The modern world. What i found even more telling was how things are invented. How invention itself is encouraged and nurtured. At least how it has been encouraged and nurtured in this country in the past. Its easy to say, as i do in my book, that we are a nation of tinkerers. We americans like to think of ourselves as natural adventurers, risktakers, entrepreneurs. But what does that mean exactly. . I am a believer in american exceptionalism. But as marines like to say, it has to be earned, never given. How did we earn it . How did we do what we did and . And how could we get back to doing it right . As the first nation to exist wholly in the modern age, United States has also insisted when timeed wholly in that making things when we were extracting them from the earth. We invented almost everything about america. We have constantly reinvented almost everything as we deemed it necessary, including our institutions, our customs, our laws. Above all, our definition of who is american and
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For a u. S. District court judge in ohio. It is also the first opportunity for members to speak on the floor sense election day. Watch live Senate Coverage on cspan2 and the house on cspan. Amtrak president and ceo William Flynn was on capitol hill to testify on how the coronavirus affects the Passenger Rail system and what amtrak is doing in response. The Senate Commerce of science and Transportation Committee also heard from representatives of the freight Rail Industry and about the challenges they are facing as a result of the pandemic. This hearing is just over two and half hours. Order. Thank you all for being here, good morning. Today the committee can means to discuss the status of the National Rail network in the country is 140,000 miles of freight rail in class one railroads over 600 freight railroads and thousands of Companies Using braille to ship products and raw materials, we also have an intercity passenger real service amtrak operating on 22000 miles of the same network
When you ask somebody who is not from california what californias biggest industry is, they will often guess technology. Thats incorrect. They will say, its probably entertainment because they are thinking of hollywood. That is incorrect as well. The answer is just south of here. Its agriculture. Just south of Silicon Valley, you will find artichokes and lettuce and Strawberry Fields forever. Plenty wants to bring agriculture into cities with robotic farms inside perfectly controlled and with amazingly high yields. Nate story is the cofounder. Thanks for being with us. Your vertical farms are shipping to 32 stores . You will build a new one in los angeles . Thats right. We are building a farm down there to ship to hundreds. How big can these farms get . When i talk about those fields that are just south of me sometimes i can smell the garlic and onions here in Silicon Valley. We are talk about miles upon miles. You are talking about a building. Can you scale to reach demand . You know,
Was when the ceiling went. It is interesting to see reporter what is happening in the bond market. To see what is happening in the bond market. We have seen curve flattening throughout most of this week. We see a little bit of steepening today on the back of the payroll number. We see that ripple around the world, and that is reflected in the german 30 year. Twostens in the state basically back to where they were almost a month ago. Alix thanks very much. The s p now dropping like a stone. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaking right now. She is saying to everyone, be calm, be confident, be patient, but she did call biden president elect biden, having a strong mandate to lead. She says she is hoping republicans can come back to the table on stimulus. Moments ago, we also heard from larry kudlow as well that they also wanted to try to move forward on stimulus and come to some kind of agreement. Will they or wont they is really the big question, what the s p taking a nosedive as we are stil