Fanning the flames. What can the government do? we talked again about the issues china is facing. Short of these stimulus packages, we don t know a great deal about where the money is being spent. Would you be looking for in order to try and turn this future is around? one of the big issues is the banking system is huge in china, it is loaded with bad debts. It s been forced to lend to bad projects for so long so the first thing to do is rescue the banks of this is something that the fed did after the financial crisis. Instead of giving them more money to lend and using that money to set up a fund, buy from them all of the bad assets and let them go back to a clean balance sheet and start over. The government can hold this bad debt, bad property investments for a very long time but the banks need to have better capital to start lending again and you need to stop forcing them to lend only to state owned enterprises which are not profitable and bad projects, bad infrastructure projects w
Now on Bbc News its hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Today, im in tuscany, italy, at the home of one of the worlds most famous photographers, oliviero toscani. Now, you may not be familiar with his name, but youve almost certainly seen at least some of his work. For decades, hes photographed fashion and famous faces, but hes perhaps best known for his extraordinary Advertising Campaigns where hes used images, provocative images of sexuality, Illness And Death to promote brands, but also to get all of us to confront uncomfortable truths. He has combined glamour with a social conscience, but has he sometimes gone too far . Oliviero toscani, welcome to hardtalk, and thank you for inviting me into your home. I must begin by asking, how are you . Because we know that youve been struggling with illness. Lately, not so good. Lately. You know, i belong to a generation thats forever young. Yes and then, it was like that until two days before i got to 80. I was working like befo
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the banks of this world know it is not going to happen. and paul goes for the ride of his life. you know, there s more to light than meets the eye, and i mean that literally. although it gives us all of the beautiful colours of the rainbow, we can only see a small fraction of the light that s all around us. we can t see infrared, but we can feel it as heat. ultraviolet is invisible, but our skin knows if we have too much of it. and then there are x rays and gamma rays and microwaves, but it s radio waves that i ve come to talk about today. this is spire global, which makes satellites that listen to the radio waves that bounce around and off of the earth. we use data from space to improve life on earth full stop. we re done, right? ok, so maybe it s a bit more complicated than that. spire has a network of around 100 satellites in orbit that monitor the radio waves broadcast by things like planes and ships, along with natural radio waves that are reflected off those objects,
three facts why climate change is not man made. and paul goes for the ride of his life. you know, there s more to light than meets the eye, and i mean that literally. although it gives us all of the beautiful colours of the rainbow, we can only see a small fraction of the light that s all around us. we can t see infrared, but we can feel it as heat. ultraviolet is invisible but our skin knows if we have too much of it. and then there are x rays and gamma rays and microwaves, but it s radio waves that i ve come to talk about today. this is spire global, which makes satellites that listen to the radio waves that bounce around and off of the earth. we use data from space to improve life on earth full stop. we re done, right? ok, so maybe it s a bit more complicated than that. spire has a network of around 100 satellites in orbit that monitor the radio waves broadcast by things like planes and ships, along with natural radio waves that are reflected off those objects, off the s