Happens. Its totally lacking in rigger but it happens all the time around here and thats what throwing us off today sending the dow dipping, nasdaq loss 0. 14 . Let me explain what im talking about so you can see how a bullish situation gets turned into a bearish one by mepessimists who want it bo way. Sell, sell, sell. And sell, sell, sell. This morning we awoke to a story of how the chinese are cooling to them. Oh, boy, did that freak people out. Shares came in for sale at the opening because of the chinese perhaps dumping the treasury you know the dow is down 100 points in lightning speed on that one of the principle worries of Portfolio Managers there is no inflection in the yield curve meaning youre almost getting the same return from shortterm treasuries as you are from longer term ones that puts news a situation where we have whats known as a flat yield curve. Something that is often a precurser to a recession makes sense fed raises rates too quickly, falls off and the economy w
I love about civilian music, dont you . Brazilian music. So sexy. I know it when i hear it. I cant think of any brazilian off top of my head. It is old one. Sergio mendes and the brazil 66 i think it was. Very, look it up, greg. What about julio igelesisa. I think and his son enrique is still around. Where are we out there. People enjoying beautiful day. See if anybody is hanging out in front of the mayors gymnasium. Goes to a gym in park slope. He was greeted, i dont know, 70 or 80 cops. I think theyre gone now. The mayor decided not to work out in brooklyn this morning. Again youre looking live at the ymca is park slope. There. What is his morning routine . Wake up, wheneverrish. Get in the car, wheneverrish. Drive to park slope, that take as good 20 minutes or so. Upper east side to park slope, brooklyn. Get into the gym. Kind of work out. Kind of walk around. Get the city hall 11ish. There are still paparazzi outside. I think the mayor is still in there. They said the mayor didnt s
Coalition of advocates, are pushing for a plan known as the smart container bill. It put a 10 cent deposit on all plastic and glass bottles and aluminum cans. That money will help pay for the cost of updating the citys water infrastructure. We all know this is a billion dollar problem and having a fund established with annual revenue is a start, even if it only covers a fraction. Were here because our children who live in this state deserve better. Reporter officials have called for lead testing at every school in newark and every saturday this month, four schools across the city will open their doors for kids to get tested for lead. How much money would a bottle deposit raise to cover the billion dollar problem . Valerie huddle says theres no exact estimate. When you look at the other states, there are 10 states that have that. Our closest state, new york, that borders new jersey, theyre getting about 20 million in reporter so the next step is to get the bill on the floor of the assem
Up to questions and i hope that theyll be plenty of them. Sam battle was born in 1883 to a large family in newborn, north carolina, 22nd of 25 children in the family. His parents were former slaves. His father was a minister in the african methodist church. His mother was the daughter of a black slave and white slave master. He grew up in a warm, loving, faithbased, achievement driven home and had incredibly childhood. 1883, hes born into the first post slavery generation. He proved to be a young guy who has no sense of limitations. His parents told him that he would have no limitations. He could achieve whatever he want today achieve, but if he wanted to be educated, he could be educated. But if he wanted to become a lawyer, he could become a lawyer. His early years, he was a big young man. In fact, when he was born, he was recorded that he was 16 and a half pounds and the largest child born in that vicinity. Later on in life, he would say i was born large and so i lived large. That w
Good morning, everyone. Sorry about the delay but, you know, without a little problem, life is no fun, right . As some of you know, im a federal judge about two blocks away, and im reminded this morning this is deja vu all over again. Now, one could draw a couple of conclusions from this, and that is i did such a great job they asked me back, the other one is they had to find someone who was willing to get up on a saturday morning and do this. But i think the second explanation is really the best one, because were all readers, and we all love authors, and we just want to be here. So welcome. So starting at my right is the narrator of this mornings panel, pamela paul. Shes the editor of the New York Times book review and is also an author in her own right. She writes the popular feature buy the book and interview feature in the magazine. Every morning i and many other readers of the New York Times book review turn with anticipation to see which novelist, historian, short story writer or