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and i'm going to bore in washington coming up several business groups have moved on lobbying the buying administration to resume trade talks with china straight ahead . boom. but christy, i am professor richard wolf are both on hand to discuss and to be united states has called on major tech firms to help tackle ransomware, whatever report on the efforts combat the recent wave of cyber attack. then currencies are storing in the wake of a major development for a theory. i will bring you up to speed along with the latest comments on who has the authority to regulate crypto. we have a fax here today, so this dive right in. we leave the program with the latest on the state of trade talks between the us and china. now president biden said he would do away with former president trump terrace while he was on the campaign trail. he has since done the opposite. and the latest round of talks between china and the us resulted in nothing more than verbal accusations back and forth. that's why nearly 3 dozen

of the most influential business groups in the country came together to send a letter to the treasury department and the u. s. trade rap calling on the, by an administration to both resume trade talks and to cut tariffs on chinese made goods in it. they wrote, quote, due to the tariff, us industries, phase increase cost to manufacturer products and provide services domestically making their exports of these products. and services less competitive abroad. so joining us now to break down the list of boom bus, co host kristi i and professor richard wolf, post of economic update and the author of the sickness is the system. christy, let's start with you here. now the business groups include farmers, micro trip companies and pharmaceutical companies. so what about the trade war has brought them all together and why are they sending this letter now? yeah, so 30 of the most influential business groups in america, they're all calling on bite and to resume these negotiations with china because

essentially they want to reduce the import tariffs that have become a tremendous drain on the u. s. economy and subsequently their businesses. so the tears on chinese electronics and clothing and other goods having kept in part to ensure that china fulfills its obligations under the 1st phase of the trade deal. the business goes, emphasized aging, had fulfilled quote, important criteria and obligations in the agreement, including opening markets to us financial institutions and reducing some regulatory barriers to us agricultural exports. so there's a growing sense of frustration with you as business groups. and it's funny because it literally is all politics and political agenda. politicians are supposed to represent the people and the interests of the people. but right now the people want a fees fire in the trade war. they want the parents to be redacted. so it's not what anyone wants except for washington for some reason. so they're really not listening to the actual constituent and the people. and then for their part, chinese officials have now told america that they will not act on these trade

issues until the administration makes clear that it accept a phase one deal. in addition, the groups are also urging the u. s. to grant company exemptions from some parents and begin the process of lowering tabs on chinese goes in general. because with this rising global inflation, all these businesses need every single cent they can get. now, professor wolf, we've heard the argument from both the biden administration and the trump administration, that the us needs to stand up to china. but is there any indication that the trade war has actually helped us businesses? and to that point, if tariffs aren't the answer, what is the answer in a trade more or a trade dispute? that is to say, between the 2 worlds to large economies? well, let me in to the easy point. first, the government of the united states under the trump imposed a set of our ups whose major purpose as many of us said, was going to be a burden of taxation on american companies importing those goods from china. and

now having to pay the united states government attacks with the trunk, kept saying that china would pay the tax because he didn't want the americans to understand that they must, the chinese were going to pay it. and now we can see that the result was bad. for business and obviously bad for the american people. and given the performance of the chinese economy, the damage done, there was either the same or less than what was done here. so that was a failure. number one, number 2. here's the single most important fact to keep in mind. trying to the people's republic of china is the largest and the fastest growing market for goods and services in the world dwarfing the united states. larger now, then, you're all going to be even bigger in the head. so any business man or woman in charge of the corporation would understand you've got to be in there. you've got

to be able to participate in what is the biggest? i'm the fastest growing market, and that's why all these companies are doing exactly what they are letters show. by the way, it means that the quiet diplomacy under the table didn't get the job done. so now they're going public, which has a great deal of pressure on the biden administration. so what has been learned here is that the chinese are not a small economy. they're not a weak economy, they're not susceptible to american pressure. they have their own agenda and kristi's last point, which i thought was really excellent. the business community got nothing out of this trade war with china. the master be american, people got nothing. so this is a political game in which looking tough plays to some kind of mentality here in the united states. that doesn't want to praise the reality that the american

position in the world economy is no longer what it was. the ascending power is china, and that has to be come to terms with because the alternative is unthinkable. and yet we keep saying the same policy is from both trump and now by then and professor i want to bring up another point and all of this, which is a major target of the trade war. that was, of course, wal way. and the chinese telecom giant just announced on friday that it's quarterly revenue is down 38 percent. is this just another one of the ways that us sanctions are having an impact on it? now i think the way is a global company and then depending on many more things and just the united states, the impact of the sanctions and so on. yeah, there was probably something, but it doesn't account for most of that. 38 percent companies that provide electronic equipment like wild way and others. i've had

