city attorney, barbara parker, debra ally smith director port of oakland so we have our two port directors in the room which, is wonderful and if i miss someone please forgive me or come up and harass me about it latter. we had a. q. year at the business times, i'll say in 2012 and everything is up, print six declaration, web audience one .2 million page views a month and growing advertising is up and so far so good in 2013. we made our first month, all right so that is always a good way to start the year, so. i hope you subscribe. i hope you also receive all of the digital information the expanding array of information we send out in that way if you don't subscribe today, you can save a little money if you see our circulation folks just for thank you going for being ore we will give you a book of list and you have access to the premium content resemble and follow up to drop your business card on the business times table you can draw for a 200 doctor gift certificate and feel free to tweet any information from this morning event and it's hash tag s f o mayors and it's up on the screen. so

barbara jordan oakland city counsel. pat concern ham. oakland port commissioner instead of butt inner and bryan parker and deputymary sandra sum sum. so, that was wrong sorry. mayor khan, you are going to have do me better on that. so, now, for a look at the economy and financial markets broadly and also, drilling down into the region we are delighted to have tim quinn lynn an economist with wells fargo securities to she had light on what the future hold tim quinn lynn provides analysis on financial markets macro economic developments in the mainly economies in the world he writes for wells fargo monthly economic reports these are great report if you get them by-the-way, and provides regular updates on industrial production, business spendings and manufacturings and tim has flown across the country to be be us and so we are so delighted and so please welcome from wells far go tim quinn lynn economist: . >> thank you very much for having me here today. i have got about ten minutes to spend with you and in that time, what i would like to do is sort-of describe some of the big challenges that you the united states economy faces right

city attorney, barbara parker, debra ally smith director port of oakland so we have our two port directors in the room which, is wonderful and if i miss someone please forgive me or come up and harass me about it latter. we had a. q. year at the business times, i'll say in 2012 and everything is up, print six declaration, web audience one .2 million page views a month and growing advertising is up and so far so good in 2013. we made our first month, all right so that is always a good way to start the year, so. i hope you subscribe. i hope you also receive all of the digital information the expanding array of information we send out in that way if you don't subscribe today, you can save a little money if you see our circulation