Writer of a book called the director. it talks about his 25 years covering the cia. nick is a columnist just back from burma. she is just back from ukraine. and dan ceno is a co-founder of the foreign policy initiative and was a key adviser to the romney campaign. so dan, let me give you first dibs, the case for the opposition. tell me why obama s speech was terrible. first, i think he set up the straw man, the notion that anyone who is critical of his policy just wants to go to war. my response is, point me to that person. critics have advocated a more muscular approach, more fore-leaning approach to the president s policy have advocated for some form of air power. it worked in the balkans when clinton did it, it worked in afghanistan when president george w. bush did it. and on afghanistan, the day
he s a person that really needs to show the world that he s important. touting his spy credentials. it was almost as if, we re more important and dangerous than you think. i use fake names. i was thinking to myself, you re world famous, what difference does it make what classification you had? it s now irrelevant, you re one of the most famous people in the world. the issue i struggled with in this book is how we and how u.s. intelligence agencies are going to live in a world where this is a post-snowden novel. we live in a world now where these secrets that used to be the most precious secrets the united states government had have been exposed willy-nilly. what s the damage of that? it can be another snowden. what s the damage of that? we really don t know. european elections really startling even though this is not a particularly powerful body. you had between 20 and 40% in
Capital, i started watching roundtable discussions of pet peeves of entrepreneurs, so i knew what i was getting into. i bought a book called how to be smarter than your venture capitali capitalist. one of the interesting things about your company is really the heart of it is not manufacturing, it s customer service. like you really try to address customer complaints, demands. talk about that. yeah. well, it kind of emerged out of a conversation, so ebay, yes, there was the bidding and ebay was the platform for the business. but it was through social media that i really connected with my customers, and this was back in late 2006-2007 when the business started and really began to take off. i was there behind the computer answering every single one of their questions, reading what they had to say about what they thought about the product or the models and learning on a very qualitative level, like, what our customer liked and what she
Frequent heartburn medicine for 8 straight years. one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. how do you solve the big problems in your life at work or at home? well, my next guests say the way to do it is to think like a freak, which means think like them. they re better known as the freakonomc sirks gu ork freakonomics guys, and they just published their third book. what you really mean is think like a child.
Steven s book maximalist. he talks about the tendency to get too involved and aggressive in the world and entrench from it. the book is fair and balanced enough, to coin a phrase, that you can draw your own conclusions. and now for the last look. the government announced this week that the u.s. economy shrank in the first quarter. that s the first quarter in the red in three years. it s certainly not cass strotas but it got me wondering whether the mafia could help on this one. no, i m not offering that they take offers they simply can t refuse, but i m saying they use italy s book. italy has the best track record until recently. the fourth quarter of 2014 was