tv Boom Bust RT July 2, 2021 12:30pm-1:01pm EDT
12:30 pm
the executable supple once it went up when i got my seat up, when i got it up on that, got mixed up with me . ah, the this is room bus. the one visit show you can't afford to miss. i'm rachel robins in washington. coming up, microsoft reveals and jobs. how often the u. s. government submit data request for american records and how much of it is being carried out in secret?
12:31 pm
we'll discuss the plot. a group of the world's most powerful oil producers meet to determine if they will pull back on production costs in the coming week. then b and c devil a is backing down and allowing student athlete to sign endorsement deals for the 1st time. we'll take a look at how the massive change will impact the world of code for it. we have a lot to get through. so let's get started. one of microsoft top executives is now speaking out and revealing just how often the u. s. government request the records of their customers and how much of it is done in secret. this, as the relationship between law enforcement and big tech, along with the privacy concerns at present, continues to be a topic of debate on capital hill. our chief trinity chavez has the latest. many americans are in shock, so find out that federal prosecutors have requested data on thousands of americans . the news comes just weeks after justice department, prosecutors obtained phone records belonging to not only journalists,
12:32 pm
the members of congress, and staffers, the 21st century federal prosecutors no longer need to show up to your office. they just need to raid your virtual office. they do not have to subpoena journalist directly, they just need to go to the cloud today. us federal law enforcement agencies facing fierce backlash for secretly pursuing personal data up americans across the country with so called secrecy orders, orders that are designed to prevent disclosure of new inventions and technologies that in the opinion of selected federal agencies present a possible threat to national security of the united states most shocking is just how routine secrecy orders have become when law enforcement targets and americans e mail text messages or other sensitive data stored in the cloud. speaking to members of the sherry house committee on wednesday, microsoft corporate vice president for customer security and trust tom. bert said that in recent years, federal law enforcement officials have presented the company with 24023500 secrecy
12:33 pm
orders in a year or about 7 a day. secrecy orders are too often used for routine investigations based on a cursory assertion that the government has met a statutory burden. the justice department's own template does not even require facts justifying the need for secrecy. instead, the template merely asserts that any disclosure would seriously jeopardize the investigation for a variety of boilerplate reasons. this, as the relationship with some major tech companies in law enforcement agencies in the u. s. have garnered fear scrutiny in recent weeks following news justice department, prosecutors obtained phone records belonging to not only journalists, but also members of congress and staffers as a part of leak investigation, rather than providing americans as meaningful notice that their private electronic records are being access then a criminal investigation department hides behind its ability to as 3rd party provided directly. they deny american citizen as companies and institutions their
12:34 pm
basic day in court. and instead they gather their evidence entirely in secret. microsoft, for example, was among the companies that turned over records under a court order, and because of a gag order, had to then wait 2 more years before disclosing it. since then. brad smith, microsoft's president has called for an end to the over use of secret gag orders, arguing prosecutors exploit technology to abuse americans, fundamental freedoms still, the attorney general merit garland has said that the justice department will abandon its practice of seizing reporter records and will formalize that stamps soon. meantime, some lawmakers are calling for reforms to guard against future overreached by justice department. prosecutors, an idea that was expressed both by democrats and republicans on the house judiciary committee reported for boom bust trinity chavez r t. let's go deeper on the story and bring in boom, best co host, an investigative journalist, been swan. now ben, this all came out during testimony before the house judiciary committee. so what
12:35 pm
sorts of update to the law are needed right now. while there's a number of things that need to be updated here. rachel, i think the biggest thing is kind of what jerry natalie was saying there, which is that there doesn't have to be a warrant in order for many of these justice, department officials to be able to access your records. you know, we would treat cloud services. we would treat cloud email storage and we would treat, you know, social media storage as privacy related to the user, not to the company, but to the user. meaning it is the user's data. therefore, it is the user's property. therefore, you must have a warrant in order to search and sees that information. i think we would have a much better system. instead, we, what we have are federal agents who are able to go and access this information. yes, they're working through the courts, but it's all being done in secret. there are gag orders and the person who has their information being taken from them. their data being looked at by these federal agents isn't allowed to know. we only know about this because the gag
12:36 pm
orders for many of these orders have expired because they were on for 2 years. and now they've expired and we should mentioned also, you know, this is a trump administration move, but it was also the obama administration before them doing this. it was the george w bush administration before them doing it as well. what we've seen in terms of the uptick though, is because of cloud computing and cloud data storage, which didn't exist to the extent before that it exists today. and this is really one of the things that both parties magically agree on. and even in the cases where they claim that this is for your security, well doesn't feel quite so secure when they're going and requesting your records. and you have no idea that you're even being looked at. now what microsoft claims that federal prosecutors are doing seems to be legal and is even backed up by court order gag orders. so what can be done to change this? well, again, i think there needs to be a change in the law. the laws are very, very outdated. you know, we don't really have laws on the books in terms of how do we perceive as i was
