patrons and wonderful new folks that have found us. this channel and elsewhere on-line. a few keeping tips while we re here. if you ve never gun on the broadcast before, it enjoys chrome and not much else or the app, it likes the app. if you re in any other browser, it can be. if you re joining us from facebook, welcome. we are delighted to have you here. we cannot hear you, unfortunately, so if you have any questions please click on the link in facebook and the facebook listing and you can join us here. tonight s guest is frederick halston. and he s from a school of journalism. and he is the author a fascinating book out new from other press and it is just a marvellous marvellous read, i stayed up late finishing it last night and it s just a fabulous read and i want to we re going to have 20 minutes of conversation tonight and maybe some audience q & a to get your thoughts in here, the money and the history of money and currency. it s fascinating and i can t wait for you t
note the new patron s. into your folks that have found us. on this gentleness were online. and the tips why we are here, if you have never been on this before and if you re having any issues at all in your browser, there s not much else or you can go into the act as well. it also if you are joining us from facebook, welcome. we are delighted to have you here. we cannot hear you unfortunately. so if you have any questions, please click on the link and the facebook. in the listing and you can join us here on podcast . tonight guest is frederick kaufman. he is a professor at the university. it s in new york. in a school of journalism. and he is the author of a fascinating book, the money plot . and it is just a marvelous raid. i finished it last night and it is a fabulous read. we are going to have about 20 minutes of conversation tonight. if and maybe some q&a s. it will get your thoughts in here, but the money in the history of money. it is fascinating read i cannot wait for
for any particular policy or set of policies, but rather to provide the historical context that can help inform policymakers and the public as they deal with difficult issues. i want to acknowledge first off the financial support of the mellon foundation, which has made this program possible, and also the work of amanda mooney s, the assistant director, and frankie lyons for organizing today s event. the history of mass incarceration, the us you of ofs incarceration issue mass incarceration has reached a critical mass of attention in the last six months or so. there have been initiatives that have been launched obviously by the senate just this week. and in various other venues as well. all of them calling for reform of the system of incarceration, and what is interesting is that this has been a bipartisan initiative involving democrats and republicans. it is a response to what is clearly a serious problem. i just want to offer a few brief statistics to highlight this. the
china and india because they re large, big countries. but there s absolutely no intent on challenging soa. the chinese are building up forces and we have to watch that and asked for greater transparency. but they re doing too good a job selling it to us. and so while i watch china with great interest as a professional manner, i m not up to be china is going to become an enemyfg because it got nowhere been our enemy in the past and have gotten very far by not being counting the enemy. .. if you read the consequences as interest we need to have a clear idea of who would be taking over to power. with respect to iran, we need to put pressure on them. they are not going to give up their nuclear program easily. we have been trying to do this for eight or nine years. they keep insisting that it s just for the production of power. but i have seen some of the things that have evolved. so you can t trust them. the solution may well be okay, if all you want is power, let s talk abo
that is the opinion of eugene robinson. alabama on theom democrats line. caller: i heard a congresswoman yesterday who said there was only to the blaze through the problem. he said one was raising taxes. the other, i cannot remember. i think the other was cutting programs. i feel like the only way they are going to fix it is by cutting programs or taxing businesses. i have looked at statistics. it said some corporations like exxon and walmart have more income. i do not understand how they do not owe more. we spend every day on these people. they are making millions and millions. it is amazing that they should not sit in on anything except to help the regulate everything. it is amazing to me. host: we are asking the question on our facebook page. will this congress be different? we welcome your comments. 78 are saying no. 17 are saying yes, it will be different. roman joins us on the line for republicans. caller: as far as will congress be different, i would like to say it wi