Immigrant, came 0 to this done trip 1962 a few week boyfriend the cuban missile cries. He was 11 years old at the time and he and my grandmother fled cuba together, originally landed in miami but then shortly after that moved up to the washington, dc area, settled in Northern Virginia, which is where im from. My dad met my mom, who is was an american, irish and czech dissent. Descent, born in washington, dc near georgetown. He parents my grand rapids are buried at over at Arlington National cemetery. So my families sort of a collision between havana and washington. And my dad gave me a lot of stories from his upbringing in cuba. He talked about greg up on the island until he was 11 years old and had to flee. I still to this day have the passport they gave to him when he fled the country and he you can see the expression on his face. He just looks like a kid who is only 11 years old and is uncertain where he is off to. But as i write in the book, the enemy of the people, a dangerous tim
Not seen the kind of range today we have seen in recent days, that changes in the markets prove me wrong. We swung from a loss to a gain. It is a smaller loss than we have seen in recent days. Still, the volatility is there, or the swings are there and daily averages. There was no catalyst that seems to send stocks higher. If you look the daily range, with the average, you can see that today, yes, the range is on a relative basis somewhat smaller. Overall, the range has really ticked up recently. Lets zoom in to get a better look. There you have it. Here is todays daily range versus where it has been recently. It is higher on balance that it was last year on a typical day. . Hat is leading stocks higher we have Consumer Discretionary stocks performing well today. Ther armour is helping lead gains there because the companys earnings and revenue came in better than estimated even the north american revenue still fell. The rates of decline is still smaller than it has been in recent quart
Appropriate role for congress is to consider what is that right ecisio combination between leadership, management and resources and nt lik makee a responsible decision. Not rush to judgment like the democrats did last wednesday and then play politics with what is a national tragedy. I think its samehameful that they did that and hopefully cooler heads will prevail and well gton make responsible decisions. Ye theres aar piece in the priva Washington Times about the privatization of amtrak. Yo should that u happen . Ing of i would like to see amtrak privatized. I dont know that were there yet. You have to go back to theiv beginning of amtrak. The reason we have amtrak is in ics of p 1970 private rail service was completely failing. The financial model, the economics of private rail Service Given the interstate highway system and the growth of airlines, by 1970 the private b rail system was collapsing. It was a bailout. Amtrak was a bailout. F the act that Congress Passed and nixon signed