in favor of brexit. that was like a tectonic shift and it was a major change with consequences that were both far-reaching and unclear. brexit changes everything, but how? so businesses, institutions and policymakers have been looking at this ever sense and rands study that we are talking about today looks at some possible outcomes and what they mean or our economic policy and for our operation so i m excited to see many friends of the wilson center here today and that rand. i m going to introduce our panel and my idea is that we will hear from charlie about the bulkof this study . turn this over to then michelle for some comments and then have fran and howard way in. who are these people, you may ask? charlie reese, vice president international at rand, former us ambassador degrees and with a distinguished state department career including hosting the secretary for europe. mister council for economic affairs in london and the european union. in iraq he served as coordinato
in the house chamber when he s giving his state of the union address and shout out you lie when in fact he was telling the truth. when you try to undo a policy that has helped hundreds of thousands of young men and women come out of the shadows, and go to school and go to work, and you vote in favor of that, then you re no different from the guy who yells out that immigrants are rapists, that they bring crime and drugs to this country. and so you can t try to separate yourself from the stick you come from. and no one should try to distance donald trump from the republicans in congress. they are one and the same. he is just an offspring of what we have seen over the years coming from republicans in congress. and so it s time to change, because if you re a bystander, you re allowing things to happen, and for many people, including me, this becomes very personal, because donald trump and republicans in congress are talking about my parents, and about me, and it s time for us t
test. test. test. test. test. appropriately valued, it doesn t mean that everybody else is. just closing here, what here i d like to make a proposal, too, my friends at the peterson institute, to fred and adam posen, if you are listening, adam, i think that i think we have a real difficulty with free trade agreements. i, like many others, and i think this comes out of gordon and hanson, i think there s a big difference between trade and globalization which can be and should be a force for good and free trade agreements which have become a process by which stakeholders often from a sector that doesn t represent working people are having too much influence. and so i would argue that the fta process is kind of broken e and even if you don t believe that, i predict that we re not going to see much in the way of ftas for a while. it happens to be that there are 300 ftas already in the world and perhaps we can work on ne
Steve Sylvia was 5 years old when he got his first Minie ball, a muzzle-loading rifle bullet used during the Civil War. You might say he’s been collecting militaria ever
Steve Sylvia was 5 years old when he got his first Minie ball, a muzzle-loading rifle bullet used during the Civil War. You might say he’s been collecting militaria ever