This is just the beginning. Good afternoon. Im sarah, executive editor at axios, and welcome to our lives event. Many of your joining us live from wherever you are. We are Live Streaming on facebook, youtube, on twitter and, of course, you can also catch us on axios. Com. If you are on twitter you can join the conversation by using the hashtag axios events and be sure to include our handle at axios. Lets get started. Im coming to today live from a home in washington, d. C. And today we have a very big conversation. Our event is the epidemic of inequality. And today will have an important conversation about systemic racism in our country. The reason were here was marked by the death of george floyd in minneapolis but as everyone has seen in the streets, in cities and in states across our country over the past 11 days theres an underlying problem that is yet to be fully addressed, and with adequate reforms and justice. So today were bringing you four speakers, two with a National Perspec
Where Live Streaming on facebook on youtube, twitter and you can catch us on axios. Com. You can join us and join us with our handle at axios. As a woman is seen in the streets and cities and in states across our country over the past 11 days theres an underlying problem that is yet to be fully addressed and with adequate reform and justice. So today we bring you four speakers, two with the National Perspective and two with a local perspective to begin to have a conversation about whats next and where we go from here. Let me just tell you that we have coming up today. We have derrick johnson, ceo of the naacp. We have Melvin Carter, mayor of st. Paul, minnesota. We have lovely warren, shes a rochester, new york,k, and web congressman bobby rush of illinois. So first i i want to start with our first guest, is president and ceo of a the naacp, derrick johnson. Welcome. Hes joining us live from jackson, mississippi. Thank you for havingroon me. Thank you so much. The first question i want
Lovely born, mayor of rochester, new york, and we have congressman bobby rush of illinois. So first i want to start with our first guest is president and ceo of the naacp, derrick johnson. While come. Hes joining live from jackson, mississippi. Thank you for having me. Thank you so much. The first question i want to ask you, derek, is about this moment. And where do we go from here . With seeing so many protests before. We have seen the beginning of the black lives Matter Protest Movement in the movement begin many years ago. And yet when we think about the problems and where to start, it does seem a bit overwhelming. It seems like so many things are entrenched in our institutions, some would ask you a think whats on a lot of americans minds right now, which is what you think is a first place to start . As we look at the situation in minneapolis, and you are so quick, its not isolated to minneapolis. This is a systemic decades long problem of racism. And for us to begin to heal as a na
[applause] called Lieutenant Governor Ralph Nordstrom northam to congratulate him and theirh him and pam and family all of our best from kathy and me. As i said to the course of this campaign, governor elect northam is a good man and i appreciate his service to our country and commonwealth and i wish him nothing but the best success as our 73rd governor. I told him if i could be helpful to him in making our commonwealth better, i would be happy to do anything i could in that regard. I also want to congratulate lieutenanthe governor elect just in fairfax on his election, and the attorney general on his reelection and wish them the best also appeared also. I also want to thank nancy for being our finance chair. Nancy, thank you. [applause] mr. Gillespie as you all know, we had a very policy focused campaign. 21 detailed, specific policy recommendations. [cheering] [applause] those led the efforts, i think those policies were led by two very dear friends and two good men im happy to say w
Was interesting. Whats your headline here. Why should stocks continue to rise well after 20,000 . Well, really what were noting this week as we head into the final week of the year is the potential for what we call bullish outside year, and basically in simple terms all that means is throughout the year weve traded below last years low, which was 1867 on the s p 500. If we were to close the year about last years high, which is 2135 and we have three days left, but it looks pretty good to do that, that would leave a bullish outside year. Now, its only haepd every happened two other times in history. One was in 1935. One was 1982. Ill sample size it too. Its really not sufficient to draw too many concludes from, but those two years were followed by yearly gains of 28 and 17 respectively. Thats just something were looking at as we head into yearend here. How do you factor in, though, whats happened since election day and how that could skew any sort of technical signals that the market ma