Bless him, an associate dean of the college of humanities and at byu. He is also the editor of a book. His talk is entitled the special relationship as Popular Culture 1989 to 1906. Please join me in welcoming frank. [applause] thanks, bob. Echo has go stimulating this has been. I was going over my notes. I could spend half the talk making callbacks for yesterdays session. There were so many things i found helpful in my own thinking. I do have a couple of preparatory thoughts. From some things that Patty Limerick is said in her keynote yesterday. I really like her idea of what she calls Buffalo Bills studies, as fieldnotes. Field that identifies our collective project as inherently ecumenical. In its approach to scholarship, one that is called a by the nature of the subject. Was, i informal survey thought, was very helpful. She asked about the various backgrounds of those in the audience. I would like to think that the paper is working towards this vision in a variety ways. One of whic
He wrote a book called hello called buffalo bill in begonia. Where is our Marketing Panel . We still sold it in the gift shop. People loved that because Buffalo Bills name was on the cover there. Please join me in welcoming bob riddell. [applause] thank you all very much. I will be brief. I also want to add my voice of thanks to all the organizers in the last day today and tomorrow. This is a splendid series of events. The word fun does not get often get used in the context of academics. Fun is an appropriate word to use. These are delightful presentations. Im looking forward to the ones that are upcoming. The personal privilege, 100 years ago, a massive funeral. My grandfather and grandmother were there, along with my mother at age two. Somehow, these things come around. Let me introduce our first panelist. Frank christianson, i think most of you know frank and his work. He is an associate professor of english, associate dean, god bless him, an associate dean of the college of humanit
Kind of stuff republicans have been preaching. All of this at a time when Public Opinion polls may be owing to Mainstream Media that isnt keen on the tax cuts, are not keen on those tax cuts either. Could that be a problem . Obviously you wouldnt see it in the markets since the election or even right now with a minordown draft. We have been seeing them race to highs. In next couple hours, well be stepping back where we were a year ago when donald trump was first elected president of the United States. And what is happening to that agenda, and talk as you have just heard, that the senate wants to push back a little bit, its measure to compete with the house getting these tax cuts just right. All that comes at a time getting it just right means potentially watering them down. You know how wall street reacts to that. I dont want to overly interpret, a off, off year election and what it might say about a off year election a year from now. Although sometimes they can telegraph trends. Trend
Linking russian involvement in the election. Well speak with a former operative who questioned the cias sources on this. David . David very interesting. Back to the markets. The dow closing at a brand new record high. Call it paul krugman high, how about that . 15th since the election. Were about 200 points away from dow 20k. Johnson johnson, pfizer, walmart among todays biggest boehners. Oil driving ahead as well. Phil flynn watching action in oil and gold from the cme. We have lori rothman at the nyse. Phil first. What is driving oil up, phil . Boy, what is it, history, that opecnonopec accord. A lot of people said they couldnt get it done. They did it over weekend. Prices are up higher when they actually closed. They were up 2 1 2 . On the market sunday night it was up 5 . It pulled back quite a bit. One of the reasons it pulled back a lot of hedge funds pot long on rumor the deal was going to get done and took profits ahead of the fed announcement that will come out tomorrow. They
Pruitt, who is the designate for the Environmental Protection agency, the Oklahoma Attorney general, who will also be who is also on the hill for his confirmation hearing today. Very, very busy week as we lead up to the inauguration on friday. Yep. Not just this, the president s going to speak, his final News Conference at 2 00. Janet yellen in San Francisco at 3 00. So its a packed afternoon as well as a packed morning. Lets get to john harwood in washington and see what youre seeing. Hey, john. Reporter carl, first of all, weve got 48 hours left before this inauguration, and donald trump is still trying to develop some political momentum heading into that day, pushing back this morning against reporting by nbc news, among others, that suggested that some of the job announcements that have come recently have been already planned by the Companies Involved general motors, hyundai, walmart, and not because of trump. He tweeted out this morning, no, it was because of me and complained of