Monday Memo: We’re Late. “Like the bookstores and stockbrokers and travel agents that were early casualties,” consultant Holland Cooke sees radio and TV stations as “middlemen the Internet is squeezing-out.” In this week’s column, HC warns that “we-who-power-the-towers are late, if we still rega .
on a chase using a sledge ham tore break into a nordstrom store. left reeling from three consecutive days of mass looting. we are talking dozens are walking into these stores at a time. in one case 80 people this jewelry store hit by dozens of people yielding hammers. this weekend a san francisco nordstrom and louie vitton hit hard. next guest owns a luxury retail store in san francisco. the city s mayor should resign over the crime crisis. gump s owner john joins us now. thank you for coming to new york for this interview. thanks for having me. ainsley: tell me your concern as a store owner. as a business owner you don t have a functioning environment anymore. when you have people outside of the city who are afraid to come to the city because of rampant crime and grit and filth, it just destroys your business. we have had now twice in this last 12 months a requirement to board up our store to protect it
keep gas prices away from the $4 mark. one of the most interesting things about the global discussion to tray to control oil prices, the u.s. is reaching out to japan and china and india to try to have a coordinated approach so that if opec puts upward pressure on prices to be a counter, this shows global collaboration, there s an effort to get through this in a sustainable fashion. charles: it s a band aid. they don t have to reach out to anyone. we have american producers here. let them drill. we have it. we don t need it. we could be at $1 oil if we wanted it if we cared. we ll talk soon. san francisco, folks, hit with back-to-back mass looting over the weekend. are lacks laws keeping officials from getting this under control?
could provide the containment effort with the additional resources and money it needs to stop the outbreak from spreading. today denied allegations of corruption at a public hearing in johannesburg he argued that he was the target of a character assassination. who wanted to push him out of power zoom his testimony is being broadcast live on television and is due to continue until friday. this isn t the 1st time former south african president jacob zuma has had to answer to corruption charges but this was his 1st appearance before a high profile commission into graft he allegedly oversaw zuma is accused of presiding over a culture of mass looting of state assets during his 9 year tenure that was before he was ousted as head of state by his ruling a.n.c. party last year speaking uninterrupted for over 2 hours zuma dismissed the multiple