Providing transportation in rural areas and Railroad Safety. Well also learn about the department of transportations priorities for the coming year. Live coverage on cspan3. We have some wonderful, luxurious, very nice seatingrow. Id like to encourage everybody tole to closer. Were going to have a very nice discussion. Id like to encourage everybody closer. Make the setting a little bit more cozy and familial. We very much enjoy that. We like having a nice conversation about one of our favorite Public Policy issues. Yeah. Right along there. Thanks so much. Well, great. I want to welcome everyone to this panel. Again, thank you, all, very much for joining. My name is lawrence smith. Deputy assistant secretary for policy at the u. S. Department of transportation. It will be three years this month that ive been at the department. Incredibly honored to be part of a great team. Doing a lot of what we think is really, really awesome work. Going to be a lot of help to a lot of different parts
For joining. My name is loren smith. Itll be three years this month that ive been at the department, incredibly honored to be part of a great team doing a lot of what we think is really, really awesome work. Its going to be a lot of help to a lot of different parts of the country. Were really, really excited about. I had the honor of serving previously with secretary chow at the labor department. Its been a fascinating experience seeing different cabinet agencies and how the different organizations work. Im joined today by four really excellent panelists i think youre going to enjoy hearing from. I first want to introduce Alex Herrgott who is executive director of the public improvement counsel, fipsi. He has been in that role since september 2018. He had been serving previously as the associate director for infrastructure for counsel on Environmental Quality at the white house. Mr. Herrgott worked for senator james earnhoff in california. He served as primary staff for transportation
Earnings season when theres too much to keep track of and the action seems to stop making sense. The dow gained 46, the s p advanced and the nasdaq climbed up, you have every right to be extremely frustrated stocks that should be going up are going down stocks that should be down are going up human sacrifice, dogs and cats are living together, mass hysteria theres a method to that markets madness you need to understand it. Otherwise, youll have no idea whatsing if on whats going on a close investor is a bad investor so let me walk through some of the craziest examples. Im going to start with caterpillar. Caterpillar, the stock huge shortfall in response of course the stock correctly plunged 6 in Early Morning trading. Well, i thought it was a bit of an overreaction, nothing unusual about a stock going down in disappointing numbers is there its what happens next thats should we take our cue from this hard to explain. Cat down 6 and slowly rebounded. If you saw it near the low, this is a
Of the president travels by train politics and pullmans. The president travels by training it is his first 29 books. Came out the First Edition in 1996. It is been updated several times in 2018 was rereleased by eco books and media i believe is the third or fourth edition of the book. Bob himself as a journalist by trade. And 38 years worked for the Huntington Herald a dispatch in huntington West Virginia where he currently lives. He has a ba and ma from marshall university. While he was in college he worked summers for the railroad. That actually is how i got to know, bob. I interned at the museum in baltimore, maryland. Mutual interest and admiration got us together. I welcome bob and i will begin the presentation now. One other programming notes, so understand all president s use trains to travel around and still do on some occasions. We picked seven president s because of some specific issues they encountered or specific milestones that are associated with their president ial train
Of the president travels by train politics and pullmans. The president travels by training it is his first 29 books. Came out the First Edition in 1996. It is been updated several times in 2018 was rereleased by eco books and media i believe is the third or fourth edition of the book. Bob himself as a journalist by trade. And 38 years worked for the Huntington Herald a dispatch in huntington West Virginia where he currently lives. He has a ba and ma from marshall university. While he was in college he worked summers for the railroad. That actually is how i got to know, bob. I interned at the museum in baltimore, maryland. Mutual interest and admiration got us together. I welcome bob and i will begin the presentation now. One other programming notes, so understand all president s use trains to travel around and still do on some occasions. We picked seven president s because of some specific issues they encountered or specific milestones that are associated with their president ial train