Lewis did joy spoke with the Economic Club of washington dc about postal club operations. In the handling of mailin ballots. He also talked about the impact of the coronavirus on the workforce. Let me first now go to our special guest the postmaster general lewis did joy. Thank you very much for giving us your time today. Thank you david for having me and i want to thank the Economic Club of washington for paying attention to me. Thank you for attending. You are the 75th postmaster general the first one is behind you i can see. He was the inventor of the Postal Service. You are a native of new york and you went to college in florida in stetson and then you went back to your familys business and you belted up in greensboro North Carolina and built into the Largest Logistics Companies in the United States. You had been very involved in philanthropic alma mater. Thank you for giving us your time today. O let me just ask at the outset when you agreed to be postmaster general did you realiz
Since the end of world war ii stop joining conversation by former defense secretary james mattis. For more Schedule Information at booktv. Org or consult your program guide. Including the evolution of everything and the rational opposite. This new book, primary focus of our conversation today, is the how Innovation Works. He has been a member of the house of lords. Good to chat with you today. Guest thanks, jim. Great to be with you. Host i noticed from doing events and podcasts, listeners love when i read so ill read a few sentences i cobbled together from your book, as a lead any question, i you rate. Innovation is the most important stat missed loose understood. The reason that most people today live lives of pros apart and wisdom compared with ancestor. Theres freedom to change, experiment, imagine, invest and fail. Liberals argued that since at least the 18th century that freedom needs prosperity but it would argue that they have never found the connection by which one causes the
Matt innovation is one of the least understood. Is the reason most people say, live in prosperity and wisdom. In the main ingredient in the secret sauce in these innovations is freedom. Freedom to exchange experiment in imagine invest in fail. Liberals have argued that from the 18th century that freedom means prosperity but i would argue if never found the neck mechanism to drive change in which one causes the other pretty innovation is that drug chain, the missing link. Innovation is a child of freedom and the parent of prosperity. Matt, you think you have written a contrarian book in 2020. There seems to be a growing belief. Living standards have been stagnant for decades, both only helps the elites rated and innovation comes from smart planners implementing industrial policy carefully chosen sectors. Matt this is a contrarian book. It is because i said that innovation is the product of free people exchanging ideas freely. And yes we are experiencing innovation although, i do argue f
Dow indicated up by about 200 points, s p up by about 20 and nasdaq up by about 59. The dow closed above 26,000. S p was actually up about two points ant the nasdaq up about 32 treasury yields about where weve been 10year around 0. 7 . This morning, it is at 0. 715 overnight, twitter adding a warning to a post by President Trump. The tweet is a video of two toddlers running down the side walk that had been altered that said racist baby probably a trump voter. Twitter tagging that as manipulated media with a link that the original was cnbc story about a friendship between two toddlers the continued battle between social media and some of the social Media Companies and President Trump. Facebook removing Trump Campaign ads that used a banned hate group symbol to identify context. It issued a red triangle symbol used by nazis. The campaign used that symbol as it denounced antifa, a group of protesters the president has blamed for vandalism during the protests a lot of back and forth in ter
Im just going to read a few sentences i cobbled together from your book. As i lead into my first question. You might in the book innovation is the most important fact of the modern world but one of the least well understood. It is the reason most people today live lives of prosperity and wisdom area and the main ingredient in the secret sauce and indeed innovation is freedom and freedom to exchange, experiments, imagine, investment fail. Liberals have argued since the 18th century that freedom needs prosperity but i would argue that they have never persuasively found a mechanism that drives change in which one causes the other. Innovation is that drives change, that missing link. Innovation is the child of freedom and apparent prosperity. Matt, do you think youve written a contrary and book your in 2020 because there seems to be a growing belief we havent innovated since the apollo space program. Living standards have been stagnant for decades and growth only help the elites, growth ki