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Up lets get you up to speed on the markets. U. S. Equity futures are suggesting a positive open and implied open of 70 points for the dow and s p nearly 9 and for the nasdaq a little more than 24 points. Right where we were yesterday before the retail sales report. Heres the other big stories were watching today. Two economic reports due at 8 30 eastern. Well hear from kohls before the bell and this afternoon watch for nordstrom among others and in Corporate News General Electric is going to sel...

The dollar is stronger. Gold is down sharply. All the markets telling the same story. And there are plenty of investors talking, joking perhaps about the property that they are looking at in greece in italy, across europe because if you want to theres the euro dollar today up another 1. 5 . The low 10. 09. 109 1. 09. Extraordinary to remember a couple years ago when it was at 1. 40. That will have a huge impact on their economy and on ours as well. Book your vacations to europe. Europe is on sal...

In the work force logger to leave sooner than they might otherwise. So i think that is one of the realities and as i started out with my comments, i think one of the big contributions Juliette Cubanski did with the study, being one of the first to look at the whole world and ask questions, how does this analysis of Public Policy change once you factor in the enactment of the Affordable Care act and its implementation in 2014 . This is a question for Juliette Cubanski. The kaiser study estimates ...

To represent their issues and values. What ive not ever heard on the campaign trail was besides the fact that youre black or because youre black, heres what we want to do. Theyve asked me questions about values and issues, and thats an amazing thing. I think it speaks to the evolution of South Carolina and of our nation. It speaks to the heart of the good people in our nation and specifically of our state. I would say this more importantly than the complexion that i have, i think back to growing...

Economics. My question really has to do with the relationship between the Gates Foundation and the world they. When i started to think about questions for you, i looked at the world banks budget and i saw a bed with a layout in between 40 billion exceed billion dollars a year on a wide range of topics. So when you entered this field, did you believe, you probably did, but how did you think about approaching a . Would you be catalytic with respect to the world bank . In other words, to do things ...

Your students are graduating with stem rich jobs and arts and political opportunity, what do we want for our graduates. The reasons we did this and Many School Districts across the country have redefined success. The death of no child left behind, we have received waivers of much more balanced for the whole child. Not just measuring the students success as standardized testing, but what does that mean and what are the measures. There we had students, teachers, panels, principals and started to s...

Zinga has worked with us to create game academies and were rethinking the career tech approach to more of a link learning approach. Those are areas where we have fundsers interested in and well be doing Proactive Fund raising versus waiting for people to come to us. Really getting the message out that this is not about funding, but about addressing Public Education and moving to this 21st century vision. I think when tony smith was within the School District before he went to oakland he used the...

To some of the private schools and the kind of things have access to and our stunlts are fall and kind of leapfrog. I mean, in some ways we have to stop doing the old things weve been doing and push ourselves to innovate more. We dont have ten years to do this. We have the next two to three years to retool oufrss and give our students and teachers the tools they need to innovate, which they dont have right now. Thank you for the great question. That gets to the last point. We need to raise the f...

Zinga has worked with us to create game academies and were rethinking the career tech approach to more of a link learning approach. Those are areas where we have fundsers interested in and well be doing Proactive Fund raising versus waiting for people to come to us. Really getting the message out that this is not about funding, but about addressing Public Education and moving to this 21st century vision. I think when tony smith was within the School District before he went to oakland he used the...

The ceo of softbank and sprint, chairmen, say the u. S. Internet speed stinks. 15 out of a possible 16. Whos going to fix it and how can you profit . Now go over here, right . Here i go. Were exactly two weeks from the start of the world cup in brazil. And it is a very scary picture apparently down in that country. Gang violence spiraling out of control. Brazilians staging massive protests. Were going to talk to a big voice in brazil who says the country will not repeat not be ready to host this...