Is simply too high. Since the industrial revolution, we have had the greatest economy the world has ever known and if we are to remain so in the 21st century we must educate our people. We have no other choice. They are our greatest asset. And we can do it. We can do it. Im not proposing today a new federal program of any kind. However, i will say that if it were left up to me wed have a Standing Committee in the senate focused exclusively on our children and their future. Such a committee would, for example, examine every funding stream in the federal budget related to kids and ask whats working, whats not working what redundancies exist and how how are we going to align every single taxpayer dollar or tax credit to support the Health Education and wellbeing of our children. I suspect that in addition to increasing efficiency, we would decide to spend more of our resources in and around schools. That is where our kids are after all and thats where the people who serve them in our comm
Time, Mark Zuckerberg has done a good job of 1 billion plus people actively engaged. At one point in time, they were a desktop company, quickly moved into mobile, meaning looking at your phone. Thats where the dominance of the revenue comes from. They almost died the 1. 0 death of being a cat logionline with your desktop and now its more mobile angle and is giving that effective screen experience. They can fail a lot. They have a lot of cash and a lot of eyeballs so i think a nice future in the foreseeable future. A company that relied on facebook, zynga you will chew me with this. It doubled its money as of late. Youre not too high on zynga. They make onehit wonder games and its tough to be a winner so with zynga, an app run with farmville, virtual goods and use the facebook relationship tmobile phone. They went after a lot of acquisitions. The mobility they bought that, the user ship went down so they were a Young Company that took a shot and struck out. A lot of people bought it at
Coming up on the kudlow report beginning right now. Good evening, everybody, im larry kudlow. This is the kudlow report. We are live here at 506789 p. M. Eastern, 4 00 p. M. Pacific. President obama leveled new sanctions against 20 individual and a key russian bank today. He warned more on are on the way if moscow escalated a crisis in ukraine. Good evening, eamon. 16 russian people and four senior officials called cronies of Vladmir Putin today, also a bank which the senior delegation called a crony bank for the putin regime. All of that, the president said, designed to send a message to russia and the russian people. Take a listen. The russian people need to know and mr. Putin needs to understand that the ukrainians shouldnt have to choose the between the west and russia. We want the ukrainian people to determine their own destiny. And to have good relations with the United States, with russia, with europe, with anyone that they choose. Now the president also said that new Authority
Riders from new york to boston than all other airlines put together. 50 of people that travel this distance. And between washington d. C. And new york city, amtrak carries twice as many passengers as all Airlines Come bind. Today it carries 75 of inner city travel letters between new york and washington. Amtrak has done all this with the threat of funding cuts and privatization especially of the profitable northeast corridor hanging over its head. We know that in other parts of the world privatization of high speed Passenger Rail has tried and failed to solve the problems it was intended to solve. These plans were almost always preceded by funding cuts, system i can safety and reliability problems caused a great deal of upheaval in the transportation and forced countries to renational lies a system. With that being said, we think that amtraks longterm next general plan for the northeast corridor provides a temp plate for a Public Private partnership that is worth discussing. If the par
All those stories and much more coming up on the kudlow report beginning right now. Good evening. Im larry kudlow. This is the kudlow report. Were live here at 7 00 p. M. Eastern, 4 00 p. M. Pacific. Now, in his first Cabinet Meeting of 2014, president obama called for all hands on deck to help promote and maintain the economic recovery. Topping his agenda, it appears that its economic equality and extending longterm Unemployment Benefits. The president said hes prepared to act even if congress doesnt. To find out the whole story, lets check in with cnbc chief washington correspondent john harwood who joins us with all the details. Good evening, john. Good evening. One of the things the president has been laboring under is the idea that he simply cant get anything done given republican control of the house, even though democrats control the senate. What he said in his first Cabinet Meeting of 2014 is that hes still got some tools and hes going to use them. Ive got a pen and ive got a p