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with this boon, bought the one business show you care to coordinate the i'm branch of war in washington. here's what we have coming up. federal reserve chair jerome pol has based congress where he thought drilling on factors from inflation to the supply chain. thread head will bring you all the developments from the hearing flaws bitcoin bear market rages on is some forecast, is, are flipping on their $1.00 to $100000.00 projection. we take a comprehensive look at what it means for the developing sector and the world's largest trade agreement is coming together as some of the biggest players in the asia pacific region are participating. we'll dig into those details, gotta packs out today. so let's dive right in and we lead the program with the state of the world's number one. economy is federal reserve chair jerome powell, testified tuesday in front of the senate banking committee. now during the

confirmation hearings for power, 2nd term as bad share, he was pressed by centers over plans for tightening of monetary policy. after a year of downplaying ramp inflation as a transitory effect, paul addressed the impact of rising prices. we know that high inflation exacts a toll, particularly for those less able to meet the higher costs of essentials, like food, housing, and transportation. we are strongly committed to achieving our statutory goals of maximum employment and price stability. we will use our tools to support the economy and a strong labor market and to prevent higher inflation from becoming entrenched. consumer prices have been rising over the last year, surging 6.8 percent in november. the highest rate since 1980 to the labor department will release december's numbers this week with expectations of inflation rising by 7 percent from the year prior. now while the central bank has started to pull back its quantitative easing,

the question is becoming when will we see interest rate hikes? and for that matter, how many in 2022 without employment in december dipping to 3.9 percent powell spoke about measures. the fed is looking at our principal, ah, tool is interest rates and, and they have they effect demand over time. and i do think that the main thing that we can do is to make sure that you know, consistent with the full inflation side of our mandate that we do foster a strong employment market. if we see inflation persisting at high levels longer than expected, then, then we will, you know, then we'll, if we have to raise interest rates more over time, we will, we will use our tools to get inflation back. and the main reason is this, in a reason is this that to get the kind of of very strong labor market we want with high participation, it's gonna take a long expansion. despite the positivity paul shared about the economic recovery thus far, he was quick to point out. there is

a long road ahead and tightening monetary policy. we're, we're really just going to be moving over the course of this year to a policy that is closer to normal, but it's a long road to normal from where we are, where now we are very highly accommodated in it. it's, it is really time for us to begin to move away from those emergency pandemic settings to a more normal level. and meanwhile, as we have discussed recently has been a rough start to the year for crypto currency. as big coin is down, more than 10 percent says the 1st of the year after falling below $45.00 on monday . now the world's most popular crypto currency has rebounded somewhat in tuesday, but still fits more than 35 percent below all time high seen just over 2 months ago . now it should be noted that volatility has been the name of the game in the 1st 8 days of 2021. for instance, bitcoin jump nearly 40 percent to reach the $40000.00 threshold for the 1st time. now, mid the latest run,

we've heard bitcoin could be headed for the coveted $100000.00 mark. and amid this dropped, analysts are pointing to the dreaded death cross a measure that appears when the price over the last 50 days drops below the 200 day moving average. and as a reminder, it's not just bitcoin either. other popular coins like a theory i'm have struggled in recent weeks as well. joining us now to discuss is natalie bordeaux, she's the host of coin stories. natalie. it's a pleasure to have you on the show. really appreciate you joining us today. what are you currently seeing with the down weekend and a half or so for crypto? are you seeing this effect any sentiment within the community right now? hi, thanks so much for having me. you know, i gotta remind people, big coin is about time in the market, not timing the market. a lot of that vocabulary is really for traders when it comes to the speculative and volatile nature of big coin. but i'm it right now. you know, it's true. it's about as low as it was in march, 2020. and i think it's not really surprising given that the feds rhetoric is moving

toward liquidity withdrawal mode. but what's interesting is, you know, i talked to the people who are the long term holders, myself included the true believers. we've been in the game for years then we've stomach volatility in the past. and, you know, seen pass corrections in depth. and the sentiment right now with them is one of relief because we can accumulate more big coin and stack more big climb because we ultimately think it's under price right now. so, you know, it's sad to see that the price isn't at that 6 figure mark that a lot of us we're hoping for. but again, right now the fed is trying to move towards q t. and i think that they're going to find that that's going to be very difficult to do well. and, you know, we've seen recently, natalie, that the price of bitcoin specifically has kind of reversed correlated with the say the stock market. and as the fed maybe talks about the way they're going to handle their policy, bitcoin goes up in response. so why is it reacting when to talking about that tightening of policy? why are we seeing a downward trend for bitcoin right now? yeah, i mean, right now you got to remember that big one is really only ever existed in a quantitative easing environment. and so i think there will be speculation coming

