after trooper davis s portraits have been trimmed, signed, and shipped, a copy will be added to the wall of heroes. that s castro s personal memorial that continues to grow. even when i start working on one, you will see identification that another was killed somewhere else. the biggest challenge for castro is keeping up. sketching two or three officers a week. unfortunately there is always going to be an officer to do. that s the sad reality. castro will always have an inspiration for his next piece. what an important heartfelt memory. what does former treasury secretary larry summers think about the republican tax plan. why he calls it a serious policy error. that s next.
be made available and allowed his senior officials to testify freely, even when the testimony was damning toward the administration and even him personally. the result a serious policy error was exposed and the administration s deception was assailed, but reagan was able to weather the storm. trump appears less likely to follow the reagan model. he is a fighter, but more importantly, he does not have much regard for these independent institutions that make up the american system. whether they be courts and judges, government agencies and the free press, trump has always viewed them simply as obstacles in the way of him winning. as he said on thursday, we are winners, and we are going to fight. for trump, winning justifies everything. when the conservative editorial board of the wall street journal asked him days after his election if some of his campaign rhetoric had gone too far, his response was simple and telling.
they have 2 plus trillion dollars in cash on the balance sheet. they are using that money to buy back stock and pay dividends rather than putting it toward hiring and putting it toward capital expenditures. so the truth is companies continue to have all of these unknowns, whether it s new fees from the e.p.a., whether it s we don t know where what our tax rate will be be. healthcare? healthcare. all of these things are really creating pressure and putting making them it s the new normal and it s not a good new normal. low growth, high unemployment. massive debt. it s not good. it s a policy error, we could reverse it by changing policies. we could set loose the engine of growth but so far we are not. melissa, the economy is supposed to grow 3% or 4%. we would have to blow the doors off it to get there by the end of the year. already seeing in the second quarter wage growth has slowed. we are like a really bad ball club that gets out into the field the first day on opening day
analyst gordon chang north korea showdown north korea takes on the world: jacksonville florida retired navy admiral former commander of u.s. fleet. gordon, your assessment of what this means. obviously if this is all true, it ratchets this up to a different level. yeah. north korea is assembling all the elements. it s doing so very quickly to be able to land a nuke in the united states. they ve got the range. they have been able to miniaturize the war head. you know, reentry technology, they are probably a lot further along than most people think. guidance is not there. but, when you are firing on new york, it doesn t really matter whether you hit 32 street or 125th street. the problem here for the united states though is because the north koreans are making such fast progress, margin for policy error is now very, very small. and we i think can no longer tolerate resolutions like we saw last saturday that only
analyst gordon chang north korea showdown north korea takes on the world: jacksonville florida retired navy admiral former commander of u.s. fleet. gordon, your assessment of what this means. obviously if this is all true, it ratchets this up to a different level. yeah. north korea is assembling all the elements. it s doing so very quickly to be able to land a nuke in the united states. they ve got the range. they have been able to miniaturize the war head. you know, reentry technology, they are probably a lot further along than most people think. guidance is not there. but, when you are firing on new york, it doesn t really matter whether you hit 32 street or 125th street. the problem here for the united states though is because the north koreans are making such fast progress, margin for policy error is now very, very small. and we i think can no longer tolerate resolutions like we saw last saturday that only