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badly. the data however paints a different picture. the us economy grew 2% in the first three months of this year. that is almost double initial estimates. consumers spend more, exports held up and prospect for the second quarter also look better with the housing market focused on recovery and subsidies for semiconductor and electric car parts beginning to kick in. the challenge for americas central bank is to keep inflation trending down. data due out later this friday from the us com...

Were going to start with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Cuban missile crisis was 1962. It took place over 13 very, very stressful days in october 1962. The United States at that point had long been flying High Altitude surveillance flights over the nation of cuba, but on october 14th, 1962 a u2 surveillance flight picked up imagery in cuba of something that started that whole crisis, started that whole standoff. Its interesting. The Cuban Missile Crisis is very precisely identified in all the history...

But not on a personal kind of transaction by transaction basis. there needs to be full controls with regard to privacy, we need to make sure the technology is secure, robust, but resilient. it is particularly important. this new form of money could help to address financial inclusion. what does that look like? what could the off—line capabilities be? the physical cash can be used anywhere potentially, a digital form used anywhere potentially, a digitalform of used anywhere potentially, a digit...

It was that weekend that north korea fired a missile and trump conducted diplomacy in the middle of the mar-a-lago dining room. >> the open air situation room. the company that made this investment with the kushner companies, they are a firm that is partially owned by the japanese government. does the japanese government have a controlling interest in that firm? could the japanese government have been the decision-maker in terms of making this investment? >> so, on a technical basis, because the...

Have been the decision-maker in terms of making this investment? >> so, on a technical basis, because they own a third of the company, they have a controlling stake in the sense that they could veto any big decisions this company makes. houg however we have been told that typically, the company is making its own business decisions and isnt looking to the government to make those decisions, especially not on a transaction to transaction basis. >> but with that one third take, the japanese governm...

Was in a department of homeland memo a year ago, this man got him back to france. morocco knew he was here but only told french officials three days after the attacks on friday. how do you explain that? >> im not sure i can explain that. what is striking in this instance and many others in these attacks the debate in france is about border control. it should be about intelligence sharing. intelligence sharing in this case, but also the fact the french that were led on sunday were actually permit...