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[inaudible conversations] good evening and welcome those newcomers and repeat offenders. If you look around you notice in impenetrable books are out there in the world. That being the case it is always refreshing to find one whose impact with the proportion to the length and have to and the Tipping Point is one of those books with from time to time a work appears that acts as a decongestant for the brain , one strong spray and the intellectual passages clear up even if they were blocked in the first place. Now we can grasp the things around us were always looking at and the effect on the reader can be rather intoxicating. Once again it is that kind of book to ask the kinds of questions a child might ask on the tip of the tongue the name on the brain and we find it hard to focus on not despite the obviousness why didnt anybody think of this before . And then what makes things catch on and take off and ideas and products fads and tre ....
Book blink the power of thinking without thinking which looks at how people make splitsecond decisions. Hello . If everyone can hear me my name is henry center, editorial director of the new yorker magazine i would like to welcome to you to the fifth annual new yorker festival. The message here to say please turn off any cell phones or pager devices. Malcolm will be speaking for about 40 minutes, we will have 20 to 30 minutes of q a after that. During the question period there will be microphones down the aisle and we request that you would speak into the microphone during that time. Malcolm gladwell has been a staff writer for the new yorker magazine since 1996, before that he was a new york bureau chief for the washington post. At the new yorker he very quickly made his mark establishing a new genre of story, the Malcolm Gladwell story. Theres very few people like that in the 80 years of this magazine stop editorial meetings t ....
Dark this morning. Few clusters of Power Outages. Northern virginia where dominion has more than 5,000 customers in the dark most in Fairfax County also scattered in alexandria falls charge arlington Prince William and stafford county. Blown transformer at a substation in fairfax is to blame. Pepco reporting outages in the thousands. Some 31,000 outages in d. C. And a few hundred in montgomery and Prince Georges County. There you go as far as power this morning. The big story this morning though comes from the white house. The white house standing by vulgar comments made by President Trump that set off a firestorm. At a white house meeting on immigration, the president reportedly used an expletive to las ....
In the currents, continues in the water. Its draft day, excitement is building for the sixers future with the number one pick. Good morning, Matt Odonnell is off, Jeanette Reyes is joining us. Lets go over and matt pells watching the roads. Reporter were starting off dry, but its going to be hot. Were starting out with clouds. The storms have pushed off the coastline. Well see a mix of clouds and sun during the day. The temperatures will go up there, its comfortable in the lehigh valley, 58 in quakertown, pottstown, 63 in coatsville, 64 in malvern. 65 in media. 70 right now in center city, if youre out for an Early Morning run, only slightly humid. 62 in browns mill, 65 in vineland. 69 in dover, delaware. Temperatures today going up a good five degrees above average. Well hit a high of 90. The day will unfold at 7 00 a. M. ....
Abroad. He warned his opponents not to arrow not to bother challenging the vote. In asia, the u. S. Vice president mike pence had a warning for north korean. Weeks, thee past two world witnessed the strength of our new president in syria and afghanistan. North korea would do well not to test his resolve. Taylor mike pence urged china on north Koreas Nuclear wearables nuclear program. Of forging and leaking state secrets. The chairman was also indicted on giving 6 million in bribes. Acceleratedeconomy for the Second Quarter innovaro. Rose 6. 9 in the First Quarter from one year ago. New credit rose more than expected. Global news, 24 hours a day. Powered by our more than 2600 journalists and analysts, in more than 120 countries. I am taylor riggs. This is bloomberg. Lets look at the markets. Many markets are closed but we ....