Nobody wants a second wave. The market starts the week on the upside again. Investors like the get back to work trend and there are several forecasts of imminent recovery for the economy. Secretary mnuchin says there will be a rebound july, august and september. The dow is looking at a 200 point gain first thing this morning. Thats close to 1 . A nice gain for the s p, close to 1 . The nasdaq will be up over a half percentage point. Now, the reason the nasdaq is up, because of this. This week, many Big Tech Companies report their financial position. Strong results expected because the virus lockdown has a more limited effect on these companies. Premarket, most of them are up. But look at oil. No joy for the drillers. They are looking at 12 a barrel and the worldwide glut shows no sign of easing. Over the weekend, the price slump claimed another victim, diamond shamrock. The drillers declared bankruptcy. The price of gas still falling, albeit slowly, about one cent down a day. The avera
Speakers include the former envoy to the Six Party Talks with north korea during the Bush Administration and the executive director of the committee for human rights in north korea. The center for the National Interests hosts this event. Its about an hour, 40 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. Welcome to the center of National Interests and our session on north korean crisis. You may have noticed the large camera and good looking, and were live on cspan 1, im told. This should be a good session. Im honored to be accompanied by two good friends who have some experience with north korea. To my right, ambassador joe, fluent in mandarin, a u. S. Representative to the Korean Economic Development agency. Associate director of National Intelligence and Mission Manager for north korea and director of the National Counterproliferation center and especially adviser to the director of National Intelligence. So is hes been trying to make sense of this problem to a lot of people for a l
What did general dwight d. Eisenhower say when he gave the final order to launch the attack . Its puzzling to me, anyway, that perhaps the most important decision of the 20th century did not bequeath to history and posterity a quote to mark the occasion, something to live up to the magnitude of ikes decision. Something iconic like macarthurs vow to the people of the philippines, i shall return. The stakes of the invasion certainly merited verbal splendor, if not eloquence, if the the overlord operation had failed the allies might never have won the war and yet eyewitnesses to eisenhowers great moment of decisions could not agree on what he said and as for eisenhower he could not even agree with himself. He related five versions of his fateful words to journalists and biographers over the years that perhaps even more mysteriously he wrote five different versions of the statement in a 1964 article commemorating the 20th anniversary of dday. To put those words, whatever they might have be
I want to talk about an elusive dday mystery that exists. Despite the millions of words written about the allied invasion about normandy, june 6, 1944. What did general dwight d. Eisenhower say when he gave the final order to launch the attack . Its puzzling to me, anyway, that perhaps the most important decision of the 20th century did not bequeath to history and posterity a quote to mark the occasion, something to live up to the magnitude of ikes decision. Something iconic like general Douglas Macarthurs vow to the people of the philippines, i shall return. The stakes of the invasion certainly merited verbal splendor, if not eloquence, if the overlord operation had failed the allies might never have won the war and yet eyewitnesses to eisenhowers great moment of decision could not agree on what he said. And as for eisenhower, he could not even agree with himself. He related five versions of his fateful words to journalists and biographers over the years that perhaps even more mysteri
Committee about publishing the Edward Snowden leaks. With davidm. , q a finkel. Then another chance to see british deputy Prime Minister nick clegg take questions from members of the house of commons. World is really the central circulatory system of our economy, the veins and arteries that really connect what is now the information economy in the United States. Onare seeing data traffic our Wireline Networks increase at the rate of 40 per year. It is Wireline Networks that connect all forms of communication, whether they originate in the wireline environment or a wireless environment. Yeah, i would say americas future is a wireline future. The future of the Communications Industry with u. S. Telecom had walter mccormick, monday on the communicators on 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan 2. The editor of the london based newspaper the guardian testified before the British Home Affairs Committee Earlier this week. He defended his newspapers decision to publish surveillance piles clicked by form