12:37 pm
mentioned, how do we perceive cloud storage? is it perceived as a function of a private company and therefore government official, all they have to do is get a private company to give them access. they don't ever have to tell you because it really doesn't belong to you right over. if rachel has, you know, data on her phone or on the cloud, that's apple's property. you thought you were property. it's not perceived as your property does not proceed as, as anything there has to be permission granted by you to have access to. therefore, they just have to deal with the company. so all the big tech companies like apple and microsoft and amazon e w. s. are working with the government in many ways. now i will give some credit here to the companies that are blowing the whistle on this last year that were over $11200.00 of these secret c requests that were made. compare that to just a few years ago. and it was a fewer than 2000, so we're seeing a huge ramping up of this. but i also want to say there's no mirror, garland says, the attorney general says, oh, don't worry, we're going to officially stop this. but he's just issuing a directive to stop it. it need to be codified and try and in law if you want to
12:38 pm
actually stop it. and it really does bring up the conversation of what happens to all of that data that we're just freely giving to social media networks to our phones, to all of this technology that we use every day. and another big part of this discussion is over confidentiality for journalists. now karen kaiser, the general counsel to the a p, spoke at this hearing and said that journalist should be given notice, and a chance to challenge prosecutors efforts to seize their data. how do you see it there? yes. so look as a journalist, i understand the need for sources. it's incredibly important to what we do. the ability to have confidential sources. the idea that you don't have to be subpoenaed that no one has to come in and try to, to access your work files is jerry never said it said they just go to the cloud and they can access it there. they don't have to have your permission, they just go and get it and they can find your sources are, i think there's a huge issue there and it needs to be discussed. but i will say this. i am always
12:39 pm
concerned whenever there is discussion of creating a protected class of people. why would journalists be given a more protection in this situation than just the average american citizen? i don't believe that's the right step. the right stuff is not to say here are a specific group of people who get to be protected and the rest of us don't because remember all you have to do it once you set those rules is change the definition of what counts as a journalist and now you have once again and ever narrowing group of protected people. yeah, exactly, and that's what we've seen as the us government does not only with safety, but they can do the same thing when it comes to who they define as a special journalist. great inside, as always been on thank you for your time on this one. thank you. you most sweeping changed your global taxation and over a century is now on its way. following a virtual meeting between leaders from 130 nations who represent over 90 percent of global g d. p. those involved reportedly agreed to pass laws,
12:40 pm
ensuring that companies headquartered in their countries pay a minimum tax rate of at least 15 percent in each of the nations in which they operate. they say the goal is to reduce opportunities for tax avoidance, but countless questions remain as the how it will be enforced and if everyone will comply. this all comes as a group of the world's most powerful oil producers, came together on thursday to discuss how to approach production cuts moving into the 2nd half of 2021. so joining me now to break it all down, or boom, most co host, christie, i michelle snyder, partner and director of training research and education for the market gage group. michelle, let's start with you here and let's talk about this news of a global minimum tax on corporation. what do you make of it? and do you think that the sort of large scale international cooperation will work out and will actually be successfully implemented? well, both very good questions, rachel. so let's just put a little bit of complexion on there 1st. so as you said earlier, this is
12:41 pm
a 15 percent global tax rate that was introduced to g 7. it was also very much endorsed by jana yellen because she said up until this point we've had a raise to the bottom in terms of corporations paying a least amount of tax. and then they were basically setting up a tax havens in countries that had 0 percent tax rates like ireland and the b, b, i's, and cayman islands. so the whole intention of this is to be able to tax these large corporations on where they do business and not where they actually are headquartered. so, idealistically, the i, the whole point is to give competitive edge to some of these smaller corporations. and the middle man, so to speak, to be able to actually have some advantage in terms of the globalization, just like the mega rich of had, which essentially have been high profits and very low tax rates. if that's the case,
12:42 pm
if we can actually have an evolution where an e commerce and small businesses can actually become more competitive to the larger corporations because of this fabulous can actually be pulled off. while you have 130 of 137 countries saying yes. so it's helpful that not only does it get pulled off, but then it actually has the desired impact to help the smaller guy. and not necessarily find corporations with new loopholes that they can do to sort of avoid the taxes once again. yeah, it always comes back to those loopholes at the end of the day. and those large corporations always seem to find them. now christie were seeing prices rising, all around inflation had windsor growing. and now officials are debating if this is going to be transient or persistent. so what floyd is there? well, it seems like the fed officials are now less in think when it comes to inflation. so they're being increasingly divided on how to think about and react to the
