Good afternoon, welcome to the first monday, the first working monday in january. This is a partnership of three organizations. My name is adam powell, i am the director of washington operations of the university of Southern California Annenberg Center for communication leadership and policy. Im also president of the Public Diplomacy council. Those are two of the partners in these events. He third partner is the Public Diplomacy alumni association. Im pleased to have the president of that organization ere to also welcome you. Its my pleasure to welcome all of you. If i could take a moment to just highlight three events that many of you will be interested in. The office of the historian of the department of state is putting out the volume of the Foreign Relations of the United States, the documents for Public Diplomacy from 1961 to 963. Which is the kennedy period when many of us date back to. They are going to be releasing it, 20 at the door. You do have to sign up in advance. I think
Not housing, food, travel, transportation. 100,000 in financial assets. Houston, we have a problem. So, theres good news and this is where i want to focus this going forward. And the good news is the culture of aging is changing. I bet if i had time to spend with each one of you what id find is that your attitudes are different than they may have been earlier in your lives. Frankly different than those attitudes that might have existed with your parents and grandparents. The majority of baby boomers want to continue to work or work past age 65. Thats a very good thing. Why . Because work is good for your health. And its good for your wealth. Traditional retirement can elevate a wide range of health risks. It is not good to move to a beach to play shuffleboard, to hang out in a rec center and wait to die. It is good to remain engaged and active and purposeful and productive. Thats one of the things that we have to try to promote, all of us, and to live it and ill talk a little bit about
Back in the early 60s, medicare and medicaid combined were. 1 of gdp. Gdpal security was 2. 6 of and Discretionary Spending was 11 and a half percent of gdp. Medicaid arere and 5. 6 of gdp, Social Security is 4. 9 and discretionary expenditures has shrunk to six and a half percent of gdp. Why is that important . Are reallyyments consumption and you do not get that much return on your investment and i want to highlight the blue line. Back in the 60s, investments as a percentage of the federal budget was higher than transfer payments. They were 32 . They have gone down to 15 . For the republicans in the audience, if there are any in berkeley, california. [laughter] i want to remind you that Government Spending can be a lot more effective than what some of you have been putting out there in the press. What did you get for this blueline . , theot the internet, gps interstate highway system, and we got grants that have moved the needle dramatically on cancer and other diseases. What has bee
Postponed because of the economic shutdown. The jobs report is now due on tuesday. And investors are going gaga over google. The internet giant posts First Quarter earnings that easily beat forecast. So welcome to the first hour of worldwide exchange. Here we are, just an hour into the european session and around about 7 to 2. The ftse yesterday was just up 4 points. We close at 6,576. We saw the dow fairly flat. Thats giving us a bit more of a boost on the ftse. Up 0. 25 . The xetra dax up 0. 1r5 . Cac 40 up 0. 3 and the ftse mib is down 0. 1 . Google is posting its best Profit Growth in more than a year reporting earnings. But a full in the prices paid for each click. Google stock in frankfurt, up 7 . Angela merkel down 2 today. Its talking about Third Quarter copper production, which jumped 32 year on year. But the british based Multi National reported a full in iron ore output. Loreal is up nearly 2 . Its followed confirmation that the business is in talks to buy two of japans Fren
And my apologies to ali velshi, ive taken up a bit of your show because i went a little long with cynthia. Well worth it to discuss children and labor and the things that we should know about. I always think when cynthias on here, we should all take a little longer to listen. So my pleasure, my friend. Have yourself a good afternoon. Its monday november 18th. Its new iowa poll with cnn and media com, which shows a new frontrunner in the democratic president ial race in that state. For the first time in the Des Moines Registers iowa poll, mayor Pete Buttigieg now leads the pack at 25 . This is where he was in september. Its a dramatic rise. Senator Elizabeth Warren at 16 . President joe biden and Bernie Sanders both at 15 making them the four candidates that are the clear frontrunners in a very crowded field. We should note buttigiegs lead is well outside the margin of error, which is plus or minus 4. 4 percentage points. This new poll also shows iowas voters are keeping an open mind. W