This is one heck of a book. Ia enjoyed it so why did you decide now to write this now was his restless joe syndrome or something more you wanted to say . But why now . Thank you for this interview. But now it was written to let young entrepreneurs know how hard it can be and how rewarding it can be so that it offers encouragement for people to think if i want to start my own business i also wanted to do it before i got too old and didnt remember from when the sec dictated to the New York Stock Exchange to get rid of commissions and go through all the technology that was the Inflection Point of the Financial Service industry subpoena with the human aspect to it. The harder you work the luckier you get is it tongueincheek or do you believe that quick. I really do believe that. That happened to me so many times. Somebody else put the phrase together but as i was talk to people of Simon Schuster here is a problem we work so hard the harder you work the luckier you get it sounded like it sh
Told. The first question is, why did you decide to write this now . Is it restless joe syndrome . Was there something more he wanted to say . What motivated you to do this now . Let me say thanks for this interview first of all. Now, it was written to appeal to entrepreneurs so let them know how hard it can be and how rewarding it can be. It offers encouragement to say if i want to start my own business, i should do it, the other thing i wanted to do before i got too old and didnt remember everything because looking at this change from when they dictated the new york stock exchange, think it rid of fixed dimensions and going through of the technology was an inflection and our Financial Service industry and i wanted to tell the story from the inside so people could see a human aspect to it. The harder you work, the luckier you get, is not tongueincheek or he really believe that . I really, really believe it because it happened to me so many times. I think sam cold was the first one that
The worst dow point loss ever the previous 2 record set just last week as the markets were closing in new york and washington President Donald Trump was asked if the country was in a recession well it may be without thinking in terms of a recession with a good in terms of the virus once we step i think theres a tremendous pent up demand both in terms of the stock market and in terms of the economy and once this goes away once it goes through and were done with it i think youre going to see a tremendous a tremendous surge the trading day was so bad the president of the New York Stock Exchange had to shoot down rumors that the Trading Floor might close down tweeting closing the markets would not change the underlying causes of the market decline this would only further compound the current market anxiety. Over the weekend the Federal Reserve lowered Interest Rates to nearly 0 hoping it would call in the markets it did not they lower the rates on sunday market is telling us that theyre no
Exercising were ordered home. In front schools bars and restaurants are closed gatherings of more than 100 people are banned and people are being urged to work from home public transport is still running but more measures are on their way as of them at this stage in urban areas we will maintain public transport to allow french people to commute for strictly necessary purposes and regarding Long Distance travel by train between major cities by bus or by plane this will be gradually reduced. In the u. K. The governments been accused of not acting quickly enough to contain the spread as people stocked up over the weekend almost emptying supermarkets in some areas hundreds of scientists queried the governments strategy the Health Minister now says water time style measures are coming hes asking british manufacturers to make more ventilators soon everyone over the age of 70 will be asked to self isolate for up to 4 months and this week should see new measures including a ban on large gather
Major stop people crossing borders to panic buy things in supermarkets as well but its one of the germany hungary said it was closing all its borders potence already done so in the Czech Republic as well. And altogether now you have a 100000000 europeans in lockdown spain is now going through the same trajectory as italy did just reported a big spike in fresh case in the last 24 hours and so increasingly these enforced stay at homes for people are being done theyre being put into place by by the police and probably in the fullness of time by the military as well and frankly i have to say that despite the fact that europe is now the center of the pandemic and obviously is a very big rise in cases they talk about trying to flatten the curve out of the virus the other thing that i think European Countries are going to have to start to address very very quickly is what on earth you do with all these people are staying at home to pay them any money so they can buy things well spain is also