Were very excited to get a visit from the five young people on bus 52 who have been on the bus for a year collecting Inspiring Stories. Their trip wraps up this afternoon. The chef who taught americans to cook tellian style. Shes here to reveal her own mamas favorite family dishes. She has this incredible life story. Her family escaped communism. Shes making a chocolate Bread Pudding and theres rum in it. But first our top story this morning. Jobs. The economy and the rocky negotiations to avoid that fiscal cliff. Lets start with the good news the slowly improving unemployment numbers. In november the nation added 146,000 jobs and the Unemployment Rate dipped to 7. 7 , the lowest in nearly four years. So whats behind this improvement and what impact could it have on the overall economy and the fiscal cliff talks . We have some answers with the chief Investment Analyst at charles swhaub. Were you surprised by these numbers . The Payroll Survey which is where we get the jobs created is g
What you think. Our phone lines are open. Host you can catch up with us on all your favorite social media pages. Host a very good Tuesday Morning to you. That hobby lobby case is the subject of many articles and editorials and Opinion Pieces in todays papers. Go through a few of them for you this morning. Here is the wall street journal. Contraceptive case skews ideological lines. The lead editorial in the dont openn, pandoras box. Discrimination is likely to extend far beyond simple access to contraception. And usa today, hobby lobby case fuels bigotry. We want to start by reading a bit from an opinion piece from over the weekend on this case from pastor rick warren. His piece appeared in the Washington Post. Does our constitution guarantee the freedom of religion or does it merely allow a more limited freedom to worship . The freedom tove place our beliefs and ethics at the center of our Business Practices or must we ignore them when we form a company . Hobbytcome of sebelius v lobby
Futures this morning after those gains, youll see there are still green arrows indicating a higher open, as well. Dow futures indicated up by about 44 points. S p futures indicated up by close to 5 points and the nasdaq is up close to 14 points. An rue, ill send it back over to you. Lets talk about the deal of the morning. Facebook is now getting into the wearables market. The social media giant acquired a Company Called oculus vr for about 2 billion. They make Virtual Reality headsets. Their main product called the oculus rift is primarily used for gaming. Mark zuckerberg posting a statement on facebook saying after games, were going to make oculus a platform for many other experiences. Imagine enjoying a courtside seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor or facetoface just by putting on goggles in your home. I know where i know. Youre waiting for the sound effects in the what has driven he ever what drives all of
I want to begin my discussion of my book, the road to global prosperity, with three assertions. The first assertion is that globalization, by which i mean the progressive integration of national economies, is here to stay. It will be with us Going Forward. Now, that might seem to go without saying given the remarkable and remarkably intense ongoing global integration that weve seen for most of the last 25 years, but if you look at the history of the genuinely Global Economy from its first emergence in the middle of the 19th century to the present, youll see that Global Economic integration is almost as much the exception as the rule. Between 1914 and 1945, the era of the two world wars and the great depression, the Global Economy basically collapsed, didnt really exist. And from 1945 to 1990, there were important countries that were not full participants in the Global Economy. The communist countries, maos china and the soviet union, were completely outside it, and the socialist countr
Absolutely. What i would say briefly is i think as a christian i want to see deflowering of forms of love of self and love of neighbor in a variety of different ways across a variety of different bounders and borders that hits at the human level. Our problem in this country is we have the white gorman of gays as the standard. For example, we see a couple walking down the street, black and white couple and another couple black and black, some how we get more excited about the blackandwhite periods aho. Is the same status. The problem is that will put more value on the interracial. Not only that is like a lot of these human beings who are results of this relationship, the level relationship and their father provided challenge. Usually there are associated with being highly successful which is not true. We were talking before. I am teaching a course. This bookstore is theft providing 150 books. I am embarrassing new, but it is true. Three books in that class on friday night. But in that p