Will try to use the system to shut you out yeah shut you out is exactly that was what we were seeing happening on thursday as you saw this whole you know monday through wednesday of last week as well like you know that stock just skyrocketing because theyre buying and buying and buying would just call the short sellers to be like oh my gosh i was broken with you know basically what was interesting with that is that thats when you know trading like robin hood t. D. Ameritrade Charles Schwab and others started restricting users from being able to actually buy game stop stock and other stocks that also were being looked at as short sells that the you know other groups driving up the price of what you see and things like that its pretty incredible robin who claim this was due to recent volatility in the market over listen to this submission. Of the week and many posters on wall street pointed out that quote one hedge fund suffering amid the game stop surge was Melvin Capital Management whi
More Domestic Travel to a little more overseas travel now. Theaad lets get to markets and have a look at what is going on. Nikkei, in with the leading japanese shares, just seeing stocks drifting to the upside. We did see jobless numbers come out. Slightly better than expected, looking for a 3 jobless rate, but 2. 9 . Looking elsewhere, retail sales out of hong kong, looking also at the futures for the u. S. , pretty much flat. Asian equities drifting slightly to the upside. Looking at the shanghai composite, lets look at how the gpi is behaving as well. Just about flat. The shanghai comp, 0. 2 lower. Chinese Economic Activity continued to rebound. Expansion in manufacturing activity, just slowing slightly there. A Rate Decision out of australia later on. Expecting the rba to keep rates. And the singapore market 0. 6 lower. Quick check on the currency is, weve got a fifth straight monthly drop for the dollar. Bloomberg dollar index down by 0. 25 . The yen, a tad weaker. Euro currently
Next on American History tv. We visit a hiroshima nagasaki atomic bomb exhibit in washington d. C. This american Artifacts Program was recorded in 2015. , hi im peter cousin a kick. And the professor of history and director of american universities Nuclear Studies institute. I began our institute back in 1995. Institute was born in the middle east midst of a controversy. I was gonna be held at the air and space museum of the smithsonian. This was an attempt by the smithsonian to do an honest and balanced to is this exhibit over the decision to drop the atomic bomb. This was the 50th anniversary. In the midst of that, i decided with one of my students whose mother and grandmother survived the atomic bombing it hiroshima. Her grandfather died in the atomic bombing. We decided we would do Something Special to commemorate the 50th anniversary. So we were gonna teach two courses here on campus and bring students here to kyoto and hiroshima. While we were planning, this the smithsonian exhib
No, your friend. Sidney crawford. She was the first fight i ever had in grade school. I was 10 years old and we started throwing rocks at each other. And i called him a sissy and thats when the fight turned on. Why . We learned at an early age that the worst thing you can be called as a boy, is a girl. I just came from Catholic School and here we were, fighting for dominance on the playground. As soon as i evoked gender in the conversation, that from the fight happened. Why did that incident that was you so much that you left it in your book . Because it was, going back to fundamentally how boys learn what it means to be a man and how we learn to juxtapose girls are in our lives. It was that moment. That thing that happened at a very early age. My will is i dont Like Fighting number one. And number two, what me to 10yearold boys start rolling in the gravel, fighting because one of them questions the others masculinity. In your book, you write, we do not raise boys to be men. We raised
Programs youll see today. You can check your Program Guide or visit our website booktv. Org who a full schedule. And joining harris is the author of this book information wars. We lost the global battle against this information and what we can do about it. Information about the u. S. To the world track is yes. In olden days during the cold war we used to say telling americas story to the world. And how did you do your job, its funny, took me a while to figure out the parameters of the job what are the things i came to the conclusion was the way we tell our story is will be to our store to ourselves with american media, newspapers, magazines, tv. Rather than produce content ourselves i used to do during the cold war i thought lets show people how they cover ourselves. That was one part of it. The other part was the more strictly Public Affairs things where people are standing in front and you have to have the government line. Its safe use of your stance on issues, heres our policy, make