The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. God of our destiny, you have watched over us from generation to generation. May our lawmakers trust your faithfulness during this challenging season of our nations history. Lord, inspire them to recall how you have sustained the land we love in prosperity and adversity, in peace and in war. Give our senators the wisdom to believe that they can trust your constancy and greatness, as they cling to your promise never to leave or forsake them. Believing in your power, help us all to face fresh challenges with total confidence in you. And lord, we pray for the health and safety of all as communities begin the process of reopening businesses. We pray in your mighty name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it
[background noises] think you guys so much. Thank you for being here. Im Lisa Freedman report on the some reporter for the New York Times and im very gratefulul to have 2dollar pans beginning with this one that is really going to drill down into a lot of the things that are covered. First let me introduce our panel all the way to my far right that director at the center and regulation markets at the Brookings Institution. The bernard l. Schwartz chair of policy development and the fellow in economic studies at berkeley and the fellow for the initiative for disabled energy policy. Adie tamer in the center is a senior fellow at Brookings Metro and an expert on infrastructure policy and urban economics. With a particular focus on transportation and digital technology. He hedine is working to better understand infrastructure policies from theic federal levl and how they Impact Economic Development social prosperity and and directly to my left Glenn Rudebusch a senior nonresident senior fel
Stocks near their session highs. 1, 2, 3 all, and its really in the bond markety yields are, yes, soaring today much the twoyear note, highest levels, five years at its highest level since 2010, and the tenyear at its highest level since july of 2014 at 2. 65 meantime ge going the other way, down below 16, lowest levels since december, theyre moving the etf that mimics them, hitting a new multiyear high more on the m a that is fueling this group thats ahead brian . Thank you, tyler. Another rough day for bitcoin, it is down nearly 7 , more what is fueling that slide and where the cryptos go from here the imf raising its Global Growth thanks in part the agency expecting the world some i to grow 3. 9 this year that was up from previous estimates. More proof perhaps that the death of retail has been greatly exaggerated. Shares of teen retailer abercrombie and fich soaring after it raised its outlook. We begin with the government shutdo shutdown a key vote in the senate expected shortly Ka
I saw a lot of hands. Okay. I was curious about hotels in new york. I mean i know my parents stayed at one of the few hotels in new york that allowed black people to stay there. Well, you know, it was different. Like up where i interviewed paula, up at the polo grounds, she mentioned in her building at one time walter white from the naacp, Thurgood Marshal stayed there, judge bruce wright stayed there at one time in that building. But further up is a building count 555. Gnat king cole would come in town and he couldnt stay in town. He could playdown town but couldnt stay downtown. What years were your parents stay ting there . They got married in 54. Well you know, i guess it happens. But i know i read his article not too long ago that hairy bell fon taye was having a hard time finding a place. He ended up buying the building and sold the penthouse to lena horne. Thats how he was able to get in the upper westside. Do you know the websites url for the green book chronicles so people wit
From chicago. Hes spending his summer with his uncle down in mississippi. His uncle was a farmer and his uncle had a son who was emmetts age. His uncle is moses wright. Moses wrights son, simeon, and theyre all living together in the wright house down in mississippi having a good summertime. Two days before this day, 60 years ago on august 24th, emmett till had gone into a local Country Store called bryants. Bryants meet and grocery i think its called. And h was hanging out with simeon, with some other guys and he goes into the store to purchase something. And he purchases it and hes at the Cash Register and there he sees the woman who owns the Grocery Store with her husband, Carolyn Bryant. And something happens at that point and theres only one person alive today who knows what happened. And thats Carolyn Bryant. Okay . And he purchases something and he then either whistles at her in a sassy sort of way, a wolf whistle, you know, that construction workers and others are known to do w