Challenged after a tax law eliminated the penalty for not having healthcare insurance. Listen to the oral arguments live at 10 am eastern on cspan, live a report or on the cspan radio app. Hello and welcome to the atlantic History Centers virtual talk series, im sylvia prescott. Tonight i am talking about his new book on were the republic, the dispossession of native americans in indian territory. Purchase the book directly from a cappella books , theres a link in the chat and theres also a link provided on the atlantic institute. As claudia and i are talking about please use the q and a feature atthe bottom of your screen. And i will take as many as time allows. He is professor of american history, codirector of the virtual history and associate director of the institute of native american studies. He is the author of three previous books on american history, west of the revolution, black white and indian and a new order. Claudio saunt, thank you for joining us and welcome. Thank you
Hello im david rubinstein, the National Book festival, welcome to the National Book festival, which this year is being done virtually. Our guest this year is melinda gates, for the first part of our program. Im coming to you from washington dc at the library of congress and from another washington, seattle washington, is melinda gates. Thank you very much for doing this. Im so glad we could do it david. Melinda, youve written your first book recently, a book about women its a book about empowering women and i want to talk to you about that and what prompted you to write this book. How long did it take you to write this book and what prompted you to write this book . Melinda i wrote it over most of the year and what prompted me to write it was, ive been so incredibly fortunate with the foundation to travel to so many places in the world. Its the people and particularly the women ive met in these incredibly difficult circumstances and seeing what they are doing to empower their families
Are getting back to business but not back to normal. Some areas remain closed, and customers are asked to maintain physical distance from one another. Translator i dont want to stay in the store too long. Ill leave as soon as im done shopping. Translator the state of emergency has not been lifted yeye but werere doing our besto help customers go about t their daily lives. Some schools are also reopening. This Elementary School in Niigata Prefecture has shortened its school days and students must wear face masks. Translator im happy to see all my friends. Other parts of the country are unlikely to see measures lifted this week. That includes tokyo. But that hasnt stopped commuters from heading back to work following the end of spring holidays. Shinjuku station, one of the worlds busiest, had been quiet in recent days but saw a bump in activity monday, even as shops and restaurants remained closed. Translator i go to work as usual. Due to the nature of my work, i have to meet with client
Asia thanks a second wave is coming. Stay talks with potential suitors are progressing well. Lets take a look at how we are checking up on this friday session of the week. We had a pretty good lead, ill be at a volatile session on wall street. Volatile section on wall street. U. S. Stocks falling after President Trump said he did not want to talk about trade issues with xi jinping. Going into the close, we saw a surge in oil prices, energy stocks, as well as beaten down bank and financial shares leading those gains. We are setting up for a pretty positive open here in asia. In new zealand, we are seeing trading get underway. It looks like we could pick up gains after two days of losses. We are seeing a positive lead when it comes to trading futures in japan, in hong kong, and in australia. It is a big day today when it comes to indicators out of china. We get those domestic activity numbers out when it comes to retail sales and industrial production, which could give us an indication a
The techheavy nasdaq and the broader s p 500 plunged about 3 . The japanese yen is strengthening against the u. S. Dollar as investors seek thehe safety of t the currency. In the yield on the tenyear treasury note, briefly fell below 1 for the first time ever. Analysts say investors believe there are limitations to what the fed and other Central Banks can do to mitigate the effects of the crisis. Senior Economist Says that tuesdays plunge was probably a case of buying the rumor, selling the news. And fed announcement has the effect of stoking concern about the Economic Outlook making investors even more risk averse. He says that given the spread of the Coronavirus Infection in the u. S. , i investors likely wantt additional easy measures. Now in tokyo, heres how the nikkei is reacting. They opened the session 200 points lower than tuesdays close. And looking at other markets in the asiapacific region. South koreas kospi and australias benchmark are all trading in the negative. Ahead of