Secondwealthiest man in the world . Is that right . Klaus schwab is the entrepreneur, the engineer, the economist, and the maestro who has organized the World Economic forum over the last 50 years. In over 50 years, it has been a place where the elites of the world have gathered to talk about global issues. I have been a member of the World Economic forum board for a number of years, and i have seen up close the extraordinary skills of klaus schwab. Let me ask you, at the end of january for the last 50 years or so, the elites of the world, the most famous businesspeople, the most famous heads of state gather in davos to talk about various financial issues. This january, is it going to be possible . Klaus yes, we come together for the usual week, that in the virtual form. It is so important to look at the agenda of 2021 and to shape the agenda. We are at a crossroads. But the Virtual Meeting is not enough, so we combined it with a meeting where people physically will meet again, later i
Economy to be reimagined and reconfigured in the way of a Global Pandemic that is shut down the daytoday operations of the economy. So that is a challenge that first order is to migrate my own job so the first person i thought of they happily complied dean baker senior economist for Economic Policy research the most recent book is called rigged and one of the reasons i admire as we go tonight as a fierce critic of the status quo and intellectual property. And its an ebook form also joining us is the staff writer kate i believe it is working on a book manuscript now and recently contributed the teacher is hours . So i want to thank you both for taking part in two dates discussion and the spirit of economic revival. If you are engaged of the topics of tonights discussion with the recent appearance on the podcast the politics of everything and reimagining the economy. Also to be a part of this discussion and its going live on facebook right now. And thats all i got. So to start with a ver
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Front line n. H. S. Doctor and dodgy tells us why clapping and charity for Britains National Health Service is just not good enough all the more coming up in todays going underground but 1st last time there was an economic crash major nations bailed out the rich this time around how can we stop the one percent from exploiting coronavirus to enrich themselves at the expense of the rest of us someone who predicted the 28. 00 crash was economist dean baker hes the cofounder of the center for economic and policy research and he joins me now via skype from utah in the usa thanks so much dean for coming on millions with coronavirus hundreds of thousands killed do you see some policymakers actually using cove it to pour money into Financial Services theres been 645000000000 of q. E. Just here for the city of london certainly that is the case and i just try to be a little fair to them in the sense that i think it does make sense for them to try to maintain stability in Financial Markets so tha
Has been the blame russia narrative im sure youre very familiar with that and then there was the blame mexico narrative and who could ever forget Freedom Fries when we decided as a nation that it was time to blame france so now our media and our government leaders want to shift our attention away from whats going on right here in the United States and focus instead on what happened in a lab in china last year which may be a legitimate side of the story and certainly worthy of coverage but shouldnt whats going on right here right now to all of us affecting our families be more important just a question theres 2 ways to look at this right and i want to break it down for you numerically and visually 1st the numbers there are right now 234000 people in the world who have died from the coronavirus of those 63000 are americans. That means the United States which accounts for less than 5 percent of the worlds population. 5 percent of the worlds population is responsible for more than 25 perce