Welcome, good evening. My name is elizabeth, and im the executive director here at the Woodrow Wilson house and its my pleasure to welcome you to the first of a series of speaking events that were going to have on suffrage. So the wilson house, if you havent been here before, its part of the National Trust for historic preservation. Wilson and his wife edith lived in this house and they turned edith turned it over to the National Trust in 1961 upon her death and it has been lovingly cared for and so we welcome you tonight. I wanted to tell you a little bit about how we started this suffrage speaker series. Asantewa boakyewa, our senior manager of collections and interpretations, said to me this summer when i first started the job, there is a commission on the suffrage and i think we should go to that meeting. Its the womens Suffrage Centennial commission. And i said, okay, im going to go with you. And so we went down to the library of congress and we sat at a big table and there were a
Record close of 2020 i talked yesterday about the stunning market cap gains this year for some names like amazon which has added 674 billion in market cap this year is it out of hand . Is this too much i think its a little too much maybe thats why youre coming to me first. You know i might be a little provocative here and say you can trim this doesnt have to be a digital on off decision of youre all in or all out of tech obviously, tech has fundamental business tail winds propelling the stocks higher. The top five stocks in the s p 500 are 23 . Unless youre used to running a 20 stock portfolio, which most people arent, that means the names are over weight. If you trim them and take two Percentage Points off and bring them down to four Percentage Points, now youre running a 25stock portfolio and youve taken 4 points out of the tech area, you can put it into whether ever you want. You can put it in health care which is on fire Energy Stocks are rolling today. Its okay to say things are h
Tech names may be beneficiaries of a decision the United Kingdom has made when it comes to huawei and 5g. But wait a minute. The big banks did send up some warning flares in their quarterly reports on this first day of Second Quarter earnings season. Why are the biggest names in finance fast inflating their Rainy Day Funds . What do they see that you might not . Our floor show traders are on it. They will shine a light on it and explain. Just as teslas stock bubbles even higher, here comes a potential pin to pop it. Fisk fiskers uber cool all electric ocean suv with its 300 mile range, karaoke and california mode features is ready to open the reservation lines. Founder, chairman and ceo lhenrk fisker is here on his unique route to the New York Stock Exchange, taking on elon musk and yes, he will explain what california mode is. Pretty cool. From california all the way to a tiny private island on the east coast where the wealthy elite are ready to pay a pretty penny to escape from the c
He was joined by the nasa administrator who gave an update on nasas work in the upcoming Spacex Dragon mission. This is half an hour. To all who are gathered here today, welcome to the launch america edition of the National Space council. We are one week and one day away from when america will return american astronauts on american rockets to space. Its an extraordinarily exciting time in the life of this program. I know speak on behalf of the the United States when i express my appreciation. To you and the nasa team, my profound and humble admiration for the astronauts that we will be speaking to in a few moments. Who will be carrying American Leadership back into space from american soil next week. And i know i speak for the president when i say how grateful we are for the work of so many critical agencies. It has put into practice President Trumps vision for renewed American Leadership in space. I have the great privilege to see general hayden with us, the vice chair of the joint ch
Mr. Biden mr. Mayor, thanks for your hospitality, and to all the elected officials that are here, i bring you greetings. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. George floyds last words, but it didnt die with them, are still being heard echoing all across this nation. They speak to a nation where too often just the color of your skin put your life at risk. They speak to a nation where more than 100,000 people have lost their lives to violence, 40 million have filed for unemployment with a disproportionate number of those deaths and job losses concentrated in black and brown communities. They speak to a nation where every day millions of people, and millions, not a moment of losing the light but in the course of living the life are saying to themselves, i cant breathe. Mr. Biden its a wakeup call to our nation in my view. Its for all of us, and i mean all of us. Its not the first time we heard those words. They are the same words we heard from eric garner when his life was taken away six years