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>> over the summer there was a significant strike -- spike. they had control of that. we went by several channels politically, through iraq, then iran, and then it stopped. there is no question that iran can control this. they are shipping efp's and iram's in particular, and they are getting bigger and bigger. there's a great downside potential for destabilizing iraq. i think that the prime minister is concerned about that as well. in that regard, on the one hand is up to them. it is clear that they want to do it, they can do it. they have been warned consistent with what the secreta...

committed to whatever you're going to do. if you go big, and an obvious model is the tax reform, then you got all the interest competing against each other, and i think it's easier for members of congress to resist the cries of a million angry interest groups as opposed to the cry of one million angry interest groups. if you go big, you marshal public opinion. you win over the people who want simplicity in our tax code and in our budget. and if people are willing to say, hey, everyone's taken a hit, i think they're going to be along more willing to go along with you when they say he'...

digital with the "financial times," "market stewart living on the media." delighted to have you here today. [applause] >> clap, clap, clap. right next to her is anthony. he has been a digital marketer since it began. i've known anthony for quite some time. he's held many different roles, questioning one in double click, which is a pioneer in the digital advertising space. great to you have here as well. >> thank you. >> next to anthony is michael kelley,'s a marketer of adgenesis. i'll let you tell more about it. really just focusing on the paradigm shift in how advertising is delive...

>> it is vision. >> one idea is if you have a single issuer or a few issuers to avoid this monopoly situation you can allow that to exist only as a cooperative like the the gcc. they go back into the chain where it is competitive above or below. i think having one or two issuers is a good. get as many participants to take the credit risk is good but you need a way of standardizing the mortgage product. if we had 20 mortgage originators who would go through the run -- one deron 4 they go through different types of disclosure an...

>> well, there is a whole series of moments which i would like to forget. i had to record them anyway. the one that sticks in my mind the most was saying goodbye to my son and dropping him off at college. the book takes us all the way from the beginning of even looking at colleges and thinking about colleges to getting him in, and then dropping him off at school. it was the culmination of all these 18 months of worrying and anxiety. for a parent, is a very bittersweet feeling. on one hand, you showed the kid out the door and he is on his own, and on the other hand, you don't really w...