stay right where you are. we are back. [ applause ] and we re, uh, here with us tonight is, uh, charles finley, owner of the oakland a s. we have george peppard, charles callas, and dr. jeffrey bourne. charles, let s get into this controversy a little bit. uh, what s going on in baseball. now, you have three ball players, uh, joe rudi, and rollie fingers, which you sold, and as i understand, they are they are working out their option on the time. this is their last year, right? well, supposedly, yeah. supposedly, yeah, and under the under the as a matter of fact, they haven t signed. right, and under the rules of that, if a ball player exercises he becomes a free agent, and is able to sell his services to the highest bidder. right, right. now, what you did is that you sold them to the new york yankees, or to different teams, right? these three players, for a total of one point whatever a total for a total of three and a half million. three and a half m
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how could a minimill hope to compete? baseball. for millions, a pastime. for a few, a paycheck. why was this man s paycheck half a million dollars a year? a visit to a modern shopping center yields a bewildering display of goods and services, the products of a free market. who s to say this is what we want or what we need? markets do they meet our needs? economic analyst richard gill will help us examine that question on economics usa. i m david schoumacher. the american economy the sum total of what goes on in shopping malls, car dealers, supermarkets stock exchanges, 7-elevens, and gas stations all around the country. millions of buy-and-sell decisions everday, trillions of dollars worth every year. and those decisions affect every part of our lives. who decides between a room with a view and a house in the suburbs? in our demand and supply economy who demands and who supplies? 1945. world war ii was over. millions of ex-gis came home fell in love, got married, and starte
a visit to a modern shopping center yields a bewildering display of goods and services, the products of a free market. who s to say this is what we want or what we need? markets do they meet our needs? economic analyst richard gill will help us examine that question on economics usa. i m david schoumacher. the american economy the sum total of what goes on in shopping malls, car dealers, supermarkets, stock exchanges, 7-elevens, and gas stations all around the country. millions of buy-and-sell decisions everday, trillions of dollars worth every year. and those decisions affect every part of our lives. who decides between a room with a view and a house in the suburbs? in our demand and supply economy, who demands and who supplies? 1945. world war ii was over. millions of ex-gis came home, fell in love, got married, and started families. and there was one thing they all needed. when i got out of the service, i had a wife. we wanted a place to live. it was like looking for a n
world war ii was over. the gis were home raising the roof, hoping to raise a family. how could they realize the american dream, a home of their own? when foreign steelmakers were pricing america s largest steel mills out of the market, how could a minimill hope to compete? baseball. for millions, a pastime. for a few, a paycheck. why was this man s paycheck half a million dollars a year? a visit to a modern shopping center yields a bewildering display of goods and services, the products of a free market. who s to say this is what we want or what we need? markets do they meet our needs? economic analyst richard gill will help us examine that question on economics usa. i m david schoumacher. the american economy the sum total of what goes on in shopping malls, car dealers, supermarkets, stock exchanges, 7-elevens, and gas stations all around the country. millions of buy-and-sell decisions everday, trillions of dollars worth every year. and those decisions affect every part of