Here joining us is chief Investment Officer of the Minnesota State board of investment. Good morning. Good morning, john. How are you . Im doing pretty well i hope you are, too. So, a lot of people trying to figure out what to do with this market your philosophy is to buy the market and not individual equities but this market has been kind of funky i wonder does big techs increasing waiting say in s p 500 concern you . How do you get as diversified as you want to be no. As i said, i mentioned before, we dont look at sector by sector weve been longterm investors and for the most part we buy the market you know, domestically we own the russell 3,000. We do have active managers, but the vast majority of our portfolio is passively managed our equity portfolio is passively managed, same on the International Side so we probably have most stocks that are available to us. Thats done pretty well for you. I wonder with this disconnect between the economy and the market that were seeing does that
Moscow welcome to the program and escalating diplomatic row has stepped up another level russia has expelled 2 german diplomats it comes in response to a similar move by berlin all amid a spat over a murder probe call aquarter picks up the story. The Russian Foreign minister has given the diplomats and question 7 days to leave the country in a tit for tat response to the German Governments decision when they themselves decided to expel 2 Russian Diplomats the german in boston has received a note of protest over the grounds decision to expelled 2 Russian Diplomats from berlin as a mere response to german diplomats must leave russia within the next 7 days now it was just last week that the German Government made this decision to expel 2 Russian Diplomats for the cut from the country and the official report said that russia was not being active enough in cooperating within vesta geisha into the murder of a Georgian National named still in can congress feeley now the german prosecutors eve
A lot of the places that i was on whats up and facebook is a vote so thats probably just the tip of the iceberg and even a few using other apps theres a big question mark about how private your messaging really years. Absolutely this is the tip of the iceberg and i think it brings up again why its so important in fact you know we really we i think and whats that been very tough and its commendable really that they have not just stood up against n. S. A. Group in this particular example but over the last few years theyve continued to defend and 20 crippen in their platform and i think it is a good example of why we need spaces like whatsapp that are enter an encrypted so that we can have private spaces online because the slippery slope that were currently in is to well when its just absolutely no trust in security in the online world and that is as ive said before just crippling from the perspective of Civil Society free speech privacy and the ability of 7 and groups human Rights Groups
A lot of people need to really fully understand and they were doing it based upon the fact that Different Things that people posted they want to see how other people would react to a. Health watch why your facebook friends posts can have a direct effect on your mood new Research Shows the more negative post you see the more negative you could become. So if for example lets say somebody wanted to post something that was on the news feed that was a very negative story they wanted to see how their users would react via their likes by their statements for their posts and they would show people who already had a predilection to maybe having some depression or maybe having some other issues in their lives and they can figure that out based upon your like space upon your connections based upon where youre going and so what they want to do is take that information and then use it to basically weaponize this information against their users so that way their users could. Different things that ma
The events in kyiv, the president of the European Parliament, roberta mytsola, came to the capital on an official visit on europe day. In particular, she stated during the press conference that official negotiations on ukraines accession to the eu should begin by the end of the first half of 2024, and this could happen as early as june. How do you assess the prospects and what does this visit mean . Well, lets start with the prospects, we heard about june earlier. From the Eu Ambassador in to ukraine maternova, the leader, well, the head of the European Parliament said this now, this is absolutely the right approach, of course, it is better that they start already started, well, at least it is important that there is an understanding that this should happen by the end of the first half of the year, i remind you that the next six months in the eu will vote, preside over. Hungary, we know its position, and therefore it is very important that the formal start of negotiations takes place b