12:43 pm
emerging risk after. now that we've had several months of rising acid presence and rising commodity prices. so one has a camp still maintains that the recent price 3rd will fade as the economy reopened, but the other half of the camp is warning that it will be persistent and that we are risk of overheating. so federal power, acknowledge that a permanent period of uncomfortably high inflation is a possibility, but he says more likely that the recent prototype will favor. and again, this all sounds like reassurance as to the market because other officials have expressed further concerns that these prices could continue to rise. and the fed may need to slow down at the point for the economy. so as the beginning of the year, this persistent inflation seemed like a very fringe possibility. but now it's becoming the central feature of the economic policy debate as the price of things like used cars, airline tickets and restaurants, food and everything, basically sort bass, commodity, price of increase a couple full dr. me manufacturing costs. so right now the fed is kind of stuck, they said they wanted to achieve a quote, considerable further progress towards their goal of
12:44 pm
a full employment before slowing down purchases and papering up. but the reality is that the country is overheating. while we're still sure about $7600000.00 jobs, while the prices and assets have risen much faster than expected. so publish forecasts right now from the fed suggest that the policy making committee is sharply divided on when the lift up will actually occur. 5 expect that rates will main, unchanged on to the end of 2023. to see an increase at the end of the year, 3 need to increases 3, c, $3.00 to $4.00 increases, etc. so it's really all over the place. so at the end of the day, it really doesn't seem like anyone knows where this is going. and that's actually been one of the most interesting developments from the federal reserve is finding out just how far apart some of these officials are on what their expectations are. for the rest of this year. now, michelle, we're also learning that cfo's of corporate america in a recent survey express little confidence in the fed, the ability to control inflation. so how will the wage pressure in the labor market
12:45 pm
and more inflationary pressures affect corporate moving forward? well, before i answer that, i just have to say listening to christie. and then part of your question, i almost am reminded of gulliver's travels when the little fusions trying to decide which side they should crack the a gone and going over that some like that. so yeah, i mean, we, as, as christie just had the costs are rising everywhere in packaging raw materials, shipping labor. and we've had a 3 percent growth in the wages, which is the largest that we've had since $990.00. and many economists are expecting another 3 percent growth in the 2nd quarter. so what will that do? well, 1st of all, wages have been generally weighed behind in terms of productivity and profitability . so there is some room for those wages to go up. but in the long run, as we know, particularly as we're talking about inflation and these rising costs, that also rising wages can be not only inflationary it can eat into the bottom line
12:46 pm
of some of these corporate profits show. for now, we have great hiring spree. we have incentives all over the place to get back to work. we still seeing shortages and hopefully at some point normalizes. but i think the whole thing is just another piece of the puzzle in terms of the inflationary pressures that we're about to see. which one should keep those fed members fighting over which a over side of the a to cry. now that they're getting into the room, corporate america? of course they're taking that very seriously. now, christie, before we go, i also want to talk about this opec plus meeting where they're discussing, bringing in more supply online. now us crude oil prices have top $75.00 a barrel, the highest in 2018, so will be extra supply alleviate this not really because it's expected that opec plus will actually move very slowly in adding about 2000000 barrels per day to the oil markets from august through december because the group plans to just ease
12:47 pm
back into things rather than flood the market and actually leaving the shortage. and many traders and investors, they had expected a bigger output rise in august, especially with prices where they are now. but unfortunately, it looks like they will have to keep the market very, very tight the summer, even with the rising demand. because yes, remember the opec plus they basically didn't really make much money last year as demand for oil was pretty much nonexistent due to coded. so now they're actually motivated to keep prices high for a while in order to replace the coffers that have been severely strained. so things are going to be quite tight for a while, and we could potentially even be a $100.00 oil prices. again, excellent points. we consider here christy i. michel snyder. thank you both for your time. thank you. the time now for a quick break, but when we come back, college athletes are now free to sign endorsement deals. after years of battling it out with the in c double, i will take a look at what that means and what limitations they will face neck. and as we go to
12:48 pm
break your, the numbers out the clothes, shoes, pairing and found introducing and found to, to a family when a new mother is going through that process. yet there's certainly tremendous cause for great joy, but because it's in a bad that causes. so many different changes. it's stressful at many levels. who make no, you know, borders and the blind number please. as emerge. we don't have authority. we don't actually, the whole world needs to take action and be ready. not
12:49 pm
a joke. people are judge crisis, we can do better, we should be better. everyone is contributing each in their own way. but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever. the challenge is paid for the response has been massive. so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we need together in everything we associate with modern life has been digitalized. in fact, we live within ecosystems created by big tech. they decide what we can see, what we can buy, and even what we can say. the systems no longer serve us, they actually control us. is there a way out from this growing dystopian?
