Now. Maria big show today, Dagen Mcdowell and emily and James Freeman. Great to see you. Good to see you. Dagen surrounded by all the super smart women. Yes. Just like at home. Maria director or something new . In other words, social media obviously one of the big stories, i have to get your reaction on what you heard. Make zuck is going to be on his own, we will let this democracy play it out and people debate online and people say the messages they want to say, its good news that despite the lose of some partners and political heat hes pressing ahead on his crypto currency plan. We could use that, maybe good for consumers. Maria a lot of pushback because of what he learned in other businesses, facebook ceo testified before lawmakers answering a variety questions on china, crypto currency and libra and watters kicked things off, watch this. Given the companys size and reach it should be clear why we have serious concerns about your plans to establish a Global Digital currency that wou
Buying yields in oil are lower roadmap begins with disney better than expected with streaming numbers nearly breaking even. Shares, as you just heard, under pressure. Plus elon musk reups his ai warnings saying it will over time biological intelligence speaking of ai, ill be joined by the man sam altman calls his secret weapon at open ai as well as former treasury secretary steve mnuchin. That will be over the next couple hours carl all right lets begin with disney, guys. Lower in the premarket got the raised guidance. Narrowly overall streaming losses to about 18 million. Disney plus and hulu with a surprise profit. Box office sales did see a decline in the period, jim as julia just pointed out, although parks and experiences up ten, some moderation, and post covid travel. When you go over the arpu, the average revenue per user for streaming, its quite good india the amount of money they were making on the indian sub is quite different would i go into this train wreck and buy it here
Now from a Panel Discussion on retirement economics. Researchers presented their work during the 19th annual meeting of the Retirement Research consortium posted by Boston College in washington d. C. This Panel Discussion is 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] thank you. So the sixth panel is a topic would Social Security changes prompt people to change their plans in the first paper is a behavioral or consumption of Social Security changes. Melissa and our advisers will be the discussants. Thank you. Thank you all for having me. Again Social Security thank you for funding this research and all of you for listening to the speech twice but i want to thank my coauthor who worked on the paper with me and i also want to thank allen and constantine who have been allowing us to use their model and i want to thank them for that. This is really about how changes in Social Security affect two things behavior and consumption. A variety of changes. Something has to be
You see us increasingly building out. Host given the nature of your business, how often does federal policy play a role in Business Decisions that you make . Policy permeates a lot of things we do. It is not just it is no longer just telecom policy. Companyryone in the wake up every day and think about coliseum and think about policy . No. The cause of the scope and span of our business, there are elements of policy that touch on most everything we do. Host with the new incoming administration, what is one of the issues you will be looking at regulatory and legislative . Craig a couple of things going on. One of the top things we are. Ocused on is infrastructure when you think about the world we are in today, whether it is wireless if you go back a couple of years, a lot of big sell tires transmitting cell otwers transmitting. We are building the fiber deeper and deeper into the network so that the wireless signals are traveling a shorter distance. When we talk about our Wireless Netwo
That are under the verizon umbrella. Guest its a great question because verizons changed quite a bit over the last couple years. We have our network business, our wireless business which is nationwide in the u. S. , our fios business which is broadband and our enterprise business. But weve also expanded pretty significantly into internet of things and sort of internet video and content business, and so weve acquired aol, of course, announced a plan to acquire yahoo over the course of the last couple month, weve acquired two companies, connected vehicles which is in the smart cities of business and many more. So you see us increasingly building to out to internet of things and online video. Host given the nature of your business, how often does federal policy play a role in Business Decisions you make . Guest policy permeates a lot of things we do, but whats happened is its no longer just telecom policy. We have all realm of policy thats going out of washington like some part of our bus