Is my pleasure to welcome mickey huff for the second time. To the avid reader, we had him last year for the previous day, the free press, you know, 2023. And today im going to be discussing the free press 2020 before we have. Hell be discussing the book good discussing i think media and that of thing and then ron opened it up to questions afterwards so please welcome mickey one of the others thanks so much know thanks to everybody here at the avid and broadway in sacramento its always delight to be here and its been a really great place since i since i moved over here from sonoma county, where project centered was founded almost 50 years ago. Project has been around for a while and so im going to probably start just by telling you a little bit about what projects answered is what we do just real quickly show of hands how many people here already know about project censored. Two. Three. Yeah ive got so fewer than half, but so for those dont i will just start i will start there. And as y
That if the world is going to be a better place, were going to have to be the leaders to make it happen. I ve it. All right. Well, eddie, brother eddie, this was a real pleasure. A pleasure to read your latest book. And it was wonderful to have this conversation. And im hopeful that those watching this conversation will pick it up, learn for themselves and pass it on. Ithanks for coming, everyone ths is my pleasure to welcome mickey huff for the second time. To the avid reader, we had him last year for the previous day, the free press, you know, 2023. And today im going to be discussing the free press 2020 before we have. Hell be discussing the book good discussing i think media and that of thing and then ron opened it up to questions afterwards so please welcome mickey one of the others thanks so much know thanks to everybody here at the avid and broadway in sacramento its always delight to be here and its been a really great place since i since i moved over here from sonoma county, w
Trade, right . Charles yeah. Liz it is, once again, a horse race or a bullbear paradigm fighting it out to the death, at least til the closing bell. Fox market alert, lets focus on the nasdaq for a moment. It is treating for a fourth straight retreating for a fourth straight session, we do have it down about 137 points, had been down 210. The dow down in the red by 22 points. It did overcome a 187point loss, but it hadn higher by 237. So big swings once again for the dow. The s p has been flipping between red and green. Right now its red, down 22 points. Earnings still have a command of a good chunk of the market action. Witness whos at the very bottom of the dow jones heat map, travelers getting pelted with baseballsized hail at this hour. Shares of the insurer falling 7. 5 after First Quarter profits undershot estimates. Or travelers reported catastrophe losses due to severe wind and hailstorms mostly in central and eastern u. S. Skyrocketed from 535 million a year ago to 712 million
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Lets see how things did overnight in asia. Asia was leading the declines yesterday. This time a little different story. Nikkei closed up by 1. 5 hang seng was up by 0. 6 shanghai was flat. In europe, at least at this early trading hour, there are green arrows across the board. Barely hanging on for the ftse the dax and cac each up by better than 0. 6 looking at crude oil prices, at least right now, crude oil looks like its down 7 cents 55. 26. Couple big stories were watching, mattel has rejected a takeover approach from rival hasbro reuters reporting that mattel believes the offer undervalues the company and doesnt take into account the potential for regulators to rejected the deal on antitrust grounds reports saying mattels new ceo who took over in february may be trying to drive a harder bargain in talks with hasbro the company cut its fullyear revenue outlook. You are looking at both of those stocks now time inc is reportedly restarting talks to sell itself to publisher and broadca