Ladies and gentlemen nothing is more important at this moment in our history how they wish to be judged by history this stock market reached yet another all time high today in history The longest stretch of job creation in our history. History is

not a cookbook. It doesn't give you exact recipes to understand the president

or predict the future.

But what it does is give you context, it gives you comparisons,

it gives you perspective.

History doesn't repeat itself, but to use the old saw, it does rhyme.

Things that may seem perplexing to you have their roots and things that happened in the past.

It would be as if you were trying to tell your story to someone

but you didn't know where you were born you didn't know who your parents

were you didn't have any memories of things that had happened when you were a child

history consists of of things in the past that have had a bearing on the present that you might want to know that help you explain why you're in the situation you're in,

why we are in a situation in a given society.

We need perspective in history. Sometimes things that look very

important at the time turn out not to be that important and sometimes things that

look very unimportant turn out to be very important. History doesn't reveal itself

right away and we need to think about it, we need to look at the evidence we need to

interpret it. Now as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to grow, so are the parallels being drawn between it

and another deadly virus that struck the globe more than a century ago.

A pandemic of 1918. From the International Monetary Fund, a stark warming.

It is the worst crisis since the Great Depression.

The Great Depression almost a century ago.

NASCAR is banning the Confederate battle flag.

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