A society over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it here we are over 49 years after going off the Gold Standard in 1971 which is a moral code and a legal system of its own it imposes a moral code upon the Economic System in terms of honesty and terms of distribution of wealth but here we have a system that 49 years later has become rotten the institutions have melted and disintegrated and we have people like our own senator here in North Carolina senator richard burr who was caught not only dumping a whole bunch of sharers 2000000. 00 worth after he secret inside information about the coronavirus but it turns out its even worse when senator richard burr not only engaged in obvious Insider Trading on the coronavirus after receiving intelligence reports on the looming pandemic but he also sold his townhouse to a farmer a lobbyist above market price for a tidy profit so here you have a guy whos supposed to be th
A legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it here we are 2 over 49 years after going off the Gold Standard in 1971 which is a moral code and a legal system of its own it imposes a moral code upon the Economic System in terms of honesty and terms of distribution of wealth but here we have a system that 49 years later has become rotten the institutions have melted and disintegrated and we have people like our own senator here in North Carolina that senator richard burr who was caught not only dumping a whole bunch of shares 2000000. 00 worth after he secret inside information about the coronavirus but it turns out its even worse when senator richard burr not only engaged in obvious Insider Trading on the coronavirus after receiving intelligence reports on the looming pandemic but he also sold his townhouse to a farmer a lobbyist above market price for a tidy profit so here you have a guy whos supposed to be the legal system of the the moral code of the nation and
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Industry, americas Cable Television company, as a public and brought to you today i your television provider. Good evening. My name is leslie kavasch and im here to introduce our guest, clyde ford. Client is former assistant engineer with ibm. He graduated from university of Western State here in portland as a doctor of chiropractic, and he is a trained psychotherapist. He the awardwinning author of 12 works of fiction and nonfiction. Clive is recipient of the rate award, in African American literature as well as numerous other awards for his books. Hes been a guest on the oprah show, npr, and radio and tv programs across the nation. Clyde is here tonight to speak about his latest book think black which was just released shortlisted for the 2019 book prize in social justice. Wed you please join me in welcoming to the planetarium at the Oregon Museum of science and industry clyde ford. [applause] thank you leslie and thank you all for being here. I cant tell you how special it is to bee
Told. The first question is, why did you decide to write this now . Is it restless joe syndrome . Was there something more he wanted to say . What motivated you to do this now . Let me say thanks for this interview first of all. Now, it was written to appeal to entrepreneurs so let them know how hard it can be and how rewarding it can be. It offers encouragement to say if i want to start my own business, i should do it, the other thing i wanted to do before i got too old and didnt remember everything because looking at this change from when they dictated the new york stock exchange, think it rid of fixed dimensions and going through of the technology was an inflection and our Financial Service industry and i wanted to tell the story from the inside so people could see a human aspect to it. The harder you work, the luckier you get, is not tongueincheek or he really believe that . I really, really believe it because it happened to me so many times. I think sam cold was the first one that