That professor aaron mason recently informed me that he will not be here and making a presentation, and, therefore, you should expect to hear three presentations instead of four. I trust that this may make sure that we have enough time for audience questions and participation at the end, which is a minor benefit from not getting to hear professor masons presentation. So well still try to use our 90 minutes effectively. All of the presenters have had to cut their presentations in order to fit our session. All of the presentations represent work in progress, which is exciting. Our speakers will present in the order in which they appear on your program, beginning with Michael Gunther. Professor Michael Gunther hails from historic lake george, new york. He earned his ph. D. In history in 2010. He is current professor of history at georgia gwinnett college, a fouryear institution in the suburbs of atlanta. Dr. Gunther recently published a journal article on the bordering of quebec in the 17
Test. Test test. Test. Test test. Test. Test test. Test. Test test. Test it was a true honor of my life to serve on the committee. And as has been mentioned, great luminaries of our history have served there, daniel iel webste and others. I am on the road right now with two former trade Staff Members from the finance committee. Yall will remember, i know, Angela Hoffman and Carrie Phillips clark, who have shrink wrapped a motor home and are traveling across the country. So i get to pop in every now and then, have a glass of wine and go out and talk about farmers for free trade and it is a ton of fun. This fun doesnt stop here, particularly when you work hard with staff. It makes a big difference, and they still have the same passions just as don and i know when we leave the senate we still have passions. It has been a great opportunity for me. To read the history of the Senate Finance committee is to read the history of our country, the battles over tariffs, the National Banks of jacks
They want things they are open to ideas, but i think the way we present it to them as well it makes a difference. They have to feel a part of who we are. Ive actually connected with the Libertarian Party also because in florida for Charlie Crist to come out of a republican side to the independent side and get almost, what 28 of the votes in the indindependent, its a swing state. Im asking you all, i know i need your support. In lawwise across the board, but this is about a movement. And id like to know where else can we go as candidates, as independents, democrats or republicans, they dont allow us to come in for any type of training. They blackball nuss theus in the media completely. Any suggestions to what we can do. Anybody that wants to help me, please give me your card. I mean, just a brief word on that, its great that youre running and great that youre raising the issues that youre raising. Heres a 15second training. Well do it right now. When you run for office, you have to make
Come out of a republican side to the independent side and get almost, what 28 of the votes in the indindependent, its a swing state. Im asking you all, i know i need your support. In lawwise across the board, but this is about a movement. And id like to know where else can we go as candidates, as independents, democrats or republicans, they dont allow us to come in for any type of training. They blackball nuss theus in the media completely. Any suggestions to what we can do. Anybody that wants to help me, please give me your card. I mean, just a brief word on that, its great that youre running and great that youre raising the issues that youre raising. Heres a 15second training. Well do it right now. When you run for office, you have to make clear that youre running for office as an independent to change the way the system works. That youre not putting yourself forward as the alternative to the democrat and the republican but that youre running to represent the people and the peoples d
Rose 33 . So for the full year, gm sales earned 7 , but that was less than the overall car market increase of 8 . Want to give you a q check of how the car makers are trading right now, separate directions. Ford up by nine cents, gm is down more than 3 right now. Chrysler trading under the fiat umbrella and is about to become completely owned by fiat. Wanted to let you know that coming up we are going to sit down with bob carter, Senior Vice President of toyota motor sales. Finding out about a couple of huge wins for toyota, big news coming out today, and were going to talk to him about what lies ahead in 2014. Well, the automakers had a really good day, so hows the rest of the market looking . Traders at the New York Stock Exchange and the cme group. You know, i want to let our viewers know, keith, were going to be hearing this q a session from ben bernanke. So far he hasnt given us any hints at what 2014 looks like from fed policy. Were you expecting to hear something today . No, i d