I hope you have a moment or two to listen to what we have been say to each and every one of you it concerns our postal system. They never have failed through the years through driving rain, sleet, or snow but now theyve got a problem and what are they to do . The answer, my friend, is very simple it is up to you to see them through [vocalizing] do, do, do, do, do, do well, back in the day of the 13 colonies mailing a letter wasnt much trouble there werent too many places to send it but now its a different story theyve got more mail than ever before its stuck in bags, packed on shelves theres hardly room for anything more there has been a mail explosion theyve got a terrible load youve got to help them right away the u. S. Post office explodes. [monkey chittering] it wasnt so long ago that communication was a simple act, but the range of the human voice is limited, so man found a way to bridge the distance he invented writing and typographical errors. To carry messages across vast dista
The 2008 financial crisis in a strong position. When you try to reinvent the wheel but turns out you may simply be the Worlds Largest taxi firm is this the end of the gig economy of fights and labor laws and courts around the world. The world economies are moving away from fossil fuels right now being an Oil Producing nation is a tricky proposition burning through money set aside for a rainy day and borrowing money from International Investors to make sure you can pay your bills its also a time many Big Oil Companies are thinking about leaving more oil in the ground many countries have failed to wean themselves off Oil Struggling to diversify their economies oil revenues in the middle east and north africa fell from over one trillion dollars in 2012 to 575000000000 and 2019 thats according to the i. M. F. And this year middle east produces are expected to 270000000000 dollars less than oil revenue at the same time middle east oil exporting economies are expected to contract 7. 3 percen
People disappear from westminster and it is quiet. You have been reading about the problems, and that is something on the social scene i suppose, and the controversy over which songs should end the problems, a musical event that happens every year. Of course it is much scaledback. I am preoccupied by the latest comings and goings. Tom we have Economic Data on thursday, jobless claims. What is the trend of the economy that you see . Right now in america aims to be almost a two art economy, very separate. A twopart economy, very separate. Anna we are talking this morning about the kshaped recovery. Going to john olsens great piece this moaning about how tech stocks do well, value stocks, other left behind sectors not doing as well. Even as we look at the u. S. Right now. Also really dominating in the news overnight. Anna a recovery, kitd juckes writing on that as well. An unusual august. For our briefing with first word news, there is ritika gupta. Ritika President Trump and speakers at
This is counting the cost on aljazeera your look at the world of business and economics this week as Oil Prices Slump economies shrink and austerity kicks in is this the end of the middle east oil rush also this week south africas unemployment hit a record high before the pandemic whats gone wrong for an economy that emerged from the 2008 financial crisis in a strong position. When you try to reinvent the wheel but turns out you may simply be the Worlds Largest taxi firm is this the end of the gig economy into fights and labor laws and courts around the world. The world economies are moving away from fossil fuels right now being an Oil Producing nation is a tricky proposition burning through money set aside for a rainy day and borrowing money from International Investors to make sure you can pay your bills its also a time many Big Oil Companies are thinking about leaving more oil in the ground many countries have failed to wean themselves off Oil Struggling to diversify their economies
Questions, Colonial Williamsburg and monticello. Thomas Jeffersons Monticello recorded this program and provided the video. Good afternoon. My name is Brandon Dillard and im the manager of historic interpretation here at monticello. You might recognize my voice because in previous live streams im usually the guy behind the camera and im reading questions from our audience as they come in so that we can directly engage with you while were talking to our first person interpreter actor bill barker who portrays Thomas Jefferson. We wanted to do something a little bit different this week. Given the National Conversation and given events all around us, we know that 2020 has been a challenging year. Monticello has been closed for months. We reopen this weekend due to a Global Pandemic and in recent weeks in the United States, millions of people all over the country are actively fighting for equity against different form of racial injustice, whether its racially motivated Police Violence or ra