earlier today the european commission exercise for the first time its power to veto the italian budget proposed by the coalition government of prime minister goosestepping the vice president of the european commission told the media quote today for the first time the commission is obliged to request a euro area country to revise its draft budgetary plan but we see no alternative elected italian leaders now have three weeks to adjust the budget in abandon campaign spending promises in order to meet brussels preferred limits on spending increasing productivity is a dire desire many but according to the organization for the economic cooperation and development which encompasses thirty six contraries promoting democracy and market economies some always see the countries are much more successful than others are to sell it to hell that joins us from toronto with the latest alex thanks again for being with us as always productivity it's important to all of us right six

businesses countries but the big picture being done goes beyond just businesses to society as a whole right. should do something with mentality and in a lot of different levels i mean if you look at countries and when you think of. your goal is to think of something like japan and germany they've got things right and they look beyond machinery they look beyond streamlining we know japan way back when i did my m.b.a. i mean you hear about the total production system all the time a p.s.a. and you know these efficient systems that just in time system of how to push things through but they see things that a different way and that's what makes them productive beyond that and that comes down to skill sets amongst people what we're seeing is some huge disparities when it comes to skill sets and some areas in this world which should be on high alert they say by two thousand and twenty five the u.k. will be one third less productive than germany that's actually a pretty big number in fact that people in the u.k. are puzzled they don't understand if it's by. it's bisected of what's happening

here so the we even if you go to asia you can look at south korea they're also having issues when it comes to small and minute medium sized businesses of the same time and it really all comes down to training and the type of training that workers get alex when you compare the u.k. to germany i mean the managers in the united kingdom have higher level of education the german so what's the problem with that that's the problem i think is the way that we look at education we put people with m.b.a.'s with ph d.'s with bachelor's degrees it's a positions that they're really you know they're pen pushers they are they're sitting behind a computer they don't really understand what's happening on the assembly lines let's say of a of a car plant or something like that so what germany does is actually it educates and it trains the people the workers the people that are in the factories that understand the system that know from you know the from bowls to nuts to tires to wheels to whatever it may be that's in their factory and they take these people and they push them forward into managerial positions so that's the way that they look

at education in the best way to teach people and these production systems also they have a good system of apprenticeships so there's a broad those apprenticeships it's more hands on it's not about going to university it's more like a college approach but even a step beyond there were poor people before they get into the workforce of their young people they actually use their hands or they use the skills that they need to do the jobs that they'll need to do and of course once they get into the workforce they are highly skilled in those highly skilled people that have the ability to move forward through different programs through different training programs that are made available to them so in germany for example the chambers of commerce are something that works that are very very strong pretty much everybody has to be a member of the chamber of commerce whoever it is let's say but verio or bremen or any part of germany and what happens here is that they actually push forward these people they push for the companies they lobby for the companies to the government for training programs so everybody. kind of works cohesively so really it does come

down to this training we know the united states you know you look at the u.k. it's not the same thing and that's why if you look at the you know the numbers that we have you'll see denmark you'll see france you'll see the u.k. you'll see germany up top u.s. number six you k. number nine and and you know that's a that's a huge disparity and training obviously is something that's very important is not only for self-esteem of individuals but for companies as a whole or to correspond out of a hell of a thanks alex thank you. not long ago we spoke about a fairly orwellian new credit system in china well now the largest credit card companies in the united states are teaming up with the free personal finance company credit karma to help members of the service get approved for bank loans this could be a benefit for some consumers especially in light of new changes on the horizon related to how credit scores will be calculated here to explain is molly barrows contributor for american lawyer molly great to see you again i mean how will these

partnerships work. well it's this is actually pretty interesting according to an article by the wall street journal two of the largest credit card issuers are going to be sharing their closely guarded underwriting models with credit cards and this is basically part of a new process that's going to make it easier for members who use credit karma to know which loans they could potentially qualify for before they even apply now the benefit to credit card companies of course is that they can bring in potentially new borrowers it can streamline the loan approval process and the benefit for credit karma is that it is exactly in line with their everyone benefits business model for say analyze your credit score they recommend products that are intended to save you money and then if you as the consumer buy that product in credit card credit karma rather gets reimbursed by the lender who's product was purchased so this could be certainly certainly beneficial for credit karma and credit card issuers and yeah you might not have to get all those dings on your credit reports for doing things that you are checking molly what are the changes that are proposed

