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Competition. >> the point here, its not just boeing. the fact is there has been a concerted political effort to attack the nlrb to stand in the way -- >> its a side show 37. >> its want a side show -- >> if youre an activist in this space, you wont think its a side show. >> i just want to go -- -- >> lets talk about -- >> hasnt boeing faced a lot of competition? international aerospace universe has a lot of strong participants. actually, thats been the big shock boeing has faced in the past few ...

Private equity firm, heres what romney did. they borrow capital to buy existing companies, they attempt to make companies more profitable in short term, by cutting expenses, firing staff, busting unions, cutting salaries, health care and pensions. they reward themselves with large fees and bonuses taken from the companys cash flow and sell off the business and reap the profits typically leaving companies load down with debt. in some cases it worked out well for companies. the point is that romne...

>> i am just asking you a question. in your utopia university. >> in my utopia universe, it wouldnt just be banks that would have a line it would be individuals, anybody that wants to charter a new bank. glass steegle was not to increase the chartering of narrow banks. if you want to start a narrow bank, you can charter it. >> deepak, i am going to let you respond. >> canada, germany, other countries with banking systems that had high levels of regulation, dont have huge foreclosure crisis, they...

He said, we realize that doesnt work. the point here isnt that they are not really smart. they are very, very smart. the point is, if you should create this computer game and set up a bunch of companies, a bunch of players all pursuing their self-interest madly. do you have a wonderful market economy or a car crash. i think a big reason you had the car crash and it started in the united states is that you guys lost the view that you needed someone in the center of the ring whose job was not to b...

Capital owned us and that that the ceo was running for senate in massachusetts. i mean, to me that was an opportunity. when the story broke that mitt romney was running for senate and then had this plant, basically putting everybody out of work at that point, then the kennedy campaign called and said, can we put some folks in an ad? we had nothing to lose. we were on the street, was trying to get a contract. wed do it again if we had to, im sure, all the workers -- i stay in touch with many of t...

Dominos is at best a mixed story. once bane made it public, 11 of the next 12 quarters, negative same store sales, negative sales compared to the pizza industry. it got to the point they had to change their complete pizza recipe. the neat 2009 commercials -- >> most amazing. they ran an ad campaign saying our pizza is absolutely terrible and we understand that. were going to try to make it better. i mean -- >> thats exactly right. and it worked. it worked very well. dominos has recovered. it got...

The way that the soviet union appealed to people in the 1930s. it is a strangely exact parallel. >> originally -- >> thats the point. >> well talk more about tom franks new book and the backlash that happened in the wake of the crisis. why do we have aflac... aflac... and major medical? major medical, boyyyy! [ beatboxing ] ♪ i help pay the doctor ♪ aint that enough for you? ♪ there are things major medical doesnt do. aflac! pays cash so we dont have to fret. [ together ] ♪ something fam...

Tax, you would have had higher wages for the folks that are working but lower labor participation. people would have another option. you decide what you care about and you do something to solve that problem, that problem you care about. the trouble is that you push the balloon down in one place and it goes up in another. similarly, she made i thought a very important part. when you are trying to increase access to credit, these for-profit guys are going to do a lot of things to increase access t...

Because we are liberals, we believe in sharing here. how are we doing? the other recess appointment obviously made that got a lot less attention and i think this also points to something that i was trying to illustrate in the story at the top of the hour is, these things dont make headlines. the nlrb, a certain set. the chamber of commerce has been hammering on the nlrb and the republican primary and presidential primary field. mitt romney is running ads in south carolina against obamas handling...

Years. she said to him, well she said, why are people making such a big deal of it? >> good point. >> thats a delightfully self-serving anecdote. >> it is being fought out right now over bozzle three, which is we can not regulate better. this is going to be my pro-canada moment. mark carney, who is going to be the top dog international regulator, gave a speech in washington addressing this head on. he said in no other area of human endeavor do we say, its okay, we are not even going to try to ma...