of my favorite civil war generals, who turned out to be not from one of those northeastern states. patrick clayburn from argue arg arkansas. i got interested in the battle of ringgold gap. i want to start with clayburn saves the army. we have to start with the two leading protagonists at the battle of missionary ridge. grant was a rising star as a general. had not lost really a battle yet during the war. eventually, he goes on to further greatness. on the other side, you have bragg. although the story may be a little apparently as a lieutenant during the wars, he became the acting commissary officer. the story is he wrote a request to the officer himself for supplies. as the officer, he turned them down. he sent another request and it was turned down again. so he went to his captain of the regiment and said i reached an impasse, what should i do? the captain said, bragg, you have argued with every officer in the army and now you are arguing with yourself. request denied. so
now, we have to start with the two leading protagonists at the battle of missionary ridge in chattanooga. of course, ulysses grant. hiram ulysses grant actually. was a rising star as a general. had not really lost a battle yet during the war, and eventually he goes on to further greatness. on the other side you have braxton bragg. although the story might be a little bit apocryphal, apparently as lieutenant in, during the seminole wars, he became the acting commissary officer. the story is he wrote a request to the commissary officer himself for supplies. as a commissary officer, he turned them down. he sent another request that was turned down again, so went to the captain of the regiment and said, i reached an impasse, what should i do? the captain said, bragg, you have argued with every officer in the army, and now you are arguing with yourself. request denied. so, braxton bragg, we had a symposium two years ago, of generals you love to hate. it was very interesting to me
1863. the we have to start with two leading protagonists at the battle of missionary ridge in chattanooga. of course, ulysses grant. iram ulysses grant actually. a rising star as a general. had not really lost a battle yet during the war, and eventually he goes on to further greatness. on the other side you have braxton bragg. although the story might be a little bit apocryphal, apparently as lieutenant in, wars, hee seminole became the acting commissary officer. requesty is he wrote a to the commissary officer himself for supplies. as a commissary officer, he turned them down. he sent another request that was turned down again, so went to the captain of the regiment and said, i reached an impasse, what should i do? youcaptain said, bragg, have argued with every officer in the army, and now you are arguing with yourself. request denied. so, braxton bragg, we had a symposium two years ago, of generals you love to hate. it was very interesting to me he was not picked. there co
let s dive deeper into the action. lisa: i wanted to look on the risk look at the risk on sentiment. particularly market currency. look at the emerging markets index. it is rising for a second day. the biggest two-day gain since last year. it is really interesting to me to see this. people were a little skeptical. this is one area that was punished. now it is getting hit by a double whammy. steppingoth the fence away from some of the tightening rhetoric. then we have a u.s. economy that is still solid. which currencies are benefiting the most? this is the brazilian riel. this is verse the dollar. 3.1%. this is extending those gains today. interesting. abigail: everybody is talking about economic data. this is something that not a lot are watching. it is interesting to look at this long-term range. orders for these trucks including dump trucks, tractor-trailers, 18 wheelers, low 10,000. we see a nice recovery. it is jagged over the next decade. this is right about 10,000. th
surveillance. this is francine lacqua in london. tom keene is in new york. tom, i think we have to look at a lot of macro data. the economy in europe is quite slow and that puts extra on the currency. tom: questions on banking in germany. francine: let s get first to the bloomberg first word news. taylor: hillary clinton said she is ready to lead and warns that donald trump cannot be trusted in the oval office. clinton accepted the party nomination to be the presidential candidate. she belittled trumps claim that the country solve problems. it is wrong to take tax breaks with one hand and give out pink slips with the other. i believe wall street can never, ever be allowed to recommend wreck mainn/ street again. in japan, the central bank has buying in a bond limited way. but it is not increasing the pace of government bond purchases. it will assess the effectiveness of its policy in december. economy failed to expand in the second quarter. the data may have been fueled by