Eastern on cspans q and a. Arizona State University professor Jonathan Barth teaches a class about the rise of Andrew Jackson and his presidency. It focuses on jacksons clashes with wig Party Members henry clay and any webster and the bank wars of the 1830s. Class is about 55 minutes. Good morning everybody, and welcome to american history. Y name is Jonathan Barth you all know me as professor barth. I am a history professor at arizona State University, in conjunction with two stellar, worldclass programs, and there they are on the screen. The school of historical, philosophical, and religious studies, great program. And then also the center for political thought and leadership, another Stellar Program if this lecture intrigues you. You should check out our center. We are doing some big things. If you are interested in morning in learning more about yours , www. Professorbarth. Com, you can read about me on that website. Politicians have passed. Alexander hamilton died in a duel in 180
7 30 this morning and after all we heard from the retailers, we know jp penny had better than expected comps a lot of the attentions after the big misses from macys and nordstroms this week. But first a check on the markets this morning. Yesterday was the worst day for the major averages since september 28th. The dow and s p are on pace for the worst week in ten weeks. This morning things are looking flat but this comes after a decline of 1. 4 for the dow yesterday down 254 points. And breaking news outside the world of business overnight. The pentagon says that u. S. Forces targeted this islamic this isis militant known as jihadi john with a drone strike in syria. He has been seen in isis videos executing several western hostages including two u. S. Journalists and an aid worker. The pentagon is assessing whether the attack was successful. Well bring you the details as they develop. We have more hints that the fed could start raising rates in december. Speaking late yesterday, Stanley
Us at comments cspan. Org or send us a tweet, tweet, cspan comments. Join the conversation. Like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. Welcome to columbus, georgia, on booktv, located on the chattahoochee river. The river served as a Major Trading post and created a booming textile industry in the citys early history. The boats would come up the river and bring finished goods like, you know, furniture, machinery or agricultural implements x the farmers from east alabama and west georgia would bring their produce especially cotton into columbus, and it would be shipped down the river. Our port on the gulf is apalachicola, and from there the cotton would be shipped mainly to england or to the textile mills in the north. The help of our mediacom partners, for the next hour we explore columbus literary scene starting with local author Dan Crosswell as he recounts the life and career of general walter bidell smith. Basically, eisenhower was the good cop. So what he needed was a bad cop and
Results. Shares of Alcatel Lucent soar. We are seeing the beginning of our plan, which is a threeyear journey, which means that we will need still a few additional quarters to really turn around the the c he o tells cnbc the ecbs health check will help the industry. It will give consumers confidence. And the good news, facebooks revenue surges. The bad news, a key group of users, teenagers, arent longing in as much as they used to. Well talk to the cfo about the trend in 20 minutes. All right. A warm welcome to you. If youve just joined us here on Worldwide Exchange stateside, welcome to the start of your Global Market day. We are doing two things, basically. Reacting to corporate earnings and, of course, post the fed the balance of risk on that just changes to potentially a december pace. They look to the Government Shutdown and they delve into the weaker economic data. The ftse mib is up about 24 points. The cac 40 is currently down 11 points at the moment. The xetra dax is down 0. 2