Interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work. All programs are available as podcasts. Hi, deborah. Hi. So nice to meet you. Nice to meet you, too. I enjoyed your book. Thank you. I want to start this interview with talking a little bit about you. I like the audience to hear the story, which, honestly, frankly, it really offended me which is in your introduction. You got a note from a professor claiming you would never be a political scientist. Can you explain a little bit about that. When i was in college, i struggled with what i wanted to major in. I was really torn between going into science and going into humanities and social science. I finally decided on social science because i found those questions much more interesting and engaging and urgent. Political science course we read all the great political philosophers from plato on up. They were all asking the questions, what is it just is, what is good government, how can you organize government and organize society t
Id like to start this interview by talking about you. I was talking a little more about you but i like the audience to start off honestly in your introduction. You got a note from a professor i believe saying youd never be apolitical scientist, can you talk about that . I put that in the book is i wanted to major in college and it was really torn between going into science and going into the humanities and social science and i finally decided on social science because i found those questions much more interesting and engaging and urgent for me. And in my Political Science course we read all these great political philosophers on up and they were all asking the question what is justice, what is good government, how can you organize government and organize society to make life better for people and particularly to make justice. So i ended up before i decided to become a Political Science major, i already had kind of a lack of confidence in my skills as a humanist for a social scientist be
Only up a point. The 10year yield at 51 basis points. Jersey talking about a range of 40 and 80 for the next two months. Now that we have broken through 54, he says that was an important level. Ralph lauren, one of the stories of the day. That stock down 6. 25 . Argentina has reached an agreement in principle with a key group of creditors to restructure 65 billion worth of debt, after a third default this century, the ninth overall. Robert koenigsberger, cio of gramercy funds, who had a seat at the table, joins us now. Headlines crossing about half an hour ago saying there was an agreement in principle. Few to us about the last hours, couple of days, how it all materialized. Robert good afternoon and thank you for having me. April, itoke last in seemed like an agreement would be too difficult, that the two sides were too far apart and with hardened positions. Over the past couple of months, obviously, past couple of days, those positions became less hardened, and logic prevailed. Winwi
Open. Its all eyes on the screen tonight as the first gop debate kicks off in cleveland while john stewart presents his final daily show. Coming up on the show facebook serves another blow to twitter as it launches a Video Streaming Service but dont expect to see the Worldwide Exchange team on there just yet. Well explain why later. Plus investors cut the cable as disney disappoints. We tune in on the details. Were live in beijing with the latest after investigators confirm a winged washed up on shore is that of missing jet mh370. Disappointing jobs data. The number of new jobs created slowed to 185,000 but at the same time Manufacturing Index jumping to its highest level in ten years. Goldman sachs as well as jp morgan upping their u. S. Gdp target for the year. A slew of earnings coming out today and of course that could change the story on wall street. If you take a look at european markets a host of Companies Reporting earnings in germany and that of course right now at this point
France the leader in terms of at least downside. The 10year note yield you ask, show you where we are. 1. 54 and crude is, of course, one of the key parts of the story here. It is up, but yesterday started up, and ended down. Took us with it on the broader markets. It would seem oil once again starting to core core late with the market overall. We will be watching it closely. Lets get to our road map this morning. And were going to start with Hillary Clinton. Getting a big endorsement from a major gop player, meg whitman, as the hewlettpackard executive calls donald trump a demagog. Time warner takes a 10 stake in hulu and the company raising its outlook, Strong Quarter, stock up on the news. We will give you more. Aig shares up nicely after that company beat earnings estimates. Helped by lower expenses. Announcing a 3 billion increase in its buyback. By the way we will talk to its ceo Peter Hancock later in this hour. There you go. Because that is the biggest upside surprise to them.