Issues, not economic ones. That being said, although they are intertwined these days when security is so critical to the United States and japan and to the philippines as well, that being said and the japanese as we all know are too polite to say this, there is unhappiness in japan over president bidens decision to publicly oppose the sale of u. S. Steel to nippon steel so we thought to focus on the importance of u. S. Japan cooperation on Economic Security, on reliable supply chains, on japans significant and longstanding direct investment across the United States and the potential benefits that an enriched u. S. Japan Partnership Offers to American Workers and allied technological leadership. All these things will be on the agenda at the white house next week. We have two panels of experts today. One on Economic Security that i will moderate and another on Foreign Direct Investments that my japan chair colleague will moderate. But first we have the honor of a keynote and discussion w
Battle twith microsoft and the battle with prime. Things were in a different place with layoffs and a big restructuring taking place with the distribution model at the company. If you look at where things are right now, even with some of the downward pressure on stocks across the board, you are looking at the market cap of 1. 9 trillion. The Company Making 575 billion in revenue and sitting on 70 billion of cash. The stock is up year to date and is now up 6 since andy jassy took over from jeff bezos in july of 2021. That was in the middle of the pandemic. We have so much to talk to him about. We will bring that interview to you in the 8 00 hour. As you mentioned, given everything with inflation and the consumer may be feeling at this point, really perfect time to be talking to him about what he sees with his huge Retail Operations and beyond that and what is happening with technology. If you look at where the markets stand after big declines s yesterday, the dow down 400 points. The si
Between the United States and japan with leaders from the Defense Department and Japanese Ministry officials. The Hudson Institute hosted this visit. Good morning and welcome to Hudson Institute. I serve as japan chair at hudson and i want to welcome our audience here at the bessy and walter Stern Policy Center in washington and i want to welcome our audience on liep and online and through cspan. On the eve of Prime Minister Fumio Kishidas historic visit to the United States on april 10, it seemed like an appropriate moment to examine the benefits of the deep and expanding u. S. And Japan Economic relationship and as all of us in this room have seen on the news reports, including by certain members of our audience here today in the press, about the impressive deliverables that will be coming out of both the u. S. Japan summit on the 10th and u. S. Japanphilippines trilateral summit on the 11th, most of the focus object the discussions will be on security issues, not economic ones. That
S p declining. 26 . Nasdaq losing. 09 . Its all underneath the surface. The moves were all over the map and the volatility was insane because the expectations are moving to be totally off base in so many different cases. The best example, twitter. Ive been telling people to cool it already about the stock. Dont get too excited about new features or the new jack dorsey regime because the ceo just got started. This thing cant be turned around that easily. I even lost my cool this morning. It says people should just give the guy a chance and not bet on the near term. No, expectations got ridiculously high. Many say jim if you do like three more periscopes cant that be additive to earnings . No. Guidance is weak. Things just got out of hands. Stocks can drop to the low 20s in august. Incredibly bizarre expectations for the Largest Company in the world, apple, which reporting this evening gave us good earnings. We got lots of whispers. There was a massive slow down in phones because some ge
Diver well for leaks. Lately, the arctic has been seeing a flurry activity. Thats because theres something locked beneath the ice. Thirteen percent of the worlds undiscovered oil and 30 percent of its untapped natural gas. Trillions of dollars of potential profit. And that means that here in the far north, issues of sovereignty security, environment, and trade are intersecting at a colossal pace, in the worlds coldest resource rush. The tiny hamlet of resolute, is busier than it has been in decades. Canadian troops are here to train in difficult and cold conditions. Its called operation nuvavut. So all the structures that we have here are the original front stucture were put together for the air force in the cold war era. With the artic ice melting, and with the mining and energy boom on the horizon. The Canadian Military is preparing for various senarios. Theres been an accident, involving two people. Injuries are unknown at this time. Today its a Rapid Reaction search and rescue exer