Launch of the 2023 freedom and prosperity index. I am the managing editor. Just to give you some brief background on today, the freedom and Prosperity Center here at the Atlantic Council aims to increase the wellbeing of people in developing countries. Through research on the development between prosperity and economic, political, and legal freedom. We seek to answer questions such as to countries need freedom to have prosperity . Does democracy or autocracy serve the aspirations of people around the world . They survey nearly every country in the world. We will talk about that later today. First i want to introduce our panelists. We have the senior director of the freedom and Prosperity Center. He was the state Department Special representative for commercial and Business Affairs from 2019 to 2021. He led the initiative to start a business relations between the u. S. And Foreign Companies around the world. He was on the policy planning between 2018 and 2019 where he was responsible fo
Structure coming up next, the 2023 freedom and prosperity industries. Topic include the relationship between freedom and prosperity, china and russia and womens economic read him around the world. Welcome, everyone to the launch of the 2023 freedom and prosperity indexes. I am the management editor. To give you some brief background on today, the freedom and Prosperity Center near the Atlanta Council aims to increase the wellbeing of people, especially the poor and marginalized of developed countries, a Database Research between prosperity and economic political and legal freedom. We are here to answer questions such as, two countries need freedom . To democracies or hypocrisies have better answers for people around the world . Here to answer these questions is the freedom and prosperity indexer that surveyed nearly every country in the world which we will talk about later today. First, i want to introduce our panelists for today. We have the senior director of the freedom and Prosperi
Natividad, president of the guahan coalition for peace and justice and a member of the Guam Commission on decolonization. Well also speak with david vine, author of base nation how u. S. Military bases abroad harm america and the world. Then, sphere of influence how american libertarians called the Atlas Network are remaking latin american politics. While politicians operate within the confines of what they consider possible, atlas and our Global Partners think it is more costeffective to change what is considered politically possible. Venezuela as well as those that ousted the president , we will speak to the intercept Investigative Reporter lee fong, who just published a , major expose on the group. Then we talked to a yemeni student who among thousands, one a visa from the diversity lottery. Well also talk with a veteran state Department Official who says taking visas away from lottery winners is the cruelest possible thing this administration could do. All that and more coming up.
Physically at least invest in those countries or asset class is. Then i think how the world will change with the emerging markets to riga heavy lifting producing the stuff that we consume and we thought this was a good deal. That has not been of a good deal for them ended gravy train for americans but that will and and when the producers start to consider what will they consume . So what somebody in china will buy will be different than what the american buys in china if they buy a car chases are it is the first car but in america they just trade the old one and. In china it is printed do so there is a lot of steel and resources. A lot of the cars they will get from lusby will sell them the used cars we cannot afford to drive because gasoline prices are too high one of the reasons they are driving less is they dont have a job. Why Energy Consumption is down so much but it will go down more because now they will have jobs but cannot afford the gasoline because as the dollar collapses wh
Announcer and now, john stossel. Stossel capitalism works in my lifetime, free markets have listed 2 billion people out of the misery of poverty. Yet, lots of Americans Still sneer at capitalism. Its unfair. A scheme of the rich to exploit poor people. . even today when i would think the success of capitalism is so obvious, some countries still turn to forms of communism. Venezuela voting for that 15 years ago. Hugo chavez promised higher wages, more power to the people. Voters believed. They voted him in to office twice. Cuba went communist 60some years ago, and progress there basically stopped. Cuba is almost as poor as north korea today. But the dictators in cuba say, were only poor because the yankee imperialists starve us. Theyre talking about americas embargo with trade to cuba, travel to cuba. Now president obama promises to end that. President obama we will end an outdated approach that for decades has failed to advance our interests and instead, we will begin to normalize rela