Good evening and welcome to our biggest event so far in 2018. I am Bradley Graham the coowner of politics and prose. On behalf of everybody here at six and i think you so much for coming you know january historically is a rather slow month. Relative to the fever pace of sales. Thanks to Michael Worth dash wolf. They have seemed like a second christmas for many book sellers. Given the surge in demand one frequent question i had been asked is whether or not there is any precedent for this kind of frenzy. Weve had bestsellers before and seen people standing in long lines for them. And normally we are able to anticipate at least roughly how many books to order. But the volume of requests for fire in theory seem to take everyone by surprise. Our event team it was at our new smaller store which kind of accommodated only about a fourth of the crowd here this evening. So lets all give a giant round of applause to the terrific staff here [applause]. They made this spacious venue available and e
Night. And exxon breaking below the twoday average but taylor swift in have been aty fair prizing the company. At least its still above the ipo price. Earnings coach with a pretty good beat. Cvs plagued by disappointing guidance. In china, investors must wait one day to cover positions and pay back loans to buy shares. This comes one day after the u. S. Shares fell. Shanghai managed 3 . Come firms saying were out, for short selling. This lasts for what i feel that the Chinese Government honestly, i dont think theyre idiots. They watch our show and understand things and they recognize the market has gone lower. Lets make it go lower at a slower pace. I think people are presuming the government is trying to prop it up. I think the government is saying listen, this is your chance to get out. We screwed up. Were trying to be in correction course. Its a totalitarian government. Theres not an election. If there was an election theyd throw them out. Thats not it. They have a fiveyear con fab,
But we can think through how rational cave in to being. When the court thinks about is affirmative action and legal lit applies a test that you would apply whether jim crow is legal so those same countries determine is that same standard is a little odd in the macy those are very two different ways to think about race but in that context the first articulation focuses of the cement trevelyans showing how to structure that act that mission but set to what extent does the matter to have meaningful representation so people dont feel stigmatized your stereotypes . This is a robust conception focusing largely on first zero First Amendment values. Polite guy now wanted to go to med school what was the effect . Youll have a concurrent by Justice Powell that essentially said affirmative action is constitutional to take race as one factor among many to decide which students to it mitt. So he concurred but later it became the law eliot you can take race into account to decide how to construct yo
A lot of people hire based on experience. As industries change, if you hire based on skills, you can adopt and i think other industries should look to silken valley valley which has done very well. But basically adopting that. That will help a lot of people. One of the ways is to have a growing economy. There are lots of ways. The simplest way to solve this is to have hiring going on. That is a problem that is very relevant. We are struggling with Immigration Reform and they are directly related as problems. So there are plenty. Revenue solves all problems. [laughter] yes, we are talking about cash. Cash in the bay. Not hypothetical cash, but in the bank. What is interesting is that we have a really big case in our country. Is her economy going to grow . The answer that we are providing is no. The reason is that we do not have the work force we need. There are only two answers to this. There is education and immigration. We do not educate our kids close to where others are. India and c