Watch booktv this Labor Day Weekend on cspan2 and be sure to watch the all virtual 2020s National Book festival Live Saturday september 26 on booktv. Good afternoon. Im jane harman, the president and ceo, like me you are probably suffering from zoom 50. However, to in here. This is a very important event and im excited. This is one of the zooms im really looking forward to. Because we are celebrating a new book, an important book by our very own nina janke waits who has done stellar work at the Wilson Center disinformation fellow, the coolest title ever. Since last october. Before that she was a scholar with our institute on russia and ukraine and how to lose information war, russia, fake news and the future of congress. Its an amazing title and is essential reading for everyone on this call and zoom in all your friends. We remember russia Successful Campaign in 2016 to so distrust and confusion in years ahead of the president ial election but in order to win the information war as nin
By your very own nina who has done stellar work at the Wilson Center disinformation fellow. The coolest title ever, since last october. Before that she was a scholar on russia and ukraine. How to lose the information or , russia and the future of congress conflict is an amazing title for it is essential reading for everyone on this call, zoom in all of your friends. We remember russian Successful Campaign in 2016 showed distrust and confusion in front of the president ial election. In order to win the information war, as needed say, we need to understand what disinformation is. I have heard her on this topic before. And it what it is not. This information is used to false or misleading information with malign intent. That is different from misinformation which can also be harmful but lacks malign and intent. It is brought goals and propaganda which involves the promotion of a nations worldview. What need arise, unlike soviet propaganda, sought to promote specific communist centric worl
Major hiccups. We now move on to the main event, tomorrows e. U. Council meeting. Is, in theory, that should benefit the btp market. We will see what happens there. I think it is going to be interesting to see what comes through tomorrow. That could upset the apple cart in a significant way. Over the next hour, we are going to be speaking to the e. U. Commissioner for justice as we see a key e. U. Court decision regarding Data Transfer across the atlantic. Is he talking to the United States . What are they telling him . That is going to be an interesting question, to say the least. Today we see bank of america wrapping up the earlyseason for wall street. Shares and Morgan Stanley are higher on revit death record profit. This is driving a 73 jump in total trading. Bloomberg the bank is well prepared to handle this crisis. What we designed was a business that in times of stress will be fine and when markets are volatile we would still perform well across the Investment Banking franchise.
Deterioration here. We are suddenly down. 6 having gone negative a few minutes ago. Our bloomberg reporter is suggesting it is chinas response to President Trumps accusation. Safeguarding it will its interest and offer countermeasures after trump sent, a letter to congress a strategic approach. We will see if this continues throughout the afternoon. 500 isow the s p down. 6 . The Boston Scientific is down 5 . Best buy is down 5 , and many other companies. The 10year yield at 66 basis points. Dire Economic Data again today. Justollar index, it was about 99 at the beginning of todays session. Above 34 a barrel now. Higher. Long as it is lets talk about what is happening with the negative rates in the u. K. Replicated over in the United States as well. The eurozone has that experience. Tom withfrancine and the former governor of the bank of england. This was his take. I dont think it is credible to believe a longterm solution to the problems we are facing can be achieved by moving Interes
Welcome to the 2019 mississippi book festival. This morning we celebrate the fifth anniversary of her literary long party. [applause] we are honored to have so many distinguished authors and friends join our celebration from the Mississippi State capital. Today more than 170 authors will visit with thousands of booklovers making connections through the love of books and the written word. Cspan has been with us since the very beginning and we are grateful for the partnership we start today by recognizing the readers to mississippi culturally a landscape. The writers trail is an ever list the places all over the state that mark significant places in the lives of mississippi authors. Ida b wells and richard ford are the very best writers. Two is famous for Investigative Journalism. And ford is famous for his novels. The hardhitting pieces about lynching of the 20th century achieve such notoriety that was known by some as the most famous black woman in america. Her marker will be placed in