Series. So id like to thank quay and devon who currently run the program here and remind you there are several more coming up in july and august. The next is powerhouse arena with sarah girard and hannah tente speaking. A little bit about this book and about erica wagner. As you can tell from the backdrop here, this is a great topic for this setting in Brooklyn Bridge park. You know, not most great monuments dont have, dont inspire great writing, but i would say the Brooklyn Bridge is an exception to all of that. You know, from hart crane, you know, to many other poets and writers and notably to the nonfiction writer David Mccullough, there have been really inspired writing on this subject. And err can ca wagner is right up there erica wagner is right up there. What shes done with this biography of Washington Roebling is even remind everyone how even though she was the son of he was the son of a designer, he was the person along with his wife who got it through, you know, a dozen or so
Dallas. He discusses Monetary Policy in the future of the Global Economy. Good evening. Excited to be here with you all tonight. Thank you for coming. And thank you for hosting this here in your facility. We have a set of questions that we have set up for rob and we will open up the floor and we will ask some questions. From a timing standpoint. Economically we just head jackson hole and Second Quarter secondquarter gdp numbers working a little bit better. From a human and social perspective its an unfortunate time our sympathies and prayers go with the folks in houston. Im sure your comment about some of that later on. Looks get straight get straight into it. We will talk about the u. S. Economy and then we will go to Global Economy and the Monetary Policy lets start off with u. S. Economy. Whats outlook for the next three to five years. Our own forecast is that for the year 2017 the u. S. Economy should grow approximately two and a quarter not great by historical standards but certai
Which is incredibly long for an earthquake with the human tragedy and physical damage are dramatically and vividly captured in this book and by henry but on structures and though landscape is only part of the story that henry tells. His book is also a story of how a major Natural Disaster ginsberg scientific inquiries a map are centers around one individual in particular was a geologist he was not an earthquake expert better ride to the day after the earthquake to investigate what happened in the study that he produced help to confirm that now widely accepted idea of plate tectonics although at the time was controversial and much debated notion i will not even begin to get into that because you will get more of that from henry in a minute. This is his first book but he is skilled at combining the Human Interest story with the scientific advancement as a journalist and has been at the New York Times over two decades as a reporter or editor writing about science for much of that time and
Californian disaster. You dont think about alaska unless perhaps youre an earthquake specialist or some trivia master. But alaska is exactly where the great quake happened on march 27, 1964, at 9. 2 on the Richter Scale. It was the biggest earthquake ever recorded in north america and the second most powerful in world history. Does anyone know the most powerful . [inaudible] the answer is chile in 1960, and that when registered 9. 5. The white and alaska lasted more than four minutes which is an incredibly long time for an earthquake. The human tragedy and physical damage of it all are dramatically and vividly captured by henry in his book, but the impact on people, on structures and on the landscape is only part of the story that henry tales. His book also is a story about how a major Natural Disaster ended up spurring scientific inquiries. And that part of the story centers around one individual in particular, a geologist with u. S. Geological survey named george plastered. He wasnt
There. The nasdaq has an get bouncing between gains and losses all session long. The s p not able to get to the 2200 level, at least not today. 24 on the level, please not today. 2400 level, at least not today. The big Agricultural Processing seed company, you can see the shares spiking after the wall street journal ordered the for the made a bid company. We confirmed that the bid was made. About 11ue of billion. The company did not immediately respond to rest for common and the glencore official declined to comment but we are seeing some share reaction there. The other big one is Fiat Chrysler. The u. S. Has filed suit. Earlier in the session bloomberg reported a suit could be coming. Thats when we saw the original drop in the shares. They have continued to trend lower after the suit was filed. Fiat in a statement saying that it is currently reviewing the complaint but is disappointed that the suit has been filed and says they plan to fight the allegation. We will keep you posted on w