In 1997, i had an opportunity to work on an educational project with a gentleman named doctor samuel proctor. A number of you know him as a form present of North Carolina a t, hbcu, former president of Virginia Union university, private hbcu. He spent time in washington, d. C. , as a kennedy appointee to the peace corps but a number of you know him to his work as a pastor of the baptist church. In 1997 when opportunity to sit at a very lovely room similar to this with a donor and a donor who owns a very large and Famous Family foundation. The head of the walked into the room and made exchange niceties she said and ask you one question . He said yes. Is there a need for black colleges today . And doctor proctor leaned back in his seat having her discretion of most of life and he said maam, if you make him can restructure the question . The question is not whether there is a need for hbcus today. The question is, what would america be today without the hbcus . And so she nodded to dr. Pr
Target. At the feds target for the first time in quite some time. A 2. 1 . So this adding to all the Economic Data that we have already gotten out this morning. But that Consumer Sentiment number is kuwait interesting. Quite interesting. Lower than the prior read. We have stocks little changed one again in the u. S. Ending the quarter and week on a little bit of a down note. The dow doering the worst of the three major averages. The s p and nasdaq very little change. We have been looking at an index of smart money. Socalled smart money. Professional Money Managers tracked by the smart money flow index. It traction market moves in the final 30 mivents trading. Usually they are dominated by the professional group of investors. If you look at whats happened to this particular index since the election, its up 4. 5 , which is a lag of the s p 500 which suggests that these professional Money Managers are not as involved in the market. If you contrast that going back to february of 2016, you
Next, a discussion on women and marriage featuring rebecca traister, author of all the Single Ladies unmarried women and the rise of an independent nation and kate bolick who wrote spinster making a life of ones own. Now it sounds like it is working. Thank you for coming. I have a set of rules and if i do dont it right i will have to leave. I want to welcome you and after the talk the authors will be signing books on the second floor. When they sign, some of the proceeds will be going to the San Antonio Library foundation which is near and dear to our hearts so i hope you will consider maybe buying one than one copy. Kate bolick is the author of spinster making a life of ones own she is also a contributing editor to the atlantic and host of touch stones at the mount. An annual literary interview the the literary series. Her work appeared in cosmopolitan, new york times, slate and other publications. She and rebecca both live in brooklyn. Both of these books are spectacular. Rebecca is
I have a set of rules and if i do dont it right i will have to leave. I want to welcome you and after the talk the authors will be signing books on the second floor. When they sign, some of the proceeds will be going to the San Antonio Library foundation which is near and dear to our hearts so i hope you will consider maybe buying one than one copy. Kate bolick is the author of spinster making a life of ones own she is also a contributing editor to the atlantic and host of touch stones at the mount. An annual literary interview the the literary series. Her work appeared in cosmopolitan, new york times, slate and other publications. She and rebecca both live in brooklyn. Both of these books are spectacular. Rebecca is the author of all the Single Ladies unmarried women and the rise of an independent nation she is the writer at large for new York Magazine and she is going to be covering the election so if you have any ted cruz gossip you would like to pass on you should do it now. She is
Say that i draw a crowd, but my Goodness Gracious [applause]. I see a whole lotta trump out there. He cant hear you. I said i see a whole lotta trump out there [applause]. Were going to have a good night tonight. Im excited about tonight and the fact that we have amazing people running for the United States presidency. Im excited about the fact we have a tractor to our party energy and enthusiasm and a lot of young people out in the audience today. I love it. I will tell you, i was at two high schools recently in the first two questions, now when you are in high school, you rarely have political questions. But two of the questions i received a few weeks ago was, they were about donald trump. Then i knew, in fact, young people are being attracted to the political conversation because of the quality and strength of our candidates and donald trump is bringing a lot of folks. Looking around a little bit. Im excited about the night and i know youre excited about the night. You dont want to