A good time to reflect on the power of our own imagination and how a vision of a Brighter Future back in the star trek days has changed the real world in which we live. On tuesday President Trumps nominee for president of the Us Export Import Bank was rejected by democrats and several republicans on the Senate Banking committee here to discuss that is former u. S. Trading commissioner bart bart as background for our viewers what is the Export Import Bank and why is that important. Its super important to our to our economy its been around since one thousand nine hundred thirty four and the idea is that it will help exports of u. S. Goods made in the u. S. Goods and you know it did so back in thirtys and after the Second World War it was a big part of the Marshall Plan trying to get exports to france and germany and then you know fast forward to eighty nine when the berlin wall came down trying to get u. S. Goods into the former soviet union chuckles poland and then the big push by presi
Communication across vast distances this is an interesting t. V. And Technology Facts the innovations are changing our lives and they are part and parcel to an enormously important portions of our Global Economy so with Technology Companies who are the largest but you can guess number one. Yep apple tops the list they have more than two hundred billion dollars in annual sales and made a profit of forty five billion dollars last year according to forbes fifteen of the top twenty five Tech Companies are from the United States with eight in the top ten including apple course microsoft alphabet i. B. M. Intel Cisco Systems oracle and facebook as we head into the new year is a good time to reflect on the power of our own imagination and how a vision of a Brighter Future back in the star trek days has changed the real world in which we live. On tuesday President Trumps nominee for president of the Us Export Import Bank was rejected by democrats and several republicans on the Senate Banking c
Branches of the human race, a believe in a supreme being and the family. A person isd depends on the surrounding in which he grows up. The way we behave comes from something called cultural experience, or environment. You can watch this and other American History programs on our cspan. Org history. On American History tv, political economy professor and author Robert Wright discusses Alexander Hamiltons views on the National Debt, and imagines how he would have addressed the current debt. According to the treasury department, the debt is now over 19 trillion. The Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society and the museum of American Finance cohosted this event. It is a little over an hour. Welcome, everyone. I am president of the museum of American Finance. Our partner is the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society and you turn to them for all things hamiltonian. We turn it to friends of the museum. We have wrought some amazing documents you should check out afterwards. We thank the cspan audien
Ive got a question. This . Me we live like and it wasnt always that way. For instance, at a stage of history with the socalled. Pure whites of Northern Europe were little better than savages, Eastern Africa had flourishing cultures, and the great civilization of northern china had begun to develop. All people contributed to civilization, reaching high levels at different times, each learning from the experience of the other. But there were certain basic ideas that were common to all branches of the human race, a belief in a supreme being, the home and the family. , how civilized a person is depends on the surroundings in which he grows up. The differences in the ways people behave are not inherited from their ancestors. They come from something called cultural experience or environment. You can watch this and other American History programs on our website where all of our video is archived. That is cspan. Org history. Next on American History tv, political economy professor and author
We have brought some amazing documents you should check out afterwards. We thank the cspan audience. 20 years ago, our board chair wrote me a note that started with the words a stroke of luck. Had been introduced to a buffalo phd candidate. He was interested in early American Financial history. This was before the show. Very few people were interested in hamilton. There were very few of us that were doing a deeper dive into the financial aspects of his vision. His phd thesis, 1300 pages. That is staggering. Perspective, mine was a paltry 300 and his was 1000 more. It led to the first quit about bob. He cant hold his ink. Skip forward 20 years, he has 20 more books he has authored or coauthored. That led to another quip, he writes books faster than we can read them. To add to that five at volumes, the five scholarly articles, many have received awards. I am only at page 10 of his 47 page cv. Its an incredible document you should check out at his webpage. I see pictures of him with fishi