Efforts during the cold war to dominate countries in asia, africa, and latin america. The event was cohosted by the Woodrow Wilson center and the National History center. It is about an hour and a half. It is my privilege this afternoon to introduce our speaker, jeremy friedman, who is an assistant professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business school. Previously he was the associate director of the Brady Johnson program and grand strategy at yale university. After he received his phd from princeton in 2011. In addition to his current book, shadow cold war, the sinosoviet competition for the third world which was published by the university of North Carolina press, he has published articles in such journals as and chinaistory studies. His current project modeling revolution looks of the attempt to find a workable model of socialism for developing countries. And today he will be speaking on , shadow cold war, the sinosoviet competition for the third world. Jeremy thank you
Efforts during the cold war to dominate countries in asia, africa, and latin america. The event was cohosted by the Woodrow Wilson center and the National History center. It is about an hour and a half. It is my privilege this afternoon to introduce our speaker, jeremy friedman, who is an assistant professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business school. Previously he was the associate director of the Brady Johnson program and grand strategy at yale university. After he received his phd from princeton in 2011. In addition to his current book, shadow cold war, the sinosoviet competition for the third world which was published by the university of North Carolina press, he has published articles in such journals as and chinaistory studies. His current project modeling revolution looks of the attempt to find a workable model of socialism for developing countries. And today he will be speaking on , shadow cold war, the sinosoviet competition for the third world. Jeremy thank you
Playing field when it comes to safety and safety recalls. Last were we succeeded in getting legislation passed in the Republican Congress to prohibit rental Car Companies from renting out cars that are under safety recall. So if you have a rental car company with a fleet over 35 vehicles, it is starting in june going to be a federal crime to rent out a car with an open safety recall. But taxicabs, limousines are regulated at the local level. I dont think they even check when they do the annual inspections to see whether the safety recall work has been done. We have been looking into this, and weve been asking reporters to ask, and weve asked uber and lyft, you know, what do you do about safety recalls . And from what i can tell, from an article in the american prospect, they require the owners of the car itself to certify. They could check the vin against the database at the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration and say to the owner, youve got an open recall, we dont want cust
About simplification and complexity. So those are three issues, therefore. The base, the rate and complexity simplification. On the off chance that theres an impressionable staffer from the ways and Means Committee here, what might the four of you, and i really would like to get all four of you opinion on this like him or her, staffer that is to take back to chairman ryan and say, chief this is what we might accomplish in this congress. Ill start with that one. Well go left to right. First thing is forget what can be accomplished. Lets do that second. First thing to take back is the lesson that only people pay taxes. Corporations are fctional entities. Second then, the ideal rate, and i use the word rate, is zero. Thats the ideal rate. What do you take back to this congress . I think what you can get done is the narrative were not competitive wither trading partners and that to be competitive we should be at or equal to. The rate should be no higher than 25 . And that is still higher t
Here, what might the four of you, and i really would like to get all four of you opinion on this like him or her, staffer that is to take back to chairman ryan and say, chief this is what we might accomplish in this congress. Ill start with that one. Well go left to right. First thing is forget what can be accomplished. Lets do that second. First thing to take back is the lesson that only people pay taxes. Corporations are fctional entities. Second then, the ideal rate, and i use the word rate, is zero. Thats the ideal rate. What do you take back to this congress . I think what you can get done is the narrative were not competitive wither trading partners and that to be competitive we should be at or equal to. The rate should be no higher than 25 . And that is still higher than id like but at least that gets you to saying were not being competitive by being around their average. Were not higher, lower or average. That seems to be a narrative i wound send. Im going to disagree in one sm