live. live live live live. live. in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want to live. they were there i marinated this is them boss and these are some of the stories that we're tracking for you today. no assets no turnover no worries at least that was the case for sink technology which apparently is a company with only one employee and zero profits yet somehow has managed

a four point five billion dollars valuation we look into coming to right then with the world cup final between germany and argentina happening this sunday in brazil we thought it was only appropriate to bring back sports economist victor thompson victor sat down with me earlier today to discuss what's going to happen to these class soccer stadiums post world cup that's the big question and eggs out today but redacted tonight them fact is in the senate sitting down with me in today's big deal to discuss amazon profiting off of your kids in africa is not for them is on your own want to miss a moment and it all starts right now. with .

no calls no assets no revenue no problem at least it wasn't a problem as of last night for tech start up sync technology but then then the smore name happened now saying stock which is trading on an unregulated over the counter in u.s. exchange captured the attention of market watchers when it soared to an eye popping twenty five thousand percent yes i'm reading that right twenty five thousand percent over the course of a three week period to a peak market cap of more than four billion dollars shares of the bullies based company which is described in filing. as a social media and surprise went from ten cents on june seventeenth to a high of twenty one dollars and forty nine cents early thursday morning before falling in the late afternoon and trading at just over thirteen dollars a share by the time markets closed on thursday now appears to be presenting. in platform associated with the web site intro biz dot com a website that i spent

a fair amount of done on today and i still can't quite figure out what exactly it does or it sells but the site says it allows users to both buy and sell the ability to socially connect to individuals such as celebrities business owners and talented professionals and the home page reads quote get a head start on your project or venture by taking advantage of the social connections our social lights have for you now i'm not sure how social views socialites are as according to regulatory filings sink posted a one point five million dollars operating loss in two thousand and thirteen and has a single one single employee mr marlin louise sanchez who currently functions as the company's president c.e.o. c.f.o. chief accounting officer director treasure and secretary so spread a little thin now trading was suspended friday morning until july twenty fourth with the securities and exchange commission citing quote concerns regarding the

accuracy and adequacy of information in the market place and potentially manipulative transactions in six common stock. yeah yeah i think that's the same you think maybe possibly now while hearing the story you might have this quick knee jerk reaction to yell tech bubble but let's be very very clear here this has nothing whatsoever to do with a bubble not this time in my humble opinion this is a classic pump and dump penny stock one with so little volume that only a few trades can scan and send it sky high or plummeting and over the counter stocks have always taken mercurial turns like this and will continue to do so and technically yes all of the shares of this company out up to a multibillion dollar market valuation but in practice that means absolutely nothing if the entire operation proves to be a ghost which i suspect it will prove to be you can bet your bottom dollar that no one is for going over four billion bucks but with that said on an otherwise. slow summer friday for the markets i do appreciate all the excitement that sync has

offered today so i think you think. that. the world cup is wrapping up this week and germany and argentina face off on sunday in the championship match but we are interested in exploring what might happen to these world class soccer stadiums after the games and victor matheson a sports economist and professor at the college of the holy cross studies the economic impact of mega sporting events now i first asked him how much brazil spent on the world cup and this is what he had to say some pretty interesting stuff and i think you'll find so yourself so that's actually a fairly hard question to answer all of the latest reports suggest that they spent somewhere between eleven and thirteen billion dollars overall and they spent about

four billion dollars on the stadiums alone although there have been reports of the final stadium numbers maybe as high as five or even six billion dollars but you know what you say overall that the social unrest wasn't what we were expecting going into the games well i think there's a real reason for the taxpayers in brazil to be quite upset at some of the spending for example of the stadium in the mouse. the stadium in brasilia both of those are stadiums of cost hundreds of millions of dollars in fact the brazilian brazilian stadium is the now the second most expensive soccer stadium in the world of course the problem with that is that there is no team actually to play in brasilia once the games go so here you have spent nine hundred million dollars in taxpayer money for a stadium that's almost destined to become a litle. it's incredible now can you give me a breakdown of the scholarly research on the long term economic benefits of these

games basically injecting that much money into the economy should have been important and i would think think being the operative word beneficial effect you know well certainly if you've got an economy that's depressed and this is just this would just be normal stimulus spending most economists agree about injecting a bunch of money short term into your economy in a depressed economy can cause increases in the overall output but when you're doing comedy that is growing already what you do is you simply divert resources from one activity to another that doesn't increase your look at your short run economic benefits and stadiums tend to be a very very poor way to get long run economic development they don't tend to be very good neighbors they don't allow you to do other things in the economy this isn't like building an airport that you could use for the world cup with it also used for business afterwards these are stadiums that again in some cases will go

