Performance by political candidates. Who will win best naked pandering. Best lie. The rich get rich errant poor get poorer. John thats our show tonight. John what did movies this year get right and what did they get wrong . Of course they get lots wrong. Usual thing they get wrong is they constantly make corporations the villian. In the movie antsman corporations want to get their hands on a suit of armor. It will blow up in your face and destroy everyone you care about. In james bond, the villian is an evil corporation. In the new Jurassic Park movie its a corporation that tampered with nature. In real life tampering with natured our lifespan. The big short tackled the complicated. The Housing Market is rock solid. There was some shady stuff going on. Movie makes complicated things exciting. Lets ask peter suederman. The big short. It glosses over the role of the government. It does at one point briefly mention the kind of revolving door between government and the Financial Sector, al
Performance by political candidates. Who will win best naked pandering. Best lie. The rich get rich errant poor get poorer. John thats our show tonight. John what did movies this year get right and what did they get wrong . Of course they get lots wrong. Usual thing they get wrong is they constantly make corporations the villian. In the movie antsman corporations want to get their hands on a suit of armor. It will blow up in your face and destroy everyone you care about. In james bond, the villian is an evil corporation. In the new Jurassic Park movie its a corporation that tampered with nature. In real life tampering with natured our lifespan. The big short tackled the complicated. The Housing Market is rock solid. There was some shady stuff going on. Movie makes complicated things exciting. Lets ask peter suederman. The big short. It glosses over the role of the government. It does at one point briefly mention the kind of revolving door between government and the Financial Sector, al
Performance by political candidates. Who will win best naked pandering. Best lie. The rich get rich errant poor get poorer. John thats our show tonight. John what did movies this year get right and what did they get wrong . Of course they get lots wrong. Usual thing they get wrong is they constantly make corporations the villian. In the movie antsman corporations want to get their hands on a suit of armor. It will blow up in your face and destroy everyone you care about. In james bond, the villian is an evil corporation. In the new Jurassic Park movie its a corporation that tampered with nature. In real life tampering with natured our lifespan. The big short tackled the complicated. The Housing Market is rock solid. There was some shady stuff going on. Movie makes complicated things exciting. Lets ask peter suederman. The big short. It glosses over the role of the government. It does at one point briefly mention the kind of revolving door between government and the Financial Sector, al
The odds of regulation ahead. We begin with the biggest ipo of the year. First data hardly budging from its ipo price as we stand right now. Is the ipo market in trouble . Bob pisani joins us from the floor of the stock exchange. I guess the answer would be, not necessarily, right, bob . Yes. And more accurately its not in trouble but its repricing and thats good news for investigators. Its buy low, sell high. Stuff is on sale, people are taking advantage. A little quiet behind me but this morning it was very, very busy. Priced at 16, opening at 16. 39. You might say they were talking 18 to 20, isnt that a disappointment . 15 haircut getting it done was the most important thing for this company. Very difficult ipo environment and they got it out. So what would be good today . Anything with a 16 handle, anything would be good and that would be perfectly acceptable to the people who are involved in this deal. Nyse ipo pricing postponed, thats why were hearing on albertsons. They did make
Nod conversation [inaudible conversations] good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for all the ambient noise. And welcome to Kansas City Public Library. Im the director of the Kansas City Public Library and its a pleasure to have you here tonight. To prove to you once again the Kansas City Public Library represents all political views and tonight its always it is as always a pressure for me to introduce my longtime friend jack cashill. Jack and i i have known each other almost since he was in short pants, in newark, new jersey, where he was born a little bit after he graduated from Siena College and got his ph. D at purdue in american studies. I think the only dissertation that defended the notion of american capitalism and american fiction, which is hard to do because is no american capitalism in american fiction. Jack and i Something Like 35 years ago, founded something the zenith boosters club, Political Discussion Club in which jack then ran for a number of years when i escap