Historically black sites helped to tell the story of africanamerican migration. They argue for additional efforts and resources to preserve such places for current and future generations. This discussion was part of the association for the study of africanamerican life in history annual meeting. Hello, and welcome. Hello and welcome to the association for the study of africanamerican life and histories 104th annual conference. How the National Park service tells the story of black migrations. My name is madeleine, and im the Senior Executive assistant at the National Parks Conservation Association. Is this better . Sorr sorry about that. On behalf of theresa and the president and ceo, thank you for taking the time to join us and welcome. For those of you not familiar with the National Parks Conservation Association, weve been a powerful, independent voice working to strengthen and protect americas National Parks for 100 years. Through our nationwide network of offices and with our more
Country agree to establish diplomatic relations. Iran is a big loser. We will talk with Jared Kushner. Playing tag with sharks. We ride along with scientists tracking the youngest great whites and helping them grow up to be apex predators. Can you say baby shark . First, here is todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. Joe biden is calling for a nationwide mask mandate. Be a patriot. Protect your fellow citizens. Unlike the biden approach, our approach is guided by science. The American Academy of pediatrics suggesting all kids over 2 should wear cloth covering. If the children are old enough to keep a mas on, then you put masks on children. President trump is vowing to block funding for the u. S. Postal service that would aid mailin voting. He does not want people in the middle of a pandemic to vote. Israel and the United Arab Emirates have reached an historic Peace Agreement brokered by the u. S. I wanted it to be called the donald j. Trump act. Major fires in Southern California
Here joining us is chief Investment Officer of the Minnesota State board of investment. Good morning. Good morning, john. How are you . Im doing pretty well i hope you are, too. So, a lot of people trying to figure out what to do with this market your philosophy is to buy the market and not individual equities but this market has been kind of funky i wonder does big techs increasing waiting say in s p 500 concern you . How do you get as diversified as you want to be no. As i said, i mentioned before, we dont look at sector by sector weve been longterm investors and for the most part we buy the market you know, domestically we own the russell 3,000. We do have active managers, but the vast majority of our portfolio is passively managed our equity portfolio is passively managed, same on the International Side so we probably have most stocks that are available to us. Thats done pretty well for you. I wonder with this disconnect between the economy and the market that were seeing does that
All right. I dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . When you went to cornell, your grades were obviously very good. You applied to law school at harvard. You got into Harvard Law School. Was the class half women and half men, or . [laughter] Justice Ginsburg in those ancient days, i went to law school from 1956 to 1959. In my entering class at Harvard Law School, there were over 500 in the class. Nine of us were women. A big jump from martys class, he was a year ahead of me. There were five women in his class. And today, the Harvard Law School has about 50 women. [applause] david now, in your Harvard Law School class, you did extremely well, and you got onto the harvard law review, and you were near the top of your class, maybe first or tied for first in yo
California, florida, and arizona. There are the simple facts that valuations are lofty after 30 rise off the lows. I would notice the cyclical rotation weve been talking about in recent weeks, the flood into cheaper areas of the market has done a total 180. Does the growth sectors stocks it is the growth sectors stocks. That is the worst threeday losing streak since march 18, before we hit the bottom. Dragging the least was the classic safe havens. Consumer staples, communication, tech, they are still down 2 to 3 but that is relative outperformance on a day like today as we are seeing investors flock back towards the stayathome stocks. Kroger up more than 2 . Netflix getting a lift. Butox is flat on the day, it is those virus safety plays investors seem to be interested in. There are a few stocks investors are interested in. Theyre only 11 stocks in the green in the s p 500 at the moment. David thank you kailey leinz for that grim market report. A lot of people focus on washington when