Now on American History tv, Cornell University history professor Lawrence Glickman describing how the modern concept of Free Enterprise formed in the 130s during the rise of the new deal. Professor in american studies in the department of history at cornell. In addition to Free Enterprise and American History in 1919, he has written four other books including buying power a history of consumer activism in america published in 2009 and a living wage, American Workers and the making of Consumer Society published in 1997. He writes on a regular basis for popular publications including the washington post, though im not sure we would call that a popular publication. The Boston Review and dissent. His article was named one of the, i quote, most loved essays in the Boston Review in 2018. Thank you. Thank you to rachel for all the behind the scenes work and, pete, and eric and christian and all of the organizations that helped make this possible. Im really grateful. Thanks for all of you comi
During the rise of the new deal. He is the author of free an american history. Lawrence glickman is in the department of history at cornell. In addition to Free Enterprise in 2019, he has written for other books. He writes on a regular basis for publications including the Washington Post though i am not sure we would call that a popular publication. [laughter] the Boston Review with his articles was named one of the most loved essays in the Boston Review in 2018. Thank you to rachel for all the behind the scenes work, and impeach and erik and christian. And all the organizations that made this possible. I am honored by the size of this audience today. No historian works alone, we all stand on the shoulders of those who came before. I would like to begin to mention some of those scholars to help me identify Free Enterprise. Here i have elizabeth phones wolf, Bethany Morton book kim phillips fine, and wendy l wall the book inventing the american way. Id like to think more people and i re
Probably one of the biggest in terms of Enterprise Companies going public during this ipo vintage. We awere here last year for the uber ipo slack today. Well bring you lots of news about it its a different type of listing, its a direct listing well talk about all of the dynamics around that for now, back to you we talked about that direct listing earlier this week. The pros and cons to it again . There are some pros and cons. You can only do it if you have a lot of cash on the Balance Sheet. This is a company that does. If youre trying to raise money, it doesnt work this way theres no additional money that gets raised the way uber was raising money and wework will be raising money. Well see if it becomes a model. Spotify did it successfully. Slack is doing it. If there works, theres a question on whether airbnb, the next ipo on the docket in the future, theres a question if they go the same route it has a huge implication for wall street, wall street fees and the ipo structure. Andrew,
Have been in a while. 43 in santa rosa. 40s in sunny vale, palo alto. Well have lots of sunshine but because the lows are cooler, the highs wont be much different than yesterday, so 60s and 70s. Did you notice that, sal, during the game last night . They had golden gate, a photographer set up on the you know, at the Golden Gate Bridge on the marine side. Beautiful shot. Great shot. Helicopter up and taking a shot of San Francisco downtown. They made it look like like the game was flight. Right. 50 miles away. As you drive through, you can see traffic quite a bit slower as you drive. No major issues. Better on about friday. Not a lot of traffic going on on interstate 880 right now, just the way you like it. On the bay bridge, we dont usually see a crowd until 5 30. The Trump Administration is increasing pressure on north korea a new round of economic sanctions. North korean president kim jongun is calling President Trump dranked. Doug luzader has more on the tensions between the u. S. A
Occidental is closed the beat goes on, another inch of fresh water. They had are thunderstorms. Still winding down. We are on the drier, northwest side. Still breezy. There is 38, lake port. 42 in santa rosa. 40s for santa clara. Campbell, cupertino. 42 now in fountain. 42 in so cal. A chill from north to south. Wonderful visible. 60s and 70s. 6 01. Lets see now. Take 280. Good thing, steve, there are no major injuries. Southbound 101, avoid it. They are expecting full traffic for a while here on southbound 101 heading into san mateo from burlingame and it might start affecting traffic as well. Use 280. That will be much better for you. Traffic is moving along well. The toll plaza is jammed heading into San Francisco. 10 to 15 minutes delay. No problem on the bridge. This is 280 in zones, off to a good start here. 6 02, back to the desk. The coast guard is investigating after almost a dozen huge shipping containers fell into the port of oakland. Happened in the area of berths 25 and 26