Page 87 - Regulatory Framework News Today

To dateline london. Im jane hill. Today were taking time to reflect on 2017 as it draws to a close the highs and lows in europe, america and the middle east. Lets find out what my guests have made of a turbulent year. With me, the british political commentator and columnist steve richards, the American Writer and broadcasterjef mcallister, marc roche from frances le point magazine and also belgiums le soir, and the arab affairs qriter abdel bari atwan. Welcome to you all. What a year in british ...

Evening and overnight, we will run into a bit of a problem to say the least with ice. Weve had those showers of the melting snow and then the surface gets damp over the clearing skies there will be a widespread frost and if the surfaces and treated you might have an issue with ice. But the day itself is really rather glorious. A lot of sunshine, still a peppering of showers to be exposed part of northern scotland, the central belt, much of england and wales try and fight, but you lose across the...

Asked what they thought of todays news so i quit my job and i went about as far away as i could go and i moved to the country of cambodia and i spent a year and a half there reporting on events there and it was amazing. The country was emergingfor 30 years in the civil war and genocide. 24 people died of starvation and disease and what struck me while i was there was the human resilience. It was very noble experience. A lot of information, but just seeing peoples lives and how they bounce back, ...

Gate park initiatives in the Strategic Plan and i would say to you from my last 10 years in this position that there is probably no more robust conversation than there is on any issue around Golden Gate Park. I think that, frankly, i think that we have more work to do getting other neighborhood groups and folks from other parks engaged in, you know, sort of park policy and park advocacy conversations and theres a lot around Golden Gate Park so im not sure that were lacking in that regard, superv...

No, it is not. I borrow that title. I read that book, the third wave, in 1980, and i was mesmerized by the agricultural revolution followed by the industrial revolution. He was protecting the technology revolution, what we now know as the internet. I knew that is what i wanted to do. It took me time to get into that world. When i decided to write a book, i borrowed that title. Thankfully it was still alive. He provided a blurb for the book. What are your three waves . I focus on the internet. It...

Announcer next, q a with former chief economist of the fcc, thomas hazlett. Brian tom hazlett, why did you write the book the political spectrum . Tom there is a great set of stories, unknown to most people about how we got into the age of wireless. Wireless seems like a bit of magic. It has always seemed that way. We had 100 years ago a Supreme Court chief justice say he did not want to get any radio cases because he did not want to have to dive into the law there. The law of the occult. So, th...

Weakness in italy and spain. When it comes to the treasury yields, this is what were watching closely, the tenyear is trading at 2. 433 should we be doing a Weather Board . Like a freezing cold Weather Board . I saw this morning that 90 of the United States is freezing or below a third of the continental United States, the lower 48, are actually below zero. As was predicted. Its cold because its warm. Dont do this as a Global Warming thing. No, no, because only weather that proves Global Warming...

Welcome back to crossfire where all Things Considered im peter remind you were discussing bitcoin. Here let me go back to you in cambridge while it is a fascinating concept these cryptocurrency if there is the concern of accountability Illegal Drugs arms and other kinds of illegal activity can stay under the radar of the authorities i mean i think thats a kind of a downside also you know when people talk about it is being a newfie out currency one day i mean you know people are buying big ticket...

Next in line to to start getting involved with regards to Law Enforcement question you know its a its a double edged sword for Law Enforcement because on the one hand you know you know these these currencies do enable privacy on dark web transactions but on the other hand Law Enforcement when they catch a criminal whos been using bitcoin and they get a hold of their Wallet Software they get effectively their books and they may have a good chance of recovering some of the funds and thats not some...

A big point its really just an investment its not really. A mechanism to buy and sell it is to park your money somewhere and leave it there because you dont trust the banks i mean it for it to be really universal you have to be able to be able to use your wallet as they call it and buy things and sell things its not that easy to do its not widely accepted you know many more innovative people do say they accept the go ahead midge. Its part of you know its part of a diversification strategy where ...