The coronavirus pandemic. Chair neal thank you for joining me. I have the greatest personal and professional regard for the United States conference of mayors. In congress there is a small Alumni Association. A lot has to do with the fact that we had to make immediate decisions along the way that did not always receive a chorus of support from the citizenry. Days of being the mayor of springfield, at the time, the hundred largest city in the country. And i feel a great sense of personal and professional satisfaction from what we were able to do and the immediacy of it. I would start with one funny story because you have all had the same experience. I was in the office one saturday morning, i thought it was a good time to get things done. Signing letters, doing a review and there wasnt staffers rushing in or someone who insisted on talking to at the moment. And the phone rang. I was 32 at the time and full of myself. I answered the phone. It was a citizen who said to me, she was upset,
Business professor amy webb argues Artificial Intelligence is giving too much power to big corporations. My job is to model risk and i focus on technology and i come back to the same nine companies. They have relationships with universities and it doesnt mean that there are not other Companies Like salesforce or guber that are not doing Amazing Things they are also building the frameworks and theyve got the code bases. All of the roads lead to this end of the challenge that i have is if it is the case that Artificial Intelligence is not just being built to create a better microwave, although that is cool but to optimize our lives using a. Companies that dont look like us and dont have the same worldview as assess their publicly traded companies but i lived in china and japan and anybody that watches does publicly traded companies are still under the thumb of beijing aso there is no escape. It is because you are in lockstep with the Chinese Government and that matters because they had a
Your new book is called living in plain sight what really caused the financial crisis and why it could happen again. You were a member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission investigating the causes of the 2007 in 2008 financial crisis. You said that only democrats on the committee but the republican appointees what did you see they didnt . Looking at the housing system in the United States with dodd frank and fannie mae and freddie mac for quite a while before i got on the commission so i had a lot of background of what was happening in the housing sector. I was looking for the commission to look into what happened with fannie mae and freddie mac and the role they played in the housing crisis and ultimately the financial crisis and i found the commission was not interested in they would not look at it. s. Host that i was outside i thought, the partisan differences between the republicans and democrats and and am afraid that the republicans felt that they just would not agree with
Good afternoon. My name is barbara and i am a bilingual educator, interpreter, organizer and work with the Madison Public Library Community Engagement with the design and implementation of spanish bilingual storytimes. Im very honored to introduce a conversation between david, great writer and historian of medicine and many other parts of the world, who works with the Washington Post and marie arana. With david and marie our colleagues at the Washington Post. Im happy to introduce author, editor, journalist, literary critic and member of the Scholars Council of the library of congress. Marie is peruvian american and her work and bodies who she is as a historian, novelist, essayist and human being in this modern world. Her books include american chica, american liberator and silver, stone and sword three crucibles in the latin american story. Silver, sword, and stone is an epic book. It is a history not of only 11 america for over a thousand years going back, but it brings all of this h
Is much higher than the government is reporting. And missing out on vaccinations unicef says that millions of children arent getting critical care. Soldiers are patrolling the streets of lebanons 2nd biggest city where theres been a 2nd day of violent protests against the deepening financial crisis Security Forces in tripoli fired tear gas and rubber bullets to clear demonstrators who vandalized banks and set fire to cash machines at least one man died as thousands of protesters to fight a coronavirus lockdown on monday i was there as you say the horror is in tripoli and says the protestors a vow to carry on until their demands are heard. The army is out in force and reinforcements have been sent to the city there are still mischas in some neighborhoods where antigovernment protesters are throwing rocks after the Army Soldiers Army Soldiers have been responding with tear gas rubber bullets. Right now they are in one of the the streets in tripoli its known as the back street banks were