The uk government says it will strengthen the regional test and trace system as it cuts 6000 contact tracers in england by the end of the month. Lebanons president has asked the countrys government to stay on temporarily after all its ministers resigned amid mounting anger over last weeks massive explosion that devastated parts of beirut. Excuse me. Oh. This was the moment President Trump was led away from a live news briefing by Security Officials after an armed man was shot close to the white house. Hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world 7 and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. Employment in the uk has seen the largest fall in over a decade as the coronavirus pandemic hits the jobs market. Thats according to new figures for april tojune from the office for national statistics. Responding to the figures, chancellor rishi sunak said hes always been clear, that he is unable to protect every job affected by coronaviru
A global trade unit of account in particular he pointed out that almost all cars at least where he lives in africa come from overseas like japan and theres a huge used car market where they ship the cars used cars from japan to africa and these people are paying for its with bitcoin right you know this is an example of an area of the world that was considered lagging but could leapfrog to the head of the class remember part of the reason china became such a huge economy is that they entered into the Global Economy during the age of mobile phones and there wasnt really you needed to build the infrastructure of the old copper wire base telephony same thing in india in africa because they are already mobile phone. Marianna oriented are dominated now with mobile payments and with bitcoin in Crypto Payments they are in a position to leapfrog the world and become the 1st hyper big quite as ation example and that would be an enormous if they could leave the world yeah of course for domestic p
Since the end of world war ii stop joining conversation by former defense secretary james mattis. For more Schedule Information at booktv. Org or consult your program guide. Including the evolution of everything and the rational opposite. This new book, primary focus of our conversation today, is the how Innovation Works. He has been a member of the house of lords. Good to chat with you today. Guest thanks, jim. Great to be with you. Host i noticed from doing events and podcasts, listeners love when i read so ill read a few sentences i cobbled together from your book, as a lead any question, i you rate. Innovation is the most important stat missed loose understood. The reason that most people today live lives of pros apart and wisdom compared with ancestor. Theres freedom to change, experiment, imagine, invest and fail. Liberals argued that since at least the 18th century that freedom needs prosperity but it would argue that they have never found the connection by which one causes the
Im just going to read a few sentences i cobbled together from your book. As i lead into my first question. You might in the book innovation is the most important fact of the modern world but one of the least well understood. It is the reason most people today live lives of prosperity and wisdom area and the main ingredient in the secret sauce and indeed innovation is freedom and freedom to exchange, experiments, imagine, investment fail. Liberals have argued since the 18th century that freedom needs prosperity but i would argue that they have never persuasively found a mechanism that drives change in which one causes the other. Innovation is that drives change, that missing link. Innovation is the child of freedom and apparent prosperity. Matt, do you think youve written a contrary and book your in 2020 because there seems to be a growing belief we havent innovated since the apollo space program. Living standards have been stagnant for decades and growth only help the elites, growth ki
Within the dow. Take them out of the picture, things wouldnt be as bad as they are now. Were well off the earlier lows, down 400 points, down about 165 points but also fueling this, offsetting this if you will is talk of progress on that stimulus front. You remember where they were looking for republicans, another 250 billion for the Paycheck Protection Program . Well they ran into a buzzsaw of criticism from democrats that argued it was too tilted to business so they wanted to make assurances for health care workers, hospitals, that sort of thing. I stress that they have reached a broad parameters of a deal. It is not a deal until they both mutually agree. Were seeing progress on the front. That mitigated losses in the dow and offset the oil impact. Edward lawrence joins us now from washington with how this is all progressing. Hey, edward. Reporter neil, close, very close. That is how it is being described. As you said no deal, no ink to paper as it were for this deal. Republicans ini