For the first time. John the good new day. Thats our show, tonig. You worried about the future . Hard not to be if you watch the news. Its mostly negative, violence, disasters, danger and i suppose thats our job to tell you about problems. If a plane crashes, thats news. The fact that thousands of planes will land and take off safely during this tv program is a miracle, but its not news. So we soak in disasters and heed warnings about the next one. Global warming, pesticide residues. I covered hundreds of scares and finally wised up. In england, a journalist smarter than i quickly realized he was focusing on the wrong things that led to this book. The rational optimist. Matt ridley gives lectures around the world explaining why hes an optimist. Back in the 1970, the future was bleak, the population explosion was unstoppable. Famine was inevitable. Bird flu is going to kill us, the ice age is coming back. All these, the desert was advancing. Y2k computer bug, all these things were going
This woman just heard sound for the first time. John the good new day. Thats our show, tonight. You worried about the future . Hard not to be if you watch the news. Its mostly negative, violence, disasters, danger and i suppose thats our job to tell you about problems. If a plane crashes, thats news. The fact that thousands of planes will land and take off safely during this tv program is a miracle, but its not news. So we soak in disasters and heed warnings about the next one. Global warming, pesticide residues. I covered hundreds of scares and finally wised up. In england, a journalist smarter than i quickly realized he was focusing on the wrong things that led to this book. The rational optimist. Matt ridley gives lectures around the world explaining why hes an optimist. Back in the 1970, the future was bleak, the population explosion was unstoppable. Famine was inevitable. Bird flu is going to kill us, the ice age is coming back. All these, the desert was advancing. Y2k computer bu
Bright picture of what is going on in the u. S. Economy. Reports from the 12 Federal Reserve districts suggest that National Economic activity expanded in november and december and a number of districts noted that there was optimism about the outlook for future economic activity. Strength was reflected across the country. High lights here. Consumer Spending Continues to advance. Lower gas prices helped and arly cold weather. Employment gains were widespread. New york reporting hiring on wall street. Tech hiring up in boston and Manufacturing Activity was strengthened. Auto and aerospace continues to be sources of strength according to the beige book. Price increases for Raw Materials were generally muted and on the subject of wages, a number of districts reported slight to moderate increases in labor cost. Upward wage pressures continues to be evident for certain occupations and for skilled workers. The fed would like to see wages move up higher for more americans. Causes for concern,
The top Global Business stories. Another sign of progress in the labor market, u. S. Companies 000 workers last month which is the seventime in the last eight months payrolls have climbed by at least 200,000 according to adp research. The payroll report is a out officially friday and it is expected a gain of 230,000 jobs. Record. Nday set a sales according to Research Firm com score, shoppers spend more than 2 billion online monday. Growth is officially slowing and consumers of and spreading out there shopping two other days during the holidays. On ready for fireworks again capitol hill. This morning, congress will question an executive from the airbag maker who is refusing to issue a nationwide recall. Rejected the recall demand by u. S. Regulators and the airbags are lame for at least four deaths and they have recalled cars only in states with high humidity which is partially blamed for the malfunction. Ralph nader says takata thinks it can get away with defying the government. They
Friends, washingtonians, and citizens listen up. I come here today not to bury marion but to praise him. When marion was born to the theme park we call life, he open the gate. He looked and left and saw the highest space marilyn. Space mountain. Helooked to the right and saw the highest of the fine roller coaster in the world. And he saw a big fares will in front of him. Around and he said, im going to ride every ride in the park. And he did. Twice. , it was sixarion months after the riots. I was in a threepiece suit wearing five foot eight jewish boy from baltimore who are just purchased his first nightclub in the district. Black baptist from mississippi running a milliondollar corporation on u street. Two years later, marion was wearing a three piece suit and i was wearing at the she a dashiki. We became friends. My friend was never a racist. My friend was against racism. Thoseend gave a voice to people who had no voice. Gave opportunity to qualify people that had nowhere to show the