and so as i worked in britain next to this guggenheim fellowship a group including group. i go back to antiquity and liquor western culture in general. it is somewhat more intellectual, history certainly there's not much social history and it. when i moved on to the problem of slavery in the age of revolution and dealing with the industrial revolution as well as with the american and french revolution. the political revolutions and so on. and so am beginning i'm beginning in the 2nd volume to deal a good bit with one thing that abolitionists were up against. the 1st the question is why at a given moment in history to a fairly small group of men and women come to see slavery as an absolutely terrible evil when it had been accepted pretty much from olivia going back to plato and aristotle and so on. and so revolution doing with the had a transformation of moral perception quite a few people who view is terrible but the relationship with that free factory labor. and with this book i am able to be much much, much more selective because i had written a different books on the su

when i was a super lucky to get a fellowship in 58 and went off to britain for the head of the guggenheimthe group thought i should go abroad given my interest. i emerged myself in london on what became the problem of slavery in the western culture and what was going to be just a background chapter became a whole book so i was launched that way on the first volume. >> did you imagine that when they do it right each of which he clicks >> i did. >> when you finished did you think the first chapter, that is supposed to be the first chapter and then to make this a book and write to others? >> i anticipated i would be writing more, yes. >> did you imagine three books? cynic i am not sure. >> in the wake of the narrative both of his parents were writers, his mom and dad. his father went to for. was there a time that he thought i'd would like to be eight writer as well? >> i very much was interested in writing, yes. when i was an undergraduate, i took some summer classes at columbia university in the language and writing fiction and there was a well-known teacher but she didn't like my efforts.

according to guggenheim securities the l.a. long beach port alone accounts for nearly 40% of containerized trade and estimated 12.5% of u.s. gdp tied to cargo moving through the west coast ports. as we told you last night, work has been suspended again. this time for four days. jane wells has more. >> reporter: on thursday more than 40 container ships were either anchored off the west coast or circling waiting for anchoragestan argo pacific representing employers saiding crews withecially since thursday r pay.n yore foreman. same pay for this weekend and mond president'either. which it a strike with pay. >> every time we solve an issue that's important, they layer on new demands. the latest one we can't live with. >> reporter: according to management the demand it cannot live with is one by dock workers to be able to unilaterally fire arbitrators. goods take weeks longer than normal to move in and out of the west coast, congress is worried. >> well this is clearly the greatest threat our nation faces. notwithstanding the stuff

according to guggenheim securities the l.a. long beach port alone accounts for nearly 40% of containerized trade and estimated 12.5% of u.s. gdp tied to cargo moving through the west coast ports. as we told you last night, work has been suspended again. this time for four days. jane wells has more. >> reporter: on thursday more than 40 container ships were either anchored off the west coast or circling waiting for anchorage saves. came to a standstill. >> do not listen to pma's [ bleep ]. stay united. >> that's how strained it's become against the union repting longshoremen with cargo backed up the pacific maritime association or pma representing employers said there was no point in hiring crews with vessels, especially since thursday lincoln's birthday requires higher pay. as much as $82 for the most seen yore foreman. the same pay for this weekend and mond president's day. no ship work either. as the pma calls the congestion which it blames on dock workers, a strike with pay. >> every time we solve an issue that's important,

he has worked for years under grants with guggenheim, ford, macarthur all of those been a scholar and resident at harvard. he and his wife, ginger, a clinical psychologist, doctor ginger roads lives in california. they have two children and grandchildren. it is a trait -- it is a treat tonight because he brings us "hell and good company: the spanish civil war and the world it made". please join in welcoming richard rhodes. [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you for having me tonight. one of the casualties of moving into the spaces we do not have my slides. i we will have to be a serious offer and describe the images. there basically pictures from the time of the war and i suspect you have seen most of them at one time or another. i came across the subject for this book -- well i should say 1st, they're must be 500 books on the spanish civil war. by the time i acquired most of them they filled have my library, and it was "hell and good company" by the time i was finished. there still coming as there always are with history aspects of the war that really never get covered. probabl

major retrospective she is the first african-american photographer, she had a retrospective at the guggenheim, my brother, who is a will record photographer, a world-renowned tartar for an artist and younger amazing -- world-renowned photographer and artist, and younger, amazing artists, also some other artists who were part of a collective in new york. one was an amazing commercial photographer, and some younger photographers as well. brian lamb: you must have hundreds of photographs? thomas allen harris: yes. brian lamb: what is going to do with the so-called outtakes that you are not going to use? thomas allen harris: we have them on the youtube channel and we will have them on the dvd extras. brian lamb: can they see them on the youtube channel now? thomas allen harris: yes ddfr .ddt.com. brian lamb: so people can upload from your website? thomas allen harris: yes and we have another website which brings together both the digital and the cell, and is called one world, one family and me, and that has all of the videos as well. brian lamb: you make a point in your film about when blacks who

guggenheim had a great call. >> final trades? >> hertz finally recovering. >> h & r block, unusual activity. >> on this dip, merck is a buy. >> that does it for us. have a great rest of the day. "power lunch" starts now. >>> "halftime" is over. "power lunch" and the second half of the trading day starts right now. >> scott, thank you very much. after ending january deep in the red, february so far gangbusters for the stock market. the rally putting the dow and s&p back on the break even point for the year to date. but don't get too carried away. investors fretting about the stocks and sectors that are actually leading the gains and why this good news may actually be some bad news. >>> the second largest u.s. health insurer hacked. anthem hit by a massive cybersecurity breach exposing up to 80 million people. social security numbers, e-mails, employer info. how much your stolen data is worth to cybercriminals. you will be shocked. >>> and reaching a critical stage at the port. the l.a. port saying it is days days away from a total

