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Welcome to Market Makers. I seem to have misplaced Stephanie Ruhle. Im terrified all by myself. Im going to kick it off with the top business stories of the morning. Sears is getting smaller and so are its losses. The retailer cut its losses by more than half in the fourth quarter. It has now lost money 11 quarters in a row. Eddie lampert has been shrinking the store base and separating units to generate cash. They want to form a Real Estate Investment trust to leaseback the stores. Firsttime jobless claims rose by the most in more than a year last week. It was well above the estimate. Inflation at the consumer level took a dive last month. Prices fell zero point 7 , probably due to Falling Energy prices. The cpi actually rose. The fcc is headed toward a landmark vote on regulating the internet. Regulators expect to adopt rules on Net Neutrality that would bar broadband providers from charging websites to deliver content more quickly. Large mobile phone carriers say the regulations wou
Line with the book passage, thanks for coming out tonight. I was a child during the vietnam war living in turkey while my dad was reporting for the armed forces radio. He remembers it much more vividly than i do but for my dads generation and for mine, the war is preserved for our reflection and study it history and words and images captured by some of the most impressive journalists on the planet, the Associated Press. Over the period of the vietnam war, the month of the surprises for their coverage for both stories and a breaking news photography. Some of the greatest names in the war correspondents staffed the ap bureau, Malcolm Browne, peter arnett, mick mcgeorge esther, antiatoms just to name a few. The total coverage from the vietnam war constitutes more than 25,000 images. Now almost the 50th anniversary of the war, the eps to get the first collection to tell the story of the conflict in vietnam. The book of vietnam the real war, which of course im blocking, is a photographic hi
We sat down with several local authors and took a tour of a local bookbinder. And coming up sunday, well be live for in depth. Bing west joins us for three hours to answer your questions. Mr. West will talk about the many books hes written on the vietnam, iraq and afghanistan wars as well as his experience during the vietnam war and his time as assistant secretary of defense for International Security affairs during the reagan administration. Visit us at booktv. Org. Sean strub talks his about life and aids diagnosis in the 1980s. He became the first openly gay hiv positive person to run for congress. This is about an hour. [applause] very lovely, thank you so much. Thank you. I, you know, i tell people about this tour that im going on, we have 40 some events, they say, oh, my god, youre going to be so exhausted. But i love it. I really enjoy getting out and talking to people, having the kind of conversations that have been arising at some of these events already. So im going to read j
Sean strub talks about his life and efforts to bring awareness to the a. I. D. S. Epidemic in the 1980s. In 1990, mr. Strub, who him has lived with a. I. D. S. For over three decades was the first h. I. V. Positive person to run for congress. This about an hour. Very lovely. Thank you so much. And thank you. I i tell people about the tours im going on. 40some events, going to be so exhausted. But i love it. I enjoy talking to people and having the kind of conversations that have been arising at some of these events already. So, im going to read just for a few minutes, five or six minutes, the prologue from the book, and then we can go into questions and answers, and okay. Theres so many people in this room i could go around thanking. Steve and carol, and the photography ive enjoyed for years and years, and angus and thomas and mark and ted, and i go over here and lauren, or managinged it for at poz. The reason we never missed a deadline the terms of delivering the magazine. Despite our