[background noises] good afternoon everyone. You look like a great crowd here this afternoon. Before we even start give yourselves a big round of applause for coming to learn more about closing the wealth gap in diversity and inclusion. We have some wonderful panelist with us this afternoon. I am so pleased to be here today and honored to be hosting this panel on Financial Services closing the wealth gap and providing access to capitol my name is maxine waters. [cheering] formerly chair of the Financial Services committee of the house of representatives and now the ranking member. Still trying to carry on the work that we were doing as a chair. As you know after the recent election they were able to get control of the house of representatives and they dismantled our subcommittee that i had created on diversity and inclusion. But we are going to talk about what it means to have this wealth gap. You are going to talk to some people who are dealing with clothing this wealth gap have to cl
[background noises] good afternoon everyone. You look like a great crowd here this afternoon. Before we even start give yourselves a big round of applause for coming to learn more about closing the wealth gap in diversity and inclusion. We have some wonderful panelist with us this afternoon. I am so pleased to be here today and honored to be hosting this panel on Financial Services closing the wealth gap and providing access to capitol my name is maxine waters. [cheering] formerly chair of the Financial Services committee of the house of representatives and now the ranking member. Still trying to carry on the work that we were doing as a chair. As you know after the recent election they were able to get control of the house of representatives and they dismantled our subcommittee that i had created on diversity and inclusion. But we are going to talk about what it means to have this wealth gap. You are going to talk to some people who are dealing with clothing this wealth gap have to cl
[background noises] good afternoon everyone. You look like a great crowd here this afternoon. Before we even start give yourselves a big round of applause for coming to learn more about closing the wealth gap in diversity and inclusion. We have some wonderful panelist with us this afternoon. I am so pleased to be here today and honored to be hosting this panel on Financial Services closing the wealth gap and providing access to capitol my name is maxine waters. [cheering] formerly chair of the Financial Services committee of the house of representatives and now the ranking member. Still trying to carry on the work that we were doing as a chair. As you know after the recent election they were able to get control of the house of representatives and they dismantled our subcommittee that i had created on diversity and inclusion. But we are going to talk about what it means to have this wealth gap. You are going to talk to some people who are dealing with clothing this wealth gap have to cl
Dramatic moments, dont get dramatic and emotional about it. He said serve it cold, rather than you crying, let your reader cry by serving it cold. Thats what i tried to do. I dont mean cold like bloodles bloodless, but without any dramatic file in music. Thank you so much. I feel like we were just getting started, but thats the nature of this. My name is oliver. Im a columnist for the guardian. Im really excited about the panel we have today. Its kind of interesting to me , probably not interesting to anybody else on the planet. I stayed alive. Thank you. Its just one of those very ubiquitous reminders of how to function psychologically in our own life. Im the same person who was born 42 years ago. Why is it that the last few years seem to have gone by in about ten times the speed of the years when i was a teenager. Time is such precious resource. Why do i waste so much on twitter. I try to not use this. Its too valuable. Let me quickly introduce, and all medical order, we have alan, a
Im really excited about the panel that we have today. I could not ask for a better group of people. Its interesting to me probably not interesting to anybody else on the planet to be here on my birthday its one of those very big reminders about how time functions im the same person that was bornal even though they have seen that specifically and it has changed since then. The last few years had gone by and about ten times the speed of the years when i was a teenager. Thismise not to use mainly as a personal therapy exercise. Let me quickly introduce in alphabetical order our guest. A historian of science. The novelist. I will kick it up off with a few questions. For me i think one thing is clear. The daily source of stress and irritants. Be ourselves for using it wrongly. At the same time this everyday thing is such a huge controversial and philosophical mystery. When you stop to ask what time it really is its really hard to answer that question. You think about time as if it was space