To talk about this topic. Explored in a new book by 104 speakers today. James steyer. Hes the ceo of Common Sense Media. Advocacy organization for families and schools. This program is being held in association with Common Sense Media. Jim is the editor of the new book, which side of history, how technology is reshaping technology in our lives. It offers a collection of essays and how technology is affecting democracy and the society and our future. This available for books are sold. His jointed today but one of the contributors to the book, frank. Hes a writer of the atlantic and author of two books himself. Contributions will focus on the new era. We will discuss that and much more here today. Before we come to the conversation, one final note before we start. You have a question for either jim or frank, please post in the youtube chat box or the facebook Comment Section target and they will be to me during this program. So lets go ahead and get started. First of all, congrats to bot
Local drycleaner. How that industry is trying to get back on its feet it is wednesday, june 24 this is Worldwide Exchange here on cnbc good morning and welcome wherever in the world you may be watching here is how the markets and stock futures are setting up they are downright now about 186 points remember, futures at this hour can move around rapidly. Well keep checking in the question of the morning or month, quarter or year is whether stocks can continue their remarkable run the nasdaq their eighth session low. The dow up 19 up 31 on the nasdaq 100 just this quarter continuing to focus on technology and the runup to increased investor concentration to fewer and fewer names stocks like amazon, microsoft, google, facebook counting for 22 of the s p 500 total market cap that is the biggest, smallest slice in the history of the markets. The fewest Companies Account for the greatest weight in the history of the modern American Market four of those names are trading once again at alltime
Up next Senate Lawmakers look into regulations and safety issues for large trucks. The Senate Commerce subcommittee heard from those who work in the Trucking Industry and a truck safety group. Authorization. Several trucking policies found many changes in the past decade including changes in both the industry and regulatory changes at the federal motor carrier safety administration. In nebraska, the hours of service at the top of the list. Concerns from truckers are consistent. These regulations are in flexible and do not reflect realworld situations. Because the Trucking Industry, 1sizefitsall approach fails, each of the different types of operations. Congress requires them to enforce Service Requirements. To be sure drivers dont drive when fatigued and delegated significant authority to f m csa for these requirements. A notice of proposed rulemaking for Service Requirements. To update regulations, interested stakeholders made their comments known to the agency. One has faced the chal
Eastern. Next, representatives from the faa and the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration join two assistant transportation secretaries to talk about new technology and government regulation. The Transportation Research board hosted this event. All right. Good afternoon, everybody. I hope youre all doing very well today. We are all very much excited to be here with you. On behalf of secretary elaine chao. To present to you on laying the foundation for advanced Transportation Technology. Ill let our panelists introduce themselves in a moment. We want to let you know we appreciate you. Youre a critical audience for us representing researchers and thinking that goes into laying the foundation for a lot of tho these advanced transportation technologies. Trv is a fantastic event. People who attend trv tend to be a wonkier crowd. Understand what were saying more times than not. Hearing from you helps inform everything were doing. Were very much looking forward to this panel today. W
Silicon valley tGlobal Health cares when nasdaq leading the way while the dow gains 83 points, s p up 6. 7 were here to cheer the most Economic System in history. Capitalism is taking the lumps like since the Great Depression and some is selfinflicted we have real problems with income inequality like the money that boeing was to pay dennis mulingberger can the new ceo change the companys trajectory or a Corporate Culture that seems to have gotten rotten and the ugly emails and it appears engineers deceived the federal regulators about the need for more Pilot Training to handle the maps but they did need training to handle the systems as the company made clear last week. Boeing is not putting capitalism best foot forward here undeniably so. Lets not throw the baby out with the bath water. And that stems from the everything i see happening here in San Francisco now we have a real windfall here this week jp morgan is hosting the Largest Health care con presence of the year and well explor