david rubenstein, peer-to-peer conversations.as dealing with some nutella mail we got and bitcoin is not under 36,000, it will just now preach 33,000. lisa: you can see a real deterioration across the index, particularly the nasdaq. bitcoin is indicative of a risk off feel we see across markets. i wonder whether it becomes a bit of a systemic risk, and i did not mean in terms of collapsing the system, not to exaggerate this, but the idea a lot of big companies have invested heavily in bitcoin, the semiconductor producers have benefited from the crypto asset search. how much of this would be reflected in the risk off feel? tom: we will people you abreast of this with bloomberg technology, what joe weisenthal is doing in the afternoon as well. this is bitcoin in retreat and plunging. i will break protocol and type when we are on screen. lisa: why not? tom: mike will probably email and say what is the function? we look for news flow into the 9:00 hour while we get a plunge, now down over $4000. those are dollars, not index points. l

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david rubenstein peer-to-peer conversations. neral motors company has been around 1908 through various iterations. it has been reinvigorated with mary barra, she is chairman and chief executive of general motors. here is david westin. david: it is a good day for you and good day for will durant. looking at the numbers, one of the things i look at is the top line and the profitability. you did so much better than anybody expected. you almost put shame to analysts. my question is how did you do that? how did you get so much more money and profit out of a relatively flat revenue? mary: is a number of issues. strong demand for our full-size trucks and suvs. the chevrolet silverado, the gmc sierra, the escalate, the tahoe, there is exceptionally strong demand for those products. that is what is driving high average transaction prices because the demand is so high. we have able to be disciplined on incentives. gm financial has done an excellent job of taking advantage of higher used car prices and a strong market. we are also seeing re

david rubenstein had thoughts on that topic this morning. >> i think it's yhere to stay cryptocurrencys not going away yesterday is not a good day for it but that's true of anything that's relatively new and i don't think you'll see crypto going away it is here and here because people in the market want something other than the traditional currencies and whether that's right or wrong it is something that the market wants. >> kind of indicating that institutional interest perhaps in crypto. joining us is luke kerner. lou, you are super bullish on bitcoin so i assume you think this is a buying opportunity but what do you think of the demand and the rest of it >> yeah. i am looking out ten years and think that bitcoin will be at least a million dollars in ten years. i'm pretty sure it will go up and down in very wild swings because that's what it does. i think we had six down swings of about -- more than -- if you have been in bitcoin a while you have seen this again and again. >> i saw your stat about a million dollars and trying to do the quick math you're talking about maybe 25 milli m

gender this panel will be moderated by association senior vice president and director of the david m. rubenstein national center for white house history dr. colleen shogan. my name is dr. colleen shogan, and i'm a senior vice president at the white house historical association and the director of the david rubinstein center for white house history. i'm honored this morning to moderate our opening panel of the first ladies symposium. the consistent variable of focus for this first discussion is gender. undoubtedly the historical role of first ladies has been affected by changing conceptions of gender that historical evolution continues today. specifically in this panel, we will examine gender through a variety of lenses including societal relationships societal ideals material culture art and the history of slavery. our first presenter is dr. sara. georgini who is a series editor for the papers of john adams. she will be speaking on the style and substance of abigail adams. sarah will be followed by dr. cassandra good assistant professor of history at marymountain university dr. good will focus o