The Lincoln Forum symposium hosted the event. Good good morning morning my name is, my name Jonathan White and is jonathan im vice chair of white and im vice the lincoln chair of the Lincoln Forum. Our form. Our next next speaker this speaker this morning is morning Elizabeth Elizabeth are farran. She is williams professor of American History and varon. Associate director of the john shes the associate l now the third center for director Civil War History of the museum of civil War University of virginia. History at the University Author of of virginia. Shes the five book books author of five books that probe that probably important important issues from issues of the sectional the american conflict from the revolution to the civil American Revolution to the war. Her masterful civil war. Her masterful biography, biography, southern southern leaning, yankees by the lady yankees spy, true story of a true story of Elizabeth Van lou a union agent a union agent in in the heart of the the he
At the university of virginia. She is the author of five books that probe important issues related to the sectional conflict from the American Revolution to the civil war. The trueful graffiti story of Elizabeth Van lew, a union agent in the heart of the confederacy was published in three prizes. Today, she will speak to us about her new book armies of deliverance a new history of the civil war, which was bylished earlier this year oxford. A review by some guy named Harold Holzer maybe some of you have heard of him called this a highly interesting new study. I am so glad we could have her here today at the forum to speak to us. Welcomingn me in elizabeth varon. [applause] prof. Varon all right. Can everyone hear me . Good. Yes. All right. In his first wartime message to congress delivered on child july 4, 1851, Abraham Lincoln cast secession as the work of a small band of conspirators who had duped in Calgary South into submission. The southnd cowed into submission. Relied on in had ge
Later on cnbc. Rbs posts a forecast meeting profit the british lender dials down the return target for the medium term looking for the market and what feels like a good return. We believe 9 to 11 represents a good share for shareholders. And a concern the results from the coronavirus will be felt for mores well talk to the ceo later on cnbc the story that has been gripping markets, chinese Officials Say over 63,000 people have now contracted the coronavirus, while 1,383 people have died japan has confirmed the first fatality and over 200 people on board a cruise ship have been infected lets get out live to hong kong with all the action. Emily, give us the latest on what is now known as covid19, coronavirus. Thats right. We are keeping track of the developments of the virus. Here with the latest tally of over 64,000. As far as that cruise liner in japan, they are still in the process of testing 3,700 on board. For the first time in four days, they are going to start letting people off t
Excitement of the 2020 elections every episode we dig deep into something new this time were going to look at the wealth tax stacy thats right were looking at all the economic policies being presented by the Democratic Candidates many of them are very radical Bernie Sanders says billionaires should not exist and to find out whether or not they should we have a guest with us dr Michael Hudson and professor steve keen steve well start with you 1st well i have a very complicated position on this because part of my research is into. Whats called the financial instability hypothesis that explains where the 2008 crosses came from out of that part of what i discovered from the Mathematical Modeling i did was this is a simple relationship between an increasing level of private debt and a full name out of money going to work because as you had a rising level of debt which is what led to a crossroads that rising level of debt meant a rising amount of money going to the bankers and rather than th
The ones who paid for it in fact it was the work because there was a foreign income going to the workers now look at the Empirical Data thats whats happened as well the rausing level of profit did it has meant more money going to bankers list going to work because and capital is feeding in the middle how come this issue is so misunderstood by the democrats they dont they seem to be financially illiterate and this idea do we need billionaires should be really really phrased as where to billionaires come from other words how do you get billionaires thats right and it seems like theres a lot of area to examine in the Banking System in the central banking just im where they seem to have engineers if you well using what in economics is called the cantillon effect where central bank prince billions hundreds of billions and somehow it never circulates in the economy and it goes to the same peoples pockets all the time so word of billionaire is comparable to the question one way billionaires c