The u. S. Economy growing a pace at an annual rate of three point five percent the boom being driven partly by tax cuts but is it just a flash in the pan. Brazil chooses a new president on sunday hell inherit a struggling economy that may no longer be able to support the average retirement age of fifty five. And after years of protests against gentrification demonstrators pushed google out of berlin. Im Stephen Beard limber len thanks for joining us the u. S. Economy beat expectations in the Third Quarter on the back of the strongest Consumer Spending in nearly four years the Commerce Department said Gross Domestic Product the total values of goods and services produced increased by three and a half percent from a year earlier the sharp rise in spending help offset a big drop in Trade Companies spend more to increase their inventories which also
helps all sort of Growth Analysts are expecting the economy to expand by around three percent this year and were joined now by our financial correspondent in new york yen scored a yens another quarter of solid growth in the u. S. Donald trump is looking like the business friendly president that he advertise themselves to be. You know if we look at the entire year if were really going to read a good three percent of growth we havent seen anything like that since Two Thousand And Five so in thirteen years i mean first of all we shouldnt forget that us president inherited a pretty decent economy the economic recovery was already underway for six seven years before dawn of talk of what does help is that we almost have full employment in the United States still the labor market looks pretty solid and then
on top of it early this year donald trump and his administration fired this huge tax cuts and that was another incentive for the u. S. Economy. Good point yes the tax cut being credited with a lot of this growth but at the same time there must be a limit to what it can accomplish what are you hearing there. Well i mean one of the problems is when you look at the u. S. Corporations for example the tax cuts for Companies Got cut from thirty five to twenty one percent the big question is what those corporations are doing with that money and a lot of this money was not spend for investments but for higher dividends for mergers and acquisitions for huge buybacks of their own share so that was good for wall street that was good for investors but not necessarily for the entire country and what we also shouldnt forget is well this money is missing in washington sold
takes guts means that death in the United States its increasing if im not mistaken just in the last year. The u. S. Government had to pay about Six Hundred Billion dollars just for interest on their debts that could actually be a problem if were looking ahead to the future that that is increasing quite a bit so a double edged sword with these tax cuts are there for us in new york thank you. Sting in the u. S. The f. B. I. Is reportedly examining whether American Carmaker Tesla misstated information about the production of its model three sedans and its business going back to early last year thats according to the Wall Street Journal in july twenty seventh tesla c. E. O. Ilan mosque tweeted that he was expected he expected to be producing Twenty Thousand model threes a month by december but the car maker produced just Twenty Seven Hundred for the entire year last month the u. S. Securities and Exchange Commission settled separate civil charges with tesla and
moss for misleading investors. As brazil prepares for a Weekend Runoff Vote its economy is widely viewed as a disaster one problem is the Pension System one of the most generous Retirement Programs in the world brazil cant afford it now and its about to get worse. Harms already gave us this report. Rush hour in sao paolo in brazils biggest city many people work far more than eight hours per day some start at a very early age so they can retire at fifty five and then continue to earn seventy percent of their final salary for the rest of their lives for decades thats been the norm in brazil. Its what says that was hoping for after working as a teacher for more than thirty years an accident before Retirement Led to her salary being cut now the sixty three year old gets less than the minimum wage and
now at all its inhumane to have to live on a minimum salary everything is getting more expensive with inflation and all that and people keep on getting a salary which now i can live up to the baby so its very difficult. With less than Two Hundred Dollars a month she can barely afford more than her rent and although she bolsters her income by selling handicrafts she feels desperate about the future. They all know they only they have no idea what to do and when i have faith in god that he will open up doors for me that i really dont know its very sad now thank you de. Mint instanced. Says that situation is not an isolated case poor and middle class retirees especially from the private sector are finding it harder and harder to survive on their pensions so they keep on working sometimes for decades after retiring. Well so but even so i paid in more than
twenty times the minimum wage and so did my company and i did that for ten fifteen years then they reduced it to a contribution on ten minimum salaries that was sort of so in a nutshell i ended up retiring with only one times the minimum wage. So i do menial and Life Expectancy is increasing in the country its a demographic change thats leading to fewer younger workers supporting more retirees in addition to the recent years of limited or negative growth and the very generous pensions granted to the Public Employees radel is rapidly heading to a point where it was no longer be able to meet its Pension Obligations in twenty seventeen the government ran up a deficit of more than Sixty Billion Dollars in order to cover pensions despite this unsustainability an overhaul of the Pension System is politically difficult to achieve. Usually their government and. We members of the program only when there is no crash of a loved one. Not because you need that good sees things in order to people feel more secure and more comfortable weekend for and seize them. And so all the time that they kept dry the reform always the scene this sales of cutting expenditures and not being pro by the in a better service. The issue of Pension Reform is complex and controversial and neither of the president ial candidates facing off in this sundays Election Runoff have clearly addressed it however its one of the most urgent challenges the newly elected congress will face in Twenty Nineteen. Brazils pensioners will no doubt be pleased to hear that the worlds billionaires became twenty percent richer in
twenty seventeen and the report by c. Bank u. B. S. An auditor Pricewaterhouse Coopers says there are more of them than ever before more than two thousand fact together they are worth up to eight point nine trillion dollars the u. S. Still has the greatest concentration of wealth held by billionaires but china is minting them faster with two new billionaires every week according to the report. A booming startup scene is facing off with anger over rising rents in berlin just look at google the u. S. Tech firm had planned a multimillion dollar campus for startups in the city before protesters forced it into a rethink this Construction Site was scheduled to be open for berlin fast growing start ups on may Twenty Nineteen the tech giant had wanted to give the scene a massive boost with Google CampusThree Thousand square metres at a cost of fourteen Million Euros the companys change of plans came as a huge surprise a few. Certainly learn something from the many conversations we had
this is actually the wrong place for all people startup campus and what we are aware of the protests but we dont allow them to dictate our actions at least for now and wish them to a lot from. Thus. However it certainly looks as if google threw in the tao since it unveiled the project two years ago there have been frequent protests local residents fear the campus with speed up the pace Of Gentrification In September Activist occupied the Construction Site now the building is home to social Projects Google is still paying the bills but its donated the office space to the better place Internet Platform as well as karuna a charity that helps children and teens in need. We would have liked google to move in because we benefit greatly when organizations and businesses operate social cooperatives like ours help connect young people from the streets and enterprises
and we cannot do it alone we have to cooperate. With. The business friendly free democrats so the failure of the Google Campus is a disastrous signal for berlin as an investment location. It sends the wrong message to the world that companies are not welcome here so there will be no new jobs which we urgently need in the capital. Activists disagree and call it a victory for their neighborhood. Cause its terrific that the companys reputation has been tarnished we hope the message spreads to other companies thinking about coming here to invest and create start up pops a Local Population Doesnt Benefit at all. Google has promised to pay for the lease and utilities for the next five years so the controversial start could eventually end up boosting the tech giants image. And thats your Business Report you can find
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