almost completely on used and in other cases even the successful stadiums are only going to be used you know several dozen times a year that's not a very good return on investment and victor you recently wrote an article in a very good article i might add on five thirty eight that discusses some of the problems with the way that brazil actually spent its world cup money ultimately completing only half of the public works projects that had pledged to so you know if you can just touch on but can you give me a more detailed analysis of what happened and what you think the future of those public works projects will be. sure first of all a calmness in general suggests that stadiums are not very good investments however general infrastructure of things like airports communications roads mass transit systems these can all lead to really strong long run economic growth and so originally in the world cup brazil said yes we understand the economic research and we're going to mainly spend our money on other stuff not on stadiums but as all

these stadiums ran behind schedule rather than spend about fifty of the total money on stadiums they ended up spending about a third of their money on stadiums and they ended up canceling about half of the general infrastructure projects that had been planned so basically what you've got is you've got a games that had half of the long run benefits but at all the cost so he gets not a very good long run investment for the country and then he said an airport would have been a more beneficial piece of equipment but you know if the economics are so mixed why is there such a fight to host the world cup. well certainly part of the issue is everyone likes to be in the spotlight especially if you're a politician and of course the politicians are the ones making those decisions when the voters get a choice they actually often say you know this is not worth the money and not worth the hassle and this is exactly what we're seeing right now with the winter olympics

of the winter olympics in two thousand and twenty two is up for bid and sensually all of the countries in functioning democracies of all have all withdrawn places like germany and places like sweden norway looks to be the next country to drop out and now we're left with just beijing and kazakstan places were the voters really don't have much say in whether and where their money is going to go i like how you put that functioning democracies makes it very clear who's interested in his not but now let's move on to the historic last spring hill suffered at the hands of germany that was just i think seven to one so what do you think happened here and statistically did you see this coming so statistically no one saw this coming this is perhaps the most lopsided game and the most unexpected game maybe in the history of the world cup certainly brazil had not lost an important game at home in in nearly fifty years no one had ever lost a semifinal by this amount and no one team playing at home had ever lost

a game by this amount of this was just an epic meltdown you know centrally every possible aspect anyone who saw this coming is either lying or for chess to extremely lucky and guessing now i want to ask you how important a role does management style play in steering the team to victory versus raw player telling home was the issue with brazil germany other than what you just said it was in the game was it partially because germany players there actually just better or was it a failure of tactics and strategy on some level as well. well obviously there's a little bit of bad luck there are. lost of up to a a yellow card suspension and a last name are arguably the best player in the world to an injury and injuries are probably should have been punished more heavily by the referee in the game up previously but what we really do see here is it's really hard to imagine that brazil the in some in some ways the the heart and soul of soccer in the

world didn't have any better striker after neymar than they did it's it's really quite shocking to believe that resilin all countries in the world was so reliant on just one player that they couldn't find anyone else to fill neymar shoes when he was knocked out of the tournament now ready for a start of this interview you mention that you think the smart money is on germany to win and why is that well there's no doubt that that messi almost certainly best player in the world you can argue whether it's him or neymar so argentina's got the best player in the world but the way that germany has played in this tournament it's very hard to see anyone overcoming that again dismantling the host country they opened up the tournament with a four zero win over over christiane or and although and portugal so it's very hard to imagine someone doing better but again at soccer anything can happen on any day

no one expected germany to be brazil seven one so even if the smart money is on germany anything can happen once the referee blows his opening with oil. anything can happen germany there were sports economists victor madison. time now for a very quick break but stick around because when we return we're bringing you the best of the best from this past week and in today's big deal sam sachs is sitting in for edward harrison sam and i are discussing amazon's a lawsuit with the f.t.c. and what it could mean for your digital wallet and he's also telling us about his new show redacted tonight plus remember you can see all segments featured in today's show on you tube at you tube dot com slash the best our team and on hulu hulu dot com slash zoom dash but now before we go here are a look at summer closing numbers that the bell seems not included come on back.

this same logic that the united states pursued in afghanistan you know so well army the relatively new on the grass if we jackie were to saw me and that was good enough for the united states and look what happened a couple of years down the line again the problem with american policy is a lack of staying power after the soviet union left afghanistan the united states essentially forgot about afghanistan that the pakistanis moved in to fill the void

with the taliban that led to the growth of al qaida with all the subsequent consequences this was the critique of pulling out of iraq as well. welcome back and now it's the end of the week and that means it's time for our best of the very best segment from this past week now first up we have a dentist a gartman of the government letter discussing the latest jobs numbers and why he feels optimistic about the future of the u.s.

