January on better than forecast earnings syria take a look at the s p 500 a year to date shows 3 . Index of one point that is a look at the year to date chart. Up one point 36 . Nymex crude is on the rise. T is up just over 1 take a look at the chart there. That a year chart or is that today . Fourmonth chart down just over 4 . Trading nearnt bear market territory. Also looking at the fourmonth chart there. Ar market chart. Taking a look at consumer confidence, dropping the most since 2011. Where did treasuries and up . Where our treasuries trading right now and . Yield are still going out. That partly has to do with maybe the fed and the fact they are holding their first of their twoday meeting. Yields rising for the first time in a week. They had been declining in response to much of what we are the in china and around world. Finally, currencies take a look at the dollar rising for the first time in four days versus the yen. In stocks and commodities, that slow down. Stabilizing the
Who portrays George Washington at mount vernon. This is about 90 minutes. Good evening, everyone. I want to welcome everyone to a wonderful presentation tonight. Washingtons indispensable partner and his interaction with our Founding Fathers. I excited to introduce forgot to tell you who i am. I am jill kelley, the chapter president. Joe kelly, the chapter president of the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society of the state of pennsylvania. I wasvery proud tonight about to introduce our pres ident, but a special guest has asked if they can say a few words. Ladies and gentlemen, ive been given the honor tonight and the introducing our distinguished and special guest. He prefers to call himself a former. His accomplishments go far beyond the tilling of the earth. He has served as a member of the house of burgess in virginia and as a delegate to the continental congress. He has received an Honorary Degree of doctors of law from harvard university, yale college, and other renowned institutio
The i forgot to tell you who i am. I am joe kelly, the chapter president. Chapter president of the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society of the state of pennsylvania. And i was very proud tonight to i was about to introduce our president , but a special guest has asked if they may say a few words. Ladies and gentlemen, i have been given the honor tonight and the privilege of introducing our distinguished and special guest. He prefers to call himself a farmer. His accomplishments go far beyond the tilling of the earth. He has served as a member of the house of burgess in virginia and as a delegate to the Continental Congress. He has received an Honorary Degree of doctors of law from harvard university, yale college and other renowned institutions. He is a member of the american philosophical society, and the president general of the society of cincinnati. In the french and indian war he served as as commander of the virginia militia. Our guest served also as the commander in chief of the
Programs on the history of the communities across the country on cspan. Org citiestour. Economy professor discusses Alexander Hamiltons views on the National Debt and imagines how he would have addressed the current debt. The debt is now over 19 trillion. The Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society and the museum of American Finance cohosted this event. It is a little over an hour. Welcome, everyone. I am president of the museum of American Finance. Our partner is the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society and you turn to them for all things hamiltonian. We turn it to friends of the museum. Have wrought some amazing documents you should check out afterwards. We thank the cspan audience. 20 years ago, our board chair wrote me a note that started with the words a stroke of luck. A buffalontroduced to phd candidate. He was interested in early American Financial history. This was before the show. Very few people were interested in hamilton. We were doing a deeper dive into his mission. Thesis,
Documents should include a bill of rights. Mr. Brookhiser explores the conflicting opinions of Founding Fathers george mason, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton while also addressing how the bill of rights were eventually ratified by the new states. The New York Historical society hosted this hourlong event. So tonights program is James Madison, father of the constitution, and its part of our carl menges lecture series in american history. Id like to thank carl menges for all his support and for helping us to create this series and for all he does as a valued member of New York Historical Society Board of trustees, carl, thank you. [ applause ] id also like to recognize and thank trustees lon jacobs, cy sternberg and all our Chairmans Council members with us for all their great work and support as well, lets give them all a hand, too. [ applause ] so the program tonight will last an hour and include a questionandanswer session and there will be a formal book signing