Todays form with juliet schor with her book after the gig. She is doing today conversation by vina. Julia sure is a professor of sociology at boston college. She is also a member of the Macarthur Foundation connected learning research network. She has written and edited many books on the economy and sustainability including sustainable life sales and a quest for platitudes. She is a fellow meant former guggenheim fellow and has won multiple awards for her work and research. She is joined today by vina, who is a professor of law at the university of california hastings. Her work has been cited by the California Supreme Court in her writing has been published in the los angeles times. The sharing economy what it is what it couldve been what it could still be. I will leave you with this quote from bill himself, juliet schor and her team have done something extraordinary. Extensive research has let them understand what the economy feels like to its participants and their storytelling abili
81971. A white house out more, a revolt in the streets and the untold history. That event is this thursday the 24th. You can find information about it and all of our happenings and events at twitter, facebook an instagram as well as powells. Co powells. Com. Tonight we are very excited to welcome hes an attorney political activist and antitrust and collections expert. A rising star on the left, her campaign for the near attorney general in 2018 was endorsed by bernie sanders, the New York Times and others. She was part of the team of lawyers that sued donald trump for allegedly violated the clause of the constitution. She sits on the board of the directors of the open markets institute and teaches law. In her new book, break them up recovering freedom from big gag, big tech and big money, she offers a call for liberals looking to find a common cause. She makes a compelling case that monopolies of the root cause of many of the issues that todays progressives care about. They derive econ
October fest which held it to the concept. Faces deja vu business on robots in berlin welcome to the program. We begin with the news from the u. S. The President Donald Trump and 1st lady melania after the positive for corona virus investors have been rushing to safety after donald trump made the announcement through his twitter account the on the 1st lady were already of quarantine after one of the president s closest aides hicks was also found to have copied 19 the news came out around 1 am in new york and the reaction from u. S. Futures was immediate. On this lets cross to financial correspondent in frankfurt i should toss pandey i should toss whats the reaction been from investors around the world. Things are not looking good rob actually the sentiments have turned negative a markets across the globe are in the red in japan its the same story in london in paris also here behind me you can see the dax is struggling there at the bottom so. And if you talk about the oil prices that ag
David one of the most powerful women in the Business World today is ruth porat. She rose to be the cfo of google and now alphabet. In that role she has enormous influence at that company and has done a terrific job in making certain that the Balance Sheet works well and that they really are much better organized. I have no doubt she will be a power at alphabet for a long time unless the next president says i would like her to be secretary of the treasury. She would be a terrific candidate for that position. During this period of time, google and alphabet have done quite well. Your stock is up more than 20 this year and from the time you became the cfo, the stock is up over 200 , so its done quite well under your leadership. Im curious, are more people looking at doing searches now during this covid19 period of time than ever before, or are people not spending as much time searching . Ruth no, people are spending a lot of time searching. We have trillions of searches every year, precode
To truly process whats going on and at the same time because of the pen demick we have millions of americans voting early voting by mail right now as we speak as the just the factors around them the variables around them keep shifting the outcome for the election is anybodys guess and anybody is a fool to say they know what it might be but the unpredictable come back to you is trump showing any symptoms do we know. We have not heard and it is far too early to speculate on that we do know what his doctor a said which as you said hes feeling well and he is going to continue to push forward with his president ial duties however this is definitely going to change the shape of as william mentioned the election the president and the 1st lady have to quarantine for 14 days in 13 days we are supposed to have the 2nd president ial debate between donald trump and joe biden there were already some jokes and not jokes circulating after the debacle that was the 1st debate whether it should be cance