Symposium hosted by the atomic heritage symposium. This is 40 minutes. I hope youve enjoyed the morning program. Were now in for some additional treats this afternoon. This section is called girls of the Manhattan Project, and i sadly had to im not sad about filling in but im sad that Denise Kiernen who is the author of girls of the atomic city will not be here today. So i know many of you are looking forward to her. Shes just a wonderful, vivacious, engaging person and just fell in love with oak ridge and the girls that she met there and that are the heroines of her book. Her book reached New York Times best seller list when it came out and it fascinated people with a story of the women in world war ii who were working on this top secret project in oak ridge. And one of the girls she featured nine girls is with us this afternoon and thats Rosemary Meyers lane. Three of them are captured three of the girls that are the nine major characters not characters but people she focused on in h
College so i was able to talk to a group of kids in the program and i also interviewed students who were part of another Afterschool Program that i was a more traditional and i wanted to see what they thought about trying to achieve something more than just roaming the streets. I wanted to hear from their perspective what its like to be part of this movement going on to graduate from the program for their undergraduate work for the School Example and berkeley and columbia surveyed so they did quite well. How do they feel about this achievement at the same time is southcentral and they have a Bad Reputation as a place of gangs and drugs and other kinds of problems in the impoverished community. Theres all these problems and issues and so i set out to interview them and i realized it a certain age you wont get them him to say anything so how do you feel about what youre doing and do you like where youre going in the program that would be it. So there was a methodology that they used to c
Business report. The tax crackdown steps up a gear. In the sights of the European Commission, oxenberg and amazon. And the head of wells fargo gets a grilling by us lawmakers over its Corporate Culture and millions of fake bank accounts. Hello. A warm welcome, this is World Business report. It is a packed programme and we will be telling why all things are peachy in beijing. Lets start with the European Commission. It is expected to announce later today the result of its long probe into Member States tax deals with multinational companies. This time, luxembourg is in the spotlight. It has been accused of offering illegal tax brea ks to accused of offering illegal tax breaks to amazon, the retail giant. The decision is not against amazon itself but the country which can be forced to present amazon with a bill forced to present amazon with a bill for alleged back taxes. The case echoes a similar ruling against ireland which forced it to claim 13 billion euros from apple, a decision that
Entertainment. This is daybreak asia i am in new york where it is just after 7 00. It was an extraordinary jolt for u. S. Markets. 10 days of record gains when it comes to the dow. S p also seeing record high. It shouldnt have taken very much for that jump to happen for volatility to jump. Withrprising it came strong rhetoric from President Trump. It is hard to discern what that rhetoric means. Does fire and fury from President Trump, what does it translate into in washington . It jolted the markets and caused us to fall to session lows. But we seem to have come back a bit, closing lower still. It was the initial fall that rattled the markets. Going to be focused on china Inflation Numbers here. Haidi thats right. Not to much overreaction when it comes to the aussie dollar. Look how it is setting up given a fairly volatile session. Lower sessions today. The kiwi dollar for a second day was the worst performer of the g10 currencies. No expectations of a rate change but certainly some we
With so many people posting to facebook, we make mistakes. The finance minister banks flocking to paris after brexit. We will win the race, of attractiveness. James bullard explains why he wants right to stay on hold. Wants rates to stay on hold. I think we have a ways to go in inflation. And we sort the earnings reports. Resultsid set of underpinned by strong strategy. We would like to move away from talking about just pricing, it is also about value. We obviously have the great brands to be able to reach in so reach consumers directly. It is a combination of trends, technology and consumer trends. It is all straight ahead on bloomberg best. Rishaad hello, welcome. I am Rishaad Salamat and this is bloomberg best, your weekly review of the most important Business News, analysis and interviews on Bloomberg Television around the world. Geopolitical tensions dominated the news this week, starting with a pointed exchange of diplomatic signals on monday. China says that it is confident that