thank you fordowning us here tonight. we ll hear from both beth macy and john bassett who have both graciously agreed to stay for questions and sign books after the talk. note cards have been placed in every seat, at lease the first 200 before we filled in the rest of the room. ushers will collect the questions in baskets at the break just before the q & a starts. at this point, i d like to welcome john bassett iii to st. john s. [applause] looking forward to hearing from you tonight, sir. i d also particularly like to welcome any folks who are here from henry county, bassett, and galax, i think you all share the spotlight in this as well. i could tell you about all of the amazing awards that beth macy has won for her writing, hello, anymoran fellow. but the real mark of her gift as a journalist shines in a simple question: how many of you remember a specific beth macy story? by a show of hands, how many of you remember young selena, who made it to harvard with the whole
capital, capitol, and i think he will win, and i think he thinks he s going to win. this may be the way forward command if you do this, if he succeeds so much is at stake. if he succeeds succeeds and has a huge successful stock exchange and know the people who work for him all of them were young and entrepreneurial, venture capital pours in the do it again and again and again, and then all you require really at that.is for the regulators or legislatures not to get in the way of successful entrepreneurship and possibly introduce transparency to the marketplace so customers can make informed decisions. it is fixed. there is a path toward a market-based solution. that that is what is at stake because precisely what you said is true. if the sec. permitted the growth of many competing exchanges because it felt that competition without exchanges was good. why did they not also at the same time allow investors to choose which exchange they wanted. the truth is, there is a ru
the first time i talked only to his son doug. so we re your jeans and dress down in my hair was long at the time. i could tell he was thinking why did the at newspaper send this hippie to interview me? i knew he would get mad. and he would give me 10 minutes but i did my homework and i knew the story in to talk to somebody that was genuinely curious. they ran a cartoon it is a picture of a coffin. somebody was kneeling in the last nail it said it is the last sale of the furniture called thin in virginia. i want to say wait a minute. [laughter] so to tell you some hard things as a writer hired you wrestle with having to say something hard that is the truth. i called my friends is it fair or is it true? and really you should be wrestling with these deep tissues. i don t want to hurt anybody is feelings and that is hard for me. but it would be hard for others so it is a constant is it fair is it true. but chapter for. that was the most difficult. of. knowing that it woul