Okay, good morning, good late morning, everyone. I am going to venture to be bold and say this will be the most exciting panel of the day because we are about solving the problems you have been hearing about this morning and i am very happy to have an International Panel. It shrunk by one individual because professor angelo is bill, she couldnt join us. I will try to channel her the best i can with my own personal twist. We have an International Panel that im excited about because they fought long and hard how to challenge this information the context of dealing with russia. To my immediate right, ambassador rene nyberg, distinguished former finnish ambassador to russia which is relevant here and former chief executive of consulting, who also served as finlands ambassador to germany for four years from 2004 through 2008. He was head of finlands dedication to the osce which deals with these issues, and these operations and to austria. He has a long distinguished career with all the othe
Results of the survey so stay tuned. So let me set the stage for a few minutes on a project on cyber enabled Economic Warfare really got started. It really had its genesis back in the 1990s in discussions with incredible smart people at the Smith Richardson foundation that is sponsored this work, but the intersection of economic and security. In 1997 the Asian Financial crisis it, remember . Began in thailand and the contagion quickly spread to indonesia, south korea, malaysia, the countrys throughout the region. Foreign debt to gdp ratios rose over 180 during the worst of the crisis. Writes occur, governments fell. The causes of the crisis were varied but most experts think it was the combination of crony capitalism, and economic bubble flooding the market with cheap money, and a simultaneous slump in semiconductor values with the rise in u. S. Dollar. What would it mean to relations, taiwan and china . What would it do to radical groups . It was the malaysian Prime Minister at the ti
In a natural relationship. But that being said, you dont want to create the government has a responsibility to the taxpayer to be fair and to be transparent. You have to do that. The question becomes how can you do that but at the same time give industry the flexibility to do what they need to do . I dont know there is a good answer which is why acquisition reform has been a buzzword for decades and continues to be something we continue to strive for and continue to struggle with. But i would say that is probably the hard problem of the century. But nevertheless it is something we have to continue to strive to get better because there is a balance between letting industry innovate and letting industry take responsibility and put goods into the hands of the war fighter that meet the war fighters needs and making sure that the responsibility to the taxpayer is upheld. So before i go, let me follow up with a specific question. Is there one word, based on your current understanding of wher
Companies are to go that defined todays action with the dow jumping 113 points, s p climbing 1. 05 , nasdaq falling 1. 59 . First, we all know that stocks have come up a lot from the february lows, but not all stocks. Only a select group of stocks have managed to claw their way back into our hearts. Mainly service companies, international businesses, those Consumer Products corporations and those involved, at least bottom fishing here, went up, resources mining minerals. However, a ton of stocks have been left behind. Especially health care stocks. Theyve been in the doldrums because theyre easy political whipping boys during primary season and theyve had some disappointing earnings. Then all of a sudden someone comes out and says he wants to do deals. He tells us he might have as many as 10 takeover targets and one or two of them will be bought in the next quarter or two. Suddenly were off to the races with animal spirits that jar us into remembering that its not just investors who bu
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