Complicated things. They are things we keep talking about, five or six fundamental principles. Things like Wearing Masks universally indoor and outdoor. Keeping six feet distance. Avoiding crowded places. Outdoors always better than indoors. Clearcut, fundamental awareness of the need to wash hands as frequently as you possibly can and stay away from places like bars where you congregate in crowded places. If we universally do that. One of the problems we have in this country is the understanding of the seriousness , verys as a pandemic dependent on what Demographic Group you are in. Ive never seen an infection like this where it goes from 40 of the people have no symptoms at all, very heavily weighted towards young people, who do quite well. People of minor symptoms, moderate symptoms on the severe systems, hospitalization, intensive care and death. When someone looks at it it depends on what youre looking at from what perspective. If i am a 75yearold person with diabetes and obesity,
Issues that may ultimately go behind closed doors. I think this is going to be fascinating and important how the republicans and democrats . Questionmocrats mueller. David turns out hes going to do a little more talking. Carol just before they all go out on recess. We are also walking the markets also watching the markets on this wednesday morning. S p 500 futures had a bunch of selling yesterday. S p down three consecutive days. A little bit of support here, up just about 12 point. The eurodollar 1. 13. Crude seeing some support. Concerns over the tensions continuing with iran. You got new york crude up about 1. 8 . David General Mills breaking their earnings right now, which is a bit of a puzzle to me. Net sales came out at 4. 2 billion, a little bit off estimates. 83 asngspershare was 0. 77, but they are down in premarket trading. It looks like there is a little disappointment creeping in. Carol the stock is up about 38 this year, so theres a lot of optimism. Any disappointment abou
[inaudible conversation] good afternoon. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen forks turning out on a cold, late fall day. I can i sure you its going to be worth your time im ben desalvo, an associate professor of Political Science at city college of new york and its any pleasure to introduce our speaker, beth akers. Id like to welcome beth to Manhattan Institute where she has recently become a fellow. Prior to joinings she was a fell lee at the Brookings Institution center on children and families, and before that she was a staff economist at the president s council of economic adviser, and worked extensively on Higher Education policy. Second id like to welcome beth back to new york. Beth received her ph. D in math and excuse me are ba in mag and economics and her ph. D in economics from columbia university. Beg is here to talk about her guantanamo low game of loans rhetoric and reality of student debt published by Princeton University press and written with Matthew Chingo of the urban ins
First things first, id like to welcome beth to the Manhattan Institute where shes recently become a fellow. Prior to joining us, she was a fellow at the Brookings Institution center on children and families, and before that she was a taffe economist staff economist at the president s council of economic advisers and worked extensively on Higher Education policy. Second, id like to welcome beth back to new york. Beth received her ph. D. In math excuse me, her b. A. In math and economics from cunyalbany and her ph. D. From columbia university. Beths here to talk about her book, game of loans. Recently published by Princeton University press and written with matthew of the urban institute. So after reading beths book, i can assure you shes going to fit right in at the Manhattan Institute [laughter] where the scholars really delight in debunking poorly argued narratives in the press and the public debate. And beths book does just that. Its a timely corrective to the wildly exaggerated stud
First things first, id like to welcome beth to the Manhattan Institute where shes recently become a fellow. Prior to joining us, she was a fellow at the Brookings Institution center on children and families, and before that she was a taffe economist staff economist at the president s council of economic advisers and worked extensively on Higher Education policy. Second, id like to welcome beth back to new york. Beth received her ph. D. In math excuse me, her b. A. In math and economics from cunyalbany and her ph. D. From columbia university. Beths here to talk about her book, game of loans. Recently published by Princeton University press and written with matthew of the urban institute. So after reading beths book, i can assure you shes going to fit right in at the Manhattan Institute [laughter] where the scholars really delight in debunking poorly argued narratives in the press and the public debate. And beths book does just that. Its a timely corrective to the wildly exaggerated stud