Coverage, and im very lucky and you are very lucky to be here tonight with alexis wichowski, who is the author of the information trade how big Tech Congress countries, challenges our rights and transforms our world. Can you hear me without the mic . No. Can you hear me mean with it lacks also note. Alexis is the deputy where she runs a policy Experiment Lab trying to get vendors to compete for who can devise the best program to improve social welfare of citizens of new york. Shes an adjunct professor of communications at Columbia University and she spent a couple of decades studying issues extremely intense intensely as a member of the un mission, the state department and also thinking very deeply about them which is so clear from this book which i really admire. The [applause] this book maybe you want to start by taking a minute and tellingel us what those are and why you felt we needed a new category for them. Thank you for coming it is wonderful to see you all here. I think the bes
It or not. Today, down just a little bit. Only about 1 , though, from its alltime high at 39,438. Looking at s p, its down very slightly and nasdaq is up a little bit. We are watching big tech as open ai which is out by microsoft, unveils a new model in may team up with apple to put chatgpt on the iphone. 2 in this. Microsoft and google which has its tomorrow is down fractionally. Roaring kitty tweeted for the first time, on x, for the first time in three years. That sent game stop, amc, and blackberry shares higher. That is fundamental investing. That is right. If you are wondering whether policy was too tight or too easy, i think that your answer was. Hosting with us this whole hour, contributor, will come to you. Lets talk markets. Are we overvalued . Are we do for something in the form of a correction . I think we had a little mini correction and now all of a sudden, we got eight days in a row. I think we really went through earnings season. Earnings were stronger than people expec
Dow once again sinking 29 points. Yet, the economy, the economy was about to bust out and washington snuffed it. We had it in hand. We had a turn in housing with home builders, and we had to turn to booming orders from boeing. And banks were getting their Balance Sheets growing again, and oil and gas industry started booming and opportunities for new petrochemicals hiring tens of thousands of people. Autos were the strongest in years. People, it was all coming together. And now washingtons crushing it. Best of all, people are starting to get hired again. All those Industries Just mentioned were growing, all of them looked like a real good year to expand. Business people are in retreat, and their leaders, many of whom speak to me, are done hiring. And they want to fire, cut back, show they saw the chaos from capital coming and did the right thing for shareholders, when the right thing not that long ago was to hire, not fire. Washington with its sickening inability to compromise wrecked
Dow once again sinking 29 points. Yet, the economy, the economy was about to bust out and washington snuffed it. We had it in hand. We had a turn in housing with home builders, and we had to turn to booming orders from boeing. And banks were getting their Balance Sheets growing again, and oil and gas industry started booming and opportunities for new petrochemicals hiring tens of thousands of people. Autos were the strongest in years. People, it was all coming together. And now washingtons crushing it. Best of all, people are starting to get hired again. All those Industries Just mentioned were growing, all of them looked like a real good year to expand. Business people are in retreat, and their leaders, many of whom speak to me, are done hiring. And they want to fire, cut back, show they saw the chaos from capital coming and did the right thing for shareholders, when the right thing not that long ago was to hire, not fire. Washington with its sickening inability to compromise wrecked
Overnight tonight through friday morning. Anything we see will be less than. 10 of rain. Sunny warmer over the weekend. 10 degrees warmer on sunday than saturday. And much warmer on monday through wednesday. Elizabeth, beach weather . Maybe, gosh, upper 80s now. I like that. It looks great. For right now the biggest difference in the morning commute is just the dry roads and we really i just checked the chp reports. Nothing there since about 4 15 this morning. So the roads look good, mass transit also problemfree this morning. By now more than 30 trains good to go. A lot of the roadwork has been picked up. Incline out to yerba buena island, caltrans has that wrapped up by 5 a. M. Developing news in texas. Another mass shooting at fort hood has left four people including the shooter dead. 16 others were seriously hurt. Some still in Critical Condition this morning. Kpix 5s anne makovec is tracking the latest in our newsroom. Reporter he had been treated for anxiety and depression and wa