Thank you so much for joining us. The fire happened on Commonwealth Avenue in the citys Laurel Heights neighborhood. Jr stone is there, live, with more on this developing story. Jr. Well, ama, the damage inside this Community Center building is extensive. And you can see it, all around me. Charred black, all around me. And that includes on the ground, where you see this wood that is just burned out and lying there. And its not just this front entryway, but you look in this front room, as well. This is a front room that fire tore through. You would think a lot of people, they dont like the armenians, and somehow, through their hate, this is the way they take their revenge. Now, this is what the damage looks like the building next to the st. Gregory armenian church. This isnt the church but its the Community Center building, that also had Church Offices in it. Pastor says he was told, by crews, that is, fire crews, that someone set this place on fire, in three different locations. Possib
Movers was in the s p 500 this week. Tshirt. Ands and your underpants, right . I guess what. When you work at home, you still need your briefs. [laughter] still with us, hopefully, david balin. David, we are heading into the heart of the earnings season next week. Earnings companies next week, that is the real meat of it. What are you looking for to see from these companies . Margin improvement . Revenue growth . Or are you still concerned about the bottom line . Those three, but more importantly we are looking for the trajectory, the information they provide about the trajectory in their business at this point. The Balance Sheet health of the companies and their ability to fund operations, the degree to which they are bringing back employees and we are looking at changes in competitive position, which you touched on several times in the weeks passed to see if companies are actually gaining share in their respective businesses. So, its a lot of data that we think indicates the degree t
Benefit pension, and now they are seeing the possibility that that could result in up to a 90 cut in their benefits. Over the past several years weve been working on this, ive been involved with it. Ive been working on the finance committee which is the committee here in the senate that has responsibility for this issue. In 2018, going back two years ago now, iowas participating in hearings as a member of the joint committee on solvency of multiemployer Pension Plans. It was a oneyear committee. House and senate, republican and democrat. Woe were we were supposed to get to a solution for this problem before it gets worse. We spent countless hours trying to do that. I spent countless hours in meetings, with beneficiaries, retirees, spouses. Ohio is one of the states thats hardest hit. I have heard their stories about how years of mismanaged Pension Plans have put them on the hook for unthinkable cuts into pensions that they just assumed were going to be there. Let me spell out how preca
Provider. Scott cooper, what does a Venture Capitalist do . Basically what we do we provide money to companies that are trying to grow and hopefully become very Big Companies like a facebook or google or an apple someday and every doing our jobs correctly, were helping them grow the company so we dont obviously work in the businesses but we can provide and navigate new challenges as they go through the business, we like making ourselves as a money provider and a supporter as a business growth. Why can a company such as the one you described go to a bank and go through traditional avenues . A good question, the problem is most of the business we invest are very risky businesses that lose money for a long period of time as they invest in the business and banks unfortunately are not in the business of doing that or taking risk of losing the capital, we are willing to take that risk and about half of what we invested we will ultimately lose all her money and any bank to your promos will no
Scott cooper, what does a Venture Capitalist do . Basically what we do we provide money to companies that are trying to grow and hopefully become very Big Companies like a facebook or google or an apple someday and every doing our jobs correctly, were helping them grow the company so we dont obviously work in the businesses but we can provide and navigate new challenges as they go through the business, we like making ourselves as a money provider and a supporter as a business growth. Why can a company such as the one you described go to a bank and go through traditional avenues . A good question, the problem is most of the business we invest are very risky businesses that lose money for a long period of time as they invest in the business and banks unfortunately are not in the business of doing that or taking risk of losing the capital, we are willing to take that risk and about half of what we invested we will ultimately lose all her money and any bank to your promos will not be too e