support of the mellon foundation, which makes this briefing series possible. I want to thank rachel wheatly in the back of the room who is our assistant director and has helped to organize this. I want to thank the office of jerry connelly. I also want to alert you to the fact you have index cards on your chairs. This is for questions. As the presenters are speaking, feel free to jot down questions. Well collect them. Theyll give formal remarks in the first half hour and the second half hour will be devoted to q a. Well go from there. Thank y
Perspectives to current issues. The center itself is strictly nonpartisan, and the purpose of the program is not to advocate for any particular policies, but in fact to provide Historical Context to help inform policymakers and the public as they deal with difficult issues. I want to thank or acknowledge the Financial Support of the mellon foundation, which makes this briefing possible. Theso want to thank assistant director that helped organize this. I want to thank the office of gerry connolly, and also alert you to the fact that you all have index cards on your chairs. This is for questions. As the presenters are speaking, feel free to jot down questions. We will collect them. The second half will be devoted to q a. We will collect the questions and go from there. Thank you all for coming. David . David good morning. Thank you for coming. My name is david paynter. Er. David paint i have been Teaching International history at Georgetown University for 30 years. The rest of it is in t
Because something looks like it is. That will be deemed a victory. Do you share that . I agree. Even a mini victory will be great for the markets. That is priced in. People are so nervous about a trade war. Businesses and consumers are holding back investing cash right now. 3 trillion sitting in money market fund, the highest in history. People are still neil 3 trillion in money market . Correct. Neil like money under the mattress. That has to be put to work. Money going to put to work. If you get uncertainty lifted that is a whole lot of money going into the markets to lift it higher. Neil the old story of lore, markets in this anticipation might sell on the fact. Where do you think this goes . Certainly this has been an ongoing drama for two years now. Weve seen this movie before. Expectations run high. Then they get dashed. I do think there is some momentum here for at least a truce. Certainly in chinas interest to buy some ago products from the u. S. They have the african swine flu
Visits at cspan. Org citiestour. All right. One, two, three. The nationals final rodeo. Theres no place better to be the second week in july than sheridan, wyoming. We put on a world class event and we just love to invite you all to come to sheridan. O say can you see y the dawns early light what so proudly we hail by the twilights last gleaming i tell you what, this week is the biggest week in sheridan. Economically and entertainmentwise. Its good because 89 years ago, sheridan was dead as a doer nail. There was nothing going on. So door nail. There was nothing going on. So some citizens decided, we need to have a rodeo to provide some Economic Opportunity and entertainment and that was their charter and it still is. So here we are 89 years later. Were still doing the same thing and we hope the Founding Fathers will be proud of that. In 1928 and 1929, a financier family named j. P. Morgue be, they bought the historic morgan, they bought the historic p. K. Ranch outside of town. For ye
And then later we will visit the Sheridan Library to see their missed Indian American collection. We begin with the history of the rodeo. [cheers and applause] all right. One, two, three, let them out. Theres no place better be the second week in july than sheridan, wyoming. We put on the worlds best event and we just want to invite you all to shared in. This week is the biggest week in sheridan, economically and entertainment wise. Was with some good about that because 89 years ago sheridan was that as adorno. There was nothing going on. So some citizens decided we needed to have a rodeo to provide some Economic Opportunity and entertainment, and that was their charter and still is so here we are 89 years later, still doing the same thing and we hope the Founding Fathers would be proud of that. 192029, j. P. Morgan family bought the historic ranch west of town, and for two years they had a big rodeo out in the fields theres such a big deal. I think there were cars from 23 states. This