Melanie louis . I have worked for the city and Health Department the last 30 years, last 18 years in the emergency department. I want to ask all of you to do the right thing. We, who benefit from our pension, dont want our pension money invested in evil. Fossil fuel is evil. Its hurting its hurting what will be left of our planet for our grandchildren and i encourage all of you to vote to divest all of our money from fossil fuels. C. Landry and Carol Brownson after that. I decline to speak. Ruth magony. I worked in the library for the city for 40 years, worked hard for my retirement. Over the last four years, ive been doing research on fossil fuels and investments and though Nelson Mandela said, well, everything that you gave up in the best things from south africa, somebody else picked up, it was still powerful enough a message to south africa and the world that there were disinvestments. My studies have shown that the nonfossil fuel investments have been going up steadily. The social
Much better well weve got news for them change is coming thats been seen as a dire warning about Jeremy Corbyn in power will destroy Media Freedom in britain not only was he a suspected communist agent Jeremy Corbyn according to commentators interviewed on the statement a to b b c will annihilate free speech newspapers owned by those who go been defamed in that video claim that goldmans refusal to answer allegations catalyzed quiet censorship of the video on British Television so how do we get here with me is more of livingston the director of the new film belonging the truth behind the headlines more ike thanks so much for coming on before we get to the film belonging. Do you think its right for Jeremy Corbyn to threaten our leading media proprietors with democratic control im not so sure i see it so much as a threat per se in that you know our media has for a long time not necessarily reported everything in the news as we have uncovered much in the film but they have taken certain vi
Would have on pension performance and costs. We appreciate and understand the desire to divest from fossil fuels from different entities, but we must understand the implications of such a decision before its made. Sorry. Time. Thank you very much. Again, everyone has 1 minute. Were going to announce loudly when you are at your 1minute mark. Understand the constraints we have. Sara greenwald, are you present . Seeing shes not here. I will set her speaker card aside. Phil casky, followed by margaret pierce. Phil casky, retired from the Water Department. I think i want to say briefly the Water Department is an incredibly wonderful system. Its one of the most protected systems in the world. And we didnt get that way by being unprotective of the environment. So burning fossil fuels is not protective of the environment. And i would like to keep the water system the way it is and i think that San Francisco can be a leader in many, many ways and by divesting is one way to do it. Thank you. Tha
The 10year treasury yield hitting fouryear high on the news. Now a 2. 80 , yeah, things are getting interested. This is ahead of jobs report due in two and a half hours, economists are looking for 180,000 jobs added to the economy in the month of january with Unemployment Rate holding steady. It was Technology Trifecta on wall street last night. Apple topped expectations, iphone sales were down, short of expectations, a different story for amazon, the Company Posted the largest profit in history. Take a look on the premarket. More on those numbers coming up this morning. Overall markets had a mixed performance. Worst week since september 2015. S p. Take a look at indices this morning, down across the board. 23 points lower, cac quarante down 1 and a quarter percent as dax index in germany. In asia markets were mostly lower with the exception of china, shanghai composite up 1 and a half of 1 . Bitcoin taking a tumble, lost half of its value in just the last six weeks, look at that, 8,14
Korea. He sat down with Gold Medalist chloe kim. That conversation is am coulding up in just a few minutes so stay tuned. Thats going to be super fun. All right. Now to the extreme market volatility less funneled which has been a global phenomenon as well for more on whats happening here and abroad, were joined by stephen roach, former morgue an stanley asia chairman, Yale University senior fellow he warned in december that global economies may not be as resill yen resill yent as once thought. We didnt plenmention that you also an economistist what do you think of the Interest Rates spa spooked the markets. Are they going to go higher or what is your prediction . Well, i think the Federal Reserve is clearly got its antenna up, michelle, given not just one data point on inflation but the fact that the economy has a fair amount of momentum at full employment and lo and behold were doing a lot of deficit spending at the same time which is not exactly the recipe for stable inflation going