Maryland where several authors will be discussing their books on a variety of topics including politics, race in america and drone warfare. We kick up live coverage with a panel call the American Dream, american greed. [inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone. Welcome its been a good morning. Welcome to the Annapolis Book festival. Be the moderator todays fantastic Opening Panel entitled American Dream american greed. She coauthored the smartest coauthor the smartest guys in the room with the Energy Trading giant and ron but more important she fourth told that a few years earlier when she started to ask questions is it overvalued and transparent . Actually we she says there may be another issue brewing we should listen. To my left is a very talented contributing writer to the New York Times writing extensively on College Athletics but has dived into the of multi dimensional Human Interest tories behind college athletes. And he has my sons dream job and frankly my dream job it i
American dream, american greed, its a very provocative title everything today we are in for a real treat. Were going to try to have a very lively 30 minute discussion and then going to try to leave room for about 10, 15 minutes of obvious questions before we break, and we have a hard stop because of cspan2 today at 10 50. To kick us off, both of your books are so well conveyed and really so captivating, id like to ask each of you to kind of take us off with maybe a two to three minute elevator ride to the top. What are the major points in your books and what do you haver to say about them. Im going to start with bethany. Before i do, shaky ground is the title. Its very timely today come this week unfortunately japan is in the news again, a very severe earthquake. In 2011 i was in tokyo for the big earthquake there which touched off tsunamis in a Nuclear Emergency that they are still trying to deal with. 2008 our Global Financial system melted down. Eight years later bethany says were s
She coauthored the smartest guys in the room about the fall of enron, but more important than that, she actually foretold it a few years earlier when she started asking questions, is enron overvalued x is it transparent. Actually, when she says there may be another issue brewing, we probably ought to sit up and listen. To my left, ben strauss, hes written in depth on College Athletics, but hes really dived into the very rich and multidimensional Human Interest stories behind College Athletes and athletes around the world. Actually, hes got my sons dream job. Frankly, my dream job. So its really great to have you here, and thank you pote for coming both for coming to this years Annapolis Book festival. American dream, american greed, you know, its a very provocative title. And i think today were in for a real treat. Were going to try to have a very lively 30minute discussion, and im going to try to leave room for about 10, 15 minutes of audience questions before we break, and we have a
Pandemic. I wrote an article about this, and i will talk about some of the things i mentioned in that new england journal of medicine article. The reason i believe it is necessary, if you look at some sufficient the challenge that is we face, about ending the hiv despite all of the great results, there is a thing called a care continuum. I dont want to spend time, i spoke to similar audiences about that it we dont do well, access into the system, retention in the system, and adherrence to therapy, and look at as a country, we are doing really, really badly about the number of people infected, and the percent of those who are in a health care system, stay in a system, get on therapy, stay on therapy, and drop their viral load to the point where they dont infect anybody else. We have a long way to go, even though we are doing well. One example is, circ cision, circ cision now, if you look at the numbers, started off 55 to 60 effective. In long term follow up. 73 effective. I cant imagine
Changes. Interestingly enough, the present drop in the price of oil has an impact on russia, they have balanced the budget at 100, and it is now down an 80. Russias political fast and hoos activities have had a serious effect on the russian economy, more than anybody expected to see at this stage. A serious infleet in flight. Many billions of dollars have left. Almost no foreign investment. A rubble Exchange Rate that is going 10 against the ruble. No growth in the russian economy. Oil prices down, income is down. They may account for at least mr. Putins temporary paying attention to the minsk agreement, over how to deal with the problem in ukraine. Not beautifully, not perfectly, not without exception, some of that is happening. If we could get the europeans, four 40 and 50 on russias hydrocarbons, get off that, giving them the opportunity to say to the russians, our off take is so low, we request suspend it, find other sources to. Do that, we have to find other sources for the europe