applause thank you, thank you all very much for coming out this afternoon and let me think those who have already spoken, sylvia pallid reno, ally new sin and chris dickson, thank you very much for what you have said. What i want to do is for a little bit different than what i usually do because i want to involve you in the discussion, i dont want to give you a long speech element to three hours. Think laughs i want to touch on, theres so many issues but i want to touch on some of these essential issues and get your thoughts on. I want to start off with the issue of money in politics. If you run for president of the United States it is an expensive proposition. My concern right now it is that especially since Citizens United and what we have seen is a major corruption of our political process and the concept of democracy meaning one person, one vote. What most of us believe, and we were arguing about an issue people raise their hand a majority winds and everyone has the same thought. B
Thank you and welcome everyone. I am very honored to be here. I also want to recognize Fred Hamptons mother who was here tonight. [applause] and also, bill hampton freds brother and freds sister. And [indiscernible] who was also in the apartment that night in the brook truce and [indiscernible] who was also in the apartment that night in the brook truce berkshires. She is here tonight also. [applause] i want to thank northwestern and bernadine for bringing together such a prestigious and accomplished panel. I feel like now, i can sit down and hear what they have to say. I am and all of the people who are here tonight and their accomplishments. I want to thank bernadine for putting it together and for being one of the inspirations for wired with this book. It was bernadine mentioned that fred hampton spoke at Northwestern University law School Almost exactly 40 years ago to the day. The person who introduced him was a young law student by the name of [indiscernible] who is sitting in th
My name is marcus lemonis, and i fix failing businesses. If you dont like money, dont follow my process. I make the tough decisions. Were closing the store. Were done. Im not talking about it anymore. I back them up, spending my own money. Its not always pretty. Man perfect flavor. Lemonis . But this is business. You got to trust the process. I do it to save jobs, and i do it to make money. Thanks for your business. This is the profit. [ bell rings ] west end coffee provides freshlyroasted Gourmet Coffee to local restaurants and specialty shops. Coowners Becky Schramm and john brown were in a relationship when they bought west end coffee for 500,000 in 2012. But a year later, their relationship ended in a nasty breakup, and trouble started brewing at the business. John youre ridiculous. You dont know what youre doing. Lemonis and their employees are constantly caught in the middle. Man i think theyre both good people. I just think they dont like each other. Lemonis with their business
Sometimes the glass shrinking a half full vessel look like it is overflowing and this is where we areright now and this, after todays session dow closed flat, s p up 6 and nasdaq up. And lets start with the thing that we all know which is the half full half empty this morning disney launched the new streaming service diocese plus and immediately overwhelmed with traffic and started having outages even though management assured us the technology was solid on the Conference Call last week. We were told they tested the system in the netherlands which must be a new worldwide peoria but it reminds me of hamsterdam. They botched the roll out of a promising new service but the Glass Half Full people think differently. Sure the site crashed but that is because there was so much demand and traffic diocese vetted this platform for millions of people and that wasnt enough. It is not hard to believe it has so much great content that it caused a stampede of subscribers. In reality both are right. B
Investors see trade tensions using. Winskongs prodemocracy in a landslide. Record numbers turn out for the first vote since the unrest began. Good morning. Lets have a look at what the futures are telling us about the European Equity session. The first of the week, looks like it could be positive. Factoring in a little bit of the balance we saw in the u. S. Market on friday and adding to that. U. S. Futures also suggests we will be higher. We saw that bounce in the u. S. On friday. Trump saying the u. S. Was very close to a trade tax. Lets put up that. Trading around the scraps of information with regard to trade dialogue between the u. S. And china. With that in mind lets get to the gmm. That shows us what is moving in the asia session. Hong kong up by 1. 4 . Trump line from friday. Also the news from headlines, china talking about tougher penalties for companies that break the rules around intellectual property. That may be is designed to sooth tensions between the u. S. And china be