And my contributions to your pbs station before viewers like you, tha you, thank you. Dr. Bregman is a historian and author who argues its time to rethink the add cal idea of universal basic income. Hes assembled multiple studies and Success Stories to make his case and even convinced more than 20 cities around the globe to start a basic inkim experiment. His book is titled utopia for realists how we can build the ideal world. Im honor to have you on this program. Thanks for having me. There are three basic components, one, universal income, 15hour workweek and open borders. Lets take them in that order. Tell me and tell the audience what universal basic income is. Very simple. It is a monthly amount thats enough to pay for your basic needs, food, shelt, he educational. Its completely conditional so no one tells us what to have you doll for it or with it. So everybody gets it whether uhrich or poor, everybody gets it. Bill gates gets it but also every beggar on the street. It goes all
And my contributions to your pbs station before viewers like you, tha you, thank you. Dr. Bregman is a historian and author who argues its time to rethink the add cal idea of universal basic income. Hes assembled multiple studies and Success Stories to make his case and even convinced more than 20 cities around the globe to start a basic inkim experiment. His book is titled utopia for realists how we can build the ideal world. Im honor to have you on this program. Thanks for having me. There are three basic components, one, universal income, 15hour workweek and open borders. Lets take them in that order. Tell me and tell the audience what universal basic income is. Very simple. It is a monthly amount thats enough to pay for your basic needs, food, shelt, he educational. Its completely conditional so no one tells us what to have you doll for it or with it. So everybody gets it whether uhrich or poor, everybody gets it. Bill gates gets it but also every beggar on the street. It goes all
Through recess and work on it but we can work on it in the fall. We need to get it done this calendarrier. Charles stocks dropped shortly thereafter. What happens if businesses and investorses start to get antsy here . Its starting to become a reality but also the promises have to become a reality too, whats the timeline . We heard it earlier this week mnuchin said august. If it es beyond august of this year, you will start to e first and foremost volatility and uncertainty. [inaudible conversations] i want to thank each of the House Committee leaders for being with us today. Devotion and leadership has been amazing. I want to applaud you and the diligent work of your committees to advance the Obamacare Repeal and replacement legislation that weve been talking about for a long time and that we have been running with and i ran with and i can tell you and thats what people want, they want repeal and replace. The bill passed just now through ways and means and it will i think, the Committ
Afternoon. The fbi secretly arrested an nsa kr contractor for stealing contract materials. He worked just like Edward Snowden. Another black eye for the firm and shares are moving slightly lower. We have details on what was allegedly stolen and the potential fallout here coming up. Meantime, salesforce. Com is reportedly getting more serious about this bid for twitter. Shares of both stocks moving in opposite directions, although there has been a comeback of sorts for twitter. Jim will get more on this. A possible bid for twitter by it sales force. The weaponization of finance. Thats when countries like the u. S. Use the power of banks to impose its will on other countries. Ian bremmer will explain the risks of this strategy. Its a lot to think about. Hes calling it after the gzero. Youve got the imf meetings tomorrow. This will help get us in the mood for global conversations. Lets start with western crude at 50 a barrel. Plus this discovery, more oil off the coast of alaska. Jackie d
And how changes in the storyline are going to change the layout. So, it is a lot of people in this room, hashing out problems, having a good time, too. Carol you put magazine puzzle together right now. That includes what is in the future section. This week, you talk about valeants ceo, he was in the news a lot this week. Ellen he was in the news a lot this week. If you remember last year, he kind of vanished after a scandal involving valeant raising drug prices a lot. It caught the attention of hillary clinton. And it became kind of this big, sort of public outrage over raising prices, partly because of martin skrelli, who was indicted for other reasons. And, then he got sick and went , on medical leave and vanished. This week, he reappeared, he went back to work, and lo and behold, almost immediately, they announced that there was an sec investigation into the company. Carol it is a story that just gets more and more interesting. Another story that i think is very interesting, and you