The bill awaits signoff from the president. Akron turns up the heat. France threatens to veto a brexit deal if it does not like the terms, piling pressure on the e. U. Not to make further concessions. Welcome to the program, everybody. 7 00 in london. 8 00 in paris. Lets look at the futures. We are fairly flat on futures. The young stock x50 futures flat. Yesterday, we saw some decent gains for the ftse, up by more than 1 and that was a standout compared to the rest of europe which was more mixed. It was mixed in the u. S. Session as well. We did actually see a bit of a late rally in u. S. Equity trading, up to some of those new highs we were talking about in headlines. All of that in the context of the hopes and dreams around u. S. Stimulus. The concern about what can legitimately be done in the shortterm and a lot of hope around vaccines. Perhaps oncent day some parts of the equities space and a late rally in the u. S. Yesterday and we are now pausing. We are pausing somewhat here. W
Even i can say that its a vast understatement to say that we are living through a moment of profound upheaval by the domestic landscape. The american primacy is in the Rearview Mirror and the road ahead is in preoccupation. People lose perspective and to lurch from the illusion of neatly restoring our yen up oral dominance and the equally illusory idea that we can disengage from the rest of the world and focus on ourselves. What rebecca and mira have done in this illuminating book in an extraordinarily thoughtful and historically grounded am at least sensible approach to reinventing u. S. Foreignpolicy mindful of the limits of our power but optimistic about its possibilities. Their strategy of openness marries the crucial importance of discipline and restraint in an appreciation of the potential of the hand that we still have to play and a number of other players especially our allies and partners who share a broad interest in the world. None of that should surprise us because mira and
Im just going to read a few sentences i cobbled together from your book. As i lead into my first question. You might in the book innovation is the most important fact of the modern world but one of the least well understood. It is the reason most people today live lives of prosperity and wisdom area and the main ingredient in the secret sauce and indeed innovation is freedom and freedom to exchange, experiments, imagine, investment fail. Liberals have argued since the 18th century that freedom needs prosperity but i would argue that they have never persuasively found a mechanism that drives change in which one causes the other. Innovation is that drives change, that missing link. Innovation is the child of freedom and apparent prosperity. Matt, do you think youve written a contrary and book your in 2020 because there seems to be a growing belief we havent innovated since the apollo space program. Living standards have been stagnant for decades and growth only help the elites, growth ki
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