You are probably the busiest person on the planet. I just wanted to say what an honor it is for us. Secretary esper has been secretary of defense for the past year. He was previously secretary of the army and a very distinguished record of Public Service having served active duty after graduation from west point 10 years and then the reserve for 11 years. We are looking forward to a good conversation. I think you have met the moderator before. He is a mutual friend, dave mccormick, the ceo of bridgewater associates. He also has a distinguished career as undersecretary secretary of the treasury and undersecretary of commerce. Dave and i worked together in the george w. Bush administration in those roles. Dave is also a graduate of west point. Nothing euro secretary esper, but they were at west point at the same point. Dave, i will turn this over to you. Thank you, nick. Secretary esper, thank you for joining us today. It is great to see you. Nick forgot to mention you were born and grew
Becky is off we have a lot to get to. The s p 500 flirting with the new record high. Closing seven points lower futures pointing to a pull back the dow looks like it is off nasdaq off about nine points showing you stocks in europe also under pressure talking about why this would be. Closer to 2 in britain. And treasury yields look at the note looking at. 696. We are starting to see in covid cases pick back up in europe, which may impact here. Well try to talk to dr. Scott gottlieb about that. Fortnite maker epic games taking on apple and google over what it calls anticompetitive behavior giving users a discount and cutting out the e map services which cuts out the ability to take a 30 cut from sales. New users will not be able to download the game and existing users wont be able to download any updates. Google followed the lead and removed the game from the app store and was also hit with a lawsuit. The feature was not reviewed they did it with the express intent of violating the guide
I would say this on saturday i would say on a scale of one thats around probably an 8 right now thats a pretty high and the reason im asking is because in 2011 you published and very counterintuitive bloke said jasper being a bit unstable especially on the a manic depressive has its advantages at its time of the time of crisis now i know that your book focuses primarily on little letters but i wonder if one can observe this same extract in lay people to it can we find solace that you know our depression and our restlessness may actually make. Various thinkers are bad Decision Makers in times of uncertainty. Yes so might my book a 1st rate madness which i published back then as you know that was really trying to understand what are the benefits of having some psychiatric conditions a focus on manic depression and i think the show showed that there were some traits that were more present in depressed people like realism and empathy and more traits some traits present in many people creat
But i wonder if one can observe this same a fact in lay people too can we find solace that you know our depression and our restlessness may actually make us batteries think areas are bad Decision Makers in times of uncertainty. Yes so might my book a 1st rate man this was published back then as you know that was really trying to understand what are the benefits of having some psychiatric conditions a focus on manic depression and i think the show showed that there were some traits that were more present in depressed people like realism of empathy and more traits some traits present in many people creativity and resilience to stress and i think point brought this out in leaders but i do think it applies to regular persons like you said you know time of crisis like now for instance it might be in some ways easier for someone whos had depression to be able to manage staying at home all the time and not having much to do because when theyre depressed thats the way they feel its more of a s
Business owners are slamming city leaders as their Stores Remain shut, were going to be talking to one of those desperate Business Owners on what he wants to see from city officials and then to massachusetts where forensics are now requiring most students to receive the flu vaccine to ease the burden on our Health System during this pandemic what doctors are saying about the move and why a lot of parent s are protesting but first , all eyes are now in the rnc the Republican National committee as the dnc, the democrats come to their conclusion. Democrats wasting no time slam ming President Trump, specifically for his response to the pandemic. Watch. Donald trump hasnt grown into the job, because he cant. And the consequences of that failure are severe. 170,000 americans dead. My dad was a healthy 65 yearold. His only preexisting condition was trusting donald trump and for that, he paid with his life. The tragedy of where we are today is it didnt have to be this bad. Just look around. It