And Roger L Williams who was on a plane in the late 60s and a backup, we could talk about the cook family and charles kochland, but in 1967 when his father passed away, they were rearranging the firm and try to figure out what to name it. I specifically chose the name kochland because it was a family name but also completely with the character, hard to remember and without subscription. They were not a consumer Oriented Companies that want to develop a brand name. They wanted to avoid scrutiny. Largely because they were in oil business in the theory of the oil business was ops of the old saying whats good for the motor Oil Companies good for the United States. When oil prices shot up these companies were getting massive profits at the expense of ordinary people. The idea was when your business like this, these day in the background. He stayed behind the curtain and quietly make a fortune. Charles kochland is the second part of her born in the patriarch, early in the book you talk about
We pride ourselves here at the library among other things on the timeliness and the relevance of our signature programming. Whether were holding forums on local issues or addressing emerging or hot button national topics. He didnt intend on the particular timeliness of tonights presentation. Christopher leonard was a busy man at the end of last week. Taking reporters calls and wrote a coup of oped articles after the death of david koch. Chris spent eight near in the the kochland, the place and the title of his book, pulling back the curtain on the extraordinary Business Empire and the potent Political Network that was put toth by the david koch and his older brother, charles, from their base three hours down the road in wichita. Anybody here had a chance to read the book yet . So, you wont understand but youll knee immediately when you get into it, as you get into it, what im talking about. Its daunting when you pick it up. Its 574 pages and thats before you get to the noteses appendix
Merger deal with pfizers generics unit. And disney domination. The studio breaking an alltime record for annual box office earnings, and of course, it is only july. So, theres a lot for investors to digest this week with stocks at record highs. Jim, coming off of those on friday, you were out, but a lot happened good to have you back. Thank you the starbucks calls kind of the emblematic of what happened this quarter. Starbucks had run big. So you had to figure, no matter what, how could it really move then it goes up big dollars because its better than expected, better than feared what were seeing are companies that we were worried about because stocks have run, and then the stocks do okay. So, this is a short sellers dilemma. Lets say youve been betting against companies because you truly believe theres been an earnings deceleration. If earnings just stay in line, the stock flies. If earnings are a little bit below, the stock doesnt do anything. Right. So, theres just this kind of bid
If you please put your phone on silent i would shake that. Appreciate that. I am doing the same thing right now. My name is michael pregent , i would like to welcome you all to todays panel. Also welcome our cspan audience. Today we have a panel called stuck in the middle. Iraq cut between United States and iran. These tensions are leading to discussion as to whether or not iraq could be the battlefield for these two powers in the region will iran being in the region this is likely to take place in iraq we may have some disagreements there. But today we are going to discuss it and we will do this like a sunday morning show format. I will provide a scene center and leave it to our panelist to break it down. We have a great panel today starting first with geneive abdo. She is the former head of research under kofi annan about bridging the gaps between the islamic communities in the west. She is also the reason author of a book on shia sunni relations, sectarianism. Doctor tran 12, the Ro
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