Society. His remarks are about 35 minutes. An introduction to our conversation on technology, so please welcome eric schmidt, executive chairman of google. [applause] thank you. Is very good to be here. I do want to thank you very much for stepping in on such short notice. I was coming anyway. Coming and speaking in public are two very different things. I want to ask you we have a load of questions for you from the floor as well. A want to ask you how technology will change our lives in various different ways in 2013. What we might do is start and then panicked out and go bigger pan out and go bigger. There are a number of google initiatives that might change logs. One is google glass, this idea of wearable computing. Is that something we will see more and more next year and beyond that . The Technology Works. If you have not heard of google glass, it is glasses that sit right above your focal plane. It is right above. We have been experimenting with what this can be used for. There ar
Hikes he says the u. S. Economy is room is moving in the right direction setting 55 consecutive months of private sector job growth. The canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his wife paid a visit to the war memorial in ottawa where a soldier was shot that yesterday by an islamic extremist. They laid flowers at the scene which is still covered in Yellow Police tape. The Prime Minister later told parliament that unity is canadas ultimate weapon against extremists. Comcast is reported a four percent rise in sales and a 50 gain in profit in the third quarter. The company is still awaiting approval for its Time Warner Cable takeover added 315,000 new broadband customers in the quarter, helping offset the declining cabletv customers. E parkssales at them helped drive sales higher. Facebook may be officially blocked in china but the ceo is devoting a lot of time to the country. Mark zuckerberg has been learning mandarin and showed of his skills while speaking at beijing university. Chin
Caller okay. I was a missionary years ago in haiti. Im quite familiar with it. The problem is when gangs get the upper hand, then theres not much you can do except to bring in the military and and stop them. And i dont think haiti even has a military. The United States has come in many years back to bring about order which didnt last that long, but at least they did bring some order. If ive been ive been in, for example, another country just south of mexico, and be vi. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Barrasso thank you, madam president. Madam president , i come to the floor to talk about the Biden Economic crisis that the American People are facing every day. Last week, democrats threw a big party at the white house. Even hollywood celebrities flew in to celebrate. You take a look what was going on in the splitscreen television all across the country, they saw democrats celebrating and the stock market collapsing. Peoples saving, retirements, evaporating, democrats dancing
Into the civil war in support of the confederacy. This is about 45 minutes. [applause] thank you. It is great to be back at the Lincoln Library. I did some of the research, spent many happy days down the hall scrolling through newspaper microfilm wheels and letters across the hall. It is doing research at the Lincoln Library which is a great and terrible thing. It is great because the people are absolutely amazing to more people like eileen you is an expert in Foreign Policy in her own right, people like dr. James cornelius, the curator of the lincoln connection who is a living, breathing, encyclopedia of all things lincoln. Those are the good things. The terrible thing is when you are here to research youre surrounded by the 15,000 books about Abraham Lincoln that have already been written. And so i think it is a stark reminder that anybody who comes here and asks you to put another book on that shelf really has some explaining to do right at the beginning. That is what i wanted to st
There are endless legal bills associated with the deadweight asset and the sooner Citi Holdings disappear the better. House of pleasure. How about the fact that citi posted 11 Revenue Growth year over year in the very markets i was worried about. Hard to get double digit Revenue Growth. Have you seen the terrific decline . Loan loss analysis . Thats equal to 3. 4 of the loans at the end of the prior quarter. These are big banks so the numbers seem large, but theyre nothing compared to the overall. Finally capital levels are in excellent shape and regulators have nothing to fear here. Theyve risen from 43 to 52 since the 10 for 1 split a few years ago. Remember, divided by ten. Institutions dont like to own stocks under five. The submit made some sense to do. From now on, though, it will be the earnings that drive the stock and the earnings are there and citigroup is not done and it is a cheap stock and the big bets against it no longer hold water. I say citis a buy. How about leap wire