Favorite collaborator in one of the nations great independent bookstores, we pride ourselves of the library among other things on the timeliness and relevance of her signature programming. Whether forms on those issues or addressing emerging or hot button national topics. We certainly did not intend on the particular timeline of todays presentation. Christopher leonard was a busy man at the end of last week. Taking reporter calls, wrote a couple pieces for the New York Times and cnn business. They spent eight years and cook koshland and the extraordinary empire in the poem Political Network has put together by david coke and his older brother charles based hundred hours on the road in wichita. Anybody had a chance to read the book . So you will not understand, youll know immediately when you get into it as you get into it it is daunting when you pick it up. Its encyclopedic, 574 pages and thats before you get to the notes and the appendix and then acknowledgments. But they have written
Im grateful to doug paul for agreeing to host and set this thing up and the Carnegie Institution and alex taylor after all his logistical support. Im grateful also to michael and to alan for their contributions to the monitor from very early in its inception and im sorry that james was pulled away. He is a founding contributor still writes for us and would have been the guy to talk about the reconfer racing reconfigure racing. And im grateful to joe and jessica for agreeing to do these presentations. We hope to have barry here who has been a founding contributor on the chinese economy, but barry has back loaded his class to end of the week and kind rearrange this schedule so i regret he wasnt able to come. Im sure Everybody Knows who joe is. Professor at International Relations and politics at boston university. He is founding contributor to the china leadership monitor, retired from our roster, i dont know, couple years ago we were arguing about when that was walking over here. And im
Support. Im grateful also to michael and to alan for their contributions to the monitor from very early in its inception and im sorry that james was pulled away. He is a founding contributor still writes for us and would have been the guy to talk about the reconfer racing reconfigure racing. And im grateful to joe and jessica for agreeing to do these presentations. We hope to have barry here who has been a founding contributor on the chinese economy, but barry has back loaded his class to end of the week and kind rearrange this schedule so i regret he wasnt able to come. Im sure Everybody Knows who joe is. Professor at International Relations and politics at boston university. He is founding contributor to the china leadership monitor, retired from our roster, i dont know, couple years ago we were arguing about when that was walking over here. And im glad he agreed to do this as a veteran stall wart contributor. He was one of the few guys who actually hit the deadline for drafts, which
Their toll . Unrest at uber. This is daybreak asia. We have to talk about that disappointing data on friday out of the u. S. All eyes will be on the big china data dump in the next couple of hours, including secondquarter gdp. That will be key for asian markets. The cpi and retail Sales Numbers coming in. Where is inflation . The fed is likely to continue to delay raising rates, and you saw the enthusiasm for that in the equities markets. Lets pull up the boards for how we ended on friday, adding on gains, the dow of 84 points come the s p higher by. 5 , the nasdaq adding. 6 . Quickly come inside my bloomberg. The fed delaying rates is great for everyone else except for the havecials, which investors been anticipating a hawkish fed and want to see those margins that,sed, but without another major headwind for the financials. We will see if there will be a rebound. We are starting trading in asia. It looks to be pretty positive and following wall street on friday. New zealand, of. 1 rig
Duke University Supreme Court s discuss the Supreme Court and reconstruction era rise. This event is part of a series on the Supreme Court and reconstruction hosted by the Supreme Court Historical Society. [applause] sometimes i think that the problem with introductions of me is that before i got this job, i couldnt keep a job. [laughter] thank you very much for having me here. I just want to express my great appreciation for the Supreme Court Historical Society and for all of the rest of the associates here who do so much for the court. This year is the 2015 leon silverman a lecturer a silverman lecture series. Lecture series like these are an important part of what goes on at the court. Parthey are only a small of what the Supreme Court Historical Society does. The Supreme Court Historical Society puts out a regular journal, it collects items relating to the courts history, which really are all around the , a lot of the offices and the portraits are a result of the societys collectin