Welcome him here [applause]. All night. All day. Were going to be fighting for freddie gray. All night, all day, we are going to be fighting for freddie gray. The first of all let me say that it is an honor and pleasure to be back here at red emmas, i was here some months ago to introduce to other new books that i have written and i consider it to be quite an honor that they have a invited me back again. Those who may may not be familiar, freddie gray was a young, black man who had a fatal encounter with the police in baltimore. He is in the long list of such young black people have had fatal encounters with the authority, i think of samuel reising kleven, and Staten Island new york, Michael Brown in ferguson, sandra bland in texas, hopefully what im going to be talking about this evening that is to say, these events that stand the period of the onset of the haitian revolution in 1791 until the death of Paul Robinson in 1976 will shed light, i would hope on why, in north america we hav
Spee2 lets start off by what is economic inequality. I think its usually equated with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. Inequality just means a gap. We can have a gap because some people are getting richer and others are getting poor and we can also get because people are getting richer at different rates. Inequality can also rise or fall for different reasons. So one reason might be that some people are being really productive. You have a man and amazon employed thousands of people, creating tons tons of value by pioneering new invention. So hes going to get richer than me then say my wife was a teacher. She is i think a great teacher but she is only providing economic value to a few dozen people at a time. On the other hand, there are things that can increase inequality that are bad. That are unjust that take advantage of people. So bernie made off. He is going to steal money through fraud. So the reason i say inequality is not a problem as well were concerned is i
Sure, maria. Well, tell us, what happened first yesterday at final mediation talks . Was a deal ever close . You know, the judge has a gag order. Hell have my head if i talk about what went on during the mediation, but i think that he wanted to make sure that he did everything in his power to try to find a deal, if there was one to be found. You know, i appreciate the fact that he went through that effort. I was hopeful, but i think realistically that was going to be a tough thing to pull off. How much of an implication it was the fact the union leader did not show up to those mediation talks . Well, the leader of the bakers union sent his second in command to the meeting. I think that part of what we needed to sort of focus on is the hole thats been created by the strike and the financial damage from that strike and our inability to produce at some of our critical plants. Really just created a brand new hole that was too large to fill. Bankrupt companies dont have a lot of margin for
Up 125 points. After two days of selling we are seeing some Market Action to the upside. We are above the 13,000 mark, well above that. 13,076. The nasdaq squeezing it out. Concern for apple, but financials are doing well. Lets take a look at the group. Laying off 11,000 workers, that is the plan. A new ceo in place and he wants to make his mark. Up 6. 5 . It is under pressure, nowhere near 700 for the alltime high in september. The latest findings other actually going to use the market share for the ipad to the android in some microsoft folks, theyre facing intense competition. With the findings you see stocks down 4 . Back to you. Melissa interesting. Lori thank you. Melissa a battle for a deal inn the fiscal cliff continues, democrats cannot seem to find a compromise on top earners. Rich edson is back in the white house with more. President obama said look, if republicans agree to my tax plan, we can get this deal done in a week. 3 john boehner is waiting on the president , he says
Marked to march 9th, 2009, five years ago this coming sunday, so happy pains bottom anniversary. A new report that Shows Americans have never been wealthier, but theres a catch. You had to be in the stock market to the benefit. Michael farr will be with us to make the case that you have to be in it to win it. Thats especially true for young people. We have the facts and statistics to back that up for us. Something he says is the case even at these levels today. If you missed out five years ago or five months ago, hell make the case for today. Could the crisis in the ukraine still end up being a speed bump for the market . Both sides digging in ahead of next sundays vote on who will control crimea. The current Prime Minister saying he will allow russia to take it back. If no one blinks, will is the stock market look vulnerable again . Also, what could be a gamechanging lawsuit in las vegas. It sounds frivolous. A gambler, he dropped half a Million Dollars, is suing to get it back claimi