Good morning, everyone, im scott mcgrew. Im neither a mathematician nor a racist. In fact, im bad at both of those things. But im told this is the formula when someone shows prejudice towards minorities in the world of ride share, uber and lyft and whatnot. They found africanamericans and people with africanamerican sounding names will have to wait longer for rides, and are more likely to see those rides canceled by the driver, even before theyre picked up. Dr. Steven soth studies transportation as the executive director of the center for Automotive Research at stanford. Joined this morning by sara lacy and John Schwartz of usa today. Let me start with what even inspired the study. What made you think, you know what we ought to do is we ought to see if this is a thing . It really started when don mckenzie and i were grad students at m. I. T. And during the course of our time there we really watched as ride sharing was kicking over a big part of the Transportation Business in the countr
Lets go check with the s p. We have been flying pretty high for the most part for the whole entire day. If we can bring that up right now, there we are. I started near session lows, but they were in positive territory. We hit the session high just about at the noon mark. 3 00. Just off of that, lets take a look at what is happening in my bloomberg. We see the imap function, what is happening with the snp s p 500s 10 sectors. It is brought across the board, financials up higher 1. 7 . Materials falling closely at 1. 5 following mostly at 1. 5 up. Oil and natural gas are rising. Utilities there a flat line. They had been lower 10 numbers down, but they are flat right now. Lets take a look what is happening with oil and energy. The Energy Sector rising. Oil of its own session highs. Crude is up 1. 8 . It is up two days in a row. This is the highest in the past two weeks. The eia saying crude production for the week has been up 14 of the past 15 weeks. Off of that, there is a bit of a knoc
Nikkei flat. European equities, still positive. Nicely positive. Its better than yesterday. Germany, france, ftse, spain, all higher by more than 1 . Even more italy who has suffered so much lately. Price of crude oil up this hour across the board. 47. 97. Brent is reapproaching 50. 49. 34 with a gain of. 55. Danone is buying whitewave foods to expand the presence in the United States. Whitewave is the producer of silk almond milk, Earthbound Farm horizontal organic milk its a 24 premium to whitewaves Closing Price over the last 30 days. Tesla ramping up the word of wars with fortune. The electric car maker saying it did no wrong waiting to disclose a fatal accident with a car with self driving technology. This after fortune accomplished accomplish fd a story that was critical of tesla setting on the news for eight weeks. Criticizing the fact elon musk sold shares in the interim. A blog post late last night denying it knowingly withheld information from shareholders regarding that cras
Guest thats how its being referred to now in copyright circles. It is really, its become a ridiculous, absurd system. Service providers spend a lot of money on dealing with these notices and from the author perspective dont actually achieve getting anything taken down. So we are asking for a number of change to that part of the statute. Were also looking at collective licenses for books so that libraries can access copies of books and actually pay for them instead of having libraries and the googles saying, oh, we cant possibly license all these books, so it has to be fair use. That takes away a lot of income, ultimately, out of the market and from authors. So those are the big ones, but there are a bunch of issues. Host when you look at where we are in publishing in 2016, has there ever been another period in history where this revolution is happening like it is now . Well, when the yeah. I mean, when the beginning of publishing. It was a huge change in terms of the written word. It w
Said what if nobody comes so its nice of you all to come out. I know that some of you are here to talk about the book but the reality is we are fortunate to have with us two friends of mine, it will be more interesting and probably more fascinating to many of you, Jacob Weisberg who many of you may know as the chairman of the slate group, longtime journalist recently published a book on Ronald Reagan that i cant recommend highly enough, particularly in todays political environment and malcolm gladwell, a writer for the new yorker and a very insightful nonfiction bestseller so we talk a little bit tonight about my new book, the seven cents and one of the things that were going to get him very quickly is one of the big ideas in the seven cents is the idea that theres so many questions to answer that this model of us talking to you is not entirely the light model so we will do that but we also want to open it up for questions and debate and i hope people will talk about the guys that are