The museum of american finance. Our partner is the Alexander Hamilton awareness society, an organization you turn to for all things hamilton. We welcome the leadership. As well as friends of the museum doug hamilton, dan simon, suzy pock in the house. Mike newton, our founder and former board chair john herzog and seth cowler brought amazing hamilton documents you should check out afterwards. And, of course, the cspan audience. Now some 20 years ago our board chair wrote me a note that started with the words a stroke of luck. He was introduced to a buffalo phd candidate interested in Alexander Hamilton. This is well before the show and there were people interested in hamilton, very fuf us that were doing a deeper dive on the financial aspects of his vision. And our first look at bob was this phd thesis. 1300 pages. That is staggering. His is 1,000 more. It led to the first quip about bob he is cant hold his ink. Well, fast forward some 20 years. He got 20 more books that hes either aut
Good evening everybody. Thank you very much for your patience, im Bradley Graham the coowner of politics and prose along with my alyssa and on behalf of everyone here at lister auditorium, welcome. Thank you. So much for coming. We pmp have been partnering eith gw for a number of years now, sponsoring these author talks, and we are really grateful to have access to such a spacious and convenient facility here in the center of washington. We are also grateful for the support from all of you. We know you have choices on where to buy books these days and we would like to thank you for choosing to shop with the local independent bookstore. [applause] its especially exciting to be hosting ronan farrow here thise evening. He is here course to talk about his new book catch and kill. It has been two years since ronan wrote in the new yorker and jodi is riding in the new york times. Its been two years since they publish their separate exposes about Sexual Assault and harassment allegations agai
A bluff but the consequences are already quite real Boris Johnson wants the e. U. To take a no deal breaks seriously forcing the bloc back to the negotiating table but with every lurch toward his october 31st deadline the pound has reacted it slid steadily against the dollar leading up to johnsons election as conservative party leader it fell after his meeting with german chancellor Angela Merkel failed to produce a breakthrough and then today a slide of more than one percent before recovering some losses. There have been fleeting gains here and there but at about a 1. 22 the pound is muddling around lows last seen more than 2 years ago and it could get worse analysts polled by bloomberg predict a node that could dump the currency to a 34 year low of a 1. 10. Driving those forecasts is the sheer lack of uncertainty over what a no deal would bring coming out do you have any sort of agreement its a leap into the unknown its going to stall to happen before so they would want some sort of
A bluff but the consequences are already quite real Boris Johnson wants the e. U. To take a no deal breaks seriously forcing the bloc back to the negotiating table but with every lurch toward his october 31st deadline the pound has reacted it slid steadily against the dollar leading up to johnsons election as conservative party leader it fell after his meeting with german chancellor Angela Merkel failed to produce a breakthrough and then today a slide of more than one percent before recovering some losses. There have been fleeting gains here and there but at about a 1. 22 the pound is muddling around lows last seen more than 2 years ago and it could get worse analysts polled by bloomberg predict a node that could dump the currency to a 34 year low of a 1. 10. Driving those forecasts is the sheer lack of uncertainty over what a no deal would bring coming out of the e. U. Of any sort of agreement its a leap into the unknown its something thats hope to happen before so they would want som
Economic policy of the heritage and foundation, Nicolas Loris, back behind the desk. Will you start by defining what thats job is . Guest tricky within itself. When the Obama Administration theyooking at green jobs included everything from trash collectors to people who work in goodwill. They were involved in reusing and recycling. Conventionally more people talk about the Energy Economy and what that looks like. Installing, the numbers are mixed. I would like to see green Energy Economies that drive Innovation Forward and doesnt rely on government subsidies. What is it comparable to in terms of numbers of workers or jobs related . Its difficult to say based on the numbers you use. Compared to other industries, they are certainly growing and thats great. Markets, people are demanding Renewable Power and is this is are demanding to use 100 renewables and the demand is driving production and thats ultimately what we want to see, Competition Among the Energy Sources when they are being su