Thats the way people get to have a book. Its a very supported art in st. Paul i would say, and in minneapolis. Very respected and supported. I didnt start writing until i was 40. It was like your accident. I think both poets dont decide, i suppose some do, dont decide when their little kid, i will be a poet. Ive been keeping a journal when i was raising a family. I decided i would go to the loft which is our Literary Center and take a class about how to write a novel our how to put all the stuff in the book. Someone recommended that i see a writer who she knew who had a big family just like mine. She had three children. I had seven. Or situation, as long as im there ill take a class in poetry and thats how it all started. What were you doing before you got into all this . I lived in new york for a while and work for wonder magazine. Then i was writing for the newspaper, for the st. Paul pioneer press. But also all that i was writing poetry. But when that ended us able to give a lot mor
It was on the minds of some of the Founding Fathers. On september 5, 1787, at the constitutional convention, they were discussing the public land related authorities in the constitution, including the authority that has now been included in whats often referred to as the enclave clause, article 1, 78 clause 17. Wufl delegates to the one of the delegates, elbridge garrett, a delegate from massachusetts stood before the convention and made an astute observation. There gary said this power, that is the power of congress over federal public lands might be made use of to enslave any particular state by buying up its territory and that the strong holds proposed would be a means of aweing the state into undue obedience into the general government. Close quote. Then as now wise observes often came from the state of massachusetts. Then as now, we have a grave risk associated with the fact that when the federal government owns this much land, the federal government has this much power and it was
Today. We had some substantial moves in fx. Janet yellen, she has moved markets. It is still a big focus for equity markets as well. Lets get a first look. Futures shrugging off those geopolitical concerns. They are isolated on russia at the moment. The ftse 100 up about 0. 1 . The dax pretty much dead flat. Boring on the equity benchmarks in europe. China confirms what we already knew. A slowdown in china. The currency having its worst week in 20 years. That is what everybody is talking about. Euro dollar, 1. 3768. Look at this. Euro is having its worst week since january. Down 1 against the dollar. Nothing to do with the ecb. They may well be very thankful for Janet Yellens words. Was it a slip . Did she mean to say that a considerable amount of time means six months after qe ends . Four fed speakers look out for every single word they say. That is their opportunity to backtrack from Janet Yellens words. That is your number one focus today. Thank you so much, Jonathan Ferro with the
Hello, welcome to countdown. Im mark barton. Edwards. Nna stay with bloomberg all morning because we have big interviews coming your way. The first door opening in dubai, the First International store. We will be speaking with the ceo , taking us through the decision, later on countdown. Exclusive interviews, u. S. Relations with the u. K. , and ,ollowing the latest earnings an exclusive conversation. States and the European Union have or although the list of russians targeted for further sanctions over crimea. Eu leaders met for the second day of a twoday summit in brussels. The possibility of more sanctions top the agenda. Ryan chilcote is in brussels with the latest. Good morning. Late last night, the eu expanded its blacklist of russian officials that will be subjected to asset freezes and travel bans based on short of economic sanctions. I followed her next mention of the United States blacklist. They expanded the number of officials they will expose to asset freezes, broadening i
Here we are with the secret world of oil. On the seamy injured underside of the oil business. And the question youre probably sick of answering, why did you write this book . Ive written been the oil industry for a long time. Ive written for over a decade. And ive written about the corruption of the International Oil industry, and the way the United States maintains Close Relationships with various pretty unattractive regimes and the basis legalizationship is oil. When i was at the Los Angeles Times in 2002, when first start writing about the topic. I wrote about the obion family of in new guinea. Nobody knew about it or cared about it. A pariah state. Terrible dictatorship, and dirt poor. And then in the mid1990s, exxon found a lot of oil off the coast of Equatorial Guinea and other American Companies poured in, and suddenly thisship changed. It was no longer a poo rye ya and thats there was this close, still on a friendly relationship because its embarrassing but a reapproachment and