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Neighboring it is togo, which is under 6 million. When you look at echo weiss, the entire west African Economic unity, it jars to be some thing that looks comparable to the Major Economies like brazil and india and china. The east african community, which is kenya, uganda, tanzania, that starts to look like a powerful economic lock. When you look at the southern countries, the same obtains. Subsaharan africa is 800 Million People. So the attraction, at least for the investor class that these sort of big exploding commercials on this more pronounced when you think about africa as interlinked so...

Continent. Thank you for being here today it is the brilliant book you will buy it if you want to understand the continent better. Think you. [applause] thank you to our author and moderator. Dayo her book the bright continent is out here for anyone that is interested. Thank you. [inaudible conversations] spec i appreciate this conference so much i have been doing this since 20021 of the greatest meetings of the minds ever when you can go from us the shed with confucius to gold and bit coin and minimumwage we are covering the of waterfront. Now between seven and 10 debates one on one i think o...

Became a shared public norm but then immediately change peoples behavior. And so, to the extent people are interested in legislative solution and human rights doctors want pronouncements from the government inaction from the secretary of state of the u. S. , i am not sure thats the way to get it up in the problem of in africa. And maybe the longer complicated work of communities to collectively change norms. Its not a satisfying it there, but conforms to my general argument that the government is not where you go for a change in africa. It is peertopeer. Exactly. Why dont you tell us what your...

The crisis or a bad economy. They are the result. They are the result of it spent why should the government do less of two expand Social Security . They should do less loopholes for corporations and the very rich. They should do more spending on infrastructure to make us as a country more competitive as a nation and create jobs in the process. We should be increasing the minimum wage. Lets talk about that for a second. If minimum wage had kept pace with inflation instead of being 7. 25, it would be 10. 70 by. If it had kept pace with productivity it would be 18. 75 if it had kept pace with a w...

The presiding officer are there think senators wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote . If not, the ayes are 95, the nays are 0. And the nomination is confirmed. There will be now two minutes equally divided prior to the vote on the crawford nomination. Mr. Leahy madam president . The presiding officer the senator from vermont. Mr. Leahy is this the crawford nomination . The presiding officer the senator is correct. Mr. Leahy leahy strongly suppoy both senators from vermont. And i might say also by the people of vermont. And i yield back all time. The presiding officer without objecti...