You can go and get a microphons are your questions can be heard. Please join me in welcoming john barry. [applause] thank you very much. Its kind of funny to be sitting here in a Community Room of the Louisiana Legislature talking about this subject largely because although you might not think it, politics is very involved in the story of the pandemic i cant think of a better place to talk about politics in the legislature. When you read about the 1918 pandemic in the newspapers these days you say the death toll was over 20 million. That estimate comes from the first of the disease thats fairly accurate for the western world but wildly inaccurate for the rest of the world. In a Nobel Prize Winner that spent most of his life studying influenza concluded that the death toll was a minimum of 50 Million People and possibly as many as 100 million. All this was in a world with the population 28 the size of today. So, if you adjust the population, the death toll on 1918 was between 175 to 350
Good evening. Im andrew, the director of the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at the bush school of government here e at texas a and m. University. I would like to welcome our special event this evening with kim ghattas who is going to speak of the recent book, black wave saudi arabia, iran and the fortyyear rivalry that unleashed collective memory in the middle east. I have to say i spent the weekend reading it. I didnt quite get through but i couldnt put it down it was so interesting. If you havent read it after this evening you can get the book if you havent already but i would urge you to read it to be at its fascinating and very wellwritten and very well researched. There was a narrative thats very troubling. I would like to announce that our event with ambassador dennis ross is another expert in the middle east is unable to come to college station. Hcollege station. He had a family emergency and so kim ghattas is an awardwinning journalist and writer covered the middl
Generalists and clever with it the fight interesting stories. Something outside in interesting at the time was what the internet was doing to us as a society in terms of our information streams. It wasnt political in my mind at that time. It was sort of what happens when the trusted systems of information breakdown and people no longer know whats true of whats important versus irrelevant or how to spend their time. I was looking at this as a tech story, as the business story. I was looking at clickbait farms and had to get you to click on things and waste your time and have make money from that. And then in the middle of 2015 there was a Big Press Conference at trump tower and trumpkim down the escalator and then i suddenly thought, all these forces ive been looking at about how informational architecture online is changing us, thats a political store as well. From there it was kind of off to the races. Host you group your book into two groups of people if i understand it correctly, an
Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Created by campell and 97 and brought to you today by your television provider. The former wells fargo executive testified themselves as the consumer abuses that led to the executives earnings. Members of the House Financial Services committee question the witnesses on their actions at wells fargo and why no one has been prosecuted for the consumer abuses. This is just over two and a half hours. Thank you. This hearing is entitled Holding Wells Fargo Accountable examining the roll of board of directors and that the greatest patterns of consumer abuses. Today, we received testimony from elisabeth and mr. James quigley who until earlier this weeks are as chair of the board of directors of wells fargo and companys Walls Fargo Bank respectively. Both have resigned as our call for the resignations following the release of us phasing majority statute on wells fargos compliance failures in their individual failures as Board Members. Resignations do n
We are seeing the home prices growing a little slower than may. This is coming on the backs of we trade data. We are also seeing some of the impacts from the tariffs. Information onde how much the chinese will look to implement. These numbers are looking better than expected overall. Great stuff there. We have ongoing commentary here on the backs of the numbers. On top of gdp numbers, thats those. In at 5. 8 . Ng these are quite decent numbers. Lets get a more reaction here. I was predicted 6. 2 iris predicted 6. 2 growth. Some of the numbers reach expectations. 5. 7. Pectation is i am a little surprised on the ip data. That what i amns thinking is that there is infrastructure. Should increase. This is my rational. Rationale. Metro line and you put the matter on the metro line. Then you finish the project. This process includes a lot of manufacturing. This number could mean these Manufacturing Activities have begun. Financing, fai and then ip. Is the retailg sales. 9. 8 not want it yea