this perspective and you talked about the drivers what are the other drivers that businesses are looking at when they're making these procurement decisions in favor of renewables right so it's the availability of some of the products like power purchase agreements or being able to do on site generation but also a big driver here is the fact that twenty nine us states and the district of columbia have mandates that utilities and other entities produce or procure a certain amount of their electricity and so what that does is it drives a whole secondary market of what's known as renewable electricity credits and that is a big financial tool that a lot of companies are getting to make renewable deployment even more economical and we've talked about this before and i don't want to get into it now but about the whole carbon credits and trading and i blubbed that stuff i think it's the way to it way to go when europe's done it but not doing it enough they're doing it but not enough in the u.s. now we talk about energy on the program in particular crude oil we talked last week

because crude had risen so much although it's taken a slide in recent days. it looks like coming up at the opec meeting that both saudi arabia both opec including saudi arabia the largest producer and russia who has joined in the production cut will go ahead and get rid of that production cut will remains to be seen but that could add pressure on for a lowering or oil prices with more production u.s. is producing it's a little bit of apples and oranges but will that have been a business impact on some of these companies that are making a decision now based upon finances to go with renewables or is it really sort of separate i think it's separate when we're talking about wind and solar about's for electricity production and electricity is one big component of energy the other is transportation and right now in the united states the vast majority of our transportation sector is fueled by petroleum so when oil prices are higher you see

a bigger market incentive for larger electric vehicle penetration for companies like tesla but as prices start to ease you're going to see less folks clamoring for electric vehicles when you're looking at solar and wind except for in what we're talking with these big companies that are making these procurement the decisions. they look they're competitive is really against what coal and nuclear for electricity right and natural gas yes ok now that you're going to fill me and the album busters in washington because i read a story not long ago about the u.s. government i'm not sure if it was a deal we are for her all of the above that are talking about mandating that the purchase of fossil fuels and nuclear by companies or what's the deal with that unfortunately you heard right so last week donald trump issued a directive to his energy secretary former texas governor rick perry to explore all

options to force consumers in taxpayers to bail out an economic nucular and coal fired power. once this is an asinine proposal that could cost hundreds of billions of dollars and it's going completely against what we're seeing in the marketplace what we're seeing in the marketplace right now is huge deployment of renewables because increasingly they are the least cost option in power markets and so what you're seeing now is some politically connected companies like first energy like murray energy and some nucular companies like exxon are using their connections in the trumpet ministration to turn back what we're seeing in the marketplace and force massive government intervention you know i don't know it's crazy but i can imagine a critic saying well wait a minute barr you like when some subsidies might support renewable sorts of fuels like like ethanol except which are essentially subsidies to corn producers corn

farmers so what's the deal the president decides he likes coal what's the difference what i think the differences look i'm sensitive to displaced workers all the folks that work in coal country that are losing their jobs because coal has been displaced and out competed by natural gas and renewables but bailing out an economic power plants is not the way to save those jobs instead reinvesting in those communities to have them be the centers of you know solar photovoltaic manufacturing or wind turban manufacturing that's going to be the solution here we have to understand that we're in the middle of disruptive changes in the energy industry being driven by these technological innovations particularly in renewable energy bailing out these an economic power plants and forcing consumers to pick up the tab is not the right strategy we are always more informed and you make us question more and we do that a lot here tyson slocum director of public citizens energy program thank you sir

it's my pleasure. and time now for a quick break but hang here because when we return we go to moscow where our t. correspondent caleb moore up and spoke earlier at the global operates and we ask him about some of the international reaction to tariffs and sanctions plus we'll be joined by america's lawyer might happen tonio to drill down on yesterday's ruling by the u.s. supreme court supporting all rattled baker's decision to not bake a cake for a same sex marriage what might it mean for other businesses we'll find out as we go to break here are the numbers at the closing bell bitcoin is up slightly today. back to gisors financial survival guide. housing bubble.

