[inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] and that concludes our live coverage from lit fest in chicago for day one. Well be back again live on sundays. Now, if you missed any of the events we covered today, theyll only air beginning at midnight eastern. [inaudible] book tv tapes hundreds of authors throughout country all year long. Heres a look at some of the empts well be covering this week on monday at Barnes Noble Book sell rs in maryland former Washington Post reporter dale quinton will be discussing his latest book one month of murder. About a homicide squad in maryland. Tuesday at the new york union with league in manhattan, syndicated radio host eric argues that america has moved away from the founders original ideas on liberty and justice. That same evening hair Harvard Bookstore talking about the impact of fracking on l environment and public health. And on wednesday at kramer books in washington, d. C. , Police Science professor Melissa Deckman will look at role women play in the
The last theres been a lot of talk about over last generation, the last 40 years really highlights the challenges of measuring economic values. A lot of people take the view that there hasnt been much progress, much growth in incomes, economic stagnation over that period of time. And i often try to put the lie to that assertion by asking people to whether theyre low income, middle income, high income, raise your hand if you wanting to back to 1975 and there usually arent a lot of takers. But one think is undeniable is we have been living through a period of economic stagnation and im peter and joined the Cato Institution a year ago as president and over that time brink linsey has done a job trying to explore growth slowdown, one is understanding the growth slowdown and another is reviving Economic Growth. For the first time in my life we had gdp growth hasnt reached 3 and at the time i joined cato 13 months ago i was hopeful i was actually hopeful because when we lived through economic
Marriage on the oneyear anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling, and america has drifted from the founders original ideas of liberty and justice. And those are just a few of the authors on booktv this weekend. For a complete television schedule, go to booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, television for serious readers. [inaudible conversations] were going to get started. I have a lot of books to mention, so i want to make sure i get them right. Thanks for all being here, and thanks especially to the folks on our panel, mark, steve and george. Were really pleased that youre here. The last theres been a lot of talk about that over the last generation, maybe the last 40 years really highlights the challenges of measuring economic values. A lot of people take the view there hasnt been much progress, much growth in incomes, economic stagnation over that period of time. And i often try to put the lie to that assertion by asking people whether theyre low income, midd
That ive been thinking about for a really long time. Before i was a fulltime author, i was a High School Computer science teacher. I taught for 17 years at a high school in oakland, and i would teach in this really visual way. I would do a lot of drawing on the board to explain to my students. I always thought, man, a lot of this could really work well in a graphic novel series. I teamed up with a friend of mine named mike holmes, and together we are trying to introduce fundamental Computer Science concepts to middle school kids through comics. Host how did you go from a High School Teacher to a National Book award nominee . [laughter] guest its kind of crazy. Each when i was a fulltime teacher, i would do comics at night, in the morning, in the summers host did you think they could be published . Guest it was for me. Host really . Guest i never thought itd be a source of income. Some people, you know, play golf to relax, and that costs a lot of money. Im going to publish comics to rel
Welcome to countdown. Im manus cranny. Fed, what they speak about drives every single market, from stocks to bonds to the dollaryen. Lets check in on the dollaryen. We have this dollar weakness on a divided fed. This do toue to thdoes the dollaryen . Are dudleys comments the more the more of today to comments of the fed meetings . Lets look at the wrist radar because there is really a pervasive theme there. And that is the federal reserve. The dollar is down for the fifth day ina row. We have not seen a run of losses like this since the end of july. Dudleys comments yesterday are perhaps, more of to up to date. Topix is down by 1 . The dollaryen is breaking the dollar level. We are seeing japanese stocks deal with the challenge and reality of a 20 rally in the yen. And the emerging market currencies, where the fed lapses or wanes in terms of what they will do. You have got the measure headed. Currencyhe em perry i index, by the way. That is your risk radar. Is standing by with the bloo