Silent your cell phone. You are also welcome to follow us on social media. But today we are here to talk about economics so dont recount on a finicky guys a lecture. I will leave you in the capable hands of our guest author, mr. Bhu srinivasan. In his new book americana he takes us to a 400 euros journey to American History of capitalism highlighting some of our industries most important inventions. From the arrival of the mayflower to the inner workings of the mafia to the early days of silicon valley, he presents an exhilarating and eyeopening perspective of an American History of capitalism that im sure hes very excited to share with you all today. Mr. Srinivasan is an accomplished media entrepreneur, digital media, pop culture, technology, publishing and financial content. He arrived in the u. S. With his family at the age of eight, and as a child has lived in the south, the rust belt, Southern California and the pacific northwest. His book is available for sale in the bookstore an
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Good afternoon, everybody well fed, i hope. Joining us at lunch today is phillip carter, senior fell explore director of military veterans and at the center for a new american security. His research focuses on issues that face veterans and military personnel, force structure and readiness issues. His most recent article, what america owes its veterans, is published in this Current Issue of Foreign Affairs magazine. Serving from 2005 to06 as an advicer to the state departments reconstruction team, mr. Carter returned home to an increasing involvement in veterans issues. As a civilian we has worked in the private sector as an attorney and business adviser, and is currently teaching as an ajunk professor of law at georgetown university. Today he is with us as a moderator and friend of our key note spec, flo groberg. Grown in paris, never a bad thing, and in 2001, naturalized american citizen, after which he became flo bow bobo go flo gw berg. He tackled major seth off the mans suicide ves
Of capitalism highlighting some of our industrys most important inventions from the rival of the mayflower to the inter workings of the mafia to the early days of silicon valley, mr. Bhu srinivasan presents an eyeopening perspective of an American History of capitalism that i am sure hes excited to share with you all today. Mr. Bhu srinivasan is accomplished a media businessmen to expand digital media, pop culture, technology, publishing and financial contents and arrived in the us with his family at the age of eight and as a child hes limited, rust belt, Southern California in his book is available for sale in the bookstore and he will appear afterwards for a book signing, so please help me welcome bhu srinivasan. [applause]. Thank you for having me and this is only my second ever book events, so im very glad that you took a chance on coming out and hopefully based on how this goes i will get to do other events or never again. I hope you are a good audience. As a racial pointed out i
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