12:50 pm
ah, today industries refers to millions of euro's not being today. regulations will be all about making money. i think it's about a big corporation. international markets. import export. do you imagine the number of the diseases that are in every family today due to new viruses or new microbes? not true. so it is due to environment. they're not going to take either the momentum much palo the accumulate got on the come in today. mostly they don't allow us. the food industry is accessible for create more jobs. it will create more value added. it will create more. so i don't see why we shouldn't also fight for the interests of the industry that we have regulation. we want the regulation as the industry and if we don't
12:51 pm
have video specialty, that's fine. the the new era of college sports is officially here. falling a unanimous ruling from the supreme court on education related benefits, the n. c double a has moved to allow college athletes to be compensated for their name, image, and likeness for the 1st time in march, the end of a long standing ban and the beginning of unprecedented territory in the world of sport. joining me now to discuss is victor about professor is worth economics at the college of the holy cross. now professor college athletes now have the freedom to sign endorsement deals, monetize social media. post sign on the advertising campaigns. i'm in the list goes on. so just how big of a deal is this move?
12:52 pm
so this is a huge feel for a college athlete. one additional thing beyond that even is for example, it allows college athletes to do even little things like just give tennyson's right if you're, if you're an athlete saying, hey, i am a, i'm an n c, a tennis player. i can give lessons that athletes weren't allowed to do. so this is, this is a huge athletes. and it really opened the door to significant payments by, by sponsorships and corporate america to what was otherwise an a group of labor prior to this private ruin. and we know they're moving into uncharted territory now, but this conversation has been going on for a while now. there has been pressure for congress to take action on this topic. but right now it seems like it's being handled on a state by state basis in terms of what athletes are allowed to promote. so can we expect a chaotic frenzy of deals as this massive change should the rules is just starting
12:53 pm
out right now? yes, there will be a significant amount of pay off for that being said the ruling yesterday by the end ca basically proceed to all of the state laws which allow the athlete lots and lots of things that they weren't allowed to build up. the deals for athletes in essentially every night and states. right. so basically what the, in the field for all of the athletes, mind you goodness of their own hearts, they did out knowing they got lost a huge supreme court cases. last week, past work of states were moving again and over a were set to start today. and so the n c a basically gave them a game and said,
12:54 pm
we're not going are doing. and basically, going to allow apple leads to earn the sort of money that any other college student can make in terms of again, social media in terms of advertising, in terms of working for corporations as a sponsor in terms of being able get during their same rights and any other ad yeah, it is a really big decision. it'll certainly be interesting to see exactly how it plays out. professor victor matheson, thank you so much for your time and you're inside one day before announcing it's highly anticipated. i pio robin hood agreed to pay the largest fine ever in the history of wall street self regulator over claims that the company is guilty of widespread and significant harm to its customers. the company will pay a $57000000.00 fine along with $12600000.00 in compensation for harmed investors. it saves
12:55 pm
a host of allegations that included how the popular brokerage out carried out the opening of new accounts, training strategies, and notifying clients about the status of their investments. now robin hood became the subject of federal scrutiny earlier this year after it cut off millions of users from purchasing shares of stocks like game stop and amc after they went viral on red it. while regulators say the price of defiance reflects the seriousness of the allegations. the company says the issues that were uncovered do not reflect the robin hood of today. we'll see about that one. richard branson version or bit is picking up momentum after its 2nd successful mission to orbit for the year. on wednesday, the mission doug tubular bells, part one, launched for cube satellites for a u. s. department of defense space program. virgin orbit uses a boeing $747.00 to launch and drop rockets from 45000 feet. their
12:56 pm
rockets then fire and accelerate into space where satellites are released into the orbit around the globe. but check out that finish there. that is incredible. now the 1st successful launch for virgin orbit was back in january, and another mission is scheduled for this month. on that's all for now. you can catch boom bus on demand by downloading the portable t v out for your apple or android device. that's also where you can check out our new a show. i don't understand what's william shatner coming in. we'll see you here next time. and as always, don't forget to question more me. i
12:57 pm
i use the ah, is your media a reflection of reality? in a world transformed what will make you feel safe for tyson lation community? are you going the right way or are you being that somewhere? direct? what is true? what is faith? in the world corrupted. you need to defend the join us in the depths or remain in the shallows, ah,
12:58 pm
in the well, what we've been reporting on for a few years. money printing leads to inflation. this is about becoming a big problem for central banks around the world. only one central bank on the world is actually taking it on board and proactively dealing with the issue. we'll get to that mom and ah, to don't to leave. you will move a toy, knew he would have to move it to love me. she knew she wouldn't be a little girl, but what i can do me to teach julia,
12:59 pm
1:00 pm
the the, the most rallies and statues topples canadian spend their anger off the remains of more than the size of children discover. the former indigenous presence. schools run by the catholic church also become this. i ran out 1st again, so called won't kotia. president micron warned the progressive american ideas of racialized france. microsoft has made us dorm foresman, has secretly been requesting to day 2 of his customers up to 10 times a day. i .
14 Views
Uploaded by TV Archive on