Regulation and all the rest. Financial markets and so on. So we are pretty convinced that this matters a lot in whether we are successful or not. We struggled toward cost entry evidence citing exactly what are the causes associated with why the country seems to have a bad environment relative to the other. One view is a macro Development Community is to think of this as a death by a thousand cuts. Lots of little things. I dont think theres any evidence the big smoking gun that says the u. S. Suddenly did something around 2000 so we are seeing the decline. We are beginning to look at smaller things. What are two smaller things that look like they might matter. We need to push harder on it. This is not a complete x nation. Weve done work like this and we took it and applied it particularly to our more recent data and also applied it to the more comprehensive data. A lot of nice contributions and there has been an erosion in the United States through precedence in the u. S. Court system t
There are Russian Forces in ukraine, we believe they are responsible for commanding control, arming, financing directing of this conflict. We also believe there are many hundreds of russian dead in ukraine edit does pose a vulnerability for the kremlin politically at home. One quick point. I read in your statement, is its not accurate that as these bodies are returning to russia, russian families of the dead shoulders soldiers are told do not comment on it or they are denied death benefits . Yes. Thank you. Senator mendez had a closing question. Thank you. Madam secretary the budapest memorandum was basically a way to entice the craniums to give up their nuclear weapons, is that it are statement . At the time, the primary intent was for russia to get russia to a short ukraine it would not seek to take advantage of ukraines sovereignty and territorial integrity if it gave out its weapons. There was never an intent to have treaty obligations. You said it was a political agreement, right
Laura i have the honor of moderating the second panel of this amazing conversation. I want to start by really congratulation congratulating the hamilton project for putting a wonderful event together. If you have not read the age of working machines which i think you put together in record time if you want a summary of the issues that we are chance to discuss here is a very distinguished that of speakers read this. It is really a great overview and it links to everything you need to know. The fact that they brought everybody here you need to know right here i recommend this. Reading entire post on the subject. Laura i thought that was the price of admission that you had to read this. In any event, this panel is going to focus on business innovation. Is going to focus on in two ways. One is what technologies are we really talking about and how much is the conversation really about software coding, a little bit of robots thrown in there occasionally . What technologies are really transfo
That it becomes more and more clear to me and erik that the future is coming at us more than the experts are predicting. That means the economic consequences are coming more quickly than a lot of us are expecting and makes the discussions for today all the more important. Thanks very much. [ applause ] thank you all for joining us this morning. My name is melissa carney. I have the privilege of moderating our First Panel Discussion this morning. This panel is going to take the premise that andy and erik laid out for us, that there has been rapid technological advance particularly in the information center. We will ask the question what does that imply for the future of work, the future of workers and the nature of employment in this country in particular . As we tried to lay out in our hamilton project framing paper there are a lot of views on this topic and in particular if this will be good or bad on that or how good or bad on that for society. Fortunately this morning we have a real
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