Militarily and we also have a shorter Attention Span. These are very longterm problems and also americans dont like the word multilateralism. It has too many syllables in it ends and anism but basically its a matter of cooperating and if you look at these issues it will require American Leadership within a system that other countries play a part in. Otherwise i agree with everything both henry and george have said. But i do think short Attention Span and wont see lateral ways of dealing with it. Im sorry mr. Chairman. Not at all. Senator sessions. Thank you all. Its time for us to think about it our role in what our strategy will be and what we can realistically accomplish in the future and the longer ive been around these issues the more or less dreaming i have become. Dr. Kissinger i think im reading world order and i thank you for your contribution to the World Without book. I think you quote bismarck and maybe you can get it correctly. Unhappy as the statesman who is not as happy a
Of course, we are ready to provide information that Congress Needs to evaluate the feds Decision Making in Monetary Policy and elsewhere. With respect to Monetary Policy rules, they can be useful and i find them useful and long have as a kind of benchmark for thinking about what might be the appropriate stance of policy. But to chain a central bank to follow a simple mathematical rule that fails to take account of many things that are very important in making Monetary Policy, for example i was earlier asked about being against the euro lower bound which is an important special consideration, that would be a very foolish thing to do, and i oppose it. With respect to proposals having to do with voting and the structure of the fed that you mentioned, a lot of ideas have been mentioned. I would say for my part i think the Federal Reserve works well. The system we have was put into place by congress decades ago. I dont think its a system thats broken. Of course, congress can revisit decisio
You to give me a moment to come to you with the mic so that the whole event can be heard as well as seen. I also want to ask you to try to formulate a question rather than a statement in fairness to everyone else. It is my great pleasure to introduce to you and to welcome back to labyrinth a friend and neighbor subthree whose book subone wages of rebellion the moral imperative of revolt. He has reported from one of 50 countries working for many major news outlets. For 15 years he was Foreign Correspondent for the New York Times where he was part of a team of reporters that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for the coverage of global terrorism. He is the author of more than a dozen critically acclaimed books which continue to influence and inspire those looking for ways to understand and resist structural inequality and injustice. Chris is a senior fellow at the nation institute. He has taught at Columbia University nyu and in addition to publishing what seems to be out a book a ye
America shared these concerns. Because i got letters by the sackful from people giving me advice on how to avoid bear attack while hacking. Here the basic advice seems to be to go hiking with someone who cant run as fast as you can. [laughter] but there was one letter i got from a lady in New Hampshire that pleased me. When you go hiking out west in grizzly bear country. Two things they tell you you should do whenever you go. First, you should wear bells on the clothing. Because this alerts the bears youre coming and dont overtake them by surprise. The second thing they tell you you should do everywhere you go look on the ground in front of you for grizzly bear dung. The way you can recognize it has bells in it. [laughter] its one other story i want to tell you. Its on my mind. When i say im happy to be back in america. Im happy for all kinds of reasons. But one of them because its the world series. Its the playoffs of the world sugary series. I know, its slightly a touchy issue in atl
Its something that should be valued and should be used utilized. But pure will toy the extent you are comfortable doing that. Sir . [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [laughter] [inaudible] okay. Books and its important to distinguish between me and historians is that im a reporter. Thats all ive ever seen myself doing. What im doing in the books is saying im saying here is what, you know, people have said. H is information. Its not stuff i found out myself inspect is stuff im relaying the scholars, historian, various academics and people like that. This is, you know, they have found. Really im doing the same thing i did if i was doing a newspaper or magazine article. Im finding out what others have done. What the real brains of the world have done and relaying in it a way i hope will be acceptable to people. So the answer, you know, nay couldnt call me an authority on things like that. Oiment not an authority of things like that. The people they have to call in are the people that i