economy then anthony randolph gives us his take on the b.i.l.'s report and why he disagrees with economist paul krugman randalls i believe that policymakers are only looking to the short term and to the detriment of the future of the u.s. economy and professor michael hudson explains the relationship between the housing bubble and the practice of the leveraging up a kid a borrowing to buy that economist and author george magnus comes next he's looking at how china can transition from its massive double digit growth to a play. have more sustainable development levels then you swap precise discusses the strange phenomenon of capital flows from the emerging markets to develop markets for us to get the other way around and rounding out our best of the week janet young we england talks about the importance of getting retailers to accept decline as a way to spread its use enjoy. not just jobs that i pay attention to i pay attention to what's going through our various sports here in the united states i

pay very good attention to what's going on with tax revenues there are many things that i have learned to count upon but but i know this people don't pay taxes on profits they think they're going to make they don't pay taxes on jobs they hope they're going to have they don't pay taxes on money they think they might get people pay taxes on profits that are made hours that are worked and taxes are up to the federal government and to almost every state government by about eight percent a year that's consistent with the same amount of activity that's going through our various ports i watch the port here in norfolk virginia and year over year we're up about eight percent there's more container ships coming through in both directions exports and imports so quite honestly aaron i'm i'm reasonably optimistic about what the economy is doing i understand that there are all sorts of problems incumbent in the in the non-farm payrolls i know that some of the gold bug folks who have decried the strength of the economy for a long period of time will take issue with this but i'm sorry port activity is up

rail activity is up tax revenues are up it's hard to believe that the economy isn't doing anything that getting anything but getting better and yes it was terrible this winter and i do actually believe that the weather was an inducement to a a decline in g.d.p. i don't think that we were actually down two point nine percent i think that was a goofy number i suspect we're probably closer to down two percent not two point nine but i do think the numbers we're seeing right now are indicative of a stronger economy says is that policymakers are looking short term. so they don't care about indebtedness and so they are not worried about how that my how massive amounts of debt my completely mis allocate capital throughout the economy crewman thinks that we should just be looking short term and doesn't worry about debt in the same way that b. i asked so that fundamental difference is where he's going to sort of push back i disagree with kirkman i think that sovereign debt does influence economy i think it does influence festers i think it does influence the way capital is allocated and

right now we don't have an economy that's allocating capital towards a robust development of new businesses that are going to be for the twenty first century we're much more focused on how to grow the economy in two thousand and fifteen then we are in thinking about what's necessary for the economy to grow in twenty twenty five and twenty fifty suppose it used to be that people had a homeowner whatever thirty percent of their income and they could borrow seventy percent and limited. rights according to you know how much could be paid but you know by two thousand and seven two thousand and eight people could buy homes without putting any money down at all and the banks didn't even ask for amortization you have to pay off a mortgage in thirty years so the entire rental value either a rental value or if your all moan or. rental value of a home to you you can afford to pay all this money to the bank your debt service instead of having to pay down the loan and the banks the same time and that got

real estate taxes and of taxes that are left that will cut real estate taxes that leave homeowners in a better position but every time that the real estate tax that just meant that people get a buyers. that's what's left to borrow even more money from the banks and go even further into debt so nobody really ended all except for that but i had this discussion with lots of people in china and note of. china about you know how they envisage the evolution of the chinese economy as it transitions from double digit growth you know we've had a decade or more in which china has grown at ten or eleven percent per annum and it's now growing at around seven seven and a half and my guess is over the next three or four years it's going to transition into a growth trend that's closer to around four percent but none of us really know to

be honest whether that's going to be dumb you know well or managed you know nobody gets hurt kind of way or whether it's going to be more destructive it will just drop more violent and i think the problem is that because construction is such a high proportion of total investment spending and therefore of economic growth that. the danger is not so much that we get a price collapse in china or a banking collapse which is what we had in the west in two thousand and eight two thousand and nine but that you just get a nasty kind of bump in terms of economic growth and the government of china has to basically provide capital for banks and make sure that interest rates you know reduced to levels which in which people won't go bust too quickly this is something very strange in principle capital should be flowing from that it took on face to the put alliance but the problem is that the puerto countries don't have enough

capacity to absolve all of this money coming in and also they don't want to cut in sales to appreciate because if they don't see what happens shit we just what would happen if capital flowed in that would make their exports less competitive and many emerging markets feel that and having exports is going to be very important for their growth strategies so they're trying essentially to export capital which is what china has been doing for instance in order to keep that in mindy from appreciating and this is led to these very strange flows of capital but the additional bra. time latest anywhere in the world in the u.s. in autumn emerging markets people who own safety when they want safety where they come ultimately they come back to the u.s. dollar it's actually doesn't matter what matters is the number of merchants that we're seeing bring on decline as a payment we have mainstream retailers like one eight hundred flowers. where you can book your travel from your flights to your hotels completely quiet or you know

send your mom flowers or give one hundred flowers and i think as you see more merchants adopt it quite then you're going to see consumer confidence rise and then it solves that chicken and egg problem of ok is that valuable what it is because we're seeing companies. that was the best of the very best from this past week time now for today's big deal. deal to end the week with the wonderful mr sound socks joining me ok however though and today sam and i are discussing amazon and its lawsuit with the federal trade commission parenting amazon figured out a way to nab money from you by using your kids not simple so sam can you give me a breakdown what's happening here how are they doing yeah i think you nailed it