a rough time because the cold did. and even more because of the shutdown of many economies around the world to accommodate struggles against cold. i think you are seeing many of those companies focusing on getting through a very bad period. this combination of an economic, global crash and a global pandemic, a combination we've never seen before at the same time. and so they're all figuring out what do we do to get through this, but there's no evidence that while way is having markedly different struggles. yes, they got a sanction that made it a little harder for them than another company. but these are small adjustments. they are not basic threats to the survival of that company, nor others like, hey chris, have about 30 seconds left, but i mean, what's your take on the whole while way situation and seeing their revenue down just quickly? yeah, i mean china is cracking down on itself and they're cracking down on foreigners and

the entire tech industry has now been kind of decimated a little bit short because none of the investors really know what's going on. china government can literally come down and enforce new regulation, new anti trust regulation on the when. so essentially these tech companies now have to kind of struggle and adapt to kind of figure out what this new landscape is going to be. and all of that is because china is playing defensive in response to all of the, all of the sanction, the unfair terrorists. and as well as the restrictions and allegations that the u. s. has placed on them. great insight. as always, professor richard will thank you for joining us again. this again christy, i don't go anywhere just yet. we'll have you back on to talk about the world of crypto later in the show. as a theories of ransomware attacks have plagued us businesses. the federal government is now calling on the nation's largest tech firms to tackle the issue. companies like google, amazon, and microsoft are being asked to lend their tech muscle to protect against the ongoing threat r t. trinity chavez has looked into the newest efforts to combat ransomware. and

brings us the latest from new york today, major tech company joining forces with the federal government to fight ransomware. hackers who have been feeling data from american companies and extorting millions of dollars from them. it's called joint cyber defense collaborative or j. c. d. c. the effort will aim to improve defense planning and information sharing between government and the private sector. well, initially focused on combat and ransomware, when hackers encrypt information and threatened to hold it until ransom is paid and creating a framework to respond to incidence impacting cloud providers. jen easterly, the director of the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency, or caesar, set up thursdays, black hat security conference that crowd strike palo alto networks fire. i amazon web services, google, microsoft, a, t, n t. verizon and loom and have all agreed to work on the new initiative with visa. i think that these companies tend to be a lot more efficient. i think that they,

they learn things generally a lot faster than public sector entities. because going to keep us on the cutting edge, the effort comes on the heels of several cyber attacks. hackers increasingly targeting major infrastructure installations like transportation hubs, energy facilities, and utility companies. hackers cut off a pipeline to the eastern seaboard for days, allegedly tried to poison a floor of water treatment plans and even held hospital i. t systems hostage install a massive amount of data in the solar wind tack experts say the attack only further underscore the importance of communication between the public and private sectors, especially as they account for almost 90 percent of the country's critical infrastructure. it's an obvious sign of desperation on the part of the federal government that they need to enlist the private sector. i'm trying not to put a negative spin on it. i think it's a good thing, but it's definitely if they didn't need the help, they certainly wouldn't have reached out for it. during his 6 months in office, president biden has come under scrutiny for a series of cyber attacks. and while he signed an executive action last month to

bolster us cyber defenses in strength and caesar, the directive standards for private companies was only voluntary and the government could not force them to comply. i think that the by the administration has projected weakness. unfortunately, in a lot of ways, and as a result of that, i think that that made us more of a sitting target for international aggression, particularly in the cyber row. the incidents have made cybersecurity, a major area of concerns spanning beyond the white house. the senate now has even included additional funding for caesar. and it's one trillion dollar infrastructure bill that could be passed by the chamber this week. reporting for boom bus, trinity chavez, r t the global markets are mostly up on the weak despite increased concerns over rise in cases of the cobra, 1900 delta, very worldwide. let's start in russia, where the mo, x is up for the week. the mo x fell off of this week's hive to close on friday,

but there were plenty of gains to give it a green arrow after the central bank raised interest rates by $100.00 basis points, a 6.5 percent last month in an attempt to dampen inflation rushes, economy minister for the nation, should look to increase government spending to offset the impact of tightening monetary policy. let's move to asian markets. we have another green arrow for the shanghai after last week. sell off the composite lose nearly 4 percent as strains on the global supply chain continue. economists expect sports out of china to moderate for the month of july for strong growth in china services sector for july release, wednesday, push things up mid week in hong kong. the hang thing is also up again, rebounding from the sell off, which caused the index to lose 5 percent last week. as we mentioned earlier in the week, it appears online gaming, maybe the sub sector to catch chinese regulators. i, after another state newspaper published an article saying, gaming companies should not get preferential tax treatment,

