The dow is looking for about a 300 point gain right there at the opening bell. S p up about 34. Look at that nasdaq go. Technology is doing well, up 104 points. Thats premarket for the nasdaq. Now, lockdown winners. Clearly emerging. Lowes, the Home Improvement people, headquartered in North Carolina. Profit up 28 . We stocked up for the lockdown. Target, they really organized their online delivery and store pickup operation, lumped together under digital sales, up a whopping 141 . Walmart, same story. Stockpiling helped them, too. Amazon, kings of the online selling business. Boy, did they clean up. The stock is near a record high. And the netflix, well, they are the kings of the streaming business. What else are we supposed to do when we are ordered to stay home for weeks on end . There are a lot more virus winners and we will go through them throughout the show. Meanwhile, the revolt continues all across the country. Businesses are defying the authorities and opening up despite the
Prof. Reynolds hello and welcome to a second episode of lot 2020, Global Pandemic edition. The first class went pretty well. Law 2020. We are being recorded for cspan. For the folks at cspan, i am university of Tennessee College of law professor glenn harlan reynolds. This is our introductory law class for 2020 and we are talking about free speech, incitement, true threats and we will get started on obscenity. We will be less socratic than today because the cspan people asked me to be. Is textbook we are using constitutional law. Its a good casebook. The first time i have used it so we are learning our way. It is going just fine. Today we talk about free speech and we havent talked about it we have talked about equal protection, race discrimination, gender, and things like that. Now we are pivoting to a core part of the bill of rights, a different section about free speech. The framers valued free speech highly. To the extent they talk about it, they saw as mostly saw it as mostly poli
It was november 12 1927 when the pioneer mothers sculpture was dedicated in valley park. It not only celebrates kansas citys pioneer history, but is also a tribute to those who suffered great hardship and loss while traveling across the plains in search of a better life. In her new book, pioneer mother monuments, constructing cultural identity, historian cynthia press scott walks through more than a century of recognition and rediscovering the Pioneer Monuments erected across the nation, including those in the kansas city region. We are honored to have you here today to discuss her research. Doctor press caught is an associate professor of history at the university of north dakota. Her research focuses on gender in the American West specifically intersections of gender, social class and historical memory. Her work in these areas have been published in journal of the west, Pacific Historical review and other publications. Prescotts first book was published in 2007. It traces generals an
Taking their claims of economic injustice straight to the financial district. They are marching past wall street and the famed bull statue. Just moments ago, we got video of this to ensure that their miss ja message is heard loudly and clearly. Here are live pictures of groups gathering at this hour in los angeles. St. Paul, minnesota. And right now, the protests do appear to be peaceful at the moment. That, of course, is the way many of the protests around the nation actually began yesterday before descending into chaos in cities from new york to louisville to washington, d. C. Macys Flagship Store in Herald Square among the businesses attacked by looters. Today, businesses are bracing for another night of unrest. Lands end ceo is here to tell us how hes protecting his retail outlets while juggling the Coronavirus Crisis over the past couple of months. Images of looters attacking rodeo drive, one of the worlds top luxury destinations, has Beverly Hills just one hour away from a citywi
Begins rolling back its restrictions in a bid to get the biggest economy and africa back on track but Health Officials are warning its the worst possible time for the country to let up on the lockdown and south koreans baseball fans look forward to the lead restarting on tuesday even if they are only allowed to watch the games on television. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program but European Commission is hosting a virtual fundraiser for efforts to develop a vaccine and treatments for the coronavirus the event hopes to raise more than 7000000000 euros but the u. N. Secretary general has warned that nearly 5 times that amount could be needed to sustain a Global Research campaign so far World Leaders have pledged over 5000000000 euros to the effort. The battle against covert 19 has many fronts and it looks different in every country but the ultimate goal is the same vaccine and an effective treatment governments anyone can fall into with a virus and that is why we have the target of echo