And with utter disdain for the people whose lives they want to run. Good stuff. Thats a blast right at the elites. Thats the president s theme for 2020. They dont care about you but i do. In the last 24 hours, the president s campaign brought in a record 24. 8 million, almost entirely from small donations. In new york city, joe biden raised 20 million entirely from the elites. I think its time we got to the fed, shall we . Five hours from now the Interest Rate decision and more importantly, the outlook for rate cuts later this year. That arrives at 2 00 p. M. Eastern. We will also see if chairman powell responds to the intense pressure for a rate cut that hes getting from the president. A flat market in advance of that. The Interest Rate news from around the world this morning is grim. Not here, no, over there. In four European Countries and japan, things are so bad that when you buy a Government Bond, you dont get any interest. In fact, they keep some of your money. No wonder the mone
Set to get the green light. Well assess the possible impact. And well be getting the inside track on the changing world of cinema. The global audience for traditional theatres is dwindling, so will new ways of watching movies lure us back to the Silver Screen . Today we want to know, are you a fan of the cinema experience or is streaming your movie the only way to go . Let us know. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to business live. Lots to fit in today. The future of the South African retail group, steinhoff, hangs in the balance. Its battling a huge accounting scandal. Today, the retailer is meeting its lenders here in london, to find out whether those that it owes money to will throw them a lifeline. Its origins are in the furniture business in germany in the 60s. But its now a global giant, with brands across europe and the us such as conforama and poundland. Reflecting the global deal making, the company has at least 200 subsidiaries and affiliates and is dutch re
This was part of the Antislavery Movement in a very hostile environment. So its very interesting in this use in the sense of women. Brenda, can you Say Something about coming from literature and writing history . Yes, yes. I am intrigued, but i am introduced as a historian, which is fine. I am flattered, in fact. History writing and historians were something that i had to throw out as my barrel of received prejudice against. But when, as i mentioned in the book, and certainly the books, and both of those cases i am writing about writers. Part of what always interested me is that they live in time. As i mentioned, some like hawthorne, they were very close with a man who invented the term manifest destiny. So i was never that far from a history or writing about history or it it was just that i was filtered through and literature is something that i love very much. But it exists in time. History is embodied, and so is literature in that way. So when i wrote the book i mentioned earlier on