Actual companies that are impacting their open own stocks with takeovers and breakups. Im hoping next week that it might produce some more logical action. But before we get to the schedule you need know there are three prisms. Three prisms thousand which well be viewing each quarter. First, if the company has an international aspect, we have to look at the strong dollar decimation where they get walloped from weak currencies and whats known as constant currency. Where we figure out what a company would have earned if the dollar is unchanged. Im concerned about the dollar conundrum because most analysts have yet to slash their estimates to account for it. So were likely to see blood letting no matter what. Second the financials will be talking about how they need higher Interest Rates to make more money. If they dont, the guidance will be definitively negative. Finally every company has to pay heed to the price of oil. If they believe oil will come back and they rely on the Consumer Spe
[laughter] thanks, i appreciate your comments. And i am intrigued by those that you wrapped up within the decision they can process for the preparedness and the allocation of resources and you find it completely ad hoc and disjointed and one response to that is democracy. It is a messy process with the location resources done by things allocated by criteria that might not always be rational. That is the reality of the democracy and the testing of the responsibility and the political executive branch. You mentioned in terms of how to fix it in rationalizing the democracy i think that we could agree you suggested this Public Health czar or official. Any other specific ideas to lead from the federal level on how we can make that process a little bit more rational and Going Forward . Well, i guess i would start at the top. I think the president staff and the cabinet have to come to some agreement about instructor for the decisionmaking that becomes increasingly more inclusive. And it gets
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That is not going to happen as long as our trade laws dont allow us to prevent cheating. Right now our trade laws encourage companies to cheat encourage other countries to cheat, because by the time we succeed, the damage has been done. Host larry is up next republican line. Caller good morning, pedro, mr. Gerard. Guest good morning. Caller can you inform the public about the historic 1992 ross perot, the giant sucking sound of jobs involving nafta versus bill clinton . What brought that about . Guest well, look, lets back up a bit. The initial negotiation of nafta was done with george bush senior. Bill clinton became president on the promise that he would fix nafta and in particular fix the labor chapter, which he did not do. Good afternoon. I am marilynn serafini with the alliance for health reform. On behalf of our honorary cochairman, senators carter and blunt, i would like to welcome you to todays briefing on the second of Health Care Costs. I would also like to thank our partner