Down 1. 6 yesterday, off of session lows. The dow industrials down 650 650 points, that was 2 and a quarter percent lower at 4 00 on wall street. Investors rattled over no progress on stimulus and a rise in covid cases. Its a big day for earnings, dow components merck, 3m. Caterpillar all reporting quarterly numbers this morning. We will get a snapshot of the airlines when jetblue reports and a look at big pharma when pfizer reports. The road to the white house, we hit the one week to go mark, americans are headed th to the polls in seven short days. President trump and joe biden begin the final push before election day. Stimulus negotiations losing momentum, time is running out for lawmakers to make a deal before november 3rd. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she remains opt my particular over talks optimistic over talks. Congressman tom reed told me yesterday if we dont have a deal by election day, we may not have one until february. Todays the day, my new book, the cost, trump, china
Reconstruction, labor conflict in the gilded age, the populist movement, and moving into the 20th century. In the next couple of weeks we will look at the progressive era, a period of the Industrial Workers, womens suffrage, municipal reform. Subjecty, our turnofthecentury all socialism, and there were many varieties, in some way or another derived from the thinking and writings of karl marx, although interpreted in different ways. One could give a whole course on marx, but what people learn is that first of all, history is the history of class struggle. The struggle between classes is the driving force of history. Claimed that under capitalism the society is being divided into two classes the working class and the bourgeoisie, or capitalist class. Production is, inevitably, being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. The gaprations between the 1 and the 99 , the very rich and everyone else, would inevitably get wider and wider. Some of this resonates to the present day. 30 years of t
Day gathering and a celebration of this timely important new book by my colleagues. When you are a leader and your faces chiseled into Mount Rushmore and your picture on a coin its not because you did nothing during your time in office. But because you took Big Decisions affecting the state of the nation at moments of great crisis with decisions that were unpopular or risked that this would be your last term in office. Such reflected the vision and if you made it to rushmore or if you made it on a coin is because decades later people look back and said thank you for making those decisions and israel today remarkably strong for many reasons. And far too complicated to go into all of them that was blessed with leadership all the way over the past 70 years in those moments and that is in a nutshell with this book is all about. Of those leaders who rose to the occasion head on and to remind us and that rushmore like leadership will rise again to help the people with those questions. There
Silence your cell phones. It is truly my pressure to introduce martin baron, moderated by matt hackman. Matt hackman is the executive Vice President at the beacon counsel greater miami it is truly my pleasure to introduce matt hackman the executive Vice President at the beacon council. Greater miamis Public Community miami focusing on mentioning the miami of 20 40 and helping build it. Was the Miami Program created and built a Foundation Program that played a pivotal role in jumpstarting propelling miamis rapidly growing tech and startup unity. Numerous efforts funded and supported under his leadership are pillars of the Economic System today. Prior to that he was an Award Winning journalist at the miami herald and his award included the highest honor in business journalism. Just seven months into his new job at the Washington Post, longtime journalist and newspaper editor and amazon founder would buy the paper. Just over two years later, donald trump who can pay tickets the press is t
From a relatively obscure stice in 1912 into a liberal icon that homes leaves the court. Host heast you say Robert Valentine was one of the most important people to get you the material you needed . Robert valentine has been lost to history and past commissioner of indian affairs. And in 1911, he was living in the house of truth which was on 19th street with his wife and infant daughter and his wife and daughter went home to new england to nurse the daughter ack to help. This is how the salon took shape. The reason why valentine is twofold. He was the houses visionary. He sort of set the agenda of the house and secondly, as you alluded his correspondence was incredibly important because valentines writing on a daily basis about the comings and goings. And a remarkable woman who i thank in my acknowledgements was friend of valentines daughter and granddaughter. And his papers were in a barn in rescueduntil this woman them, preserved them and donated them to the Massachusetts Historical