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Prior to the then vice president-elect kamala harris' arrival at the dnc headquarters and this person in the video has not been identified or caught by law enforcement. but going back to the moments that they discovered this device and then there's this evacuation that takes place, we learned after it was discovered, about seven minutes for them to get the then vice president-elect out of there. and it happened as people were beginning to descend on the capitol. what kinds of decisions are being made in those seven minutes. >> that is seven critical minutes where, you know, information flows a...

Br broken down. >> what if china provides military support? what if the united states and nato is able to discover provable military aid to russia by china, what will the consequence be? >> well, so far the consequence has been nothing. because, for instance, there are indications that china already provided military intelligence that is -- that gives the russians capability to kill ukrainian drone operators. ukraine is operating chinese drones against russia. dji, the world's largest maker of drones, has provided the information to the russians about how to kill the operators, how to reverse ...

For their lives. you have somehow survived. how have you done it? i want to ask you more about the changing technology, the internet, the way it's totally transformed information flows.

I think it's fair to say 15 years ago, the assumption or the hope was that the internet was going to completely democratise our societies. it would empower people at the bottom. hierarchies would be changed from top down to bottom up. we all would have access to information at our fingertips, and that would improve our democracies. viewed from today, do you think that was wrong? terribly naive? that information flows, thanks to the internet, have empowered the authoritarians, not the citizens? i think we saw this very early with the arab spring and how quickly it turned into the arab winter, r...

-- this post authored by Michael U. Krause, Thomas A. Lubik, and Karl Rhodes During the past 25 years, low-interest rates and highly expansionary monetary policy with little apparent inflation have created the illusion that a government can simply print money to fund exorbitant deficit spending with no repercussions. This core tenet of so-called "modern monetary theory" ignores the fact that deficit spending is constrained in the long run by a government's ability to satisfy creditors. Promoters of modern monetary theory (MMT) - including a growing number of pundits and policymakers - are toy...