katty kay said earlier, has 2% inflation over 10% inflation, an energy crisis, the possibility of blackouts, 1970-style blackouts coming this winter, and strikes looming on the horizon. things are dark, indeed, for whomever replaces liz truss. she was sort of the ultimate simplistic free marketeer. she felt whatever the circumstances, the tax cuts the solution. of course that s what the markets reacted to. so in a way the ultimate free marketeer was defeated by the free markets. you can t afford this, the timing is offer. the british political system and british people won t accept this in a time of growth. she couldn t defeat the markets. so, whoever comes after her is going to have to first and foremost adhere to james carville s saying, if i died and came back and were recree itted, it would be as the bond markets. but, you know, if you judge britain as a balance sheet, as an economy, as a society, it s actually it looks fine. these are all unforced errors. these are
attacking george floyd, shouldn t be hard. this should not be hard, should it? it should not be hard. call the folks at adidas. it should not be hard. it s not just call them. by the way, call elon musk. i mean, he came out, he could have, you know, roundly condemned it. he said he was troubled by it and called him on the phone. that was only after public pressure. elon can do what he wants with twitter and, you know, kanye could buy this failing media platform called parler, but here s the statement by the media, after repeated efforts to resolve the situation, we have placed the partnership with kanye under review and will continue to co-manage the current product during this period, which means they re still putting out the shoes. what else do they need to review? do they need to review the statement about jewish zionists controlling him, about jewish
you embrace them and give them the opportunity to be educated, but you also have to have consequences. adidas is a company that outfitted the hitler youth. they have deep relationship to the third reich from the 30s and the 40s. for this company to be monetizing kanye west at this moment, making money on anti-semitism, every member of the board should have already stood up and said enough. owe. andrew, we heard, though and i heard corporations are stepping back and they don t want to get involved in cases. it s pretty clear cut. this is just adidas should be out there saying enough of this. but for reasons that i think are maybe it is there is this whole movement inside the business community to step back
record labels owning black people and on and on and on? every consumer of adidas, every investor in adidas should ask themselves, do they want to be part of a company that s monetizing hate. we ll see if they change their position. ceo and national director of the anti-defamation league, jonathan greenblatt. a new msnbc film.
drives somewhere reportedly about $2 billion a year, joe. and while think announced that the partnership was under review after the white lives matter controversy a few weeks ago, his anti-semitism, his vicious anti-jewish attacks haven t merited a peep from adidas leadership, literally not a blip. so i ve got a letter that i just posted to the adidas ceo along with adidas chairman, also the ceo of bertelsmann, and we think it s critical, critical that adidas says it s a values-driven company live those values, like ari emanuel wrote, and drop him. what else do they need to review? the reality is it s a moment when anti-semitic statements are on the rise. for them to be monetizing kanye,