guggenheim had a great call. >> final trades? >> hertz finally recovering. >> h & r block, unusual activity. >> on this dip, merck is a buy. >> that does it for us. have a great rest of the day. "power lunch" starts now. >>> "halftime" is over. "power lunch" and the second half of the trading day starts right now. >> scott, thank you very much. after ending january deep in the red, february so far gangbusters for the stock market. the rally putting the dow and s&p back on the break even point for the year to date. but don't get too carried away. investors fretting about the stocks and sectors that are actually leading the gains and why this good news may actually be some bad news. >>> the second largest u.s. health insurer hacked. anthem hit by a massive cybersecurity breach exposing up to 80 million people. social security numbers,

fields as ford tries to map out a different strategy globally for the auto company casesa was with guggenheime he led the auto partners as they were managing dealings in the auto industry and for years he was one of the lead analysts for merrill lynch. a lot of people look at this and say this reminds me of gm hiring steve gur ski a number of years ago at the time people said why would gm hire gursy, turned out to be a great move and ford is hoping to replicate that with john casesa, regarded in the industry will lead ford's mobile strategy. >> thanks so much, phil lebeau with a development in the auto space. another development in case you missed it, taxi medallions are no longer a safe investment according to jefferies. the average price has fallen about 20% since peaking in 2013. jefferies blames the arrival of car apps like uber which is only increased supply and forced prices lower. jefferies recommends going long u.s. banks and shorting taxi medallions but if you were shorting medallion financial corp one of the only publicly traded stocks in the space you would be getting crushed up 8%

scott minerd is set to tell us what guggenheim is telling their clients to do with their money.te management making big green taking out the garbage. david steiner's going to talk trash with us when "squawk box" returns. know that chasing performance can mean lower returns and fewer choices in retirement. know that proper allocation could help increase returns so you can enjoy that second home sooner. know the right financial planning can help you save for college and retirement. know where you stand with pnc total insight. a new investing and banking experience with personalized guidance and online tools. visit a branch, call or go online today. >>> welcome back everybody. a lot of times people wonder what the average investor can do to reap return in this low rate environment. let's peer into that with scott minerd. he is our guest host to us for the past hour and next hour as well. scott, people wonder that all the time. they think the only good deals are for those who have millions. >> right. it's interesting. we were always an institutional high net worth-ultrahigh net wort

do include the american council of society the coleman center for scholars and writers and the guggenheim foundation. now then to cotton. tonight professor beckert will tell us a story of the commodity that brought his capitalism and in the process he will challenge us to rethink the meaning and the history of that social formation and indeed the meaning and the history of the modern world itself. thank you everyone for coming. [applause] >> thank you so much for being here tonight. i am delighted to be here and i'm very much much looking forward to our discussion. as you know "empire of cotton" the book that i'm going to be talking about for the next 45 or 50 minutes was published approximately two months ago and i'm honored to be able to present it here at the new school for the first time in new york city as julia just mentioned. the new school has indeed played a very important role in its genesis because it was here that i took seminars with professor george tilly and hobsbawm and for those of you who had a chance to begin reading the book were for those of you who will eventually re

an investor warren stevens out of little rock, david bonderman of tpg capital, alan schwartz of guggenheimlist of pretty great people. >> you're overpriced already. your valuation is outrageous. >> could you just for my kids tell me i'm out and they'll be happy. >> i'll do better. marc, you're dead to me! >> i think kevin is going to be using this before too long. >> exactly. >> i just wonder what senders might think about security issues or any issues in terms of having either someone come to the waffle house that is somewhere public to meet. but you also go to their home or their place of business. what are some of the security concerns and what have you done to alleviate those concerns? >> last word marc? >> absolutely. sure if i'm going to bring you your couch, you probably don't want me to drop it in front of the waffle house there is chain of custody the whole way. so you know what it looks like in the front end, the middle and the back end there is $500 worth of insurance that comes with every gig, which is what we call the shipments which is five times what the traditional carriers

joining us on set, analyst and at do guggenheim partners. not so hot now.he costco relationship, but exposed by the costco relationship, is the fact that this company's done a great job of growing its earnings faster than its revenues. but with the loss loss of costco it has to recapture share -- >> do you blame amex or was it a costco thing? they disputed over fees. which suggests amex valued the best -- >> could have kept it. >> everything's available at a price, right. >> it's a question how much do you want to erode your returns. is that accretive over time. >> jim cramer's point they were misleading on the conference call, didn't fess up to admit now much this is going to cost future potential earnings. >> yeah, i think i take a slightly different perspective on than i don't think they dissuaded the market from an incorrect view how big the relationship was. >> you think it's not that big of a relationship? >> no in other words, historically, they seemed to imply it wasn't as big as it turned out to be. so to a certain extent i agree with the managemen

the chief creative officer and co-president at the entertainment group at guggenheim media janice mines, bianca and micah to deal with here. let everyone get our names worth and get it over with. what's good for the oscars looking ahead? >> looks good for "birdman." i'm saying best picture. go out there. largest voting block for the oscars is actors and actors love a movie about a tortured actor and it's done extremely well. so i a"birdman" and i say best actress, julianne moore. it's a lock. >> really? >> we interviewed a bunch of academy voters one said i feel sorry for the other four women who had to go to 5,000 dinners and pretend they might win when there's not a chance. >> she's never won. >> up 1,000 times and never won. >> she's so nice. best director? >> i'm going to say richard blinklater for boyhood. an amazing feat. a lot of people found the movie maybe a little slow. to be able to pull that out over 12 years is a feat directors dream of and the fact it was financed 12 years, no one fired along the way is a major hollywood accomplishment. >> what a genius idea, too. to act