crony capitalism, that doesn t involve risks to the government micromanaging the economy. if you say okay which is going to have a flat tariff of 10% or 20% or 30% whatever it takes to get to a zero trade deficit that doesn t introduce a lot of corruption or a lot of dangers bad policymaking because it s a very simple policy. it s just determined by an arithmetical formula and there s no opportunity for anybody to play games. one of the good things about it if you have a flat tariff, is if you had a 30% tariff on imported goods that s not enough to relocate the production of t-shirts that united states because cost is too great. it s great to relocate things like silicon wafer fabrication so would tend to relocate back to the u.s. high value capital-intensive skill intensive industries which is of course what we want to do. those are the industries that are high-quality high-quality into she wants to have and those are the industries that don t want to lose. i point that ou
the woodrow wilson center for the book launch of kennedy and the berlin wall: a hell of a lot better than a war by william smyser. it s one of the, certainly, readable books ever written on the history of the berlin wall and this major confrontation between kennedy and khrushchev, between the united states and the soviet union during the late 50s and the early 60s, and i m sure we will have 90 highly-interesting minutes of talk and discussion together. my name is bernd schafer, i m a senior psychologicaller here scholar here, and i m very pleased to have an outstanding panel here today. we will start with mr. smyser who will talk about his book and major points of his book for about 30 minutes followed by comments. i will introduce our commentator when it s their turn, and then mr. smyser will have a chance to respond briefly to the comments, and then we will open it up to all of you, to the audience, and we ll hope we have a lively question and answer session afterward