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Good morning and thank you all for joining us. Also our livestream audience. Im Atlantic Council president and ceo fred kempe. Thanks for joining us both here in the room and virtually for our conversation. If you want to use social media, use aciraq, aciraq. You know its an important event when the ambassador is here, when key members of our board are here and its always such a pleasure to have our International Advisory board member mijid jafar here. Thank you, Crescent Petroleum for this, for iraqi Global Energy center. Miji dichlt has been a person ive been stealing ideas from for a long time. He happens to be one of the best thinkers and actors both in the Business World and analyst of the region. And its always a pleasure to have him here as well. Todays event was organized by Iraq Initiative and global initiative. Our Iraq Initiative is led by abbas kadhim, who will be our moderator. Its been a game changer having abbas working with us. Hes one of those rare individuals who unde
Josh brown its been a safe spot for august its entirely to be expected where bond yields. I was asking people today, you can have a 30year treasury, or and whatever up side you might get. Yielding 4. 17 , plus a buyback, which one do you want . I was amaze d you dont think tl is volatile . Or look at the balance sheet, too much dead. Theyre supposed to have a lot of debt. The other pushback is the bond picture details something recessionary but there are some categories better than Others Companies that have a business that seems to be less reliant on discretionary Consumer Spending. Its that they will provide padding or cushioning. I dont know how much cushioning there is left at these prices. Bo pisani is diving back into new controversial brexit headlines, and mike santoli nice rally. Energy stocking keep going down okay, most of the stocks are down, and many are near lows routinely. They had very missioned everyone results. Look at the months, and dillards and khols down, most of t
N. A. T. O. Summit held in washington d. C. Featuring the ambassador to the alliance julianne smith. Live coverage here on cspan2. 75 years old this april and much to celebrate, the alliance is larger and more united than before, addition of finland and sweden added military to the roster and new defense plan and after decades of underfunding, n. A. T. O. Supported ukraine in recognition of the mounting russian threat. These causes for celebration, however, are juxtaposed with a deteriorating security environment including russias illegal war of aggression against ukraine and a collection of Unfinished Business from last year summit. So securing the future of the most successful alliance will require this years summit to be one of implementation. Come july, n. A. T. O. Will be expected to take action for the underequipped Industrial Base and frank and demonstration of plans for new challenges including respond the area responsibility. How will this feature in the Washington Summit agen
Then we would understand the burden we p put on the backs of small businesses. A couple things you would see in my bill not our plan is immediate expensing that accelerates the path of more Resources Available immediately for small businesses. The secondo say thing you would do is cut taxes. We did that in 2017. 2017. In 2017 that was one01 of the three wee believe this at the point and you can watch it in full cspan. Org. We take you live now to a forum looking at the use Korea Alliance. It is being hosted by the center for strategic and International Studies you will hear from secretary of state Antony Blinken and maryland senator chris van hollen. You are watching live coverage on cspan2. The cree Foundation Fred kempe is here dash that weve had this conference and its always been for me to highlight and is always been very important probably never as important as it is this year when you think that everything that is going on. Weve got, well, we dont really know whats going on in c