And i ended up writing a column about it. It began a conversation with chris that was part of his effort to develop this book and the arguments in it. Want to ask chris to take us all on a journey he has been on. He has shared some with me over the years. The book starts with a really chilling account of what would happen in the first hours and days of a war with china. Maybe that is a good place to people whyaining to we have a problem when it comes to technology. Chris thank you, david. I appreciate your friendship and guidance throughout this whole process. It has been invaluable. With the timens is spent on the Senate Armed Services committee, the better part of a decade supporting the committee and senator mccain, looking closely at the u. S. Military, how we were investing money and werent investing money and ultimately, how we match up against emerging great power competitors, first and foremost china. The reason i wrote the book was a concern i had then add have now that we are
Out 22 higher majorly underperforms the u. S. Peers ending more than 7 lower. Bye bye 2019, a new decade is upon us as big ben prepares to ring in the new year in style. Welcome to street signs. Our top story today, former nissan chairman ghosn has fled japan for lebanon. He was banned from traveling abroad in a statement, ghosn said, he had, quote, not fled justin but fled injustin and political persecution. A loyal said he was surprised by the departure and called ghosns actions inexcusable and there is a high probability he violated his conditions he said he has not spoken to the police or ghosn himself. This is his actual lawyer in japan. Further more, he said the lawyers still have all of his passports. You have to wonder how on earth he made it out of japan to lebanon. One of the press companies there are citing that he may have hired a private company and indeed a private jet landed in beirut airport coming from turkey when it comes to next steps and what this means, clearly hes
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Frontiers for that sector in the new decade and facebook being called the new cigarettes for our society by the founder of salesforce. Com his critical take on the social media giant as Worldwide Exchange begins right nowe to exchange im dierdre bosa in for Brian Sullivan the second to last day of 2019, take a look at stock futures right now pretty much flat they are on track for a block buster year as i mentioned the s p on track for potentially its best year in two decades if it can squeeze out gains of nearly 30 . 29. 6 is the gain that we are looking at dow jones and the nasdaq also on track for a record year. Moving on to the bond market, the yield on the tenyear note currently 1. 912 lets go worldwide now in asia, markets were mixed in the last two days of the years investors awaiting updates on the trade deal and increasing tensions with north korea. Japan wrapping up its final trading day of 2019, down slightly, but the nikkei, that was up 18 for the year and what a turn around
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