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You are restricting trade with another country, so you will be affected yourself. yes, of course you will. but theres also a whole other generation of sanctions where you can focus your sanctions on individuals, and that has a much greater effect on those individuals and everyone else. when it comes to the putin regime, so many of these oligarchs are close friends of putins, and they have his gold in his pockets. he doesnt keep his money abroad in his own name, he keeps it in the name of others ...

But if you got richer by sitting on a big pile of stock certificates, you dont actually have to true up every year. you can just wait until you decide either to sell it or until you die. the problem with that is over the past three decades is that billionaires have actually taken that difference and totally distorted what they can do with it. so now you have somebody like jeff bezos, one of the richest people in the world. he buys yachts, he buys yachts for himself. he shoots himself into space ...

Declining on a day over day basis. even if cases are starting to decline, the epidemic is contracting youre still accruing new cases on a daily basis. and the health care system is maxed out in some of those states. theyll continue to accrue new hospitalizations. the other challenge is patients infected with covid and requiring hospitalization, those are longer admissions. the average length of stay is five days for patients with covid. the hospital is going to have a hard time discharging patie...

Situation in terms of international travel and trade, and youll see a world that is much poorer. the $9 trillion could be added to the economy, half of that accruing to the wealthiest countries in the next two years, if we can accelerate and get vaccines out, so its not about getting the pandemic under control and saving lives which is amount but also getting the global economy up and running, protecting people living in wealthy countries who right now are vulnerable dangerous variance emerging ...

Enforcers on the beat and want a stronger irs to go after these billionaires to go after them. >> i think you made an important point thats worth everyone fixating on, which is when its happening like this, it is about government. it is not about the markets. the markets dont historically lead to this level of inequity if they are regulated. it is not, oh, yeah thats what the market said. tens of millions of dollars do well for themselves. this is beyond. this is billions of dollars. how did tha...

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>> i dont know how you separate problems of today, right? so my mother is in her late 70s, right? so the idea that people were denied opportunity, jobs, access, thats her life. thats not some like distant life. thats my mom. right? i have people in my -- i know three of my great grandfathers, all three of them had land they thought they owned, didnt, was swindled or taken from them in some sort of way after they worked for it. thought they had paid on it or a sharecropper but was a good enough f...

Sharecropper but was a good enough farmer, raised enough money to buy it out right and put the bad white man on them and couldnt shoot through the house. what is being lost in this is a whole structure that was designed to prevent the accruing and transferring of wealth and inner generational wealth. when people say, oh, well lets start now at zero, well, we cant start at zero because you had your family has had since they arrived here the chance to accrue and transfer in generational wealth, wh...

Buybacks are such a lightning rod because people rightfully see most of that benefit is accruing to the 10% who own 80% of the stock. >> m & a, mergers and acquisitions what you often see when a company buys another is when they streamline the business and improve operations they end up laying off. >> synergy. >> thats nicer than layoffs. >> we go after these companies for buybacks say saying its irresponsible, theyre lining their own pockets. as the ceo of a company it is your job as a fishery ...

School of law. and jeremy bash, former chief of staff at cia and the pentagon and former counsel to the house intel committee. jeremy, id like to begin with you. mark mazzetti set separately, again, one of the four reporters on this piece, said separately tonight they gave the white house a heads-up, looked for comment days in advance. apparently the white house chose not to, save the presidents response today that this was fake news. does that tell you anything about its contents? >> brian, i t...