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Force has risen to 75.2% from 73.3% three years ago. unemployment among that group the lowest level since the 1950's. between the back lash to kavanaugh and great economic fortunes should democrats be taking the female vote for granted. joining us now. sara, i want to start with you on this. look at these numbers. i mean just economic numbers for women. more women in the labor force, really since the 1990s, record number of people earning a good living. wages beginning to go up. look at the chart there. since 2000, of course the height of the tech boom and so forth. these are just staggeringly...

Has risen. and that's the lowest level since the 1950s. between the backlash to kavanaugh and the great economic fortune, should democrats be taking the female votes for granted? joining us now, sarah, i want to start with you. look at these numbers. more women in the labor force really since 1990s. a record number of people earning a good living, which is beginning to go up and look at the chart there since 2,000, at the height of the tech boom. these are just staggeringly good economic numbers for women. >> sure.

It's spiritual. think out of box. you have to think out of box to win. >> reporter: and win he has. it's been 19 years since he cofounded alibaba and the company that began in the hung jo china apartment has grown into one of the largest internet companies in the world. in 2014 alibaba's $25 billion ipo was then the largest in u.s. history. and financial, the company's finance subsidiary has invested billions of dollars in companies around the globe. alibaba's e-commerce sites have fundamentally changed the way hundreds of millions of people shop in china and its mobile payment platform revolu...

>> no, and some people would accuse me of having an addiction. i've got boxes coming every day. >> neil: i think my toupee is a lot better today. we will get back. those are some of the giants of the tech boom that got some of the market warring. whether you're talking about the last bull market from the clinton years, that continued obviously into the bush years. it dominated the scene. it creates giants that have seen value that other times people are missing. including my next guest who earned a fortune as a value investor. he belted up, believing that there were buys a lot of people were m...

Phones while they're driving. >> there is a price you pay with respect to that accessibility and that is it's always there, it's always available. you never really unplug. ? with all these new technologies we've become a society of instant gratification. >> i want to download this movie now. i want this song now. i want to read the news now. >> instant gratification has changed our social etiquette too. we now unfriend people. we follow people. we write on their wall. in the '90s that was considered graffi graffiti. >> let's bring in "new york times" technology writer farhan manju. thank you f...