Im Dennis Johnson from Melville House. Dont know what day of lockdown were in new york city. My stoop is as far as im willing to go from my apartment but die know by machines is still closed and so is a hell of a lot of the independent Book Business so im still calling up friends and trying to find out how to do it and if they have any idea is can steal. Okay, speaking today with the team, the brain trust behind the industrys leading trade magazine for indy books, publishers, and particularly book stores, shelf awareness, and they are jen sko, john mutter, the awe cofounder and he is the editor and chief, and bob gray an editor and columnist for shelf. He is basically a back store correspondent, a wandering book store correspondent. Its an honor and pleasure to see you the last since january. Seems like a lifetime ago. But its good to see everybody and i have to say, just to me seems to have become even more important publication than it was before. Really have kind of a lifeline for i
Here joining us is chief Investment Officer of the Minnesota State board of investment. Good morning. Good morning, john. How are you . Im doing pretty well i hope you are, too. So, a lot of people trying to figure out what to do with this market your philosophy is to buy the market and not individual equities but this market has been kind of funky i wonder does big techs increasing waiting say in s p 500 concern you . How do you get as diversified as you want to be no. As i said, i mentioned before, we dont look at sector by sector weve been longterm investors and for the most part we buy the market you know, domestically we own the russell 3,000. We do have active managers, but the vast majority of our portfolio is passively managed our equity portfolio is passively managed, same on the International Side so we probably have most stocks that are available to us. Thats done pretty well for you. I wonder with this disconnect between the economy and the market that were seeing does that
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Its where the coronavirus started but is so where things are now returning to normal so what is chinas post coronavirus strategy the National Peoples congress is dealing with 1st criticism over its handling of the pandemic and concerns over its economy so how will china move forward this is inside still. Hello im come all santa maria it is normally a time to outline the strength of china and the communist party but then whats normal about these times already the annual session of the National Peoples congress had to be postponed from its usual salt and march but its happening now amid a pandemic thats all to chinas agendas and shuffled its priorities the country is facing the challenge of restoring an economy that strong almost 7 percent in just the 1st quarter of this year in fact beijings been forced to abandon setting an Economic Growth target for the 1st time in decades now it has other priorities stabilizing employment Living Standards as well you know incident was made by premier
Can donald trump survive these historic sent back and does jokingly have what it takes to beat. Special come on just. Its way the coronavirus started but also where things are now returning to normal so what is chinas post coronavirus strategy the National Peoples congress is dealing with 1st criticism over its handling of the pandemic and concerns over its economy so how will china move forward this is inside still. Hello im come all santa maria it is normally a time to outline the strength of china and the communist party but then whats normal about these times already the annual session of the National Peoples congress had to be postponed from its usual salt in march but its happening now amid a pandemic thats all to chinas agendas and shuffled its priorities the country is facing the challenge of restoring an economy that strong almost 7 percent in just the 1st quarter of this year in fact beijings been forced to abandon setting an Economic Growth target for the 1st time in decades