Next on booktv an insider booktv an insiders perspective of Silicon Valley and the tech world with twittered visor and facebook product manager antonio martinez. [inaudible conversations] i was waiting for somebody. I was caught unprepared and i came to a reading of without a copy of my own book. I thought it would have to buy a copy of my own book. They think they do sell them. Are the mics on because i cant hear it. I dont think its on. I can just scream that at some point my voice is going to get tired. I just need to hold it closer. So what i was finding is their format to this . Is there have been r rating and q a . Up to me . Will do it for you reading simmons and q a and not as many ratings as in the past because the q a has to stretch out for a long time and i want to give you a chance to ask questions if you have them but the passages we are reading fyi i held a poll on facebook of course as i can write to facebook as a speech speak. We pulled the passages that most wanted to
Intrensic value column. He has written several books including origins of the crash, the end of wall street and tonights topic of discussion Americas Bank he let me know there is a great review of it coming out in the Washington Post tomorrow so we can read about that tomorrow. He has three children and lives with his wife in newton, massachusetts. Please join me in welcoming roger lowenstein. [applause] debra, thanks very much. A wonderful introduction. I am glad i dont have to talk about dinosaurs. I dont know much about that. What im going to do is mostly talk to you and read you passages as well that i mope High Pressure c hope conveys the drama of the story. This was my first history story. It was the most exciting project i have been in. The people i wrote about reminded me of people on the scene and the book is full of stories. Last night, anyone who saw the republican debate, you saw rand paul came out against the Federal Reserve and tasaid ther is no point in having a Federal
Become the adviser and then the transition in your mind to be much more precise how does that workout at home . How did they react to someone who has to talk that way . I a big kiss by my wife to quit talking like that at home. I dont do that necessarily. [laughter] but it understated and that pressure. My home life was a tremendous relief and my wife is good at giving me the oasis or the sanctuary to think about Something Else for a change. Is added page 42 you talk about the bookie were riding with the call that changed your life to be appointed to the Federal Reserve you were working on a book called the age of delusion how politicians and big ears created the Great Depression and. What will the next call, what title would they give to a similar book describing the lead up . Probably Something Like asleep at the switch your too complacent now wind of the aspects that they is looked stable overall. With that housing eland mortgage sector but it depended on shortterm debt that led to
50s. The gloves came off last night as Top Republican candidates donald trump and ted cruz engaged in a war of words that got a bit personal. It was the most fiery debate of this election season, as candidates jockeyed for position atop the polls ahead of the Iowa Caucuses on february first. Our Charles Molineaux is live and ted cruz engaged in a war of words that got a bit personal. This election season, as candidates jockeyed for position atop the polls ahead of the Iowa Caucuses on february first. Our Charles Molineaux is live from North Charleston with more on how it all unfolded. Donalds mother was born in scotland the long expected fireworks between ted cruz and donald trump started quickly. On the isssue of citizenship donald. Im not going to hold your mothers birth against you. And turned into a full blown back and forth between the two gop front runners. Cruz also took heat from marco rubio for his tax plan while jeb bush slammed trumps plan to fight terrorism. But the candida
Are now racing against the clock to save them after eighteen days underground look at the latest. And culture makes a play for history of the world cup in tonights first semifinal dont fight it out with their neighbor france for a place in the finals for the very first time. Im sumi so much going to thank you for joining us the widow of the Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winner lucia boaz left china to start a new life in europe shes expected to arrive in berlin later today lou had been kept under a near total house arrest with no formal charges since two thousand and ten when her husband was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for only crime being married to a dissident to calls for democracy angered beijing. Shes finally free lucia the widow of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate lucia. For years she longed to leave china and live in exile but she was confined to this suburban compound for years under house arrest cut off from the world as if she were a criminal. But she never actually broke the law