for these fica credit scores. well it's interesting it's called a new opt in ultra psycho credit score so basically it's going to roll out start rolling out rather in two thousand one thousand and whereas before those credit scores had been calculated based on how often how timely you are making your payments and your debt to income ratio this particular change has given lenders a little bit of leeway say initially you don't qualify based on those two calculations well then they're going to go and take a look at how much is in your bank right now are you over drawing if you're not withdrawn if you consistently have several hundred dollars in your account you have continuous activity then they're going to recalculate your score under this new ultra fica credit system so that's going to make it a little bit easier for people to be able to qualify for some of these loans especially younger folk and folks that have been typically left out. or who wouldn't qualify simply for loans like this and that's about seven million people so those folks who have credit scores in the mid to upper six hundreds this is

going to make them eligible for loans they previously weren't eligible before so that combined with the credit card you know opportunities there it's going to be a little bit easier for millions of people to get loans sounds like great news for consumers we appreciate you giving us the update molly barrows contributor for america's lawyer thanks for your time ali. and there are food recalls all the time food recalls i used to work at the agriculture department and i know but the sheer number and the level of recalls right now today has reached something which is serves our noticed and your attention if you live in the u.s. and even if you don't hear tell us why is the author of bet the farm out of food stop being food fraud kaufman hey fred thanks for being with us today the breaking news about kroger stores and more ready to eat recalls from simple truth and candid cadence gourmet but these are just the latest bring us up to speed on the scope of all the sorts of recalls out there in the last week or so. this is huge bart i

think the first piece of advice is that if you are concerned about the food that might be sitting in your fridge or freezer you should go to f.d.a. got gov the web site f.d.a. dot gov where they presently have a list of all the recalls which is more than a thousand products at this moment these are almost all in the grab and go area so for instance prepared salads are being recalled at the. go go ta kito which you can get at seven eleven is being recalled jenny craig is involved with their chicken wraps you see carnitas from trader joe's there are too many to even remark a lot of this is coming from the company called mccain foods they are from canada they're privately owned about four thousand americans they kind of made some headlines they didn't want to make last year they're the world's largest supplier of rows and potatoes and last year in

a great deal the hash browns they were providing there were shredded golf balls barred and so all that had on me not me. not that good but not that far off kilter . right i'm going to tell tell me this why i mean when i was at that apartment we this is a user crazy numbers you're talking about why are we seeing all this is now what does it mean. well i think part of the issue is what we call in the food movement food from nowhere the idea is that all of these prepared foods that are coming from these places we don't know where we don't what the origin is we do there are thousands and thousands of ingredients and ingredients upon ingredients and what we're seeing are these very large and unified and monolithic supply chains and of course one tiny little ingredient with listeria the onions for instance some mushrooms for instance that can blow the whole thing so this is a problem in terms of health national health but also in terms of national security

people at the cia people at the defense department are very aware of the problems of these large monolithic supply chains in the american food system and fred i mean is there some sort of fix out there is there some sort of solution well there are two things that really need to be done bart first of all is we need we need a new farm bill that somehow has got lost in the whole mix and it's just been pushed aside with all the politics and this farm bill has to really encourage local farmers and more intricate relationships between the urban and the rural and the other thing that's the most obvious thing to do is that if you would you really want to be safe go and buy ingredients that you cook yourselves i mean i have bought potatoes on many an occasion and have never once mistaken one for a golf ball. yeah although i saw you one day sort of tilt your head at some street meat but you didn't go there but you were close thank you fred author fred fred coffin his book is bet the farm how food stop being food it's great you can pick it

up on amazon thanks fred thank you. and we're going to squeeze in a quick break here but hang because when we get back we'll talk kryptos and then cars here are those promised numero that the closing bell back in a flash. cranking gave americans a lot of job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year truck so i chose to drive a truck people who rush to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent just like the

gold rush is very very similar to. this beautiful story and with pollution and devastation a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here in the mountains just slowed down so much they lost their jobs that laid off the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. it's a tough reality to deal with. in a world with a big part of the market and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the bad and shouting past each other . it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks.

