Us. Im alex pollock from the r street institute. And we welcome you on trade deficits and the Trump Administration. It goes without saying debates about trade, tariffs, other barriers to trade, balance of trade and payments and shifts in foreign exchanges, whether the flee of gold in old bays or reserves nominated in fiat currencies now have a long and controversial history in domestics and in politics. These debates feature the famous and essential contrast between the interests of producers on one side and those of consumers on the other, abiding asymmetry and pressures for adjustment between countries with persistent deficits like the u. S. Versus those with persistent surplus, germany for example. Naturally throughout this is the desire of politicians to get and remain in office. Political economy is certainly the accurate term here. Discussions of trade deficits cannot be divorced from the International Monetary system, levels of Exchange Rates or role of the u. S. Dollar as the d
The third,ing george they should answer that question. The second week on a schism did the revolution survive its the second question we ask is how did the revolution survive its darkest hour . Largest overseas expedition in european history is headed toward new york, and so the mural you see beside me is an eyewitness depiction, which we have blown up as a mural, showing five british warships in about 6000 troops and landing boats about to land on manhattan on september 15, 1776. At the time, one official soldiers saw the ships gathering and said, later thought, i thought all london was a float, so it was one thing to declare independence, to tear down the king, to declare that you are now living in the American Revolution, but to actually achieve american independence was going to be an effort of many more years of struggle. The first thing americans had to deal with was just survive onslaught that was coming in the in form of the british army. A really exciting opportunity to look a
Welcome to concord, New Hampshire, on booktv. Located about 70 miles north of boston, it has a population of about 42,000. Settled in 1725, this capital city is home to the oldest statehouse in the country and has the largest state legislature in the nation with 400 members. It was also home to franklin pierce, the 14th president of the United States, and christa mcauliffe, the teacher who died in the 1986 Space Shuttle challenger disaster. With the help of our Comcast Cable partners, for the next hour well feature the areas Literary Community beginning with dante scala on New Hampshires role during a president ial election. New hampshires role is to be the primary that is first of all the primaries mt. Nomination process in the nomination process. And thats a spot on the calendar that weve held now for about a century, and its grown in importance over time as the president ial nomination process became more democratic with a small d. New hampshire and iowa Work Together to basically n
New hampshires role is to be the primary, that is first of all the primaries in the nomination process and thats a spot on the calendar that we held now for about a century and its grown in importance over time as the president ial nomination process became more democratic with a small d. New hampshire and iowa Work Together to basically narrow the field for the rest of the country. New hampshire primary has been the first in the nation for a century and it actually happened by accident. Two accidents. The Fortunate One is for us. One is that New Hampshire decides to hold its primary in conjunction with town meetings which occurred in the springtime and that wasnt to be first, that was essentially to save money, to have multiple elections on the same day. But when we started the president ial primary, we were not first. There were a couple other states ahead of us but remember the time, it wasnt the case that primaries decided who the nominee was going to be. Even though some states he
Films helping in chains, but could summer hit ticket sales . Well, i just believe it or not, i went to a movie sunday night. I saw guardians of the galaxy. Did you like it . Loved it. Did you like the first one . You know what . I dont remember it. I dont remember it. This one i remember. I saw furious 8, the fate. We have so much to talk about with bob iger, a live interview with the ceo, first on cnbc before speaking to analysts. Now you can take the graphic down. So much speculation about his president ial ambitions too, these days, much to discuss with him. Beginning, though, with Goldman Sachs, ceo Lloyd Blankfeins statements made in the last hour, and we sat down with mr. Blankfein to talk about the financial sector. This is what they talked about. Do you think the u. S. Banking sector is over at the moment . I do. I do. Look, we had a very the system had a very, very big trauma, and we legislated very quickly. There was a lot of demand for it. The issue was, you know, what shoul