Guest, ajay mehrotra, who will discuss his very significant and timely book, making the modern american fiscal state, law, politics, the rise of progressive taxation 1877 to 1929, published by Cambridge University press. We will resume this top, these talks, on january 15th. We will have rebecca edwards, professor of history and the former chair of mass or college. Her top is titled sex on the frontier, fertility in americas antebellum empire. Rebecca edwards is a very imminent historian who would expect to get quite a draw. But the presentation of that title, i think this is something that should not be menaced. The professor is the associate dean of research, professor of law, and i is a professor of history at Indiana University. He received his j. D. At university of georgetown law center. He has served as the codirector of the Indiana University center of law, society, and culture, and before arriving at Indiana University, he was a doctoral fellow at the American Bar Foundation i
American history. We will speak to the new the newagazines yorker magazines jane mayer about her new article why trump cant afford to lose. That would to florida. Thats the sound of supporters cheering on Desmond Meade as he came out of a polling place after voting for president for the first time in 30 years. Two years ago, meade led an effort to restore Voting Rights for floridians who were disenfranchised due to their criminal records. At the heart of amendment 4 is the fact we abolished 150yearold jim crow law. Prior to amendment 4 has income anyone convicted of a felony offense faced lifetime barred from voting. So effectively removed that. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The United States is once again shuttering its own world record for daily coronavirus infections, reporting a staggering 163,000 cases thursday. Nearly 1200 people died of covid19 in the last 24 hours. Public Health Officials a
Sort of currency to place that and this earlier this week we saw it your own power stated that he would dread a day that Digital Currencies take over the Current System and the u. S. Dollar would not be the old reserve currency anymore rightists like in history people dread it the day that gas lights are no longer around no one to electric lights and they dreaded the day that cars took over and we didnt have horse drawn carriages anymore and you know things change when he cant do anything to stop at your own peril he could be the last fed chairman in the United States before the big coin to take over and so this is just all part of life i think its more like the day that you know the french royal family dreaded the day that democracy and a republic would form rather than the peasants be. Happy with brioche so here hes saying i hope the peasants remain happy with this can tell you in effect that is part and parcel of a system whereby we the Central Banks create money and we give it to t
On the year did not deliver perfection, so we have the big tech stocks selling off. That is a big market drag. Looking at the worst week going back to march. David but they are not buying bonds. What is that about . Abigail it is interesting they are not buying bonds, they are not looking for that haven hedge against the stock. It tells you may be investors think the text selling will be a oneweek type of thing, although a second week in a row, or it could be to your point from earlier around the fed, the ultimate buyer so it some point the fed will be back in. Not that big of a deal. Harder to look at bonds as a cross asset tell given the fact you do have the fed in their. You have the yield curve steepening. That could cause stocks to get more jumpy. It is healthy to have the yield curve steepening, but it can create gyrations. We have oil lower. Do your point they are selling everything on this friday. Guy thank you so much for that report david site you thank you so much for that r
We are at the end of a fee out era and weve been kind of warning of preparing for that for the past 10 years of this series 11 years now and you could see that even Jerome Powell an acting sitting head of a central bank the u. S. Consul bank is even saying this member last year mark carney said that as he was exiting the bank of england he said that the dollar is no longer fit to be the worlds reserve currency and that we need these additional currency sort of s. T. R. Sort of currency to replace that and this earlier this week we saw at your own pow stated that he would dread a day that Digital Currency is take over the Current System and the u. S. Dollar would not be the old reserve currency anymore right its like in history people dreaded the day that gas lights are no longer around we want to electric lights and they dreaded the day that cars took over and we didnt have horse drawn carriages anymore and you know things change and he cant do a thing to stop at your own pallet he cou