are getting his message, and certainly he s altered his message very specifically for the american people so they can hear it. you know, generally the central theme of this holy father s papacy is that we must all build an economy where no one is left behind, and when he talks about the environment, when he talks about peace, when he talks about migration he connects it all to economic issues. when we joined him at the white house and at congress his central theme was we must protect the vulnerable. we must protect inequality. at the united nations in what we just saw was what was amazing was to see how technical the holy father became about the policies that actually caused poverty around the world, that actually caused inequality. he went as far not only to make that particular reference about the environment but to talk about the need to stop the oppressive lending system and to stop what formally was a sin in
engaged in a program called sam adams, brew iing the american dream, which makes loans to the very small businesses that are basically shut out of the lending system, then provides coaching and counseling so they can use the loan, grow their business, create jobs, succeed. what kind of businesses? we are in the businesses that we know because it s very high touch. we re coaching, food, beverage, hospitality and other craft breweries. we ve made loans to about a dozen other craft breweries to help them grow. obviously in your backyard, we had a horrible tragedy a week ago. the one fund is $20 million strong and so on. what are you doing specifically to help out what s going on in boston? we were a sponsor of the boston marathon and had about 70 people, our own people, either running in it or helping at the finish line. we held our breath, but luckily,
i think that if you watch the show you know dylan spends a lot more time on solutions. what should we try to get the politicians to do important the public good? if you read his book you probably know about a key to reforming our financial system. the basic regulator of all capitalism vanished for some, shall we say, special bankers. by beginning to mandate capital requirements throughout the entire lending system and putting swaps on a public exchange, we can realign the interest of the financial institution was our country. it is hard to get people to care about a free-standing policy proposal like capital requirements. it is a lot easier to attack big government or your opponent s party. dim an, though, has been hammering on all of us to look at the core structure of the financial markets. if you don t want to bail out more banks, and if the banks would rather take risk than hold on to your money, we are going to have to make rules to make them hold the cash and avoid
in libya. the national criminal court wants him on charges of humanity. police arrested him on sunday while he was allegedly making a pipe bomb. authorities say he got bomb-making instructions from a website linked to al qaeda. those are the top stories. world business today starts right now. good morning from cnn london. and good afternoon from cnn hong kong. i m andrew stevens. the top stories this monday, november 21st. it s a landslide victory for their political party. talks have collapsed between qantas unions. the dispute is in the hands of the empire. and with hours to go and no budget resolution in sight, u.s. lawmakers are e preparing for defeat. first up though, spain has voted a new prime minister in in the form of the popular party leader who is promising to get the nation back on track with measures to come. if that s giving comfort to span yards, it s not having the same eflkt on investors today. what defined is set to continue. let s have a loo
the european defense market there on the market. that s kept the dax up .6%. andrew? with the exception of japan, it wasn t a bad end of the week for asia either. we ll start with japan. nikkei finishing down .7% after the government announced a compensation fund for the leading utility tepco that could run to tens of billions of dollars. it s sending jitters through the banking sector there. in shanghai, the composite grew by almost 1%. hong kong up by a similar amount despite china taking another move overnight in china to raise the bank reserve requirement, basically the amount of money that the banks have to leave in reserve in the in the banking vaults to try and suck a bit more money out of the lending system. despite all of that, the shanghai up by 1%.