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Introduce myself first. So you know not who to complain to later. My name is gregg barrios. Former book editor of the express news, worked for many years and los angeles for the Los Angeles Times. Ive written for the new york times, currently i write for the los angeles review of books. I am on the board of directors for the National Book critics circle. Im also the author of the book of poetry that deals with cute its called look house. This time i would like to introduce iowa miriam pawel. She...

Lost more than 1 trillion in market value. And an 8. 5 drop in shanghai last night. Wiping out chinese gains for the year. Jim, what is the story today . I think it is china. What id like to do because its a terrible market. It reads something that is in keeping with that. I sent tim cook an email trying to understand covering apple because that is a crucial part of it. And tim sent me this this morning right before the show. Ill read it. As you know, we dont give mid quarter updates, and he rar...

Things in their past that seat things in their past that justify the things they have done that are terrible but in reality, it is the people who deal with life and go on to do good things that we should lord, rather than making its qcs for people who behave like this. Do you think it is Making Excuses rather than understanding . Making excuses. They are saying, he had a good background, how could he become a violentjihad . Good background, how could he become a violent jihad . All the good back...

Background, the context is the theater. This was an act that occurred in a theater, by an actor, with other actors standing by. And i wanted to look at it through the eyes of those people. And when i was working on the president s book and i was working on the lincoln chapters, i kept coming across this iconic playbill for our american cousin. I looked at it and i kept thinking, these are real people most of whose names have been lost. I mean, if you asked people on the street who the people wer...

From Michelle Carusocabrera in a few minutes, but first andrew is here with the top stories. Thank you, becky. Hope everyone had a great weekend. In corporate headlines we have a big one, netflix need for speed at the center of the big deal. A new deal with our Parent Company comcast. The two sides have struck a deal under which netflix is paying comcast for faster delivery of the video streaming service. This marks the first such agreement for netflix and is sparking speculation that other cont...

Month well below the forecast of 200k and the Unemployment Rate falling threetenths of a point but the decline was largely as a result of people, jim, who are leaving the workforce. Right. You called it an outlier a few moments ago. Outlier, but one thing i learned about the numbers is when you get an outlier, the market still trades off it. We can i say dismiss it and throw it away, bonds are soaring and Interest Rates are down. Maybe were in a bad news is good news moment because Interest Rate...

Tech. Those would be the googles, imbs, microsofts, the apples of the world. Were going to talk with a fund manager top person who owns them all. First though, so sue at the nyse. Im going to pick up where you left off on that yield on the 10 and 30year treasuries. Hitting lows. Right now, the tenyear is 2. 45 . We were just a moment ago at 2. 44. The yield on the 30year is 3. 301. What does that mean for stocks you ask . It means a lot. Bob pisani is here to tell us exactly what. It means uncer...

Attacking in the right direction. Ultimatum for Family Dollar, icahn says, sell or ill come after the board. Not backing down. A crossborder fistfight, rejecting a takeover, and looking for a buyout . All you need is a pulse and a u. K. Postal code. First up, oracle reported fiscal Fourth Quarter operating profit at 92 cents a share missing estimates, and revenue below consensus and disapointing sale of software licenses. Some expected more progress in the Cloud Computing business, giving metric...

Documentary about a b17 and infect himself was injured because of his service. Its a fascinating portrait of that era and combining both so the glitter of hollywood and the grim reality of the war. The second book that im reading at the moment that might take me most of the summer is dark doris kearns book the bully pulpit. In some respects its a powerful archive because what roosevelt was facing was a significant inequality in terms of wealth. He was trying to make progressive changes. He was d...

She reached out to me to read it, to read a draft. And since i was trying to build dress and providing feedback, found the draft fresh. I found that, you know, i certainly pushed back in some areas. I think i did. That would be contested, but what was most attractive to me was, it is just about the future of race. Often we look backward in history. It is important, but focusing on the future. Fast forward to today. We have been thinking a lot about the new center, thinking about home again and r...