Each year the 1st monday in september is labor day in the usa it is in canada too they just spell it differently its a celebration of the Labor Movement and its the unofficial end of summer and for many laborers automation and technology could spell the end of the line which jobs are robots taking over and which jobs will be safe lets ask our t. Boom bust host christy i and kristie ive read that in 1950 elevator operator was among 270 careers listed in the u. S. Census back to the future a recent Postal Service controversy involves. Taking sorting machines offline and these behemoths could move the mail much faster than human beings could and automation is replacing or accompanying workers in detroit and all sorts of Assembly Lines elsewhere kristie what sorts of Assembly Work is unlikely or impossible to be automated. Well as you know a lot of some of the work and manufacturing work is being heavily heavily automated nowadays but as a long must found out the hard way not everything ca
This is boom bust the one business show you cant afford to miss friendship or in washington coming up the jobless claims in the United States have fallen to their lowest point since the beginning of the coven 19 pandemic straight ahead we dive into the numbers and follow the trend on the cases as they continue to fall plus volatility has surged over the last few months causing safehaven assets to jump but is the bull run here to stay later on were going to bring in some expert analysis to break down the performance of safe havens and the gold big divide with a packed show today so lets dive right in. And we lead the program with those better than expected job numbers out of the United States new jobless claims came in at 881000 for the week ending the 28th of august according to United States Labor Department now analysts had expected 9950000 new claims for the week continuing claims thats the measure of those who have filed claims for 2 weeks or more fell by 1240000 to just over 13000
Good afternoon thanks for joining us here on r. T. International. A russian judge has dismissed the case looking into allegations that russian authorities failed to investigate claims alexina valmy was poisoned the legal action was initiated by the opposition figures and Corruption Foundation of on the remains in a coma in berlin quarter. Well right behind me is the court where the complaint that aleksei of all these legal team filed against the russian government was just rejected the complaint was filed after their request for a criminal investigation into the alleged poisoning of the Opposition Leader was left on answer now the teams lawyer says that the investigative committees head office should have dealt with the case instead of handing it down to the Regional Bureau in western siberia where the Opposition Leader was allegedly poisoned so the lawyer says he will be appealing this ruling with moscows top court the police are still engaged in an extensive investigation to find out
Space, sally ride. For more information on this weekends television schedule, visit us online at booktv. Org. Now on booktv, bill and willie geist discuss their relationship and their careers in journalism. Its about 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] im not a huge believer in introducing people that you all know, so bill and willie geist. [cheers and applause]x i am assuming you know which is which. Fellas, this is a funny book. You might expect that from these two men if you know their tv work. It is also filled with a lot of heart and a lot amazing honesty. Bill, you used to be a reporter here in town. And when you were they didnt let me downtown. One of the many great mistakes the Chicago Tribune has made. It is very, very long list. I want to read something. I am going to do some reading from the book because i like the way these two guys write. Bill writing to willie until you were 12 i had been a newspaper reporter saying his parents owned a paper in illinois. But i guided yo
History, technology and society at the Georgia Institute of technology where she teaches courses in the history of science, nazi germany and the history of espionage. Prior to georgia tech, she was a professor at Michigan State university, a chancellors scholar at the Alexander Von Humboldt foundation and a lecturer at harvard university. Dr. Macrakis has written aauj books including her most recent publication, prisoners, lovers and spies the story of invisible inks. Her other books are surviving the swas ca Scientific Research in nazi germany, science under socialism east germany in comparative perspective, east German Foreign intelligence and seduced by secrets inside the stasi spy tech world. In addition, she is author of over 30 articles. Her awards include fellowships from the institute for advanced study in princeton, fulbright as well as grants from the National Science foundation and the humboldt foundation. Dr. Macrakis received her bachelors in history from ownerland college