Do you own amazon stock . Here comes another alltime high. Try 1,067 a share. Founder jeff bezos about to to overtake bill gates and become the richest person the world. The latest Financial Report from amazon comes out today. Oh, please, watch out. So heres the story. Big tech, the fabulous five, call them what you will, are still on a tear. And they will push the overall market to levels we have never seen before. The dow is closing in on 22,000. Here is the news from the swamp. Not entirely depressing. The wall street journal reports increasing support for a socalled skinny obama care repeal bill. Something would be better than nothing. And we expect an outline of the tax reform plan tomorrow. We have more reports of higher taxes on the super rich. Whod have thought . Here comes the most exciting financial show on television. Varney companys about to begin. Stuart we have no choice. We have to start with facebook. The stock is surging, and i do not use that word lightly. E. Mac, wai
So much of this summit is concerned with the electoral history of progressivism and conservatism. Many of our speakers asked how the ideas and arguments of Major Political thinkers have made their way into the cultural conversation. Have shaped political attitudes, and given rise to political action. Our midmorning session is particularly exciting in this respect. The three historians before you are going to discuss how certain Major Intellectual figures of the long 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries have affected and in some cases may continue to affect american political thought. I will introduce our speakers alphabetically. Claire is a doctoral candidate in United States history at stanford university. Her research very well suited to for this conversation interrogates the Cultural Exchange in the late 18th century through the cold war. Today, she will discuss jon stewart middle, Harriet Tyler mill, and the coalescence of modern liberalism and the in america from the 18th to the 1970s w
Power that it already is. The the soft power, its position on north korea will be significant. I understand why china takes the position it takes now because it still serves a purpose in terms of a strategic a strategic buffer, but i think the longer china continues to be a patron of this road state that has been determined by the United Nations as a country that commits crimes against humanity, that turns a blind eye to the nonproliferation regime, it is going to be a huge burden on china increasingly. I believe in the mid to longterm perspective, the sooner china is able to shut this headache the sooner china will become a leader that we will are in its respect, and certainly from south korea. Professor moon. Yes, a pressing priority for all of us. Very shortterm thinking on my part, which is lunch. [laughter] thank you again. Lets give a big hand to our prestigious speakers. [applauding] [inaudible conversations] q a is ten years old, and to mark a decade of compelling conversations
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Begin. Stuart lets start with the markets this monday morning. The dow turned positivv five minutes ago, now its three points down. Im going to call it dead flat. Energy stocks, of course, they are acting as a drag on the dow. Exxonmobil, oth of them doon. The dow is suffering because of whats happening to the price of oil. Goldman sachs, by the way, says oil is going to go down to 75 a barrel, and look at it now, 80. 17. Literally 60 seconds ago it was at 79. 50. So oil has broken below 80 a barrel as of this morning. Goldman says itll get down to 75. That is where the real Market Action is this morning. Now look at the price of gas. Good news for you today. Its still falling about a penny a gallon a day. The National Average for regular and as we do every day, we tell you where the cheapest gas in the nation is. The exxon station or one of them in memphis, tennessee. Look at that, 2. 39 for regular. Im sure youve got to pay cash. Its monday morning, so heres your ebola update. The nu