[laughter] so without further ado i will go ahead and let him take the stage. Everybody, dean baker. [applause] thank you. I do like my dogs. I three well, i had three dobermans. Im here to talk about my book rigged which kind of is, things have been talking about for at least a couple of decades in economics. And i had a chance to put this together. Just to put it simply as possible. The main theme of the book is, we have had this huge upward distribution of income over the last four decades it is really not arguable at this point. It has been documented in a number of ways. You probably heard about the great book capital which really talks about wealth but in any case there are a number of good reports, solid data, documenting this huge upward distribution of income. One of my favorites, this is actually it showed that if you look at the United States and you look at the bottom half of the income distribution, it basically has gotten nothing since 1980. I will not stand by little or
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We will talk to the founder of Citroen Research. We are one hour from the close of trading in stocks have made a comeback today. Lets head straight to the markets desk where julie hyman has the latest. Julie meeting the s p 500 flirting with positives in the dow paring its earlier declines. Not a steep selling as there was earlier today when all three major averages were down by more than 1 . The nasdaq has been leading to the upside today. You will see the dramatic turnaround we had in that particular index. The nasdaq on an intraday basis really climbing route the day. Throughout the day and going positive after 2 00 p. M. Take a look at the big movers here within the nasdaq. These are those intervening the most, apple, costco, comcast, qualcomm. Most. Tributing the look at the imap, the different sectors on the move since the s p paring earlier declines. A disparate group of different sectors doing well. Energy and materials bouncing. Technology shares bouncing as well, but then you