Is class is about an hour. Good. I will try to get to those points. These readings cover a lot of different topics in this period. Im hoping to pull together the essays, one deals with anticommunism and one with the internal dynamics in labor. The lecture today will pull those pieceses together. The big question is how do we go from the new deal and world war ii period we have been talking about the last couple of weeks and the c. I. O. Is growing and militants in all sorts of ways and workers are calling on the government to intervene to end other forms of inequities. How do we get from that to the current moment where we have the remnants of a bureaucratic, business friendly timid and conventional unit. How did the Labor Movement mature from this conflict model one of Labor Management peace. If we view that as maturation. What changes in the period in all different directions. Coming out of world war ii, everything was up in the air. The United States had won the war. It was very muc
From your. You also have some figures. Mark we have some german Business Confidence data crossing the bloomberg terminal. The latest survey, the business 112. 9 was the figure, up from the prior month. And above the economist estimates of 112. 4. German Business Confidence is increasing the expectations of the components of that. Expectation was for a figure of 105. 9. The German Economy is in good shape. As is the euro zone economy. As we approach the ecb meeting on thursday, it is all about the first round of the french residential election. Look at the cac 40 today, 4 higher, the biggest gain since august 2015. We are at the highest level since april 2015. The euro rising as much as 2 since december 2015, to the highest since november. 108. 50 seven. The yield on the french 10year is down by 10 basis points, and earlier fell as much as 11 basis points, to the lowest since january. Proof that appetite for riskier assets we have gold falling 1 today, sinking the most in more than seve
If you lead with an issue, lead like you have conviction, you can get peoples attention. Its amazing. Thats why sometimes i shouldnt say this on the air i fantasize that maybe joe shoot all the Political Consultants because they dont understand how you get a message across in a way that the American People can grasp and say, yes, this is the way we should go. Host you have been talking about the flat tax for a long time. Your second book what flat texas resolution. Your moe recent book is reviving america. What is a flat tax. Guest it takes the current code, get rid of it. A couple years ago the taxwriting committee in congress, tried to rationalize the current code. The bill came in at 997 pages, which tells you all you need to know. So bury the tax code but the epa may not allow it, its so tox. But throw away the code, put in a sinkle rate. We friend the book 17 . General his exemptions for adults and children, nobody gets a tax increase in this thing. For example, a family of four,
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He wanted deck holders around the country to have a stake in a success of this New Enterprise so he took the shambles of the debt situation from the revolutionary war rationalized it and he established the mans. He got a system of finance going that was critical and unappreciated by historians. Maybe people will look atge hamilton in a more serious way. The critical reason why we went from a small east coast nation largely farming to the mightiest industrial nation in the world within 100 years come extraordinary and even more impressive than what written did hamilton put the system and that made that possible and we take it for granted raves to make every have you seen hamilton on broadway . Guest i havent. It will probably be three years before i can get a ticket. They are hard to get. Host 202 is the area code if you want to continue with her conversation is steve forbes free will put the phone line and social media dresses up and we are going to put up the text addressed by this is