The worst of the slowdown in china may be over, and david inglis is looking at this. Pickup, 50. 8. A it was not a big surprise, because if you look at the range of forecasts from economists, pretty much everyone was expecting we would still see expansion. As high as 51. 5, so i guess you could argue that it is more in line with expectations. This is really a survey, at least for this particular one. A series of questions. How many optimists are there, compared to pessimist . A number above 50 indicates that people are perhaps a little bit more bullish on their own business, so that is what we have for the large enterprises. If you look at the medium sort of companies, mediumsized companies, because that is a critical area right now, we saw a big improvement here. 50. 3 in april, 51. 4, which suggests that some of these measures that beijing put in place over the past several have filtered over. That said, you look at the smallest firms, it is more difficult for these firms, 48 point e
Host and this week on the communicators we welcome back the president and ceo of the American Cable Association, matt polka. Mr. Polka, what is the American Cable Association . Guest thanks, peter. Nice to be here again. Nice to be here with you, lynn, as well. The American Cable Association is unique in the fact that we represent many smaller Cable Operators across the country, and everyone always asks me, are there still small Cable Operators left . In fact, there are nearly 900 of them in every corner you can imagine, rural areas, small towns. Many of them are providing Competitive Services even against some of the largest providers today. And whats great about these smaller companies, its a terrific story because theyre providing broadband, highspeed broadband in rural areas that desperately need Broadband Service. So these are the members we represent. Theyre smaller, theyre independent which means that theyre not affiliated with larger content companies or larger providers, and w
Electricity generation already and we hope to build on the progress that is currently going on and frankly has been going on for years at the state and local level. States are already participating in their own market based programs to cut pollution. From carbon. I should make sure that everybody says when i mean carbon, it means more than 35 states have clean energy targets. More than 25 have already set Energy Efficiency goals and have cut their energy waste and over 1000 mayors across the country have signed agreements to cut Carbon Pollution. Clearly, states and local communities are doing their jobs as incubators of innovation leading the way to cleaner, more affordable, more sustainable energy. Fighting Climate Change makes Good Business sense. Thats worth repeating. Climate change just makes Good Business sense. As the president has pointed out, more than 500 businesses, including gm and nike, called this and i quote, one of the greatest opportunities of the 21st century. So we
Explicitly recognized, but critically managed in a manner which concludes that allowing any one of these matters to escalate into crisis conflict of war is mutually unacceptable. Thats the realist part. Whats the constructive part . The constructive part is this. If you look at the possibility of constructing genuine public goods between china and the u. S. , both bilaterally, regionally, and globally, the scope is, in fact, quite wide. If you look at a bilaterally, im a strong proponent of the early conclusion of the bilateral treaty for a simple reason. That is the more the two economies become enmeshed through investment, rather than just through trade, then, frankly, the more inseparable they become and the more their mutual interests in each others progress and advance becomes an indelible imprint within each country. So causing that investment treaty to come into being i think is a genuine public good. Because in the long term it will transform many elements of the relationship.
Goals are. I suspect those goals may vary depending on whether you are teaching graduate and so, in engineering, it will be a very fact heavy inquiry. We will have to define Critical Mass, i think, based on into solution institution specific data. Be differently defined than another at another institution. There are arguments in fisher were the court was asking, does Critical Mass differ depending on the location of the school . Example, Critical Mass, you would expect is some significant or should of latino students because of the population. In pennsylvania, maybe not because you do not have as large of a latino population. Unclear exactly what Critical Mass is and how schools are defining that term and interpreting it and applying it. Well have to give some thought as to how we do that going forward. I think we will have to give some thought to race neutral alternatives and why those alternatives do not yield sufficient levels of racial diversity that we need and why we need racial