To direct it in a certain direction that he felt was beneficial for the union. Was he misguided . Very possibly . Was he successful . Absolutely not. But what is important was who this person was and why, unfortunately, he disappeared from everything. The library came up for a title of this program, David Rice Atchison, the president no one knows. And i realized that long ago in another lifetime as a journalist, i actually wrote a curriculum for the newspaper i worked for entitled the exact same thing. However, in learning more about him, maybe the title should be David Rice Atchison, the man, the senator and the president that no one knows. [ laughter ] what i find most interesting about David Rice Atchison and what stirred the creation of our president ial library is besides his 24 hours of infamous status as president , is that this man who was nearing the pinnacle of his political career, who was considered one of the most able senators of his time, a man so well respected by his c
Congress now considering a temporary Unemployment Insurance extension. Ahead on todays show, as more government money flows into vaccine efforts, well speak with the ceo of thur ermo fishe. Plus micro Loan Campaign affirm striking a deal with shopify well teex wispeak with marks ln about that and a number of names are reporting after the close including microsoft, tesla and chipotle those numbers could move the market this evening. Lets get straight to the big stories were watching today mike santoli is tracking all of the action meg tirrell has the latest funding for pfizer and phil lebeau has fresh comments from the ceo of united about what a vaccine would mean for his business subdued summer choppy action the Market Holding up near recent highs the major takeaway from the action so far. The s p 500 on a oneyear basis, you could look at this and say were laboring to make further upside from where we got in early june that is true this looks like relatively defined uptrend. The questi
And into the fryer good thursday morning welcome to squawk alley. Were at post nine of the new york stock exchange. Dow is down 91 currently the worst drop of the year so far. The big news today though, amazon announcing the finalist for the hq2. We have details. Good morning, carl. And lets go straight to a map of the 20 contenders youll see that most of the locations, they fall in the midwest, south, and east coast of the country away from amazons current home of seattle and the west coast in general where most of the Biggest Tech Companies are. The only city from this coast, the west coast on that list is los angeles. And the only city outside the u. S. Is toronto, canada. It has tons of engineering talent close by. An interesting candidate given the current political environment. Now other contenders include cities that already have ties to amazon or jeff bezos like austin and washington, d. C. , and where he himself bought a home last year the other cities on the list like boston,
I thought i would again by taking a couple minutes and talk about what i think are the disequilibrium that are impacting the middle east, impacting the whole world, and i want to give each of the ministers a chance to talk about are creating as did disequilibrium, but how we stabilize the region. I think we are in the middle of three Climate Changes at once. We are in the middle of the climate of the climate. Were going from what i call later to now. Americaas growing up in come in the 1960s and 1970s, later was when you could fix lay,river, clean that appear that for us, save that orangutan. You could save it now, you can save it later. Later is officially over. Later now will be too late. Climate change, we see it in the middle east with rising temperatures and rising water issues among others. We are in the middle of a change of climate of globalization. We are going from a world that was interconnected to a world that is hyper connected to a world that is now interdependent. An int
Rao. She is the administrator of that Regulatory Affairs for everybody in this room and in this town commonly known. That is a lingo. This is reminding me of one of the first events i ever did here at bookings. I hosted eight years ago. It was then the administrator. For one of the first events. There was a group of protesters out front one of him was wearing a full on costume with the trashcan assigned and face sign. I think it was him. They were singing a very creatively written a song. That was a play on oscars famous song. I will say it was effective because without that i would never have remembered the disposal rule. There you go. I will say thankfully that this is nothing so exciting happening outside of the room today. It does highlight a serious point which is that the job of the administrator is already controversial and its frequently contentious. They oversee the regulatory process for the executive agencies. Its responsible for vetting the agencys tallies and the cost of f