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back for the first time in many years greece has experienced a surge in economic growth the country's gross domestic product grew more than two point three percent in the first quarter of the year while it only grew it point eight percent in q four exports also saw a seven point six percent growth in the quarter as compared to q one of twenty seventeen where there's actually a decrease a decline of almost three percent this follows nearly ten years of economic depression for greece the ongoing bailout of the country by the european union is set to expire by the end of august. as the u.s. continues to issue sanctions and tariffs alienating allies across the globe other

countries are hoping to strengthen ties on issues regarding security and of course economic growth currently the development of parliamentarian is an international forum is taking place in moscow it started june fourth and ends on the fifth to help us get a more international look at the world as artie's caleb joining us all the way from moscow thank you for joining us you gave us some remarks there and if we have time i want to ask you about those because they were really eloquent but before we dig in can you explain to all the boom busters out there who may not know what the four is and who was in attendance. well over one hundred different countries were represented and this was essentially a gathering of the lawmakers from around the world people that hold seats in parliament and national assemblies and legislative bodies in different countries and they gathered to discuss and talk about the ongoing issues facing lawmakers in the current atmosphere one hundred different countries represented and they

gathered here in moscow it was quite a conference we heard many different voices from many different corners of the globe a lot of exciting stuff now it's interesting to note you know we saw you know we had speakers from indonesia we had speakers from both north and south korea were represented here now the united states was invited both houses of the u.s. congress the house of representatives and the u.s. senate were both invited to participate but they and fortunately declined so the usa did not send any lawmakers to this huge international conference i know you were a very active it's late late at night over there now and i know you tweeted from over there but one of the big things to make international headlines was of course the president trumps announcement to hit allied nations and various other nations with tariffs and and there in russia with economic sanctions which have been going on for several years what has been their reaction from the attendees with regard to the latest round of trumps sanctions and tariffs. well we heard from the chairman

of the russian state duma he opened the conference welcoming legislators from around the world and when he spoke he specifically called out the economic sanctions described them as basically an attempt to you know bully countries around the world into doing what the usa wants and from there he actually said that this shows that russia needs to strengthen the eurasian economic union and try to work with other countries around the world to kind of overwhelm and overcome while what's being what's being pushed by the united states furthermore many countries emphasize that the continued use of sanctions by u.s. leaders shows the need to build up the brics and the alternative bodies that are emerging in the global economy and that basically as countries see the usa impose these tariffs and and sanctions and different things that this shows that basically countries need to start trading with each other there needs to be more of what you might call a. you know just just just kind of you know countries trading with each other and not depending on the united states give and take always works best in

a free market and we like that in the us and we should embrace that a little bit more than we have it seems to me but what other economic discussions have been happening there didn't seem to be any particular economic policies discussed between the a ten ten days. well in russia their state run mining corporations have been working with different countries especially in the african continent to help develop their own manufacturing and their own industries for example we heard from guinea the african nation of guinea the speaker of their parliament described how you know russia has been there working with them to develop their own mining companies and their own mining system and they are actually helping guinea to work toward its long term goal of developing and producing its own aluminum domestically and that would be a huge achievement for this historically impoverished african country to have its own alumina manufacturing and that russia has taken great lengths to help them work toward this ultimate goal and so we heard a lot about russia's involvement in economic development in different countries

around the world specifically and you know whether it's related to gazprom ross nafta in their role in the energy markets but also in mining and metal manufacturing well it seems a little bit maybe russia and china are singing from a similar song with regard to trying to develop economic ties with others in hopes of creating better a-y. answers while the u.s. is perhaps pulling back caleb i want to shift back to what you told the audience there just briefly before we run out of time i watch what you said again think it was eloquent but can you give our viewers a quick taste of what you told the audience in attendance there. well i was invited to participate in the session regarding the issue of media and freedom of speech and how these kind of things play out and we heard from a lot of different speakers a speaker from sri lanka a speaker from burundi speaker from venezuela talking about the moves that they're taking regarding social media and news and ensuring free speech but also stopping

terrorism and i got up and i talked about the pressure that's been placed on this t.v. network r.t. and how it kind of shows a little bit of hypocrisy on the part of our leaders in the united states and the remarks were very well received by those in attendance many are very interested in the controversy surrounding r.t. in the usa. caleb op and thanks and if folks are interested in caleb's moscow remarks you can find them at youtube dot com slash r.t. america us chicken joint tyson foods the largest meat packer in the u.s. is acquiring to come suppose l.l.c. in a play to enter the organic chicken market tysons has been on a buying spree since two thousand and thirteen is acquired jimmy dean and ballpark hot dogs given that organic chicken sales have increased nationwide by twelve percent in the past year walk conventional chicken sales were only at three percent it makes sense tyson would acquire the nebraska based to come so which markets

