Welcome you to this virtual conversation. Europe holds and free the future of the the line was unintentional, but we did it. Todays event is sponsored by our global europe around under the direction of our newly minted director, dan hamilton, who will take over managing this program for me in a little while. Its also sponsored by our kennon institute in partnership with the u. S. Helsinki commission. Dannon joins the Wilson Center after holding a variety of patients in the u. S. Department of state, including notably, assistant secretary for european affair responsible for nato, the osce and transatlantic Security Issues of the nordic, baltic, and balkan affairs. He also retains an affiliation with and taught for a while at johns hopkins. Our conversation today marks an important milestone. 30 years ago today, the charter of paris for the new europe was signed by 34 european and north american countries symbolizing an end to the 40year division of europe into two hostile camps. It form
Sally hubbard thank you for coming on to discuss monopolies suck it is timely because the issue you write about in the book with us economy and the impact on workers and citizens is a hot topic at the moment with policymaking right now and it could play a big and the Incoming Biden Administration so i thought we should look at the big picture you lay out in the book when people hear the title no one likes monopolies are dealing with monopolies but really this book is about a bigger issue that the economy people may not fully understand. s so can you set the scene and describe what you see happening . Thank you for taking the time to talk out the book in cspan2 have me talk about it as well. We all knowonopolies suck. Thats not a surprise to anyone but what has been happening the last several decades is t economy is getting highly concentrated with consolidation that leads to every major sectoof the economy. We hear about whether techr food in the industry all have monopoly problems tal
You for coming on to discuss monopolies suck. Its a very timely book because the issues you write about in the book, the power of dominant companies in the u. S. Economy and the impact on workers and consumers and citizens is really a very hot topic in economics and policy making right now. And we will see but could play a big role in the incoming Biden Administration. So i thought we should begin with sort of the big picture about, that you lay out in the book. I think when people hear the title they might say of course, no one likes monopolies, no one likes dealing with monopolies. The religious book is about a bigger issue. You are warning about a warring trends across the economy that i think many people may not fully understand. I think you could maybe first set the scene for us and describe what you see happening. Guest first, thank you so much for taking the time to talk to me today about this book, and thank you to cspan for having here to talk about it as well. We all know mon
What would your role or what has been your role during this pandemic . Its been very involved in this pandemic and how the frontline response so the organization i work for works closely with them supporting response and on researching issues for them and also on communicating to other stakeholders like the centers for Disease Control in congress and the administration. What are your thoughts on rent headlines about the spike . In covid cases . Wall street journal describ it as everywhere. It is very concerning and it is something that we knew there would be the likelihood can happen as we move into the fall months but you kw, as everyone knows we are seen levels of infecon weve not seen before in this country and when you look at whatappened on the east coast back in t spring and how quickly we got to the situations where we almost went over t capacity of the hospitals and now is across the nation and its concerning. For that reason, we cant let ourselves get to a poi where you dont h
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