Into our topic today. Which is catholic publishing. We have two people with us today who work in our city. San francisco is home to a highly respected Publishing House called Ignatius Press. It has grown into one of the largest publishers in the country with catholic books and communication. Well take a brief break and join us afterward to learn more about catholic reading and writing. Welcome back. Mary you are a marketing assistant. Correct. They say publishing is dying. You are isnt dying. You are living proof publishing is doing well. Why dont you tell us about yourself and what you do at the company. I wear a couple of different hats. Im a developmental editor. Which means books that need a little bit of help, i try to help. I review copy editing and proofreading done by other editors and help move books through the production process. Then we have an Acquisitions Team and i serve on that. We review manuscripts to see which we would like to publish. These manuscripts come from . A
For 30 hours. So definitely black friday shopping this year is a mor thon not a sprint marathon not a sprint. A lot of energy out there considering the turkey eaten. Kind of impressive. Melissa, thanks. A lot of other people ditching the meal for shopping. Sonu wasu is at the best buy on camelback. Im hearing some people were in line for 18 hours. Is thats right. A lot of time in line. Theyre trading time with family and turkeys for tvs and all kinds of good deals out here. Stake a look at these take a look at these checkout lines. Theyre to the back of the store. Looks like an amusement park. Theyre moving fast. A lot of people out here, full bellies and soon to be empty wallets. Some of the hottest deals are a seems is 99. That one 199. That one is on a lot of wish lists. Masses of people rushing in to get to the tvs. The lines didnt start forming until about an hour before the store opened. And organized chaos there because store owners tell me that they were giving out tickets to p
Official anymore . Scarlett i dont know. Wednesday is official because j. P. Morgan is reporting. Julie whether you are talking about alcoa or the banks, there is not a lot of optimism when it turns to earning broadly with energy or financials. We have seen a pairing of gains today as we have gotten deeply into the session. The s p 500, if you look at the intraday move we have seen, it has been moving from steadily lower, a leg up in the past few , downs, but none the less sharply from the highs of the session. Lets take a look at the s p 500 profit estimates and the change we have seen in estimates. This is the change that we get quarterly. We are talking about a 10 percentage point swing in these estimates overall. The estimate is for earnings to fall 10 in the quarter that we are about to learn about. Definitely a lot of pessimism going into the season. The caveat we always talk about his companies tend to be by a high rate. As always, it will hinge on not just the reportings but wh
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Lets bring them in first. First ladies first. Always first. Welcome, lady hubbard. Lady she is, of course mo talked about literary geniuses. Well, we have one here, author of last suspicious hold out the rib king and our novel, the talented. And shes won a lot of awards as. Well, thank you for joining us. Also here is ebrahim kendi. We got a lot to talk about. Patel from the beginning how to be an antiracist. Antiracist babys making all of the news. Hes here all the awards, bestsellers, blah, blah. Yes, maurice, Carlos Ruffin of the ones who dont say they love you, and his debut novel, the caste, we cast a shadow of definitely have a rousing conversation. Him and my birthday twin. Why i left him last. Mr. Literally we are twins birthday. Twins kevin powell, author of many, many books, including the education of kevin powell and his latest when we free the world. Is that our responsibility . Well, were going to talk about that. Let me welcome the panelists. Thank you. Thank you all for