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we have a gray-haired approval. literarily, used by acts for days and phone for days before the internet. so i knew him over the years from the literary world and went on to work with him when i was running the world policy institute and he was at the national think tank. we worked together very, veryk, close me on a number of projects. so i ve had the pleasure also to read some of his earlier books, the world center, he s written seven of them. i ve always been so impressed by david because he asks the really hard questions. he comes up with an opinion, but he s very good about seeing both sides in trying to find where things come together and where we can come up with solutions. he s not an ideologue. he s the real deal. i could not be happier to see david in chicago today. i want to kick off by showing off a couple numbers he talks about in his new book dream to., he notes that in 2015, nearly $400 billion, with the beef was given globally to about 2% of the u.s. g ....
they soared 7%. we spoke about the outlook for gulf finance. we don t have a plan for the end of the year from 6% to 8%, we don t see changes from those levels. as you know, qnb is a very well diversified institution. we have businesses in third world countries. our diversification is really working to overcome any crisis. yousef: last time we spoke, you were very bullish when it came to your expansion in asia and africa. was the gulf crisis an additional incentive for you to be more aggressive, to push harder into those markets? our 2020 strategy is to become a top player among middle east, africa, and southeast asia. we do not see any change in that strategy going forward. to recap, the strategy is built around two pillars, net organic growth and levying the network. as well as levering the network. net organic growth, we are very fortunate. we re not looking for acquisitions as we speak but we are very opportunistic. in terms of the second pillar, which is leveri ....
we recently broke that record in 2015. so close to 100,000 pages of federal regulations. even those are the formally published regulations. the regulators do so much by informal memorandum of understanding they re not published, sort of subtle ways that don t leave footprints in the record. so that it s just the tip of the iceberg. nobody could possibly keep up with all of it. big companies have to hire people whose specialty is to deal with some specific aspect. host: in your view, growth of the bureaucratic state as you , could be attributed to congress? guest: congress is fundamentally responsible. their unwillingness to do the hard choices they ve taken the easy way out. their fundamental fundamental interest is in getting reelected. they find the current system increases their power even though it would appear that the delegation of legislative power is congress giving away its power, congress is actually more powerful and likely to stay in office under the sta ....
what does the president of a college do? well, everything else is a problem. [laughter] you pay for getting to do those things by dealing with proob. we had our monday morning meeting, i work with fabulous people, they are awesome. very good at their jobs, very fine huipings, every monday morning for an hour or two, we sit in my office and goo everything wrong and there s always a long list and and we try to keep the college straight and running right. there s always the risk, it s a big business, there s always the kids showed up early in the term. it s early when we are doing this. they are all really happy right now. by the end of the turn they will look like vampires, because they ve been up too late and the stress is getting to them and they have the dark circles under the young bright eyes and you to cope with all of that and you have to watch the budget and the revenue side is important and i have a fair amount to do that but a lot of people do and so, yeah ....
graduatean and harvard school of architecture. we always like to ask everyone off cell phones and beepers and now let s give barry lewis a warm welcome. you. don t need wis: i that. you know me. i m all over the stage. interesting i had people talking to me about the lecture. about theally talking whreubrooklyn bridge ands as brooklyn. new york would never admit it needed rooklyn but it it. again, just in case people were series of three lectures i did the first one bout a month ago and in recouping that remember new york and staten island becomes a by the 1820 s and 180 s. in phafrpblt and 1875 one manhattan island. that is called growth. 1860 s upper left is an print of the built up part of manhattan and new york. those days new york city feels manhattan island and when river you ross the were in the independent city of brooklyn. by the time you get to the 1860 s the bridge will begin in 1869. reason it was needed by the ime you get to the late 1860 s downtown new yor ....