Halfway through the first volume of the landmark history of the Federal Reserve. Not only having worked at the Federal Reserve, but having had lunch many, many times talking about his history, i have followed closely over time the massive transformations that has occurred at the fed, just since the financial crisis but over my lifetime. And before, and to think that the first 10 years of my life we were on the Gold Standard, you know, it suggests that things have changed a lot. And so when a friend at the wall street journal called up to ask if i would review a new book by a university of pennsylvania professor named peter contibrown called that are independent of the Federal Reserve, i jumped at the chance because of two things. One, i really do love that they. I think it had a big positive impact on my professional life at its a very important place in washington filled with people who want to do the right thing. They sometimes fail but i love the spirit of the food. The second thing
Intentions, what improvements did you suggest to retiring principal Maurice Weber . Guest well, one of the things that we wanted to get across is that its not so much that people intend to do bad things. Teachers dont go into education because they want to create achievement gaps, they dont go into education because they want some students to do well and others not to. But they do live in a society where race permeates everything about the society, right . Where the inequalities persist across a number of domains, and schools are no different. And part of the way this happens is not necessarily by the sort of oldfashioned racism where you have people organizing in the streets in ways that reproduce racial inequality, but the sort of daytoday dynamics that people engage in when theyre talking to someone, what they expect of them is and how that sort of manifests itself almost at a subconscious level where people act on their racial beliefs even when they dont intend to. And those are so
The most formidable people i have seen in my life have that balance. The ioc sports as the be all were involved in another part of their life the tunes you cannot out compete them. There is a way but when you build 16 million stadiums it is hard and not fair and to expect the kids to concentrate. Thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]. Were kicking off a full day today with the new book, and president reagan talking about president interjects and present bush and the Science Behind but the whole the of civilrights and the relationship between the u. S. And israel in the American Space program. That is all, being applied today from boston for you can get the full schedule on line and follow us on twitter and facebook as well to give scheduled updates. Here is h. W. Brand from the 20th annual texas book festival live coverage on booktv from austin, texas. Good morning, good morning, and thank you so much for joining us at the 20th annual texas
I only said there are certain things he believed do. First, if youre running out of money, people would rob the agencies and accounts so it is not noticeable to the average public. When that runs out they will make cuts within government. They will cut back in late people off. And the last thing they want to do is raise taxes because then somebody has messed up. That is what they believe. So basically what you have to do is look at the wholistic approach. And then you say well, this we can afford in this we cannot. Everybody is afraid to talk about taxes. You look now and we cannot even agree on the definition of revenue. That is hard to believe. You would think we cut the taxes, right . If we got rid of the junk in the box all the give away and the problems that ever lobbiest has been able to get it tax provision put in for the special Interest Groups here it with all that being said, that is a tremendous drawl on the revenue. No one ever says how much is that cost . When you introduc
A deadly military accident. Searching for soldiers and marines lost when their helicopter went down off florida. What may have caused the crash. And execution by firing squad. Utah moves ostep closer to how it executes death row prisoners. Well talk about the bill. Good evening im antonio mora, this is al jazeera america. Tonight the u. S. Secret service is once again, officers involved in aen car crash outside the white house. Paul beban joins us. The hits keep coming. Antonio, this is a long list of hits. The secret service has claimed that two agents are under investigation after they had a few too many got behind the wheel and made a very wrong turn. It is just the latest in a string of embarrassing ep societies for the secret services. Episodes for the secret service. Two agent on the president s personal security detail went out drinking and crashed their government vehicle into a White House Security barricade. Other Security Officers wanted to arrest the agents and do sobriety