Policy politeness. Draghi holds the door open for yellen. Will she stepped through . Through . He stepped weve got the fed on wednesday. His is a bloomberg report the boj on more Japanese Equities than the worlds biggest asset managers. We asked what is left on the Shopping List . Good morning hans. We have a big week it comes to the central bank story. Politics fascinating and germany. , obamathese leaders corralling everybody in the same room. What are they going to be talking about . Hans theyre going to be talking about the middle east, syria. More the industry side of things, the economic side of things, they are talking past voters. It is remarkable to me when obama and merkel, they are talking free trade and yet very few german politicians are willing to publicly say this is going to get done. Everybody is playing defense on trade ahead of these waning hours of the obama presidency. That is the challenge moving forward. Guy it is going to be interesting to see what the subject a
War games that were waged, you know, between allied commanders, nato warsaw pact, the exchange of Nuclear Weapons was off the charts. The tactical Nuclear Weapons would be expanded to the point where in three or four days hundreds of them would be fired by both sides. So what were seeing in these kind of books i met hackett before he died, a great officer, captured at arnham, et cetera. But here hes writing a book about conventionally stopping the soviets. And i think there was sort of a fantasy about that, that we frankly still live with. We still have Nuclear Weapons in the world. We still are numb to this. And i wonder what you think about that. Because the reality is that when the war games occurred in classified settings, they would just shoot those damn things off and destroy humanity. Those god damn things off and destroy humanity. Thats not necessarily reflected in sort of techno porn books like clancy does, which are basically feel good things that sort of america wins. The ba
In 2006 and was commissioned as a military Intelligence Officer. He served as a squadron Intelligence Officer while deployed in iraq from 2007 to 2008 and as an assistant brigade Intelligence Officer while deployed in iraq in 2011. He is currently assigned to the United States military academy as a history instructor. His military awards and decorations include the bronze star with oak leaf cluster, the mere tore yous service medal. D he is abd from the university of texas at austin and working on a dissertation that examines the role of tom cy novels in the National Security policy of Ronald Reagan. His Research Interests include American Foreign relations and the cold war, ben hallcy, bachelor of science of u. S. History, a master of arts in interNational Security from the university of arizona, a master of history from the university of texas. In addition he is a National Security fellow at the Clements Center for National Security. He resides in west point, new york with his wife b
And had much stronger views about what should be done than and he thought that taft was just a little too much of a status quo guy. Yeah. Yes . Sometimes people think of the word pivotal as synonymous for the phrase turning point. Uhhuh. I was a little surprised you didnt mention that starting in 1932, democrats had a plurality or a majority in seven of the next nine president ial campaigns. Yeah. Starting in 1968, republicans had a plurality or a majority in five of the next six president ial campaigns. Uhhuh. And starting in 1992 democrats again had plurality or majority in five of the next six president ial campaigns. But thats not my question. My question really is, my question really is, is there something about substantial third Party Candidacies that exemplify pivotal election and should we expect this coming election will be pivotal only if there is a substantial thirdparty candidacy and probably not otherwise . Thats a thats a super question. I that is that is i hadnt thought
Every five years the u. S. Government comes out with new guidelines about what we should and shouldnt eat. While the intentions should be good the result could be a recipe for confusion. That is our cover story. When the department of agriculture updates dietary guidelines, wide ranging trends for the food and Fitness Industry to diets and restaurants. You might recall the low fat movement of the 80s and 90s starting when the government told people to cut back on the consumption of fat. This year government calling out americas sweet tooth. First time addressing sugar, should make up no more than 10 of calories consumed. The update is part of the my Plate Initiative which replaced the food pyramid back in 2010. My plate is designed to show Building Blocks of balanced meal and get americans to eat more fruits and vegetables. Guidelines suggest americans cut back on saturated fats which they say should make up no more than 5 , found in meat and dairy. Suggesting salt intake of 2300 milli