reserve. we have real economic fundamentals and those will matter. yeah, i think you re right. i think it s sort of detached from wall street. right? we spent time on wall street. i m talking about main street. if you talk with those folks, they re not that concerned with what is happening on want street. they re concerned what is happening at their cash register with their customers. i think they separate the two things quickly. anymore washington d.c., you re in new york, this isn t about d.c. or new york. it s about everything in between. there s a very positive sentiment among business owners, in particular veteran business owners. trish: it s good to hear. we want more of that and hopefully we will get 5% plus gdp as the atlanta fed is predicting and an increase in wages. we ll keep the cpi number low. thanks, mark. trish: thank you. move over blue apron. uncle sam wants to get in the food delivery program.
u.n. john bolton says the evidence is clear. china is continuing to support north korea. the fire bell in the night. forget the u.n. security council resolutions, this is china directly propping up the north korean regime. not a sparrow falls in china regarding north korea that the authorities don t know about. this didn t happen by accident. rick: this is a key point. mark rockefeller former air force captain and ceo of street share. it sounds like the president had no idea this was going on. i don t think so. happy new year. great to be here. this is a dangerous and escalating situation here with north korea. north korea depends on china for trade and china has an interest in keeping the north korean regime at least stable and so it s a difficult situation which the entire u.n. community needs to come around and fix. it is a bit of a test, i think, for the trump doctrine as well.
denial. they denied violating u.n. sanctions. maybe they were saying maybe we did it but we did it because it wasn t relevant. the latest quote i ve seen the chinese are denying knowledge of it, right? not denying that it took place, right? so as you say, they are parsing their words very carefully. rick: how concerned should we be about this, mark? you know, the stability there on that peninsula is very, very important. we ve seen lots of escalation and trouble coming out of their recently. we have defectors from the north to the south giving us more insight into what s going on. it is something we should be highly concerned about and we have to watch very carefully. again, a big test for the trump administration and ambassador haley at the u.n. rick: you say stability is important and you are sort of saying it s okay for china to give north korea oil because it helps them stay stable. no, what i mean by that is the regime, if it falls, needs to fall in a very control way, r
sharers, a marketplace for lending. and matthew griffin, former army ranger to served in afghanistan and iraq and provides jobs in conflict zones around the world. gentlemen, thank you very much for joining us. appreciate it. great to be here. mark, let me turn to you. big news you guys just got named one of from harvard business school, one of the best venture backed companies. tell us about that. the hrveard business school, new harvard business school named the number-one best investment globally for a startup that is run by an hes alumni. my co-poundser erfounder went to co-founder went there. the street shares is an onloon marketplace in which veteran-owned company pitch for a loan. we re all iraq and afghanistan veterans here. our generation came back from that war to find a capital landscape here that s as barren as the afghan countryside.
tell us about combat flip-flops and how did you link up with mark? our basic thing is we make cool stuff in dangerous places. we traveled around the world all these conflict areas. we saw small businesses where the things that were creating a sustainable change. we left the military and started a business that tried to promote that. because we make things in dangerous areas we have a hard time getting insurance. because get insurance, you can t get financing. we had to operate on a cash basis for nearly three years. and the street shares saw the opportunity, they saw what we were doing and how many people we were helping. they came to the table, it was awe. some they funded us last year. because what they did, we ll do more this quarter than we did all of last year. thanks to charitable donations. we re stoked. thank you, mark. how do you get combat flip-flops? it to the website com combatflipflops.com. we make jewelry out of land