Look particularly at the nasdaq, its up 16 year to date but the wait is what you have to think about. Facebook, apple, amazon, microsoft google are up 13 year to date. So youre seeing overweight in terms of really big companies. Any meaningful downward movement along them is going to result in broader index. Im not optimistic particularly nasdaq because i think its overinflated liquidation there is it too glib to say if vaccine hopes are met with real positive data that technology suffers from a whithering stayathome narrative, or is that too simplistic . Yeah, its a little simplistic, mostly because of the factors that are contributing to the tech growth are multivariant you have this issue of the low Interest Rate environment which is drawing a lot of yield, but you also have the fact that people staying at home use Digital Services more. You look at the streams services and the semiconductor and tip companies which are underlines and inputs on the digitization thats happening thats
I said, who is that guy . He is the governor of iowa. He said dont say anything bad about china. I had to rip up half of my speech. He said we do a lot of business. Ive been dealing with china for 35 years with corn and all of the different things. He told me a story that was amazing. He said 35 years ago, when i. Tarted, i met a man named xi he was not president. He was a young man. The governor came back and told met the, he said i just future president of china. Nobody thought much about it. You know what . 28 years later, he turned out to be right. You have been an incredible ambassador. They like each other so much. When it came time to picking the important position of ambassador, i said havent you had enough after 24 years being governor of iowa . He said if you want me to do that. He has been a great help. I appreciate it. Thank you very much. [applause] pres. Trump nobody could have done that job better. Upsidei could go on the on the opposite side of the spectrum from the gov
The Initiative Liability and complete deduction for the projects demanding timeline. And nominated by james zahn and dbi supervisor mechanical Planning Engineer who noted they had been twice as productive as other engineers in turning around electrical plan reviews required on Major Construction projects in quarter four and is exceeding the departments strategic goal target. And the commission extends the enthusiastic congratulations on the outstanding performance in quarter three and four. With that, we have one more. Finally, the Employee Recognition committee has select ed Kevin Edwards as dbis employee of the year for 2017. Well done, kevin. Kevin was the winner of the employee of the quart er and meeting staff and customer staff request for data and reporting. In short, kevin is the goto guy with dbi mis group which sun suddenly requires an accurate statistic on dbi programs and permits. When the committee considered the quarterly winners this year, they selected kevins performanc
Obviously i would like to open the meeting on wednesday, december 20, 2017 in honor and close the meeting also in honor of our late mayor lee who passed and left us last week tragically. And i know i just wanted to just talk a little bit about him. And its not too much we can say more than whats been said in the last week. I think i went down on friday with my family and stood in line with many other people, which was around the block, and at that point it really hit me. What this man really meant to the city. I always knew it, but sometimes it takes a passing to really understand how powerful and a person he was to the city and to the citizens of San Francisco and to the city family who worked for the city and how the leadership ran so deep. My thoughts and comments in what i wanted to say this morning were so varied and it still hasnt resonated what a huge loss we have. But that said, life is what it is. And the good guys always remain good. He was a good man. That is the simplest wa
We have a quorum. And the next item is item two, president s announcements. Good morning, everybody. Obviously i would like to open the meeting on wednesday, december 20, 2017 in honor and close the meeting also in honor of our late mayor lee who passed and left us last week tragically. And i know i just wanted to just talk a little bit about him. And its not too much we can say more than whats been said in the last week. I think i went down on friday with my family and stood in line with many other people, which was around the block, and at that point it really hit me. What this man really meant to the city. I always knew it, but sometimes it takes a passing to really understand how powerful and a person he was to the city and to the citizens of San Francisco and to the city family who worked for the city and how the leadership ran so deep. My thoughts and comments in what i wanted to say this morning were so varied and it still hasnt resonated what a huge loss we have. But that said,