Which was protected by a large stone fortress. When they approach the city of st. Augustine the military commander in that city let it be known to the patriots that there are not going to allow them to take control of st. Augustine. There were some periodic fighting that took place. End of significant fighting that took place. When the patriots moved on some of black towns that were located in the interior portion of the northern florida peninsula around what is today known as the prairie. The time it was known as olajuwon. The patriots were defeated in the fighting against the seminoles. They eventually moved back cam where they determined that this project was a complete failure and that they had failed to achieve their objective of taking a portion of florida. And what they ultimately wanted to do when they took over it was that as soon as they became in charge of that area it was ceded to the United States, immediately transferred to United States buried in in the republic florida
Things, i had that one thing. So for you maybe its five years. So im not saying its a good rule for everyone. But find that rule that you can follow for yourself and kind of stick to that and start with that. I think that bleeds over to other areas of life. And my favorite line from the book is actually you cant change the people around you, but you can change the people around you. [laughter] and so once i realized that most of my old relationships were relationships that were birthed out of proximity or convenience with history or geography. And once i realized that those people a lot of those people didnt share my similar values or beliefs. And some of them even play the victim role and i realized that victims become victimizers and i had to change a lot of the relationships in my life. I also had to reprioritize this. And so the people that are closest to you a close loved ones and usually count them on one hand or two if you are catholic. [laughter] so that is your closest relatio
Decision and economists not forecasting a change. Mike mckee our chief economic correspondent will be focused on the 8 30 a. M. Press conference with mario draghi where there is a lot to talk about. Including the possibility of a fed tabor here and what it could mean for rates rising in europe as well. A lot of Economic Data in the u. S. 7 30 a. M. , challenger job lot job cuts, then initial jobless claims of gdp and then bloomberg and Bloomberg Consumer convert and then factory orders and then 8 30 a. M. Eastern treasury secretary jack lew will outline his 2014 regulatory agenda and discuss wall street Reform Efforts in the buzz word will be the volcker rule. 950 pages. Lets do a 950page data check. Stocks, bonds, currencies, flat footed. Treasury yield elevated. 2. 83 . Of two 97. 57 a barrel. Yields,ds, the the the twoyear has not moved. Gold gets a bit finally today. Alix steel, why did gold get a bid . And perhapsering some Hedge Fund Buying coming in and buying a little bit. Mark
Host youre watching booktv on cspan2, and now joins us live is the author of flash boys. Michael lewis, what is a flash boy . Guest the heroes of the book are the flash boys, and theyre people that discover the stock markets got something funny going on and seek to find out what it is and then build a mechanism to prevent predators in the stock market from getting to prey. Its called flash boys for a couple of reasons, actually. One is that the solution that the main characters come up with requires them to be faster than the highspeed traders who are the predators in the stock market. So theyve got to be, i wanted speed in the title, but i also wanted kind of superhero in the title because they were these, i mean, these characters presented the story, i felt. Theyre not doing anything unnatural, but they do have these weird powers in the Financial Markets right now, and the powers are powers to explain complicated things to people, the power to kind of engender trust in others. But th
Been exposed that the problem can be dealt with. The regulatory process can do the things it needs to do which isnt necessarily introduce one new regulation. You see what happens with a very wellmeaning regulation. I think the two things that people in congress who are concerned with this issue and regulators should always keep in mind is that everything should be in the direction of increasing transparency, genuine transparency not the radical transparency where people will know what is happening rather than digging through 800 documents. Actual transparency and two being very sensitive to the incentive system they are creating in the financial markets. People respond to incentives. That is the story of wall street and the various crises we have had. People are just answering the call of incentives and when the incentives are bad the behavior is bad. Host finally Michael Lewis i was a little confused by the last chapter. We need to tell everybody what it is and they can pick up the bo