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owner of the monsanto comp corporation make a round of weed killer the judge sided with barrett's appeal that there is no convincing evidence monsanto acted with malice in marketing the weed killer which mr johnson's attorneys argued cause his aggressive terminal cancer mr johnson will now have to decide whether to settle for the thirty nine million dollars in damages or pursue a new trial. seven thousand u.s. workers have gone on strike against marriott the largest child chain in the world the labor action began in boston where the new york yankees publicly broke the picket during baseball's playoff earlier this month leading the workers of unite here local twenty six to brand the yankees as gabs and the actor common also was rapped for crossing the picket reportedly by workers who chanted quote you don't cross union picket lines when you preach solidarity workers are striking under the slogan one job should be enough highlighting poor wages that forced many of them to

stitch together two or even three jobs to support their families. we've seen cryptocurrency is creeping into most corners of the financial world and while the thousands of crypt those are popular among investors financial regulators are more cautious here to help us take a look at regulatory perspective around the world is the director of the financial services law graduate program at new york law school professor ron filler who joins us from our new york studio ron welcome back thank you bart are you couldn't be better now that you're here i'm so happy to talk about this and excited let's get to it you know crypto currencies and those initial coin offerings that everybody hears about they are multiplying like rabbits but it's a good time for us to. recess reassess where the regulators are in the new crypto landscape let's start right here in the u.s. my old agency you know it well my futures trading commission and the f.c.c. screes exchange commission and how are they viewing kryptos today ron now you raise

or excellent point guard our financial structure as you know when you are the c f.t.c. commissioner probably is the most advanced most mature of any financial regulatory structure in the world but in many respects ours is really outdated our laws our congress the way they've always regulated financial products is they first define the product a security and then they sign jurisdiction over that to the securities and exchange commission or at the photic as a commodity they assign jurisdiction as you know to the say you have to say and the rest of the world doesn't take that structure and kryptos are really not a security they are a commodity as you just mentioned and congress really needs to address this part to really figure out who is the right proper regulator to deal with as at this point we don't know and everyone's throwing their hands against as many darts as they can to try to figure out how to regulate this new product i mean one of the problems is

we had so many different there is six regulators really the fed the office of the comptroller of the currency and the f.d.i.c but let's just leave those aside for the a moment and move to the e.u. to to the regulator over over there those folks are are pretty good doing their job i met with the many times as much as the european system of financial supervision how are they looking at kryptos ron. and when you talk about europe barred you not only as much as most like a combination of the f.c.c. and there's the f.t.c. here but you also have the u.k. got the financial conduct authority there and we look at both asthma and the f.c.a. they have a much different approach than we do they just don't define a financial product and what they do is they were. regulate all financial products somewhat differently but they don't have to worry about creating a new law and they're looking at this in a much different perspective a much different light than what we are here in the us the f.c.c.

and the sea have to say have been much more aggressive. and the u.k. financial conduct authority has taken on more weight in the same measured approach now can you offer like initial coin offerings in the e.u. i mean they're more in the u.s. you know they're skeptical about those things the f.c.c. but are they allowing those an e.u. if so here again in the u.s. i c o o's are then defined as a security which is meeting just strictly the capital formation part of it constitutes a security and the f.c.c. has brought a number of enforcement cases against some firms over there they don't need to go to that depth if it's a financial product was there is an i.c.a.o. or crypto or any other type of virtual occur type of virtual currencies they have the authority right now and then to go out and regulate it they just haven't taken the more aggressive approach that u.s. regulators have so far today ron i was in hong kong last year for a speech and the hong kong monetary authority was like really welcoming to crypto

it seems like they want to be a hub for crip those are they still doing well what are they still attracting folks and you're absolutely right when you go the further east and hong kong japan etc they're taken a completely relaxed approach in fact they're encouraging those types of investments. to be place to be as you just mention crypto those are you know they're free flowing but they can also be traded on an exchange or platform or whatever it's interesting how the asian regulators are taking a more relaxed approach and encouraging at us is taking a more aggressive approach and i would put the e.u. in the u.k. somewhere in the middle and i want to have you finished with russia i know that. putin last year said they were a pyramid scheme i know a few things about ponzi and pyramid schemes but what's russia how are they looking at crypto is now run i don't think they're regulating and they're doing it but you

also got to remember one other aspect we haven't touched upon barton that's anti money laundering that scent big issue not just here in the u.s. globally and then when you have a flow of money are the platforms the companies involved in these crypto or virtual currencies how are they dealing with who this paying watt and where that source of the funds are that part is where the regulations are on a more global vases the actual sale of their crypto those are virtual currencies it's less over there but any money laundering plays a key role in from the regulatory perspective ron we are so much better informed because of you thank you so much for your time sure appreciate it take care of our good luck. and now we move to talk about current news with our friend one of our favorite guests lauren fix the car coach lauren thank you for being with us well let's start

