Right now because we are the u. S. Dollar. We are so we are the empire and you know robert frost said the woods is lovely dark and deep but i have promises to keep in many miles to go before i sleep and of course Emily Dickinson said something along the lines of because i could not stop for death you know i was just too busy i had all these things to do lunch appointments all that sort of stuff he kindly stopped for me the same thing as like were very busy i guess bit busier busier we have all sorts of cultural issues and partisan war and all this sort of stuff going on but if you look calmly around you you see that death has stopped kindly for the us empire and all its debt its easier to pretend our Economic System works and just blow endless asset bubbles yesterday saw the us comprehensively beat china not in any sporting sense and certainly not in any dimension of the current cold war for those who still like to think the latter isnt happening just listen to what u. S. Attorney gene
Country for lectures in history. Why do you all know who lizzy borden is and raise your hand if you had ever heard of this murder, the gene harris murder trial before this class. The deepest cause where well find the true meaning of the revolution was in this transformation that took place in the minds of the american people. So were going to talk about both of these sides of this story here, right . The tools, the techniques of slave owner power. Well also talk about the tools and techniques of power that were practiced by enslaved people. Watch history professors lead discussions with their students on topicses rangi ranging from American Revolution to september 11th, lectures on history every saturday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv. It available as a podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts. Cspan has around the clock coverage of the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic and its all available on demand at cspan. Org coronavirus. Watch white house briefings,
Podcasts. Washington journal prime time, a special evening edition on the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic. Our guests are the chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot on the citys and personal response to the pandemic and the latest data on how well its being controlled. Join the conversation tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Up next on American History tv, the principle chief of the Cherokee Nation talks about the tribes history following its removal from the south and relocation to oklahoma. He discusses how the cherokee has concentrated on rebuilding and strengthening their culture amid adversity. Its now my great pleasure to introduce chief adams. As was mentioned earlier today chief adams serves on preservation of virginia board of trustees. He served as a strong advocate of the federal recognition of the upper and in the lead up to 2007 chief adams actively participated in the 2007 Steering Committee and the activities associate would the commemoration, and i can say we sp
Angel funding. Those are the earliest and smallest rounds. You have series a, later funding of series b, and so on. Generally speaking, series a is still a small round, meant to fund a company for a year, possibly two. Ill give you some context. Zoom, a company we have had on the show, is worth 21 billion now. But its series a, the first round of venture funding, was 6 million. Six. Some kind of Silicon Valley record leading a series a round to a Company Called one pass for 200 million likely the biggest series a in history, the biggest investment the firm has made. One password seems like a promising country. It deals with password management and security. But 200 million . On the first round of Venture Capital . Arun joins the reporters this week. John schwartz of dow jones and katie roof who covers venture journal. One more bit of c this is seriet was 285 million. That was a series c. What are you doing investing 200 million, and you did it with some other investors as well, in a se
With the high cost of tuition and a smaller pool of students, some liberal arts schools are struggling to survive, and not all of them will as our scott cohn found, many colleges are making major changes, and its this weeks cover story. At Hiram College outside cleveland, with about 1,000 students, they knew small liberal arts schools were not exactly in vogue their solution change the definition of liberal arts we looked at the curriculum, we looked at the graduation requirements, we looked at technology, we looked at the 21st century skillset and mindset that students need to demonstrate to employers reporter gone are stodgy old majors like art history and religion in are more careeroriented majors like criminal justice and sport management i think they do a really good job of preparing you for your career but also in life. Reporter hirams president says the changes, which have also included reducing the faculty by 20 , helped convince lenders to refinance 25 million in longterm debt