organic chicken and sausages under the brand name smart chicken what terms of the deal were not disclosed to com so reportedly is predicted to clear forty million dollars this year in profits of one hundred seventy million dollars in revenue while tyson's move is a response to growing demand for again a chicken a similar acquisition by competitors including perdue and pilgrim's pride continues while again excels did grow at four times the rate of conventional chicken sales totaled a whopping seven point seven billion dollars over the past year for conventional birds versus roughly three hundred thirty million for organic. the unit. tory asli anti-union newspaper the chicago tribune has been forced to recognize a union to represent its journalists and april tribune workers voted by eighty five to fifteen margin for collective bargaining with their employer joining with the writers guild of america east. as their representative

a month later tribune management reluctantly accepted the democratic result and recognize the w g a as the workers' representative the tribune's deferral to workplace democracy follows a recent labor organizing victory at the los angeles times which has a record of hostility to labor rights similar to the tribune's the w g a represents about five thousand workers but over twelve hundred of those one hundred of those have been added in just the past three years workers that digital media outlets including garc are huffington post and vice have also won recognition of their rights to organize and bargain collectively. and yesterday as we reported the u.s. supreme court ruled in support of a colorado bakers decision not to bake a cake for a same sex couples marriage what might the ruling mean for other businesses let's

find out and bring in america's lawyer mike papen tonio counselor thanks for joining us the contention was that the baker had a first amendment right not to create or bake a cake does the ruling set a precedent for other businesses here. no i think it's a very narrow ruling the spring board handed down it's unlikely to have any real repercussions for other businesses at least for right now what the ruling specifically says is the original group that brought the baker to court was too overzealous a very interesting kind of language here to overzealous in in their attack on baker's religion and due to that incredible animosity that was all through the opinion how they go back to this issue about incredible animosity how this is just a personal attack on his religion that they displayed a violation of this man's first amendment rights that's what the ruling says so this particular ruling only applies to one baker in this one instance but it does

open the door for future cases to effectively decide this matter what i'm saying most importantly is they should have made a commonsense secular kind of argument where they just focused on the bigotry of this individual and relied on just just run of the mill discriminatory kind of language they should have got off got it got after him not for his religion but the way that the attack was made was just bad lawyer and really when it comes down to it they focus completely around this religious animosity issue and it really did edge right into a first amendment problem which raised the standard for what the court had to had to review any time you move into religion things like race or religion you're actually raising the standard of the level of review that the court engages in so really this is honestly just bad lawyer but at the same time it does kind of it does kind of tweak the notion that this is a court that is interested in kind of taking

a look at closer look maybe at religious liberties and how they balance against i guess secular issues that's what it reads to me but this particular case there's no broad meaning to this case in in my reading of it it sounds like not only bad lawyer. to me but as a former regulator it sounds like bad regulating to me you mentioned the colorado civil rights commission which originally ruled against the baker as as being hostile to religion because of the remarks of one of its members if that had bet not in the record if the regulators had done a good job do you think this decision were played out the same way i think if this had just been handled just as a regular discrimination case i mean if it was the chances of it in the least getting past a seventy two decision would have been much higher but somehow somehow that happens in the business of regulation we take our politics with this we don't actually stand outside and look at what the field looks like and make decisions according to

that field we take this overzealous notion maybe this was somebody that had this overzealous notion in their need to attack religion and in doing that they actually were in the process of creating what some people might say is bad law because now somebody is going to build on this they're going to say they're going to point out that overzealous attacks any time that falls within the religious realm that we could easily fall into this case so you know bad lowering makes bad laws and bad regulatory bath regulatory agency that certainly makes bad laws to bad soup where this seems like a real balancing act for the court and that they they must consider you know discrimination while respecting individual first amendment rights and that's particularly infos given the justice kennedy who wrote the majority opinion is written pretty much every major supreme court decision protecting gay men and lesbians on the other side is also an ardent free speech defender i mean how do the

