Test. Test. Test. Test. Lets look at the americas. Were fragmented. Were splintered. Aside from nafta, theres, you name it. The pacific alliance. A lot of different things. But there isnt one americas. The crown jewel we do have is nafta. And i hope we also think about the role that our region plays as we are competing with other regions in the world. Hemisphere, go to asia. That is a reality. And it becomes an economic reality and a National Security reality. And a massive shift of wealth from the east to the west. If we could get our act together regionally and build Energy Supply chains. We have the oil. We have the gas. And this is the time when we can be doing that. And the seventh largest economy in the world. The seventh largest economy in the world. Our southern neighbor and canada will always be one of the most developed per capita income economies anywhere. The world has changed in 23 years. So the labor chapter, the environmental chapter. Look at rules of origin and think ab
Live coverage at 4 45 eastern on cspan3. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is peter schekter, Senior Vice President for Strategic Initiatives at the Atlantic Council. Im also the director of the asian orange latin american center. Thank you for joining us in this very timely event. And it is timely because 2 of the 3 members of the president S National Security cabinet are prafl trav traveling to mexico this week, but it is also timely because we are in imminent danger of dismantling the north american experiment we built with mexico and with canada in the past 25 years. It is a mystery to me and i suspect it is a mystery to many of you how we got to this point of profound rekrim nation when in fact mexico and the north american integration experiment of the past 25 years have been a huge Foreign Policy success. Today the u. S. Mexican border is the Worlds Largest border of a developing country with an industrialized nation, and instead of tension and rekrim nati recrimination and repr
Discussion. [ applause ] anyone working at any hedge fund who involved in shortterm trading, meaning every day theyre coming in and trading in and out of stocks, all the people want edge. That is a common term in the industry. They want edge. And, you know, theres this white edge, kind of useless for their purposes, there is the gray zone, and then there is black edge, which is clearly inside information. Sunday night, on q a, new yorker staff writer sheila kohotcar talks about the Insider Trading case against steven cohen in her book black edge, inside information, dirty money, and the quest to bring down the most wanted man on wall street. The two concentral characters at the heart of the story, theyre very central characters in my book are these two former Portfolio Managers for cohens fund, Matthew Martoma and michael steinberg. Martoma is currently serving a fairly lengthy prison sentence, though his case is on appeal. And mr. Steinberg was convicted, but then his conviction was l
January 2. I said 22nd . I meant to say january 2, 2020. I was going to say were ahead. But were there, were ahead. Reunited in the new year a big year ahead. We begin with obviously President Trump. Now on day 13 of his extended 17day vacation. Some of us are back to work. Not all of us. Not in dc. He started the new year at the golf course in West Palm Beach florida. And the times as the president s new years eve was summed up like this, it was perhaps fitting that President Trump ended another year in office with another crisisdriven day of surreal contrast, tracking a middle east emergency from the golf club and ended with a tuxedo president. And of course vaping on a red carpet, over the din of party music. In the middle east, increasing danger of an armed. With with iran, raising the question what if the president did not abandon the nuclear deal . And unraveling of diplomatic efforts of with north korea, with kim jongun saying he can in fact continue Testing Nuclear and long ran