off with earnings reports a chrysler a reported on on monday and it looks like they got a little bit of a boost out of that was a pretty positive report right so earnings were up for of ca and the reason for that was the sale of magnetic murali and that's actually a positive thing because he at chrysler is about building cars and selling cars and getting rid of one of their divisions that has all to do with technology and components was a really smart move by mike manley who's the new c.e.o. also elfman who's involved with f c a corporate so this is a good move for f.c. and that sale a seven point one billion it was higher than what analysts had thought and because of that it's a big influx of cash to s.c.a. and we're going to see some big changes so we're looking forward to seeing how that's going to impact the company as a whole they've struggled a little bit over the years on an annual basis but i think we're going to see some big changes coming their way with a new c.e.o. and i know we've got on wednesday we've got coming up ford is reporting and you're hither and yon lauren but perhaps some others will report later in the week and

maybe we'll have you back the end of the week this past week when we had you on friday we never got to a missions in the e.u. so i did want to ask you for an update on what's going on over there we saw opel had some issues to give us the latest. well right now when it comes to emissions anyone who was cheating in other words they were using software to give disinformation to the sniffers for the diesel check for the emissions there they got caught and anyone who was trying to use the software should know by now but the problem is there is vehicles already there out on the road and these people are paying some pretty hefty fines out he paid a big fine volkswagen has and now opel that doesn't mean diesel is dead because let's just face it it is a big chunk of the vehicles that are being driven around europe and that's not about to change in the near future because the cost of gasoline is low interestingly enough the bulk of their diesel comes from the us so they take rather crude oil they break it down five times to make diesel and bulk of that is shipped

to europe so that actually helps the u.s. economy and the other side if it's broken down seven times it's called have ten which is gasoline and most of that stays here in the us interesting didn't didn't know that last that last part i knew we shipped some some diesel over there lauren speaking of fuel there's another fuel and it's big in the countryside in the middle part of the u.s. and that is ethanol also big down in brazil by the way of course for our viewers so but i know you have some pretty strong thoughts about ethanol lauren share with us . are you first off the ethanol that's in brazil comes from sugarcane it's completely different they and their vehicles are built to run on the sugarcane based ethanol here in the u.s. we run it on corn so it takes seven bushels of corn to create one gallon of ethanol that's a that's a lot of product to create one gallon and that product is then blended in currently in a ten percent rate with our current after our current gasoline and that's what we're all pumping there are some stations that offer pure gasoline which you would want

if you're running a snowmobile motorcycle in the small engine like a weed whacker or a lawn more those are the kind of things we want to use that pure gas which is available you have to look for it on line what's interesting is the president wants to raise that ethanol rating to fifteen percent now then we seem like when. big deal it's not going to lower the price of gasoline it's certainly not going to lower the price of food because those fields could be used to produce anything instead we're producing corn that you can't eat corn that's designed for ethanol the problem is is the fact that they're damage it does to the engines and i know there's some naysayers out there but the facts are talk to any mechanic check engine light switch are caused by emissions problems fuel system problems engine damage because of the separation of ethanol it's called phase separation is the technical term where the gasoline separates from the ethanol in your gas tank and it does it just over time the damage it comes to the engines and the cars goes to you and this is a real problem for me when you as the consumer are the ones that are taking on this

damage because somebody is getting paid from a political standpoint or you need corn farmers to get their votes so i'm really a negative person when it comes to fifteen and i highly recommend that if you are not driving a flex fuel vehicle that you do not put in eat into your gas tank also be aware that ten manufacturers which is the bulk of them if you run anything other than ten in their engines you void the warranty so make sure before you put anything other than what you think it should be in that car read that owner's manual manual a little book in the glove box underneath all the neck concerned ketchup packs and i'll tell you what we always wrong lauren here. we want to tell people what it means for consumers and that is a great tip for consumers to read their manual thank you so much lauren fix the car coach we appreciate it lauren pretty sure you've been with us. thanks for. and that's it for this time thanks for being with us i don't check my car manual so long for now.

cranking gave americans a lot of job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year truck so i chose to drive truck people rush to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent like gold rush is very very similar to gold but this beautiful story ended with pollution and devastation a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here and just slow down so much they lost their jobs that laid off the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. and it's a tough reality to deal with. you know

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