I mean this is really the end game because you had a period in Global Finance where banks got in trouble you know in 2008 they may horrible loans and they were insolvent they became technically insolvent so the Central Banks got together and they said lets lower Interest Rates down artificially to near 0 so that banks can borrow unlimited amount of money at 0 percent Interest Rate and recapitalize themselves and paper over all the mistakes and it made a lot of billionaires as you mentioned jeff bezos bill gates Michael Bloomberg say made like of 40 or 50000000000 in the last 10 years based entirely on money printing from the fed and his relationship to the new york fed so now we are in 2020 and bernard are no of a luxury brand wants to so more d high priced trenchards to his billionaire friends who have been given billions of dollars so he took the money from the European Central bank that has near 0 percent Interest Rates that bail out the banks and he took that to acquire to. Winning
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Tonight and thanks to rainy day books our favorite collaborator and of course one of the nation great independent bookstores. We pride ourselves here at the library among other things on the timeliness and relevance of our signature programming, whether we are holding forums on local issues over addressing national topics. We certainly didnt intend on the particular timeliness of tonights presentation. Christopher leonard was a busy man at the end of last week, taking reporters calls, wrote a couple of pieces for the New York Times and four cnn business after the death of david. Chris spent eight years immersed in oakland. The state of the place and the title of his new book. On the extraordinary Business Empire and putins Political Network that was put together from their base some three hours in which debate over wichita. Anybody have the chance to read the book yet . You wont understand that you will know immediately when you get into it what i am talking about. Its daunting when yo
Record. Manus it is daybreak europe. The words of the Vice President of the United States of america now open up a new salvo in the trade wars. Those words are the president has made it clear it is going to be very hard for us to do a deal with china. Geopolitics and human rights is the new escalation in trade wars. Nejra it is interesting, the timing of these two stories coming through both having an impact on the markets in terms of the hong kong bill and how that could have an impact on the negotiations. They are going to go back to that may template in terms of rolling back tariffs. We know how much hope there was ahead of that only to be thwarted later on. Highrises of the beijing. We have come here specifically to host some pretty good interviews. The roster is pretty high quality. It is the Bloomberg News Economy Forum. We will speak to the Standard Chartered ceo and the ubs group ceo. We are going to catch up with the Goldman Sachs chairman and ceo david solomon. The former whi
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