it because we put so much on the onus of individual shoulders. and the broad aggregate sense, it s way better than i feared it would be. we will take that statement and run with it. thank you, my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. one of the many revelations to come out of the january six committee hearings was trump attorney general bill barr described, in his own words, how he pushed back against trump s claims of election fraud. he called those claims bogus, crazy stuff, and, most incuriously, complete bias. despite the heroic headlines generated by barr s testimony, it is a good point to remember that barr did not say anything publicly debunking those same claims of election fraud until december 1st, which was nearly a month after the 2020 election. in fact, before his post trump rehabilitation tour, this was the bill barr we knew. what happened to the president in the 2016 election, and throughout the first two years of his administration, was a
[inaudible conversations] shall we start . I was waiting for somebody. What you summer doing, i was caught completely unprepared and they came to a reading without my own copy of the book. I thought i would have to buy a copy. Is the mic on . I can just scream at some point my voice is going to give out. Testing testing. I just need to hold it closer. I was finding is very format to this . Half an hour reading it been qa . Ill do a few readings convince him to a day and then maybe not as many readings as in the past because the q a tends to stretch on ottawa to give you a chance to ask questions. The passages we are reading, fyi, the reading i did in his city, i held a poem forum. What are the best passages of the passages that most want to be read . Ill give you some input but already to the list. It is, so the top winner in the poll was the final cheryl meeting where sbx gets shot down and i realize my life is over basically. The famous sexes paragraph though go on my tombstone which
S p futures down by just over 3. 5 points below fair value. Take a look at whats been happening with oil prices. Yesterday, crude oil settling at an eightmonth low. That was the lowest settlement this year. You can see theyre down once again this morning. Down another 46 cents to 91. 71. Take a look at whats been happening in the treasury market. The tenyear note at this point looks like it is yielding at 2. 516 . That had been the highest close that weve seen all the way back since july 31st in terms of the yield. The dollar this morning, at least at this point, looks like it is down against both the euro and the pound. The euro is trading at 1. 292 up against the yen at 106. 92. If you take a look at whats been happening with gold prices, under pressure despite what weve seen in terms of geopolitical concerns. Gold is down to its lowest level this year. 1,246. 60 an ounce. Andrew, ill send it over to you. This will be the first of the companys sales since last november. Lots of quest
Into a world empty of our son. He went back to work. Thats just who he is. There are times when i couldnt even imagine how he did it, how he put one foot in front of the other and kept going. But ive always understood why he did it, for the daughter who convinces her mom to finally get a Breast Cancer screening and misses work to drive her to the clinic. For the Community College student who has faced homelessness and survived abuse but finds the grit to finish her degree and make a good life for her kids. For the little boy whose mom is serving as a marine in iraq, who puts on a brave face in his video call and doesnt complain when the only thing he wants for his birthday is to be with her. For all those people, joe gives his personal number to at rope lines and events, the ones he talks to for hours after dinner, helping them smile through their loss, letting them know that they arent alone. He does it for you. Joes purpose has always driven him forward. His strength of will is unsto
Business before it begins. Verizon is the buyer. Call it the oscars of Silicon Valley. Some the biggest names among them gathered to honor achievement in science. First, to the lead. Nearly four months since microsoft ceo Steve Ballmer announced he would be retiring. Bloomberg has reported that they want somebody replaced by the end of year, the chances are dwindling by the day. Qualcomm promoted Steve Mollenkopf to the top job after we reported he was among the top candidates. There is plenty of a buzz about satya nadella. What is going on with the search . Paul kedrosky is a managing partner at sk ventures. He will be with us. It is kind of odd. A strange cross of reality tv and monty python. The whole idea of a short list goes out the window when your talk about microsoft. Everybody is gone. We have a short list. The obvious problem here is anybody with any sort of understanding of technology knows what they are stepping into. They are walking to labor badly broken organization with