From the g7d review working group and others, is to have a very stable value retentive Digital Currency. It will be a very high quality Digital Currency in a number of countries that are currently receiving a lot of their income from abroad. They will now receive a lot of their income from abroad in a Stable Currency that will retain its value. Obviously many of those same third world countries and some than third world have very strict controls on foreign currency. They have currency controls and currency boards and do not allow their consumers to take action outside of their home currency and they do not allow their home currency to be taken out of the country. How does liu brooklyn on dealing with that . Libra plan on dealing with that . There are lots of countries that have the problems you highlighted and do not have currency controls that we can address right away. For other countries it will be on a country by country approach. Any wallet on top of the Libra Network will be inte
How the new middle class survived. And lisa thank you for being here. Thank for having me. great to be here. Who did you write the book for . I wrote the book in a nutshell because i could not understand originally why if alternative Services Like check cashers and pay day lenders were so bad for people, why so many people were using them and in the course of my research, which took a few years, i learned that banks were not really serving the low the low and increasingly the middle class and i also realized that there were some good alternatives coming on board and i wanted to tell that story. The first book i wrote thats not an academic book, its for wider audiences. I wrote it for policy makers, for people who are working in the Financial Services industry and also for people like you and me, who may or may not be happy with the consumer Financial Services that theyre currently using. Great. Lets talk a little about what you mean by alternative Financial Services providers. So, lets
Guest now, i am an administrator. I teach online classes. I have had over 100,000 in those. I do budgets and try to improve outreach for the college and various things. Science literacy is a big concern of mine for science students and the general public. Host when did you get interested in astronomy . Guest a little late. I grew up in big cities with no stars so i got into physics and that is the gateway drug to a astronomy. Host what is the connection between the university of arizona and astronomy . Guest we are underway to make the largest telescope. I think astronomy and optics are worth about a quarter billion a year in the Southern Arizona industry. Employs a lot of people, we have research and telescopes. Host professor, before we get into your book, can you go back to the football field and the spinning mirrors. What was that about . Guest well, telescope size seemed to have reached a limit. It wasnt exceeded for decades. The russians tried but it was a crappy mirror. But big
Seen in the dow just since yesterdays highs. We talked yesterday about the outside reversal we had and what that meant technically. Art cashin among others really focused on what this has looked like from a trading point of view even as people are arguing about the fundamentals and speaking of which, lets talk about a couple wacky things going on in this marnth. Ket. Well get you all angles covered. Why are mining stocks being routed . How come retail sales look so weak when gas prices are so low . Will europe come to the rescue next week with their version of quantitative easing . And does all of this add up to a global economy, bill thats healthy or in trouble . Let me show you the stock market and then we can talk about oil as well. The dow industrials as we said down 258 right now, a decline of almost 1. 5 . S p down 21 points. Decline of more than 1 at this hour. The nasdaq is doing better than the three. Down 39 points or about 0. 85 at 4622. Show you oil very quickly. Late today
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