The question is what will all these people do once they have settled in . There has been an effort among germanbased companies to try to train a lot of these people. They have apprenticeship programs and internship programs and to some degree, they have tried to convert them into training refugees, give them real job skills. David a big part of the German Economy for a long time has been looking at that is a model of vocational training, giving students internships that will let them have jobs in these sectors for a long time. Right, and the problem is in this case, although people are being trained, there are not necessarily enough jobs for them. Andler had a program trained a bunch of people and hired relatively few of them. Yes, it works to some degree, but only a few people got jobs. David theres a piece on banking in Silicon Valley. We hear so often how hot the Real Estate Market there is. You now have banks bending over veryard to help these young millionaires i guess in some cas
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
Know, the holy grail of i. T. Used to be four ts which still allows you time to update your systems, take them down if you need to, but you cant take down a water pump to update or patch the latest, you cant take down the water pump thats feeding the washington area, so it makes it very hard to align the needs of i. T. And opt t. , and that creates o. T. And that creates gaps that people looking to create nuisance can exploit. In the nearterm, mediumterm, the first thing is that nist met your name in report, Matt Skolnick to come up with a definition in a good way, yes. Any to come up with a dolby the definition for this government. The reports go to the president and recommendations have to be at the president ial level and actionable for the president. Its not going to be director private sector. It would what can the government do in certain areas. The first one was that nist should find for the u. S. Government what iot is. Its likely to be probably the last definition but least a
My reaction was, if theyre that worried about it we should be that worried about it as well. I think focusing on the border is something thats very important. I think the economy i really do think that we need to have an immigration policy that understands and complements that promotes our commerce within the United States. We need to understand that immigrants are a very important part of our work force. I think that Legal Immigration can improve our economy can improve productivity, can result in increased jobs which will make Jobs Available for me citizens here in this country. I think there needs to be more of a focus immigration policy should be more focused on our economy, driven by our economic needs. We should have visas for skilled workers. We need in todays economy and todays security situation i think those are the two drivers of what our economic what our immigration policy should be going forward. What about a socalled pathway to citizenship . Well, i think pathway to citi