Tonight. And rain man. Matt fights through a wet day on the roads and a visit from natalie makes things more interesting. Our first flat of the trip. My first flat ever. This morning he is back on track. So, as we begin day four of the red nose challenge we have 172 miles behind us, 55 to go today wednesday, may 20, 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning were. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Matt, the end is in sight. The tour de red nose is almost a wrap. Can you do me a favor and not use the word the end . Thats one of my biggest problems right now. Yeah. Its a sore subject. Savannah, willie, good morning. Im at the kings Park Volunteer Fire Department on long island. From the Park View Elementary School and beyond and were about to start day four of this journey. I will tell you, watching the video were running of the rainy day yesterday. That was as miserable as i have ever bee
We have also got the overall number at 108. 6. That was forecast at 108. 4. Thats the Business Sentiment index and the Business Expectations. Lets have a look for that has come in at 103. 5. The forecast was 104. 4. So lets just have a look. Overall the expectations just below forecast the Business Sentiment and Current Conditions just ahead of forecasts. Of course this follows yesterdays pmi where germanys came in at 41. 9 down from 52. 8. So mixed set of data coming out of germany over the last couple of days. We saw the euro dollar there bouncing in fact in todays session. Lets get a comment. He is chief economist. Good morning to you. So slight contrast to yesterdays data but still mixed this morning. This ifo sentiment. A bit mixed but not very much. If you look at it the key thing is that Current Conditions have improved a lot and then of course expectations where people are asked whether it can get much better than what the currency is are no longer as stellar as they used to be
Tonight. And rain man. Matt fights through a wet day on the roads and a visit from natalie makes things even more interesting. We have our first flat of the trip. My first flat ever. But this morning hes back on track. So as we begin day four of the red nose challenge, we have 55 miles to go today. Wednesday, may 20th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Matt the end is in sight. The tour de red nose is almost a wrap. Hey, can you do me a favor and not use the words the end . Because thats one of my biggest problems right now. Sore subject. Yeah a little sore subject. Good morning. Im here at the kings Park Volunteer Fire Department on long island with some students from the Park View Elementary School and beyond. Were about to start day four. I was just watching the video we were run og running of the rainy day yesterday. It was as
South korea, spain or australia. If you were to create a society with these companies you would have something that looks like the b. C. Him out of the matt damon movie. This year, when america wakes up to the fact that google, amazon, facebook and google are the biggest tax avoiders in the world offering 20,000 to store their eggs and offer battery eternity benefits, there and municipal Transportation Health benefits, dna testing, effectively economically through lobbyists they have achieved what the south was unable to do militarily, he effectively seceded from the u. S. And i think theres going to be a revolt against the. They decided they opted out of our tax and government system as they feel they can do it better on their own. So lets talk about amazon. We think amazon will decline in influence. That is why i was invited. I one of the few who believes that. Why is that . We dont believe pure play mono channel, retail works for anybody including amazon. The best example of this is
Ive seen books that got terrible reviews that have gone on to sell very well. They review relatively few books. Thats the hard part. It matters greatly to the author come and the New York Times can only review so many books. They are limited by the number of pages in the book review and are so many, i know they have to say no to a lot of books that they wish they had the room to cover. And then you know, that always puts them in our position. Host i promise that wasnt set up, but maybe it was. Booktv went to the New York Times and we did a profile interview with pamela paul who was the editor of the new times book review section, and heres just a little bit of what she had to say. Do publishers want their books reviewed in the New York Times speak with yes but not if its negative. I guess, very much so. Unfortunately, we are the last remaining freestanding book review newspaper book review in the country. So the Washington Post book world before the San Francisco chronicle sold at thei