The wake of Weaker Oil Prices but carl icahn raises his stake on the energy giant. The site twitch may have been a victim of a hack. Although credit and debit card numbers are not thought to have been effected. And were just getting euro zone pmis coming out. The comp sit number coming in at 54. 1. Thats the highest level since may. Since may 2011. 54. 1. That came in against expectations of 51. 5 and against the previous reading of 53 sorry the expectations of 53. 5. The previous reading of 53. 3. Also the manufacturing number 51. 9. Thats shiethlightly above forecasts. Weve also had the Services Data at 54. 3. The reuters poll was 53. 9. All three of those readings have come in above expectations. It follows the german data 15 minutes ago which was strong as well. The french data was mixed. The euro strengthened over about the last half an hour or so. Sparked when the german data came out. The euro zone as a whole coming better than expected. Its allowing a continuation of the bounce
Argues that although a greater economic calamity was averted more should have been done. Thats next on booktv. Good evening and welcome to todays meeting of the Commonwealth Club of california, the place where you are in the know. You can find the Commonwealth Club on the internet but Commonwealth Club. Org. Im richard waters the west coast editor for the Financial Times and im your moderator for todays program. Now its my great pleasure to introduce todays special guest dr. Barry eichengreen who is professor of economics and Political Science at the university of california at workweek and he is the author of the new book, hall of mirrors the Great Depression, the Great Recession and the uses and misuses of history. If anyone is wellsuited to applying the sort of sweeping historical and International Perspective that a subject like this demands then its professor eichengreen. Since he first discovered a real passion for history as an undergraduate at st. Andrews university in scotland
People to underperform . Its important if you can to put part of your 401 k into retirement accounts that are geared to index funds. Good, great. Yes sir. The impact on religion before and i was wondering if you talk about how religion impacted money specifically i guess as an example the ban on collecting interest by the church. Its interesting. Some scholars have talked about religion came about because of money. Why is that . Jesus was preaching to poor people and mohammed was preaching to poor people. If you look at where coinages invented david graber the anthropologist writes coinage was invented some people say in greece and then you have a religious leader. Coins are also around the same time in india. In china confucius say so some people say that maybe the creation of money led to a response which is organized religion. The leaders and followers came from the poor people and people were disenfranchised. You are right not just in christianity but judaism and the corona talks a