Book blink the power of thinking without thinking which looks at how people make splitsecond decisions. Hello . If everyone can hear me my name is henry center, editorial director of the new yorker magazine i would like to welcome to you to the fifth annual new yorker festival. The message here to say please turn off any cell phones or pager devices. Malcolm will be speaking for about 40 minutes, we will have 20 to 30 minutes of q a after that. During the question period there will be microphones down the aisle and we request that you would speak into the microphone during that time. Malcolm gladwell has been a staff writer for the new yorker magazine since 1996, before that he was a new york bureau chief for the washington post. At the new yorker he very quickly made his mark establishing a new genre of story, the Malcolm Gladwell story. Theres very few people like that in the 80 years of this magazine stop editorial meetings the subjects abcome up and say thats been done to that. Som
Tonight we will encourage you to ask questions which many of you already have. The portion of the event will be dedicated to questions where people have already asked questions and you can vote on those you are most interested in hearing the authors answer. And last you can see us but we cannot see you so feel free to relax and get comfortable. Without further ado, it is my honor to welcome the professor of economics at the State University and contributing columnist to discuss her book. We are also looking to be joined by the Senior Reporter at the post where he covers congress, the white house Economic Policy and discussing the book the price of peace money, democracy and the life of john maynard keynes. Hello, everybody. Nice to be with you. I want to start by talking with stephanie about her book called the deficit myth. A when i listen to the economic commentary there is a talk about the debt and deficit. There was a visit from the link in the project that was antitrump republican
Seattleites. Id like to thank katie for helping us keep the conversation going tonight. Our program can be viewed on our facebook and youtube pages. For viewers who want to watch with closed captioning, click the cc button in the bottom right corner of the video player. The video will be available for rewatching immediately following tonights broadcast. Tonights presentation will last around 3540 minutes. Afterwards, katie will take your questions. Please use the ask a question button on crowd cast, and ill pop back on to run the q and a. Well try to get to as many as possible. Upcoming programs include neil shubin as well as michael shermer, gillian andrews, kurt bloodsworth, sister Helen Prejean and two ongoing series in our annual engage science series featuring reports and our earshot jazz live from the forum. Wered aing new events every adding events every day, and many are available in podcast form on our Digital Media library. So in short, look around the media tab on our home p
Well hear from the former Prime Minister matteo renzi, whos told me why he forced the current crisis. Politics means make choice. I decided to open that crisis, and now there is a government better than in the past. And which celebrity does he look like . The burnley manager tells us what we are really missing in this pandemic is a game of looky likey. Hello. Im Laura Trevelyan in new york. Christian fraser is in london. There was encouraging news for britains government today. First came a preliminary report that the astrazeneca vaccine does reduce transmission of the virus by two thirds. Until now, there had been no real data on that. And the very same study found that delivering a second dose after 12 weeks, rather than three, made the vaccine more effective. The report hasnt been Peer Reviewed but seems to vindicate the uk governments strategy. The other extraordinary news was that by following that strategy, the uk has now vaccinated 10 Million People. 15 of the population has bee
Your question widgeon at the bottom, you can see more people are really ask questions. And you can answer questions and you can those on the questions that you are most interested in hearing your author sensor. And lastly, just a reminder to everyone that you busiest but cannot see you. So feel free to relax and accountable. So without any further ado, is my daughters to introduce stephanie kelton. She said that State University of new york right and columnist. Modern terry. Tonight were also lucky to be joined by Patrick Carter who is a senior reporter. It was congress, the white house and economic policies. Tonight will be discussing his book, the crisis piece, money democracy and the life of john. Without any further ado, heres zachary and stephanie. Hi everybody it is really nice to be with you and i want to start by talking to stephanie about her book which is called the deficit myth. Stephanie la care about is when i listen to the commentaries and talk about debt and deficits. Th