Obama finds no easy answers and plenty of contradictions and the problems of our time. But his other books include the breakthrough essay collection, my misspent youth and the unspeakable, which won the penn center usa award for creative nonfiction. Shes also received fellowships from the guggenheim and National Endowment for the arts fellowships and she teaches in the mfa writing program at columbia university. Thank you all for coming out. Im always really relieved when people show up. I love coming to the strand and i love seeing people very early in my career, not that really, actually earlier i was on a book tour i was in minneapolis, in st. Paul and it turned out to be the same night that David Sedaris was doing a reading at the university in minneapolis and in like a stadium basically. Anybody who was anybody who cared about this went to see david who did errors except for one young woman who showed up at my event and she had driven 100 miles from her parents farm to come see me
The Group Reiterates it fouryear guide answer despite higher cost from the continued grounding of the boeing 373 max. And hong kong has another day of protests at the airport carrie lamm warns the city is on a path of no return. Good morning its been a risk heavy 24 hours for equity markets you can see behind me in europe theres a lot of red on the screen but let me take you back to the price action in wall street yesterday the majors closed near the lose of the day. Dow, s. A. P. , nasdaq closing below. Respectively down 1. 5 , 1. 2 you can see the redness in negativity is picking up and that continued into the Asian Session overnight. There are a couple things that the market is dealing with here. Number one, growth concerns. At no end in site to the trade narrative between china and the u. S. But yesterday we had an additional element to think about. That was the temporary shutdown of hong kong airport that sent shockwaves throughout the region and into the european session as well
One of the worlds biggest crypto markets may ban trading altogether we are all over it power lunch begins, right now. And welcome to power lunch. Im melissa lee. We are around session highs now. The dow, nasdaq, s p 500, across the board, green, nasdaq seeing the biggest gain up 0. 7 of 1 . Transportens hitting new record highs. And hitting 70 first time in three years. Crude just under 65 a barrel. Movers, delta higher on earnings, raising 2018 outlook thanks to the effect of tax reform dfc systems a pop. Software provider bought by a Technologies Company for about 5. 5 billion and xerox up by 4. 5 on reports its in talks to strike a major deal with japans fujifilm melissa, thank you. What else is happening at the house. Epa says fuel economy in new cars in the u. S. Expected to hit 25. 2 mimes per gallon in 2017 vehicles the Senate Banking Committee Votes next week, second time on the nomination of jerome powell. To be your next Federal Reserve chairman. More on the deadly mudslides
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Tank called the Heritage Foundation where he stands to make Something Like ten times his current salary. Yay for jim demint, good money. Kind of. Its good for him, but its really good for his colleague, Republican Senate leader Mitch Mcconnell. You see, jim demint is not your ordinary senator. Hes like the Grover Norquist of the senate. Hes the guy the other republican senators are really afraid of. And that is because more so than anyone else and definitely more than any other republican politician, demint is behind the Tea Party Strategy of purifying the Republican Party in the cleansing fire of party primaries. Demint created this pac called the senate conservativist fund, a pac he made into a super pac which makes it more super and exists to help conservative republicans beat other republicans. Since 2009 demint has raised more than 17 million to promote promising candidates in an effort to remake the senate not just in a republican image but in a diehard conservative one. The imag