We can see them as inflection points. Largely inflammation. The best example is in 2016 and the republicans primaries, theres a real civil war in the Republican Party the establishment represented by bush and others, do not denomination, do not get the support of the market people. The god of the revolutionary donald trump. The democrats are going to that right now. Going to have a civil war in their party right now pretty is going to be the traditional, or an outsider or socialist. But that is indicative of the fact, the stuff that is more for the last 40 years in the United States to govern the people, barely has not kept up with the country. I guess at the end of this book, that i realized after a long period of sort of thoughtfulness know until the wilderness died figured out. It is an american ghost of these divisive periods. Danielle we are very dynamic. Demographically, geographically, economically and we are constantly reinventing ourselves not just those individuals but as a n
Notably russia, and surely it puts a crimp on the future of electric cars. Look at it this way. Why buy electric when a gallon of gas on average now costs 1. 81 and likely to fall much lower. In wisconsin, the average is all the way down to 1. 22. There are some places where its below 1. We will bring them to you. Its a big negative for the stock market. The dow industrials are going to open down 500 points. Thats roughly 2 . The s p down 1 . The nasdaq down 1. 93 . The oil crash really hurts stocks as well. Every energy stock is down. The airlines and the Car Companies, they cant cash in on cheap jet fuel and gas because people arent flying and theyre not driving. Where is the additional help for Small Business now that the first rescue package has run out of money . As of right now, it has not come through. Treasury secretary mnuchin negotiating with democrats over the weekend. Its supposed to be a better than 300 billion plan but its not here yet. Perhaps thats another reason for th
And now im book tv we would like to highlight some Program Summer archives of focus on pandemics. All of the programs are about to see can be viewed in their entirety by visiting our website booktv. Org using the Search Button at the top of the page. First, in 2000 on cspans book note Program Science journalist talks about the history of influenza, specifically the 1918 outbreak. Heres a portion of that interview. Hadley thought much about the fluid just seemed like something that came round every year people get sick and then they get better again. Ive never really been interested in it at all within a few years ago im a reporter for the new york times, wrote an article for the times about a really miraculous discovery. There is a guy at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and he was writing and that technical journal called Science Magazine that he had managed to get some lung tissue from a soldier who died in 1918. And that lung tissue, there were still fragments of the virus that it ki
Finally sampled fruit bats and found the viruses that killed the animals and they called it hendren a virus. It hasnt killed many people, doesnt pass from human to human but it is a knock on the door. A reminder to us of where these things come from, how they emerge, why they spillover some of the fact that they are not called independent cases that are part of a pattern in the pattern reflects things we humans are doing on the planet and they get into humans and in some cases because a local outbreak which is easily controlled or comes to a end on its own and in other cases they cause widespread suffering and death. Is the coronavirus continues to affect the country we are taking a look at author programs about pandemics we have had in our archives. Up next john barry discusses his book the great influenza which discusses the 1918 influenza outbreak. Heres a portion of his book from 2004. Now you have the enemy, the enemy of course is a virus. All influenza viruses are bird viruses. E
Members , robbie and selfless funder of middle east programs here at the Atlantic Council john diblasio. And finally we welcome us governmentofficials , private companies and nonprofits. I did a rich substantive question and answer session following the discussion on the state. Open to everyone read this richness of the discussion will be enhanced by the absolutely superlative interviewer who will draw the kernels of wisdom out of no real today. Tom friedman needs no introduction but simply for fun i will remind you you can read toms analysis of Foreign Affairs in the New York Times and analysis for which he has rice won the pulitzer prize. Tom is the author of several books , several focus on the middle east and one of which from beirut to jerusalem was a textbook in my middle east coursework as an undergraduate area calms full bio is available and is printed out here. Now let us turn to our man of the hour doctor Nabeel Khoury, a senior fellow at the center for the middle east in add