We had a Strategic Partnership now its a matter of ask we had a partner as did the new album trade being so that it. Was promoted by Frank Aldridge on myer but these it was a lady call a scientist because its too bad it wasnt in that one man does that its that they didnt implement them so russia refuses to live with youre going along the lines of a deal and youre at the union and now we are opponents regarding a lot of principle issues so but now they started to thinkers that are close to the German Government and the needs of jazz going to go away the who did. They say we need to refuse to have any bullets for kids my hands regarding the russian war isnt bad it was until recently about your unions urging that gas was but a strategic goal and why is that we should have contradiction with russia. We have mutual interests so these are dangerous regarding this new approach is a. Good look at reassure a dime add but even so lack the spartan level laxatives cooperation could only be possibl
You have to get peoples attention when youre selling a product that melts so i always burst through the gate with a robust war cry, whos next for ice cream . I bring this up because when President Trump unilaterally decided to hit mexico with a big tariff for ten days, make them close the border, all i could think was, whos next for ice cream . Thats why the market got pole axed today whos next for punishment with the dow plunging, s p plummeting, and the nasdaq nose divi diving whos next for tariffs as someone whos generally been supportive of the president s hard line position against china, i feel like i need to draw a line in the sand here if you want a Strong Economy and higher stock prices which is what i favor the last thing you need is a president who bursts through twitter saying, whos next for punishment. I think theres a time and a place for tariffs. Ive been critical of our nations trade policy for ages, for all the time ive been on cnbc, for all these years, our old policy
Time since the Second World War that one sovereign nation has forcibly taken territory from another in europe. Since then, russia has fermented conflict in the donbass, repeatedly violated the National Airspace of several european countries, and mounted a sustained campaign of Cyber Espionage and disruption. This has included meddling in elections and packing the Danish Ministry of defence and the Danish Ministry of defence and the bundestag, among many others. Hacking. It is seeking to weaponised information, deploying its state run Media Organisations to plant fake stories and photo shopped images in an attempt to sow discord in the west and undermine our institutions. Soi west and undermine our institutions. So i have a very simple message for russia. We know what you are doing, and you will not succeed. Because you underestimate the resilience of oui you underestimate the resilience of our democracies, the enduring attraction of free and open societies and the commitment of western
[laughter] so without further ado i will go ahead and let him take the stage. Everybody, dean baker. [applause] thank you. I do like my dogs. I three well, i had three dobermans. Im here to talk about my book rigged which kind of is, things have been talking about for at least a couple of decades in economics. And i had a chance to put this together. Just to put it simply as possible. The main theme of the book is, we have had this huge upward distribution of income over the last four decades it is really not arguable at this point. It has been documented in a number of ways. You probably heard about the great book capital which really talks about wealth but in any case there are a number of good reports, solid data, documenting this huge upward distribution of income. One of my favorites, this is actually it showed that if you look at the United States and you look at the bottom half of the income distribution, it basically has gotten nothing since 1980. I will not stand by little or
A series. In my speech, i quoted several times from the famous address to the u. S. Congress of 1990. In february, 1990. That you willve not mind if i use the same address of the czechoslovakian president as my inspiration today, as well. He spoke about his vision of built onhich should be the foundations of general respect for human rights, pluralism, and freedom of choice. During and which orders will play a lesser and lesser role. Until they become needed no more. His vision saw this comment at the end of his life already. Onlye gains stability, not in the central and eastern countries, but also in the west balkans, which saw a lot of bloodshed in the 90s. The area which makes it possible to travel freely throughout the eu finally spread the total of 26 member states. Unfortunately, as i said once before, none of these achievements is a matter of course. This fact has been revealed quite clearly. Europe today struggles with problems on many fronts. The greek debt crisis, the illegal