The last theres been a lot of talk about over last generation, the last 40 years really highlights the challenges of measuring economic values. A lot of people take the view that there hasnt been much progress, much growth in incomes, economic stagnation over that period of time. And i often try to put the lie to that assertion by asking people to whether theyre low income, middle income, high income, raise your hand if you wanting to back to 1975 and there usually arent a lot of takers. But one think is undeniable is we have been living through a period of economic stagnation and im peter and joined the Cato Institution a year ago as president and over that time brink linsey has done a job trying to explore growth slowdown, one is understanding the growth slowdown and another is reviving Economic Growth. For the first time in my life we had gdp growth hasnt reached 3 and at the time i joined cato 13 months ago i was hopeful i was actually hopeful because when we lived through economic
That ive been thinking about for a really long time. Before i was a fulltime author, i was a High School Computer science teacher. I taught for 17 years at a high school in oakland, and i would teach in this really visual way. I would do a lot of drawing on the board to explain to my students. I always thought, man, a lot of this could really work well in a graphic novel series. I teamed up with a friend of mine named mike holmes, and together we are trying to introduce fundamental Computer Science concepts to middle school kids through comics. Host how did you go from a High School Teacher to a National Book award nominee . [laughter] guest its kind of crazy. Each when i was a fulltime teacher, i would do comics at night, in the morning, in the summers host did you think they could be published . Guest it was for me. Host really . Guest i never thought itd be a source of income. Some people, you know, play golf to relax, and that costs a lot of money. Im going to publish comics to rel
[inaudible conversations] do you want to set . Good morning. My name is sharon and im a volunteer for the book festival. On behalf of the state library of louisiana and Louisiana Center of the book. I welcome you to book festival the 11th annual book festival. There will be a book signing with jim cobb afterwards in the bonds barnes noble tent. So if you want to carry on after that he will be happy to sign your books. We are happy to have with us this morning james cobb jr. Who has written flood of lies the saint regis nursing home tragedy. He was a managing partner in a firm. Cobb served as an adjunct professor at Tulane University while at the law school. And since the 80s has taught at Harvard University since 2008. He lives and practices privately in new orleans and we are pleased to introduce to you the james a. Kopp jr. [applause] thanks very much. Good morning. Its cold out there isnt it . Thank you guys for coming and braving the weather. A couple of things about my biography w
Eight kentucky versus number seven uconn. Highest ranking matchup since 1979. Bracket was buried this weekend. I got off i got all four final four wrong. I did get wisconsin which almost got there. Got all final four wrong. Lets do a data check. Hopefully better than a ncaa brackets heard we say good morning to all of you rooting for connecticut and kentucky. Futures negative seven. 2. 72 . Yield down to the you are the euros going nowhere since time began. American oil, not brent crude. The dow 16,400 heard the Australian Dollar will get to in a second. The dollar yen. This bears watching. This is a commodity complex known as the Australian Dollar. We are above parity. The bull market in commodity is back for two years. We picked up the bid here little bit. Theres a Little Mystery here about where this goes. Question markse coming out of china. China, the biggest consumer of steel, of coal, of copper. A middle class of china and development. I agree, the correlation in china is 100 .
Dollar request . It is a large amount of money, but money that is needed in terms of the migration emergency taking place on the southwest border. It has most of the money in the request going for facilities to provide housing and shelter and care for these young people who have been crossing the border. I think the most important part that actually leads to a longer Term Solution and response to this beyond the immediate needs of caring for people is the request for a substantial increase in the number of immigration this request includes 64 million which would plus up the immigration judge capacity at the border significantly and that really is the beginning of the reasons age lot of these children are coming to the country. Theyre coming because we have not had the capacity to give them the hearings the law requires so while they are waiting for their hearings, which can be as many as several and withey are release generally family members. That has created a wordofmouth flow of inf