Guest my great pleasure. Thank you so much. You can watch this and all of our what are you reading interviews booktv. Org. Use the search bar at the top of the page. Good afternoon everybody and welcome to politics and prose, live at lunch, where we bring you our politics and prose programming during your lunch time hour. My name is beth and imn Event Coordinator and we thank you so much for joining here to celebrate the release of a livewired by doctor david eaeman. At any time to the event you can click the link that will put in the chat to purchase a copy of tonights bo on pnps website. You can ask the author of questions by sabina to the button for which can be found at the bottom of your screen. Be sure to put your question in the q a and not in the chat to make sure that the author and i see it. On to our main event. This afternoon doctor David Eagleman is a neuroscientist in the New York Times best selling author and he has the nter for science and law a National Nonprofit insti
Found at the bottom and rescreen prey be sure to mature question the q a and not in chat to make sure that the author has it. And into her main event. The doctor is in your scientists New York Times bestselling author. Size of law and National Nonprofit institute prayed in terms of the adjunct professor. Is best known for his work on time perception, brain cost activity. Enrolled law. Live wired, is about presents new findings from his lab, from dreaming to things that revolutionized how we think. Hell discuss issues, humans using echolocation in the present and future of ai. I was so excited to hear you talk today. Welcome david. The floor is all yours that will be back in a little bit can to monitor the q a. Thank you. This great pressure to be here and into politics and prose in person in the past. David i am sorry that i can be there this year. But im pleased that you can join me this way on today. I would like to tell you a little bit tv a brief overview about some of the main the
All the fast moving developments. The back to improving trend here but the markets are chewing on that, i guess assessing not improving fluff. What is your take . I agree with you. If you look at continuing claims, they have fallen pretty dramatically. The weekly claims there is sense by the market to keep the momentum going. Maybe that is a stimulus package. We dont know. Obviously the market takes it as a slight negative. We have had in the economy last couple months is housing boom, explosion in building. It has driven up commodity prices. Lumber prices. Multiyear highs. Multidecade highs. There is a concern that may cool off a little bit. Housing starts slowed down a little bit in august. There is a little bit of concern, that maybe that bright spot in the economy is starting to go down a little bit but not so much if you look at the oil market. Look at the oil market it is kind of signaling Better Things ahead. Weve seen a big jump up in oil prices, the last couple of days, a big
The company is hoping this will spark more adoption, but it will only work if Health Officials offer an app to utilize the technology. Covid cases are dropping in many states but rising in the midwest. The u. S. Grappling with how and when to reopen safely. New York Public Schools just postponed in person return for three more weeks. Lets get back to the markets with Abigail Doolittle in new york. Generally another up day driven by apple. Abigail that summarizes it. It feels as though that is every day. Apple, a big driver for sure. In charge of the fed liquidity, driven rally continuing into september. We now have five up months in around and september starting up with more record highs. 75 , the0 gaining by nasdaq 100 up 1. 5 . Apple really helping out the chip space as well because there is indications they could have a strong season relative to selling iphones. You see the stock is up 2 . And ais one tell possibility investors are cautious. We are seeing a rally for haven bonds, th
Well cult our chat shorter and well go right to your questions. For those of you joining us via zoom it would be great if you could write your questions in the q a box, and ill monitor those. Those joining via youtube live, write your questions in the comment section. Those questions will get to us, and please start writing those questions now. Especially if you have already had the pleasure and privilege of reading acknowledge degree knock mick angrynomics. Lets get start of you mentioned in the book that the work is intended to restore economics over angrynomics. Whats to that mean . All right. So, theres a great quote from keens was to move economics into dentistry and we meant that actually figured out how the world works, such a thing that its like a root canal. You need a root canal, painful you facebook it. Nothing special. Part of the process and the sense is the desire toning near the world in that way. And that would be nice if we could get real limits where you can do that o