Mountains, and at the mouth of the delta that went into the Mississippi River and all the lush farmland in arkansas. What we do is husband and i are firstgeneration broadband, cable tv and phone provider. We cover about five counties right at the cusp of the bootheel. Host you say you serve about five counties. In what way . Guest we are broadband, video and the phone provider. Host just like and how many customers do you have . Guest at the last building with 4258. Host can you make money with 4258 customers in the broadband industry . Guest oh, absolutely you can. We have done everything as frugally as possible. We have no middlemen. I have a very shallow bench. I have all first string players. My husband i built this company ourselves so we are first generation providers. We have been in the underground Construction Business for about 18 years and then we have had e opportunity to buy a home in rural Butler County where we were both born and raised and we had no video. We kind of lo
Household name for public institutions, the banking legacy. Can you tell us about him and what you found so compelling about him as an agent, an actor within this story, this landscape you are drawing. Guest when i started looking at this time period i knew a lot about roosevelt than i did about morgan as is true of most. This was morgans world, that roosevelt quickly and abruptly in terms of wall street, and by the time roosevelt became president morgan was at the peak of his power. He was the king of wall street, literally called jupiter and zeus. On the eve of the inauguration, the first billiondollar company in the world. That was a company that employed more than any other for the steel production, was a huge monopoly. Just a few months into roosevelts presidency, morgan created the secondbiggest company in the world which is the focus of the book, 400 million which would be 11 trillion. The two Biggest Companies but beyond that morgan controlled the flow of capital. That is where
Im jon fortt. The dow is down. 5 with walgreens and boeing leading to the down side. The nasdaq still slightly in the green. Looking ahead to a huge week tech investors need to be watching cloud, software, devices, and fitness in cloud, the period beginning next week is a time of peak demand for amazon even more so this year. In software, retailers going to need targeting tools from Companies Like adobe to bring shoppers in and keep them loyal. Devices, pcs and con soles are going to keep us watching the likes of fit and in fitness in we cant hit the gym after all that pie, are we going to hit the peloton . Thats the question . Thats a good question. Or my personal favorite, a club row class. Its a good question, john particularly as the opportunity to go to a physical gym, that is diminishing as we see cases rise across the country and more restrictions or, you know, partial lockdowns. But as you lay out the themes, im thinking of some of the companies that have spent the last, you kn
Be only doing one of those 2 and you know. Winning is easy losing is never easy now for me its not. But i think we have when we see rallies the likes of which in the history of this country probably in the history of the world nobodys ever seen before. Theres a tremendous love going on in this country and theres really a tremendous unity theres a tremendous unity nobodys ever seen that we take an airport and the airports not big enough to hold the crowds nobodys ever seen a thing like that and our opposition is you know we have a few people sitting in circles and thats ok thats not normal thats not abnormal actually i mean thats the way it is 11 f. Alan fischer in washington d. C. Monitoring all developments in that was president trying speaking about an hour and a half ago just under 2 hours how did he seem to you. Different tone isnt it i mean its not quite the bullish attack hungry donald trump that weve seen over the last 3 days on the campaign trail remember he said 17 events in t
Steve scalise, nancy nancy maces Jeff Van Drew and louisiana senator, john kennedy. Futures starting on a mixed note. The dow industrials are down 120 points, the s p is also weaker by 3 and a quarter but the nasdaq is up a little bit of a rotation going on this morning, back into technology. The nasdaq up 50 o 50 points. This follows a mixed performance yesterday, investors rotating into the tech sector. Were standing by for key speeches from Federal Reserve officials later today. Well take a look at market moving words on rates and the economy. Pfizer and biontech 90 effectiveness report helping drive markets. What challenges do we expect before its rolled out of. Ill speak with the companys founder and ceo of biontech later this hour. Then, cruising into the future, one state is anticipating a future filled with flying cars and its making a buzz this morning. Mornings with maria is live right now. I just cant get you out of my head. Boy, your loving is all i think about. I just cant