Largest Nonprofit Organization in the United States focusing on Financial Inclusion of financial empowerment. Serving over 3. 6 million youth and adult since 1992. Who is also chairman and ceo of the bank group and the largest forprofit minority controlled owners for singlefamily Residential Rental home in the United States. In addition, he was recently named by american thinker and magazine for the 2016 innovator of the year. Here serve the last five United States president s as a council and advisor for all of them. Were excited to have him this afternoon. We look forward to a great conversation and book signing featuring his latest bestseller, the memo. I know it will invite all of you to welcome john. [applause] hi everybody. Because im the founder i can change the rules. I think the average citizen is one of our success stories. I prefer if you heard from her first. That okay . Part of the work of operation hope as i mentioned john hope prine is the visionary of our organization.
1968 was the year where the real decisions between the party that we see now were first locked in cement and we saw as one of the more poignant scenes in this book what literally became the last liberal standing on a Republican Convention stage in 1968, and it was the moment when mayor john lindsay of new york was forced at least half against his will to second the nomination of spiro agnew to be president of the United States after lindsay himself wanted to get that nomination, he then had to second that nomination for agnew and that was the last time a National Republican of significance stood on a Republican Convention stage as a liberal and john lindsay eventually left the Republican Party not long after 1968 so we now have a world in which when people hear that you are a democrat or they hear that youre a republican, they think they know everything about you. Its not just a know whether youre a liberal or conservative, they think they know everything in 1968 had more drama and cha
You. John hope bryant is the founder, chairman and ceo of operation hope, largest Nonprofit Organization in the United States focusing a Financial Inclusion and financial empowerment, serving over 3. 6 million youth and adult since 1992. He is also the chairman and ceo of the bryant Group Venture in the promised homes company, the largest forprofit minority controlled owners for singlefamily Residential Rental homes in the United States. In addition to that, chairman bryant was recently named by American Bank magazine for the 2016 innovator of the year and hes also served the last five United States president as a counseling, as a counselor and advisor for all of them. We are very excited to have him this afternoon and would look forward to a great conversation and book signing featuring his latest bestseller, the memo. Without further ado i i would e to invite and introduce all of you to chairman, powder, ceo John Hope Bryant at this time, and my friend. [applause] , appear, lance. He
Kospi in south korea was up by 1 1 3 shanghai index ended slightly higher as well this morning in europe in some of the early trading weve already seen, again, the green arrows continue there, too the dax is up by over half a percentage point the cac in france up by 4 ftse is up by. 3 of a percent. Check out crude oil prices which were up sharply last week. We saw oil close above 50 for the first time in over a month a gain of 2. 50 over the course of the week. This morning down by 2 cents to 49. 87 currency, dollar was also stronger after coming under pressure in recent months but the dollar index was stronger. Dollar down against the euro at 119. 5. Up against the yen, 111. 29. Record night of emmy awards. Handmaids tale. Took home the top prize. The cast of veep took home the best comedy. Saturday night live came out on top it won nine awards hbo won the most awards of any network. Big little lies helped secure that record. Hbo held off netflix yet again winning 29 total emmys compa
Equities. This morning again a rally you see across the boards in some of the markets. Rather steep. Nothing compared to the losses weve seen over the last two sessions. Italy up about 4 . Spain up 3 . Remember friday the markets were down double digits. This morning the dax is higher 3 . The kcac. In is where things have gone haywire. Central banks have been watching closely and traders as well. The pound is down. You can see this morning the euro is pretty steady at 1. 10. This morning the yen the dollar is up against the yun. Finally take a look at crude oil. That is also a rebound to 47. 55. Here are the big stories watching today. Vocati volkswagon is expected to pay 15 billion dollar. Expected to be filed in court today. It will include 10 billion to repair or buy back 475,000 cars equipped with two liter engineers. Owners will receive up to 10,000 in compensation. Vwwill pay 2. 7 billion in fines. Lyft has settled litigation. The Ride Hailing Service accused of breaking confiden