Members and guests appear and guests. Tonight i have the honor of introducing a friend an academic colleague who also happens to be a bestselling author, columnist, speaker, commentator and senior Level Management strategist peter guest speaker has worked with president s and popes from here at home to south asia to iraq. For more than 20 years, our speaker has provided strategic and crisis communication counsel to companies, policy organizations, government agencies, not for profits, advocacy campaigns and grassroots groups. He served in many roles including executive director of Republican Party in new york date, adviser to the u. S. Chief of protocol at the vatican, planner for the department of state visits for former president bush and clinton to this tsunami ravaged south asia and director of communications for the Environmental Protection agency. Our speaker is currently an adjunct professor at the University Graduate school of arts and sciences. A charter member of the board of
For more than 20 years our speaker has provided strategic and Crisis Communications counsel to companies, policy organizations and Government Agencies not for profits advocacy campaigns and grassroots groups. The advisor to the u. S. Achieve a protocol at the vatican. The planner for the department of state visits of former president s bush and clinton to the tsunami ravaged south asia. A charter member of the board of advisors at the liberal arts and scientists. And the host of sunday in america. For seven months in 2004 he served as a Senior Press Advisor to the coalition for visual authority in iraq where he earned a department of Defense Joint Civil Service combination. His experiences and perspectives gained during the seven months form the basis of his book. Fighting the media war in iraq. Please help me give a warm welcome to the bestselling author. [applause]. Thank you very much. I really appreciate the warm introduction and this is a wonderful turnout and im honored to be her
Agenda targeting what they call corporate monopolies and apple and the rock, what that Partnership Means for the future of content well start with earnings. The heaviest week of earnings season begins this week. 13 dow components. 180 companies are set to report. You can see the list right there beginning with google but all week long, mcdonalds, caterpillar, three of the fang names are this week alone. This is a week where it is one of those where i urge people to understand, its going to happen so fast you cant keep track of them. There are some, tomorrow morning, caterpillar, mcdonalds, wednesday night facebook is going to be gigantic because people have been buying that stock endlessly were coming into a week where the large cap stocks have almost all been up. Talking about united health. They were terrific if you get the same thing youll break out here you will break out only wednesday when the fed announces its bond disposal it stands in the way of what i think could be pretty fo
Ones. The high cost of living, fromle lowed by housing and traffic. People shared why they are so disenquantitied. Jana. Reporter people that we talked to today shared some of those concerns that its just getting too expensive and too much of a hassle to stay in the bay area. Ask people what problems they face in the bay area, and many will tell you straight up. You have to work two jobs to maintain here in the city. Reporter adora gibson was born and raise understands San Francisco, but moved to antioch two years ago to escape city problems. It was overcrowded. Expensive, cost of living, and too much traffic. Reporter so you went to antioch. And it was even more traffic. So i thought might as well deal with it here. Reporter now those problems might drive her out of the bay area all together, into oregon. In the next six to nine months, maybe. That soon. Reporter the 2017 survey by the council found that 20 of those responded think they are might leave the bay area in the next two yea
Would have called them in the 70s, we would, one, the first thing we would do is simply let things go without addressing them, but we have also plenty of instruments to do that, to drain this liquidity. Mario, first of all, thank you for a terrific speech which really does clarify to an american audience some of the thoughts that went into your decisions of yesterday. Id like to ask you to elaborate on a theme you touched on and youve discussed in many speeches previously, and that is the structural reforms. It seems to me one of the difficulties that markets tend to have these days is an over reliance on what Central Banks do or what they expect them to do. With very little emphasis on what governments are not doing that they should be doing in order to deal with these structural problems, the unemployment problem obviously is one. Improving the competitive environment which is, of course, a big eu issue. I wonder if you could take a few moments and comment to a greater extent on some