Blinken is going to be his secretary of state in january. Of course i know tony blinken, i also know very well sullivan, who is going to be the National Security advisor because i work with someone i was in the government, theyre both very, very sensible, knowledgeable people with a great deal of international experience. So i think its a, its a very good side. Tony monken always, they supported wars in syria, libya, afghanistan, and iraq. Did you send this book . Because i dont know if this isnt a policy recommendation book about afghanistan, i dont know what it is. We sent this to move might bump a 0 and tony blinken. Oh i havent. I havent sent the book to either of them, but attorney blinken is quite familiar with my views and even more familiar with my views is jake solvent because he was working directly for secretary of state Hillary Clinton, when i was in the state department and we worked together on this quite a bit. So they, they know very well that i was a strong advocate of
Welcome, good to have you with us on this new years eve tuesday. Our Investment Committee here today, joe, josh, jim and amy is back the chief Investment Officer of Chevy Chase Trust and one of barrons top 50 registered Investment Advisers for 2019 we begin with the markets. Stocks are trying to end a great year with another day in the green. Bouncing from the worst day in four weeks we do have big news today from one of our very own, hes making a move on a stock that hes been a big believer in for a big part of this decade. Josh brown, selling twitter. Im out feels good. First time out since the ipo in 2013. Tell us the reasoning. First of all, happy new year and thank you for ending your no, im telling the viewers, happy new year by the way, this is completely filled with gray goose, so take everything i have to say with a grain of salt. I got out of twitter today with a very small profit. I had been adding in the 20s, i owned some as high as 40 around the ipo. It has not worked out.
Will be learning more about in his lecture today. A graduate of the university of minnesota. He has worked as a staff writer for the miami herald and has covered some of the major stories of the last three decades. He is an active member of the western Front Association and currently lives in minnesota where he is working on his facebook of world war i nonfiction. Please join me in giving a round of applause for james carl nelson. [applause] james im going to talk about the polar bears. Start off with a story of a guy who was a lieutenant, commander of the fourth platoon, company a, 330 night infantry regiment. 1919,rning of january 19, he and his men were stationed 250 miles south of archangel guarding an American Allied outpost in the conflict which i will be explaining. He was woken up that morning at 6 00 a. M. By a shell. Got out of bed, joined his men. There were only 45 men. Manning the lines. Meanwhile, these ghostly forms were heading for them. Hundreds of ghostly forms on ski
Bitcoin billionaires. I know. He got really sick this morning and just absolutely couldnt make it so we will talk a little bit about his book just for those of you who are wondering. [applause] we are going to leadtime at the end for audience q a as well so please be thinking about your questions for mike. We would love to have an interactive conversation with you. Let me just start, actually im going to start by saying a couple of words about bens book before we dive into mike in his book. For any of you that havent checked it out yet its called bitcoin billionaires and its the story of the winkle lost twins. [applause] you may remember them from the facebook story. They were the two brothers at harvard who actually hired Mark Zuckerberg to help them build out their social Network Platform at harvard. Mark was a Software Developer and coder and engineer who helped them build their platform but then he actually ended up spending away from them and creating his own platform so they made
Have guessed, ben meza ms. Rics not here today, the author of bitcoin billionaires. I know. He got really sick this morning and just absolutely couldnt makeld it, so i will talk a lite bit about t his book come just r those of you who are wondering. [inaudible] [applause] we are going to lead time at the end for ideas q a as well, to please be thinking that your questions from mike. Have an interactive conversation with you. Let me justit are, actually goig to start is by sing a words about the book before we just do the deep dive into mike and his book. For anyt of you havent checked it out yet its called bitcoin billionaires and its the story of the window lost twins and yes, you may remember them from the facebook story. They were the brothers at harvard who actually hired Mark Zuckerberg to help them t build out their social Network Platform at harvard. Mark was the software developer, the code, the engineer who help them build the platform but then he actually ended up spinning aw