supreme's look at those two under the law free speech and nondiscrimination when they will be in conflict. there is not there's not there's never a formula ok but there are there are certain kinds of cases that are always going to get what we call a higher level of scrutiny and then they're going to from from that higher level of scrutiny they're going to find the unique aspects of the fact situation that maybe can move it towards a free speech kind of protection were towards a root religious protection you could go to to two years and years of constitutional law classes and you would never come out with a formula beyond that but if this it's interesting to me that you have a seven to kind of decision here that's telling you that you know that people looked at this and they were upset by the by this vigorous anti religious argument and so that to answer a question that's one element this way the court of usually so it's different case

to case how good is the lawyer presenting the issue does the lawyer understand the president do they understand kind of the back stories to some of these supreme court justices this was totally misunderstood by the lawyers and the regulators in this particular might happen tony host of america's lawyer thank you as always and that is it for us we're out of time catch boom bust on you tube dot com slash boom bust artie.

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led coalition in syria and the rocks say that it's impossible to know how many civilians died during the rocket count pay follows. honesty international's report accusing the coalition of possible war crimes. sanctions on the energy supply is top of the agenda as lot of uprooting visits vienna on his first foreign trip since starting his false term as president. and america's ambassador to israel give some less than diplomatic feedback to journalists covering the i.d.f. use of extreme force against palestinian protesters in gaza. elicit the. four news bulletins coming up next hour but right now it's because the reporters.

hey this is max a bit about your this is a report oh we got all kinds of good stuff for you today. max but i want to bring up the issue of squirrels because the squirrels in this world they're the bane of my existence we have many schools around here in north carolina and you know i notice because they're always dodging in front of my car and then i have to screech to a stop and they were running in front of the road and they have a little acorn in their mouth and they're like they think i'm going to stay alive and i spend all day long so so busy so engaged in burying all these acorns all over the place because they're stupid and they have a bad memory so they don't learn from history they that the fact is that they lose

their cones all the time though they were so afraid of somebody stealing it and this is how stupid i think we as a human race are this is a very interesting analogy that you're making there what the squirrels you know they've got their own economy coming down hard on the squirrels they nuts and other squirrels fine and it's a big economy it all works out in the squirrels have been around for a long long time they were here before humans were here their ancestors and they'll be here after all gone because they've got a unique way of surviving this world well even think about it they bury these nuts and then other squirrels find it now look at this whole resistance movement in america and the media space we have they basically ran on a platform of outrage and looking for anything to get the other side fired and now it's back firing on a lot of media personalities here in the united states from the left wing the from

the resistance i might point out joy reid. our samantha bee everybody's looking we as a media and cultural people are spending our time searching i go some thoughts on that well we're searching for those little knots that have been planted the seeds the acorns and nuts and somebody planted in an old blog post from like twenty years ago and we're trying to say fire that person fire that person yeah you got the squirrels versus the maximum credit tours in the white house that have lunch roasting up squirrel meat of all these media personalities here's the deal you've got basically profanity arbitrage you've got a profanity arbitrage in the making you see trump can say anything he wants to say and you can't fire him you know it won't be another election until twenty twenty and he's gliding into twenty eighteen probably won't even lose many representatives and support in the in this election this year so he says something outrageous he

says something profane that's not profound in any way and then celebrities like a sarah silverman or it's a samantha baby or is roseanne barr and the discovery some guys too and this makes can't think of any at the moment but they say these outrageous things they tweet these outrageous things and the course corporate america will immediately fire them and they are out in the street because there's profanity arbitrage so it reminds me of we were living in the south of france if you recall and we live next door to a very famous chateau and this is where the rolling stones recorded one of their earliest records and style main street exile on main street and a lot of the locals trying to keep up with keith richards with his heroin years and they all died but keith richards lived because keith richards is immortal but everyone else died so it's like these guys are the equivalent of the squirrels that run in front of the car and don't have somebody as nice as i to stop and let them.

yes most people just run them over but i stop you know actually when you talk about trans tweets and he gets away with it if you look throughout history and mad emperors a mad kings if you look at the series the tutors it's a good demonstration of this henry the eighth was deranged ok he killed all his friends he executed half the royal family the kratz all over everybody and everybody around him had to go oh. you're such a benevolent king and of course this is the same thing with the grotesqueness of charles and his tweets when you see europeans when you see asians when you see everybody responding as if they were close allies of america even though trump has tweeted like they're over there and we're never going to we're going to slap on some tariffs and we're not going to deal with the.