which was used to bolster the domestic software industry. this cause chinese heavy weight tens that and that is to each lose nearly 4 percent and thursdays trade. dragging down the hank thank tech index by more than 2 percent. and more of the same in japan as the new k is up earlier in the week gaming related business took a hit on the same factors we saw in hong kong. investors are also keeping an eye on the state of the delta various and it's spread in japan after the tokyo olympics wrap up on sunday. let's move to india, the sense sex. it's also in the green for the week, despite a substantial gains throughout the week. shares fell slightly on friday after the country held monetary policy in place with interest rates at 4 percent earlier in the week. the syntax fresh record highs as investors anticipate policy would remain and stimulus would continue to flow. as the country recovers from one of the world's worst cove, it at 19 outbreaks in australia. the 2nd it is also up closing at

a fresh record high on friday, it's getting 2 percent for the week big bank helped to put the index up while by now pay later for after pay had a fantastic week after agreeing to a $29000000000.00 buyout from the square. now the all share in south africa is our 1st red arrow for the week, but, but just slightly, it barely hit into the red. earlier in the week it appeared, it was on its way to records of its own. but that was just too good to be true. the rain fell later in the week as the nation finance minister resigned his position and made a cabinet shuffling following unrest in the country last month. now let's head over to rachel to see how things are shaking out in europe in the u. s. thanks. ran here . we start in london where the 50 is up fueled by strong earnings throughout the week. on tuesday alone, b, p saw gains nearly 6 percent as a beat earnings. all the bank of england says it will leave monetary policy unchanged for now. the central bank did say it is looking to mean the economy office stimulus measures that were put in place at the start of the pandemic. all

forecasting inflation will hit 4 percent this year. now nearby the french cack and german docs are also in the green. still looking at some of the same doctors we just talked about, amid earning, sees it. now german conglomerate bison crop on thursday announced it had agreed to sell off its infrastructure unit for an undisclosed v, as it looks to restructure. and french stocks were mostly flocked to close out the week. but diagnostics per euro fins did see shares pop more than 10 percent on thursday, after reporting record earnings for the 1st half of the year. and here in the us market, they're also on pace to close the week in the green with the s and p 500. and dow jones, each touching record hot. of course, robin hood has made big news throughout the week all about the stock, which is now up around 50 percent after a dismal i. p. o. last week and new job is data released on friday showed hiring

rose in july, added the fastest pace in nearly a year. non foreign payrolls increased 594-3000, while the unemployment rate fell to 5.4 percent, both bidding expectations as companies face a so called worker shortage. average hourly earnings in the us are 4 percent year over year. while labor participation is up to 61.7 percent, all of which has caused markets to react positively. and before we wrap up, we wanted to take a look at the state of oil. now both brent crude and west texas intermediate fell this week. prices really took a hit over concern, so oil demand could be hurt by new restrictions due to rise. and cobit cases, all just as opec plus members moved to increase output in the coming months time. now for a quick break, but when we come back, we had back to the crypto currency sector, where a change in a theory has led to a crypto rally across the board will explain. they will be back and apply

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get back to school, which still will have the strongest appeal as we were saying and shipping, all of our jobs factors to china was a bad idea. but the american people were ok with it. because although their way, cuz we're going down the stuff they were getting from china, the wal mart was cheaper than ever. okay, now the chickens have come on the roof. now, the china labor sink is finished. inflation is kicking in for real. and wages are going up, but not as fast as inflation the british and american governments have often been accused of destroying lives in their own interest. while you see in this, these techniques is the state devising messrs to end essentially destroy

personality of an individual. lifetime means this is how one doctors, theories were allegedly used in psychological warfare against prisoners deemed the danger to the state. that was the foundation for the method of psychological interrogation, psychological torture, disseminated within the us intelligence community, and worldwide among allies for the next 30 years. and the victim say they still live with the consequences today. the welcome back. it was a big day for crypto currencies as a theory, m as activated a major change called the london hard ford. now, developers successfully completed the hard fork on thursday, centrally changing the underlying code that the crypto currency relies on to run the success of the hard fork sent a theory of price up. but it also led to

a bump in big coins, price pushing the crypto backup over the $40000.00 mark. now there's a lot to understand. here's how to break it all down. let's bring back boom. by co host christy. christy. why is the hard for such a big deal? what exactly does that mean? i mean it's a huge deal and eve has jumped up about 4 percent in the last 24 hours on the news . so basically it has always had long standing problems with scaling where remaining secure and it's highly unpredictable with its exorbitant transaction fees when the network gets congested. so basically the problem happened with crypto katie's back in 2017, but has only gotten worse now with the n f t 's. so thursday, changes to the code are designed to fix many of the issues by burning ether coins and changing the way transaction fees work so that they're more predictable. so 1st off, fees are more predictable now because before the upgrade users would participate in

