We had down here this weekend. We will be live all week. About hundred thousand people attend this event every year as well as about 350 authors are down here. Was founded by mr. Kaplan, founder of books and books as well. The big bookstore down here in south florida. Well, the cspan buses also year, and we are handing out but banks with our partners comcast here in the miami area. If you happen to be in the area, come on down. We are at Miamidade College the north side of downtown miami for the Miami Book Fair. In just a minute the panel in chapman all here at Miamidade College will begin will be beginning. Dave barry in the onion editors, humor columnist solve them. There will be introduced by brad meltzer who will be moderating the panel. The novelist will be joining us later. Ms. Kaplan will also be speaking, the founder of the Miami Book Fair, introducing and opening the weekend coverage. In just a minute well take you now to chapman all. Its rather full. We will be beginning or c
Put together a list of who had the best year in politics. For our first 45 minutes we are looking for the same from you. Who had the best year in politics . Maybe it was a figure, a government body. Our phone lines our twitter account is like i said, the National Journal put together a poll. They compiled a list of republicans and democrats asking who had the best year in politics. When it comes to those responding for the democrats, here is the result of their list. Here is what they came up with. One percent said it was joe biden paid 60 say it was Chris Christie. Hillary clinton at 24 . At two percent with barack obama weighing in on one percent. Following that, it was rand paul with two percent, harry reid with 10 , and paul ryan with no one. Here is the republicans response. Nobody responded for the Vice President rate of 71 say it was Chris Christie who had the best year in politics. Nine percent of said Ted Cruz Hillary Clinton with ted cruz with 11 . Paul ryan waning weighing i
Mr. Rothkopf, a lot of people think that government and big business go hand in hand. They do go hand in hand but governments Playing Field for power and so business introduces itself there to guide it in the directions it wants to go. But of course a lot of people in big business or in the Financial Community would prefer it if they went on in their way unimpeded by government, and toso thats another front in this particular power struggle. Host one of the points you make in power inc. There are multinational corporations who make more money, control more money, than most of the governments on earth. Yeah, Big Companies like walmart, you know, have more employees than some of the smaller countries in the world. But a company like exxon has revenues that are bigger than the gdp of all but probably 30 or 40 countries on earth and, therefore, it has resources that allow it to set up offices in more countries than most countries have embassies. Put more money towards influencing outcomes
Prefer if it went on in their way unimpeded by government so that is another front in this particular power struggle. One of the points you make in power, inc. Is there are some multinational corporations and make more money, control more money than most governments on earth. Big Companies Like walmart have more employees than smaller countries in the world but a country like a company like exxon has revenues that are bigger than the gdp of 30 or 40 countries on earth and therefore it has resources that allow it to set up offices in more countries than most countries have embassies, put more money toward influencing outcomes and political campaigns, to a greater extent than any countries are able to do so they have greater influence. Host is that negative . Guest depending on your view. Companies are capable of acting in the Public Interest or promoting progress or promoting Economic Growth and that is positive but companies tend to act in their narrow selfinterest as well. They are ob