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these questions will be asked by lots of companies with connections or stakes in russia. can we continue, should we continue? what are the reputational risks to continuing? i think a lot of companies will be taking a step back and saying we don t wish to be associated with this at all, not just in terms of business practice but in terms of the amount of money laundering that has been going on and you have to follow the money to see where the stink of that is going. whereas anybody a few years ago would have said let s invest in russia, it is opening up in the new capitalist society, it has shown itself to be a kleptocracy under your rule of commercial law doesn t apply. good investors will pull away from it, large investors will make sure they have no connection and the companies themselves will be saying, it is not worth the risk. but if you sell it now it is going to be the worst time to do so. as ever, thank you so much for your knowledge of the markets and for keeping us up to date
the foreign manufacturers. absolutely. what should the message be to the politicians on this story? well, and again, you re right. the politicians because it goes beyond the president to congress. what is it they don t get about the need to change, to cleaner greener energy and about the need to invest in domestic manufacturing whether you re talking about the wind turbines or the solar panels, we want americans working. we want to put the p in gdp in this country. let s invest. let s make the sacrifice. you know, one thing the president didn t mention was fair trade. i appreciate what he s doing and appreciate his small business loan because wall street is once again killing us. they got help. wall street has sort of returned to normal but not main street because we can t get access to loans. i recently found out even the state of michigan has invested a billion dollars in jpmorgan chase, and yet they won t invest in us. they ve red lines michigan and red lined manufacturing. i