Comparison to the United States. I think comparisons across europe may be a little more challenging to make and put in a positive light. That has certainly been the focus and the delay to locking down the country certainly was an area of real criticism for the government. I suppose this morning, we are also focused on what is going on near to you in terms of hurricane laura building across the atlantic and a ready to make landfall. We are watching louisiana, watching texas. We get this red headline across the bloomberg from the Hurricane Center saying laura is seen rapidly strengthening to category four hurricane. This is new information this morning. That is a big number. Hurricane 4 is much bigger than a hurricane 2. 4 is getting very, very serious. This is the acceleration north , west the gulf of mexico of new orleans as well. In new york city, always quite good with our first word news. On the second night of the Republican National convention, speakers tried to humanize President
This class in 2010 at Temple University in philadelphia. Professor farber now teaches at the university of kansas. So weve been talking these last few weeks out loud about a few core issues that have, in many ways, given thematic intensity to the 1960s era. Weve been trying to think about the meaning and reality of equality in the United States in the 60s era. Weve been pondering what Democratic Practice could and should look like in the United States, and then very much so and very pertinent to what were going to do today what role the United States should play internationally, what role should the United States play in a world that was fast changing in the 1960s. So weve gotten to the point in this class where weve reached a point where president johnson has decided by early 1965 to begin a forthright military intervention by the United States in vietnam, and the reasons have been fairly compellingly laid out by johnson between 1964 and 65, with the gulf tonkan resolution in 1964 the
S p 500 few you ares up 15 the nasdaq with a gain of about 1. 7 all because of what is happening with four big horseman check out shares of apple, facebook, alphabet and amazon. They went before congress two days ago and came out with earnings that knocked it out of the park on every one of those counts three of the four are trading sharply higher apple up 6. 1 , facebook up 5. 8 , amazon up 5. 4 alphabet did beat earnings estimate did post the first revenue decline and is down 0. 67 . More on those in a second. Lets kick it over to wi will everyone wilford. Good to be back extraordinary numbers, as you said well discuss those in a moment. First check out this mornings agenda as we are closing out the week well bring you results from cat, chevron, exxon and merck. Kol gate, underarmor and others. The late day of july lets check out the market score card owl three major indices on track for the fourth straight gains. Nasdaq the big oner up 18 month to date up 5. 2 . This past week, back
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