She will be joined in conversation by author and journalist david marinus. For a complete schedule of our live coverage from wisconsin visit booktv. Org. In the meantime, heres part of a program that airs tomorrow afternoon with economist Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell talking about their travels to socialist countries. Its no surprise to anybody now that socialism is back and popular. A lot of the focus has been on young people and millennials were attracted to it but of course the president ial debate to see among mainstream democrats now the New York Times had a year long and 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution a yearlong column called red century. I think exactly one, and that year was dedicated to the economic aof the system. If a handful mention of atrocities instead you got articles like why women had better sex under socialism. Which even if true, i dont know how we witness against 100 million dead bodies. But this is the atmosphere that was taking hold as we were do
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Treasury market, youll see the ten year right now is yielding all the way up at 1. 829 30year back at 2. 3 so some much higher levels of yields than weve been used to in recent month. Our top story, a series after attacks that took place over the Weekend Energy prices are soaring. Wti crude at 59. 55 brent at 65. 60 Big Questions for the future of the aramco ipo airline prices, all sorts of things Brian Sullivan is covering the huge moves in the oil prices in houston. But we want to start this morning with hadley gamble in riyadh, saudi arabia good morning, hadley. Good morning, guys. We are now over 48 hours from the largest ever terror attack on saudi arabias Oil Production facilities and still very muted response from not just the government itself but aramco were told in the next few hours we could see more information coming out of the company just about how this happened information about output, at the moments all we really got go on is the reemphasis time and time again on the
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Live Naval Mission and is instead continuing to put its faith in the nuclear deal struck with iran in 2015 which President Trump withdrew america from last year. So our question this week here on quadriga is iran crisis europe on the sidelines and to discuss that question im joined here in the studio by early for toller nature a middle east expert with think tanks like the Brookings Institution and the German Council on Foreign Relations he argues that the big challenge is to transcend to equally simplistic perceptions of the Islamic Republic europes tendency towards glorification of washingtons polish all full demonizes nation also with us is alan posner regular commentator for the bergen based daily. He believes that europe is on the front line of irans aggression if we choose appeasement he says we will pay dearly for cowardice. Yes and a very warm welcome to seward rica how man who is a business journalist with another berlin daily the time for side show all the time says its all s