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Writers festival. This is 45 minutes. Please welcome tim harford. [applause]. Thank you very much everyone. Host i dont believe in long preambles but i thought i should say a few words. I am well aware the many of you have no idea who i am printed as a thank you for showing up on the spirits of pure curiosity. It speaks very well of you. Even though its a really big name for the festival. I feel very honored to be amongst them. So who am i, few things. Already called the undercover columnist for the Financial Times. It is really good. I recommend it printed thank you sir. [laughter]. The second thing is im with radio. I chauffeur the media world service, fifty inventions that shaped the modern economy. And how we think about numbers and how numbers sometimes lead us astray. They help us understand the world. And i also have a podcast with a gentleman called Michael Lewis and ....
Say the latest move is at least a step in the right direction. I recently tackled the issue of pay to play, take a look. In a time when College Students were caught treated like slobbering socialist children, its nice to see the ncaa finally treats student athletes like the hardworking adults they actually are. The average division i student athletes spend over 35 hours. Week just pursuing their athletic dreams in midseason i while highprofile football and basketball coaches make millions of dollars a year. In 41 out of it he states they are the highest paid public employees. These matriculating stalwarts are nothing, snake eyes, dog poo, following a bill that sailed to the California Legislature granted golden state athletes the right to profit off their name, and likeness, the ncaa has officially followed suit. And starting in january 2021, players from every spor ....
Least a step in the right direction. I recently tackled the issue of pay to play, take a look. In a time when College Students were caught treated like slobbering socialist children, its nice to see the ncaa finally treats student athletes like the hardworking adults they actually are. The average division i student athletes spend over 35 hours. Week just pursuing their athletic dreams in midseason i while highprofile football and basketball coaches make millions of dollars a year. In 41 out of it he states they are the highest paid public employees. These matriculating stalwarts are nothing, snake eyes, dog poo, following a bill that sailed to the California Legislature granted golden state athletes the right to profit off their name, and likeness, the ncaa has officially followed suit. And starting in january 2021, players from every sport and gender can finally e ....
i pay over $1230 in rent alone. i got two kids i m taking care of so anything can help me out right now. very high eggs, $5 and up. milk, $5 a gallon. bread, $4 just for a loaf of bread. it s ridiculous. we paid $8.99 for a dozen eggs. it s a struggle for any family because the price of food is outrageous. when e moved here, rent was relatively cheap. now it s like you really got to have a second or third job just to keep up with rent. laura: well, despite all of this, biden thinks you should be feeling pretty upbeat. just this morning we got some very good news about the american economy, i m not sure and i mean this that the news couldn t have been any better. laura: couldn t have been any better. i don t know what s lower at this point? his own pulse or his ability to read the pulse of the american people. 71% of the country say we re on the wrong track and that s the eighth time the number was above 70% and nbc itself saying we ve never before seen t ....