what essentially is an open auction on every block proposing transaction fees. so rather than holding a blind auction, every block, each new protocol, well i'll go rhythmically decide the fees based on the overall demand of the network. and secondly, they're also doubling the block size, and this is meant to help smooth out the spikes and demand helping gas fees to stay stable and be more manageable. and then the other big thing finally, is the change in the code that pays the way for ease to point out, which has been in the works for years. this change is it from a very energy intensive proof of work mining system to proof of the big where existing users leverage their ease as needed to verify transaction. and this is b because once it's activated, the entire e, my, me industry as it exists today will no longer be relevant. ok, so one of the other reasons why it's a big deal is that this hard for also impacts other parts of the criptos space such as an f t, correct? yeah, s t 's are going to be

a very big deal because most an a t t is the actually built and based off of each protocol and they actually cause a lot of network congestion in 20192020. as i said earlier, the 1st bit of network congestion came from crypto kitties, which was essentially a game where you pair 2 kids together for the most desirable traits and attributes . and now with f t 's, most of them they're built using ease because as we said, it has the most secure protocol. so that is why most of these guys they leverage is technology has the most secure and most mature protocol as well as they have the most advanced developers working on the entire project. so with f t 's and with the rise of n f t, and all these outrageous options as we saw from people, there has been a lot of bids out for very specific objects, memorabilia and collectibles. and because of that, that has caused a lot of unwanted congestion from people sending simple transaction and peer to peer payments. and because of that, all the fees they rose to about $2200.00 per transaction when at the very highest

in the peak last summer. so this is meant to smooth all of that out, especially since that and a piece are here to stay as well as the advancement in d 5 is only going to advance and become more robust as we go on. and christy, why did bitcoin price jump on all this news going to simply rallying off of the positive news and ease. but overall, the technical, they were also set up well into this before we had a little period of consolidation where it was facing out along the $3035000.00 range. and also looking at the flow data, hobbler, they've taken this opportunity to scoop large amounts of big one in the last few weeks below 40000. so it looks like we might be a little supply, squeeze here where the number of big points a pie falls below its spot market demand. and coins are rapidly disappearing from the available market as holders continue to lock them away for the long term. because don't forget, unlike the u. s. monetary system, you can't make more big quite so the number of big ones mine every day is set and

locked. now before we go, we've got about 30 seconds, but i want to bring up the latest comments from the commissioner for the c t. c. he took to twitter on wednesday where he said quote that the u. s. securities and exchange commission does not have jurisdiction over pure commodities or their trading venue, including crypto asset one. do you make of those comments? yeah, this really contradicted the position that gary against the fcc made earlier this week where he said crypto and all points are all securities. so quinn has a saying that crypt does is more like an asset, a commodity that does not fall under the jurisdiction of the s b c. and in his own separate tweet, former c f t c chairman john carlo said that the c s d c is basically the only agency with the experience to regulate the crypto currency market. and i think that's a very fair statement because of security is a financial instrument, but a commodity is not a security. just a commodity is a security is

a monetary value. but unlike a commodity, a security is not traded between 2 parties. the fact that crypto is a peer to peer show that it's traded between 2 parties and does, it's more along the description of a commodity. a commodity is something that has value in it of itself, like oil, like gold, like cattle. you use it, you spend it, you eat it, unlike a security, so it limits the amount of oversight. absolutely correct. these are out of time, boom bus. christy, i thank you so much for bringing all that down for us today. thank you. and finally, with math delays and cancellation, sweeping the country. american airlines now says it has a new hook to keep customers entertain once they finally take to disguise. it may sound like a joke, but the airlines, as it will allow customers to watch up to 30 minutes of tick tock for free in the air. now granted, they will then have to pay for why fi afterwards. so this new offer really raises the question of whether customers are actually getting that much of

a deal at all. for example, free in flight, why fi is a much more common perch outside of the us with airlines like quantum new zealand and could tar yet jet blue is the only airline in the u. s. to offer why fi, free of charge for domestic flight rate. so they just keep shoving in their like sardines, but they're throw in your bone with 30 minutes of free tick tock. it's craziness. then paper it after that for the 5, you get cool, but the demand on the tv app available on smartphones and tablets through play in the apple apps or searching portable tv where it will also be downloaded on samsung, smart tv and roku devices or simply check it out portable dot tv will see you next time. mm.

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