Dr. Woods its my pleasure to will come dr. Woods back to the library. And to give a presentation on mormon trends, migration in missouri, between 1838 and 1868. These decades are an overlooked period of lds in missouri history, when latter day saints traversed hundreds of miles across the state. Despite a government extermination threat issued by the governor. Woods has been a professor of Church History and doctor at Brigham Young University Since 1998. He specializes in latter day saints. Immigration studies and is the editor of saints by the sea. Saints by the sea website, which documents lds maritime immigration in america in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Hes editor and compiler of the mormon immigration index, which was released in 2000, and is widely used by researchers. Woods has authored and coauthored more than a dozen books and scores of articles on lds history and collaborated on several documentary films. The most recent being the saints of tonga, a century of island f
Thats exactly how i felt about the Labor Departments none pharma payroll report which showed better job growth s p advanced. 55 and the nasdaq climbed. 40 percent. The jobs report frankly has something for everyone, good manufacturing growth, tame wage growth i know its not great for the vast majority of people who work for a living, but it is terrific if youre a business that wants traits to stay relatively low. At the same time there was enough ammo for the fed to tighten when it meets next week, and the federal funds rate is so low we can handle some rate hikes before it starts hurting this smoking hot economy rate hikes trade into booming earnings for the banks, one of the biggest groups in the whole s p. Lets not get ahead of ourselves. Theres a lot going on before we get to a wednesday where ill talk about the swan song, not the black swan, the swan song. When we come in on monday, look out. Youll be able to trade bitcoin futures. Thats right the cboe will seek to create a twoway
Incredible, businesses are coming back into the United States, i think its going to be a great message that people are going to like to hear it. Maria im talk to several Business Leaders on what they want to hear from the president s speech today, we will bring you the president s comments live this morning as the president getting set to speak. The speech comes amid unprecedented confidence which could get another boost when Fourth Quarter gdp comes up this morning, we are expecting 3 growth. I spoke with Steven Mnuchin about what to expect. Last year when we were talking about 3 gdp everybody lined up and said we were crazy and that the economy couldnt grow higher rates of 2 and now we are at 3 gdp and, you know, we are going to be a sustained 3 gdp or higher and its called the tax cuts and jobs act because this was about creating american jobs. Maria that optimism still fueling markets, adding another 140 points, finishing above 26,392. The nasdaq and s p closing flat, s p up and na
So hes out sourcing the seeing part of the driving to his wife. Its an arrow, not that way. One area in my life where i can see the generation difference most clearly, when you do a book signing and the end of the book signing, often theres a line of people who get their books signed but they want their pictures taken with you. Everybodys got a picture with the author and this can happen sometimes dozens and dozens of times in a typical book signings over the course of the year ill have this same process repeated thousands of times and theres, heres how young people do it. They hold up the phone and they take a picture. Heres how old people do it. They hold up the phone, its sounds for about 30 seconds. They Say Something like wait, i think its on google. Then they stab at the screen for a while with a forefinger. Then they hold up the phone and say okay, smile. Then they smile again and say wait, i think its making a video. Then a stab at the screen some more and hold up the phone aga
Editor david enrich talking about his book, the spider network. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. We are delighted that you are participating in the 11th annual savannah book festival presented by georgia power. David and nancy sin terror, the Sheehan Family foundation and mark and pat [inaudible] many thanks to jack and mary romanos for this glorious venue, the Trinity Baptist church. Wed also like to extend thanks to our individual donors who have made and continue to make Saturdays Free festival events possible. In fact, 90 of the revenue for the savannah book festival comes from donors just like you, so thank you. We are very excited to have a savannah book festival app available this year. Please look in your program for information on downloading it to your phone. Before we get started, please let me go over a couple of housekeeping notes. Immediately following this presentation, our speaker, david enrich, will be signing festivalpurchased copies of his book in telfair sq