right there the f.t.c. is basically suing amazon saying they're using children to extract money out of those children's parents and the way they're doing it is arizona offers these apps on there for everything from there to build a smartphone devices everything their children's games and we know how modern parenting works usually you hand your child. your phone or whatever and they play games they play apps on all these free apps a resort offers within the apps kids can buy upgrades in the games and when they buy those upgrades they just press buttons and they don't have there's no notification for the parents that their kid is buying stuff on these apps and some parents have found that their kids have wrecked up hundreds of dollars in fees without them knowing so that's the kind of nexus of this lawsuit here you know i want to ask you do you think this is just a technical glitch and an oversight on the part of developers or do you think that there's something nefarious do you think amazon is a brilliant eureka we're going to we're going to add all these little gummy bears for these kids and i seriously doubt this was an oversight this goes back to two

thousand and twelve the f.t.c. filed a suit there and amazon said ok will will make users punch in a password for larger purchases than for all purchases the thing about it is once you punch in the password the window stays open for an hour and kids can still use that surprise when it comes down to it amazon employee basically said look we feel that this is a decision the parents don't need to be. part of what it comes down to it also apple was busted for doing the same thing by the f.t.c. earlier this year kids using apps to buy stuff without notifying their parents and they paid thirty million dollars back as a result of it so this is a pretty lucrative business model is long as you don't get caught and they got caught and now actually amazon is saying that they'll refund everyone entirely so it's kind of a dumb business model i think of you know then do the right thing just enter the first place they want to be drawn with the f.t.c. there and every business targets kids now to bring their money as little rug rats it gets for me yet now the high line marketplace seems to be designed to get you to spend as much money as possible big data analysis easy check out suggestive items

it all just winds up on your credit card and while this might be great for the company it isn't great for the consumer like we're just discussing but you know what do you think about online marketplace in general do you think all online marketplaces are designed like this you mentioned i tunes and a big fan of guilt and what i like about this sometimes an exercise i see something i like i put in the basket and i don't buy it and then i forget that i i wanted it and then i feel great it's just a brilliant way but they don't make you buy it so if you like to save money gets in the works for you yeah well look i mean every business models is to separate their consumers from their money i mean that's the way it works and you know it's just the nature of using credit cards and just typing in on the computer if you don't see the money you tend to go easy like you said easy check out things like that makes it all these years and now there's big data analysis which amazon has mastered which gets consumers to buy stuff that they didn't even know that they wanted i mean amazon used to recommend books by human reviewers saying hey you want this book but they realize that if they use big data they got much much higher

sales so all of this stuff adds up to. consumers more likely to spend money does that harm the consumer i guess it depends to the consumers if you're some rich guy that can have tons of buy tons of junk on amazon it probably doesn't affect you to marry or to provide critical stuff in the west it's on your computer you're also negatively affect it's a i think it's about idea no matter who you are now. i want to turn right now present have a minute left but i want to talk about productive night which is your new show so tell me what is reactionary what do you cover what are you doing with a giving a lead on what's kind of a. political news satire show dares a pm every friday watch out on star trek it's you know we got we got much sharper teeth than joan story how do i go. tonight we're going to talk about a range of issues marijuana goes on sale in washington state this week just like it went on colorado at the end of last year going to look at what might happen there and some of the real reasons why marijuana still remains of legal in most of the country we'll take a look at the latest n.s.a.

stories from this week and that's the host committee is going to tackle that issue in the other team member john f. o'donnell's looking into drones domestic drones and drones overseas and actually we unleashed him on the streets of washington d.c. to ask people what they thought about drones and you're going to definitely want to see you want to see it and i have to i personally norseman it's terrible it's very funny and you're also minutes but one final question do you think that marijuana is going to go the way of same sex marriage we have a hard rap after this but same sex marriage or do you think big pharma is going to end the way i think big pharma is got a lot of money they're going to make sure to to you know all these industries are going to try and make sure that they want to stay is illegal because they make a lot of money off of doing illegal it is just get in the business of marijuana that's another option that's all for now but we love hearing from you simply check out our facebook page facebook dot com slash bizarre team please tweet us at aaron aid at sam sachs that's your that's the handle great having them on as always thank you for watching have an awesome weekend see you next time.

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a bass. tonight deadly israeli strikes hit more targets in gaza apparently. looting a home for people with disabilities the total number of palestinians killed in the five friends it was now almost reached one hundred thirty. he prayed you know me shelling suburbs in the city of donetsk one of the biggest in the country's east locals to flee now civilian deaths are being reported to. brits fear for the future of this state health care service trade treaty will see the n.h.s. ripped apart by private american medical we investigate this out.