From the state of virginia. Find a full Television Schedule online at booktv. Org or consult your program guide. Will come to our Cato Institute p. J. Orourke. We will take questions from the program and you can submit them at the Cato Institute website, facebook, twitter or youtube and use the cato evidence. We have many distinguished scholars at the Cato Institute constitutional studies, Foreign Policy, education and so on but perhaps our most distinguished scholar, at least if we can agree, it depends on what the meaning of distinguished is, our Research Fellow, p. J. Orourke. I would say ive sort of grown up with p. J. When i was in college college, National Lampoon which he edited and i remember quite a few funny bits from National Lampoon but i cant quote them because they all involve drug use, ethnic stereotypes are gender relations which are all forbidden now. He moved on to Rolling Stone where hes Foreign Affairs desk chief which is totally cool because they paid him to travel
Distinguished is. I had sort of grown up with him when i was when in college. The most popular magazine on campus i cant quote them because i think they all involve drug use at note ethnic stereotypes. And theyre all for bid now. He was the Foreign Affairs desk chief which was totally cool because they paid him to travel wherever he wanted. But why he wanted to travel there. It was always kind of mystifying. And then as he moved out of the rock n roll stage and into the age of sober reflection he became a correspondent for the sober is magazine in america. He wrote about medicare reform Social Security reform. Campaign advance reform. And now as he moved into the age of rearing about retirement and College Tuition he is at a it ran an article by me. It is online and it is free and it is called american consequences. By my count. Pj is the author of 20 bucks parliament of horrors. All the trouble in the world and eat the rich. He is more one of the funniest writers around. He has more c
Dollars in constitutional studies, economics, Foreign Policy and so on but perhaps our most anguished scholar at least if we can agree but it depends on what the meaning of distinguished is is our Hl Mencken Research fellow p. J. Orourke. I always say ive grown up with pj. When i was in college most popular magazine on campus was National Lampoon which he edited and i remember funny bits from National Lampoon i cant quote them as i think they all involve drug use, ethnic stereotypes or gender relations and theyre all forbidden now. He then moved on to Rolling Stone where he was Foreign Affairs desks chief which was totally cool because they paid him to travel wherever he wanted. But why you wanted to travel to beirut and to a televangelist retirement village was always kind of mystifying. And as he moved out of the rock n roll stage and into the age of sober reflection he became a correspondent for the sober us magazine in america, the atlantic monthly. He wrote soberly about medicare
Manufacturing actually picked up, but only two manufacturers say that sales dropped because of the coronavirus. One retailer said that inventory was hurt because of production issues in china. You look to the San Francisco fed district where the virus is largely been rampant in this country in seattle. I should say the hardesthit area in this country. Theyre dealing with a drop in airline travel. A drop in demand for aircraft from Southeast Asia and difficulty getting parts for solar manufacturers. So not a lot of pain in that district either. Ii want to stress that overall Manufacturing Activity continued to expand across the country and Consumer Spending which has been the lynchpin of this economy actually picked up last month. Now lastly i just want to note that one other concern of companies aside from the coronavirus is actually the president ial election. Now the Federal Reserve will use the information in two weeks when they formally meet for a policy meeting and determine wheth
Shining brightly under clear skies. Temperatures are in the 40s and the 50s. Local to start off the day. Upper 40s in concord. San jose, right now. As we head through our afternoon, we are going to warm up. Many locations back up into the 70s this afternoon. Low 70s in San Francisco. Mid70s oakland, fremont. Upper 70s in san jose. We will talk about our next weather system and if we could see a few showers coming up. Lets check in with michelle for a look at your morning commute. All right, mary, we are still tracking this incident in San Francisco. A wrongway driver going northbound on southbound 280. So all lanes are blocked in that area to get that wrongway driver off the road. This is near mariposas. All lanes were blocked. And alternative for you is 101. So we are going to keep on top of that and incident, looking at the Altamont Pass right now. Supercommuters coming out of tracy, a slowdown of course. It is speed dipping down to about 15 miles per hour. Bay bridge toll plaza, tho