this is gps , the global public square. welcome to all of you in the its and around the world. i m fareed zakaria coming to you from new york. today the on the program, we ll bring you the latest on the suspected chinese spy balloon. then, we ll move to the economy. but for a change, it might not be bad news. we have some very good news about the american economy. the imf global outlook is less gloomy than it was a few months ago. and then the fed said it wasn t ready to declare victory on inflation, but it is cooling. i will ask larry summers if he agrees. also, crimea, many powerful people have suggested ukraine should be prepared to officially cede the peninsula to russia as part of peace negotiations. but i ll talk to general ben hodges who said no, kyiv can and should take crimea back. but, here is my take. this week mark theed third anniversary of brexit and it coincided with a grim verdict from the imf. this year the british economy will do worse than al
cede the peninsula to russia as part of peace negotiations. but i ll talk to general ben hodges who said no, kyiv can and should take crimea back. but, here is my take. this week mark theed third anniversary of brexit and it coincided with a grim verdict from the imf. this year the british economy will do worse than all of the world s major economies including russia. the 2016 vote to leave the european union marked the start of the wave of populism that has been coursing through much of the western world ever since. it was a decision by a major country to consciously choose to have poorer economic relations with its largest market. the european union takes in about 42% of british exports. british voters put nationalism
in massachusetts that mark theed romney care to the residents of that state and the obama administration finally need to get to to the country now that federal health reform is safe from the courts. in honor of this guy from those ads with his arm in a sling, i represent the gin sling. get it, sling? it s kind of cheap. we were going to make a prescription julep, but we ve already done that. we re using gin from wisconsin, you do an ounce and a half of gin. you do sweet vermouth, very fancy vermouth which takes like vanilla. 3/4 ounce of that. now we need to do a 1/2 ounce of lemon juice which has to come from an actual lemon, which is a fruit that grows on a tree.