Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Good evening. My name is kevin butterfield. Im the executive director of the washington lib good evening ladies and gentlemen. My name is kevin butterfield. Im the executive director of the washington library. Its my great pleasure to welcome you here today on behalf of the Mount Vernon Ladies Association to our annual Martha Washington. Lecture this was created to share scholarship and insights into the life and times of marshall washington. It was made possible through a generous grant from the foundation of richmond virginia. Today its Exciting Program celebrates the publication of an important book. The papers awash Martha Washington. One many years in the making. It is actually part and related to a much bigger project, the papers of George Washington with the project began with the ambitious aim of publishing all of George Washingtons account but has since expanded to include other members of his family. Allowing us to know so much more about t
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Good evening. My name is kevin butterfield. Im the executive director of the washington library. Its my great pleasure to welcome you here tonight on behalf of the Mount Vernon Ladies Association and to our annual Martha Washington lecture. The event was created to share scholarship and insights into the life and times of Martha Washington and is made possible through a generous grant from the Richard S Reynolds foundation of richmond, virginia. Tonights Exciting Program celebrates the publication of an important new book, the papers of Martha Washington, one many years in the making actually part and related to a much bigger project, the papers of george at the university of virginia and sponsored by the Mount Vernon Ladies Association. Since 1968, the project began with the ambitious aim of publishing all of George Washingtons correspondence, but its since expanded to include other members of his family, allowing us to know so much more about the p
Kind or another. Many people think they are because population is increasing exponentially. If you look at Population Trends in many parts of the world the population has birth rates have begun to drop dramatically. I am not convinced this is automatic that there will be these kinds of wars. For that happened there would have to be these huge growths in population and it may be modern Technology Operating in other ways is contributing to a decline in that. One may offset the other. Host how much if any of the cold war was about Natural Resources . Guest relatively little. It seems to me very little was about Natural Resources. The cold war was about telling a power vacuum in europe left by the defeat of hitler. The cold war was later about nuclearweapons and the means of deterrence and the cold war was about ideologies, capitalism and democracy vs. Communism, to some extent the cold war was about personalities. If you think about the other cold war that developed which was the one betw
It is always the most innate conversations. Most people leave really uninteresting lives. Connell may be texting, some kind of compromise. Dagen we have another triple digit loss on our hands against economic numbers pushing the numbers lower. The callower. Nicole petallides at the Dow Jones Industrial pit nicole s p 5001779, losing two tenths of a percent. The nasdaq almost 4010. That hasnt up arrow. Tech heavy nasdaq looking better today. The stocks seemed mixed. Transports are higher. Oil services are looking good, the drug stocks are pulling back, so seems like a mixed bag today. Still pressure on this market. The fed Economic News today was mixed. Jobless claims and retail sales showing some strength. Lets take a look at facebook, facebook going into the s p 500 closing trading on december 20. We will see some names coming out including paradigm on the 500 on the 100, the williams company. Back to you. Dagen thank you so much. Connell a new poll suggesting americas interest in con
Points and the s p up by 4 1 2 points. Lets break down this market and find out whats going on. Bill . With us right now is amy wu from rbc capital market, george young and our own rick santelli, but joseph is standing by. Well get analysis of ibms numbers when they are released momentarily here. Amy, whats your version of why we got such a quiet market today, so much news . Housing starts were down sharply. The beige book looked pretty good. And chairman bernanke spoke today, and the market took everything in stride. Why do you think that is . Hey, bill. I think a lot of it has to do with this waitandsee market that were in. So the options volume in our market has been relatively light coming into this. I think a lot of folks wanted to see what ben bernanke was going to say, and ben bernanke basically said, okay, were going to wait until we see data, and then well see, and then well act. I think whats happened in the Options Market is youve seen the decline and no one is putting on an