Original guestimate that the conservatives will get an overall majority with Boris Johnson a little bit of figure on that im guessing a majority of 40 at the time you out of these these famous words are i think just once and was 5 to one against her to lose a seat so the 1st question was did you get money on the demise of the liberal democrat leader i didnt put anything on and i think that would have jinxed my predictions but i had one very good reason to think shed lose i did the same thing and i could sense the same things happening to her as happened to me in my seat in 2010 but nobody listened including the liberal democrats despite my repeated warnings that i thought shed lose by a small margin but as you say i was right and was just once an open. My eyes a liberal democrat problems or were the people difficulties for the liberals in the sky she was half the problem i said here in this very studio that she wasnt cutting it in the general election as she just didnt come across as c
Desks theyve been pretty to work by their new taskmasters returning m. P. s come back to a very different place the boarding is the same but inside it has changed and changed utterly instead of a truculent Minority Parliament we have a step for to simply with a huge majority of 80 super loyalist m. P. s or is johnson is a master of all that he surveys no longer will little known m. P. s be asked with breathless excitement by the media how they are shaping up for the next knife age for it they wont be any such words household names like on the superman Dominic Grieve will disappear from our t. V. Screens perhaps forever but is it all plain sailing for the Prime Minister sometimes in politics nothing feels like success alex ross our panel how events are likely to unfold. I know im trying to read the ruins of the general election by a prestigious spinal of political pundits but im no column the rebel musketeer bitter or bottom a rebel tory who ended up voting for jeremy called the Chris W
On which the yeas and nays are ordered. The clerk will report the title of the resolution. The clerk house calendar number 32 House Resolution 460. Resolution providing for consideration of the bill h. R. 2722 to protect elections for Public Office by providing Financial Support and enhanced security for the infrastructure used to carry out such elections around for other purposes. Waiving a requirement of clause 6a of rule 13 with respect to consideration of certain rules reported from the committee on rules and providing for consideration of bill h. R. 3351 making appropriations for Financial Services and general government for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2020, and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore the question is on ordering the previous question. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a 15minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any us
Author Michael Lewis. His most recent book is the undoing project a friendship that changed our minds. This is booktv live coverage. Can you hear me . I am hearing echoes. All good . We found out michael is supposed to do a power point presentation, takes half an hour to find the power point presentation. Thank you for being here and the library of congress. Thank you, the chairman of the festival. We will have a little chat, a couple of old friends with 1 million other new acquaintances in the hall. We go way back. Lets Start Talking about you are an art history major at princeton and you go to wall street and do really well. You could have been rich, you know . You could have your own plane this morning. Instead you go into the book business. So you know, it is just an accident, they didnt know each other. This is an opportunity to express all the resentment. This is the undoing project. So the question is why i quit wall street, you knew you wanted i didnt have any plans. And grew u
Pat tens are do divine by prieseest priests and the priests are paid a lot of money for it. That is crazy. The truth is that people dont like taking responsibility for managing making their own Financial Decisions and so theyll always pay these priests, i think, just to get rid of the problem. A they cant get in their heads that not only is that person not an expert, theres no such thing as the expertise. They can get in anywhere head he was a bad expert, he lost my money. Chant get in their head they shouldnt be listening to anybody, and the damage that the intellectual work, the damage that can be done to wall street is minimal. Wall street is responding to psychological deep need and nothing to do with realism. You cant argue it away. So in short, i think the answer is, very little. Host where do you invest your money, just . In a mattress. Host if guest say you think wall street flows on bullshities not sag you dont think the American Economy is a incredible miracle, an engine of w