producer of them both. from next month, exporting these metals will require a licence, as michelle fleury explains. welcome to world business report, i m ben thompson. us treasury secretary janet yellen is headed to beijing and hers is the second trip by a cabinet official to china since ties between the world s two top economies deteriorated earlier this year. her goal is to steady the relationship, but she s got her work cut out for her. ahead of her visit, beijing said it was imposing export controls on two rare metals essential for making semiconductors. the measures are seen as a tit for tat response after the us, the netherlands and japan recently restricted chip exports to china. some say the move is aimed at giving china more leverage in future trade discussions. gallium and germanium, the two metals in question, will be subject to export controls starting august 1st. in a statement, china s ministry of commerce said it was to protect national security interests. ch
of millions of accounts. ray wang is a principal analyst of constellation research, explains why threads could be a serious challenge to twitter. this is a massive threat. if you think about twitter, it only has about 150 million active users. if you see what is going on with facebook and instagram, we are talking the 2.96 billion users. let s put this in simple terms. 50 million is the number we use to say mass adoption of technology has occurred. facebook live dated 2a hours. mark zuckerberg can get to 50 million users and probably less than 2a hours. i can pick it to 150 million euros in less than two months. it s a direct threat to delay or stop light at the same time, some of the users are not happy with the recent restrictions like the number of tweets that you can look at. why is elon musk doing this is yet? you don t normally musk doing this is yet? you don t normally have - musk doing this is yet? 7m. don t normally have that musk doing this is yet? 7m, don t nor
tonight i don t know what measures they re taking. there might be personal security on the island. jesse: more epstein documents released as primetime goes inside pedophile island. you ve heard of smash and grabs. now, crash and grabs. doomsday bunkers for billionaires. what do they know that we don t? plus. you know what jesse watters does every weekend? jesse: 59 years ago today, president lyndon b. johnson declared a war on poverty. his plan? end racial discrimination. he dubbed it the great society. the great society asked not how much, but how good. [applause] not only how to create wealth, but how to use it. not only how fast we are going, but where we are headed. jesse: but the great society didn t end poverty, it kept poverty at the exact same level. the first year of the great society, the poverty rate was at 15%. today the poverty rate is at 13%. how many trillions of dollars have we wasted? how many families have been destroyed? how much d
state, i get a subpoena. it s no coincidence they indicted me the very same day that it was revealed that the fbi hid explosive evidence that joe biden took a $5 million illegal bribe from ukraine with. next hunter will probably be charged with some very minor offense so that the fbi and doj can pretend that they re fair, they want to pretend they re fair, we got hunter. for jaywalking. [laughter] as far as the joke of an indictment, it s a horrible thing. it s a horrible thing for this country. i mean, the only good thing about it is it s driven my poll numbers way up, can you believe it? [cheers and applause] rachel: well, the president, or former president trump is right about one thing, they want us to talk about the indictment and not the real story of the week which, of course, is the jaw-dropping biden-ukraine bribery claim of, like, $10 million. so let s break this all down so we can understand what really happened. pete: so burisma, energy company in ukraine, the rep