Mr. Larry kudlow, and his coauthor, brian domitrovic, the associate professor and chair of the department of history of the sam houston state university. And the two of them worked on the book together, and they will be talking about it together. And were so thrilled and so honored to have you both here. Thank you for coming. And i should mention also, larry lives across the street and he is a regular customer here at the corner bookstore and has been for years. That makes it so much so special, and so personal. So, please join me in welcoming larry and brian. Thank you. [applause] larry kudlow thank you very much. Appreciate it. Are we on both mics . We welcome cspan, by the way. Thank you for covering this, appreciate it very much. So, yeah, its true im larry kudlow and im a local. When penguin and random house started organizing this thing which one . That works . This one doesnt sound great but well do what we can. Penguin and random house said, a while back when we got this thing
Joining us from the headquarters of the aflcio is the president of that organization, richard trumka. You about this moment in our countrys history. Lives have been upended. The stock market has seen a whipsaw. Lives are uncertain. What would you put this moment, now . It is a very serious moment for everyone in the country and it is probably a new chapter in our history that is going to be rewritten. We have things that have never happened before on a scale that have never happened before to this country. And we are going to have to get back the way we did during the world wars where we all started pulling together, to try to solve a common problem. That new chapter would begin with what . All, we hadst of several things that need to be done now. Threat of the virus itself. You have the threat of fear that everybody is going through. We have to overcome both of those. The first thing we should do, is to adopt a workplace contagious disease standard. So every employer knows what they h
She first did her First Painting of Abraham Lincoln in 1983. Since then, she has focused on Abraham Lincoln as her subject and has made many paintings of different styles which people talk about. Been active, being , had hered by cnn paintings in the historical society, along with some other people you might have heard of. Salvador dali, he was there too. Norman rockwell, robert rauschenberg. Certainly in very good company. Sheddition to all of this, lives in gettysburg and has a gallery up there. She is also very active with the fellowship of pennsylvania. At the end well talk about the lincoln fellowship and her hundred nights of taps, a program that she runs in pennsylvania. Please welcome wendy allen. [applause] before i begin, i would like to thank david. I made his life miserable today with this technology. All weekend all weekend, sorry. It is an entire multimedia presentation with video and everything. Im surprised she is still talking to be. Thank you. Take you, john as well.
Given the heights and cool and facebook and others recently. You normally have a pretty broad stroke to your coverage. Why this book and right now . Thank you for having me, by the by. I started this book in 2017 i had just taken a job as a columnist for the financial times, trying to figure out the worlds biggest business and economic stories and an opinion form, and for the final, i started looking through corporate figures. I saw amazing numbers in the Financial Sector to the technology sector. Run the numbers that really stuck out was a Mckinsey Global institute figure, looking at 80 corporate wealth was in just 10 . Because of the firms richest in personal data and intellectual property. Basically, if your trafficking in these things, were holding the majority of the world corporate wealth. The biggest were the ones like facebook, apple, amazon, netflix a little bit and googled most about. Theres some overlap, facebook and google, apple mostly shunned advertising and third devices
Podcast. Given the political times that we are in and given the height and stocks of amazon, google, facebook and others, but you normally have a pretty broad scope of your coverage the job for the Financial Times by mandate was to figure out where the worlds biggest business and economic stories that cover them in opinion form which is a rather large mandate. I saw amazing numbers in terms of how well they took conditions to the Technology Sector since the great financial crisis and one of the numbers that really stuck out was the Global Institute figure looking at how 80 of corporate wealth was held at 10 of firm into those are the firms that were purchased in personal data and intellectual property so if you were holding the majority of the wealth they were the ones i profiled in the book there is some overlap with facebook and google making Digital Advertising they look at apple and mostly shined advertising. Its a great question. What they do have in common is the Network Effect a