from every single direction, especially with a volatile asset in emerging technology, like they coin, you know, we all hope that it would break the 6 figure mark. but, you know, given right now, now what's happening at the macro level with inflation and how they're trying to respond to it. i think that this reminds us, that big point is not something to take lightly. ok, it's an emerging technology. it's at its earliest stage and anything that can go up a 100 percent, which it did last year is going to be volatile. it's going to have the significant depth because it's also very liquid. and those depth scare people from time to time . now people who bought and held always end up happy. those who bought while people were the most scared, they're the happiest of all. and i know that it feels safe for buying in the green, but it's actually always safer buying in the red. so i'm not too concerned about it, but you know, i think that we're still going to see some rocky waters ahead. as we listen to what j powell is going to say in which direction the federal reserve is going to move in order to try to control the inflation in our economy. and you talked about the 6 figure mark that everybody's looking for because we've heard wall street analysts

pump up bitcoin thing. it was going to the moon at $100000.00, then they say it would drop to $20000.00. now a new note from j. p. morgan include the survey showing only 5 percent of its quiet going to $100000.00 this point while the majority believe it's going be $60000.00. mark is more relevant here. does any of this chatter for wall street really mean anything for those true believers in hardware? now i really don't think so. i think it's a lot of noise and we're trying to do is as best as we can to educate people about how not only is between the best performing asset of the last decade. but it's truly this unique savings technology that couple of decentralization and removing us from being sort of at the whim of the central authority and whatever they want to do with these, you know, the manipulation of interest rates. and also this idea of true digital scarcity. while they print money, you know, into oblivion. this is just 21000000 bit points that will ever exist. and it's owning

a pre piece of digital real estate that hopefully will allow you to be able to save and accumulate wealth into the future. so us long term holders, we're not concerned about this short term volatility. we always tell people remember to zoom out because anyone that has bought and hold big coin for at least 4 years is in profit. and you know, yes, we haven't reached that 6 figure mark, but there is so much speculation, so much volatility. there are other countries people out there who don't have to suffer the capital gains tax, right. so they're trading in and out of these depth. and i think that we have more volatility had because it's such a new technology. but ultimately i think big wind, well went out in the, in the end. and i look forward to when more people are educated about and, and, and allocate part of their portfolio to what we're definitely thing more and more of that these days. natalie, i went ahead one more story before we do go. because obviously the big story in the last couple of months of 2021 was el salvador adapting bitcoin as a legal tender. and i know that you've sometimes been credits critical of the idea of it actually being used for payments rather than as a store, a value or, or say, an investment. but you know,

when you look at the price drop and that volatility that we've recently seen, does that raise some questions about a move like this, especially when they've invested funds into bitcoin as well? yeah, i think only time will tell what kind of decision it was for president ne, blue kelly to move his nation onto this bitcoin standard. i personally, i'm very bullish on it. i think it's going to end up being something really great. i mean, the nation has faith so many debt issues and i really think it will ultimately be a fantastic decision. the other nations will follow you, but you're right. i mean, here in the us where we have this relatively stable currency, the us dollar, which unfortunately is depreciating and purchasing power over time. it's a great medium of exchange. i think that here big coin primarily served as a store of value. and i think that's fantastic. however, in other countries, you know, for it to be a medium of exchange and to facilitate transactions and allow people to subvert oppressive governments or allow them to, you know, opt out of hyper inflation. you know much,

much worse than what we're seeing here in the us. i think that's fantastic as well . i think, you know, we have to allow this digital asset to grow this technology to grow in the way that it will. and so, you know, in el salvador you have options, there's the cheap wallet and you can change back and forth between bitcoin and us dollars. and yes, there's sort term volatility to stomach. but at the same time, i think it's so progressive for the nation's leader to say, you know what, i'm going to not only allow, but i'm going to promote and encourage the use of a technology and a currency that i can never manipulate. and i can never control, i think that's really amazing. and i'm looking forward to seeing, you know, the performance of those big coin bonds that they've, they're going to start to issue natalie burn out of coin story. i love your positivity about this issue. i hope we can do it again real soon. thanks so much for having me. and a federal judge in the united states has removed himself from a case involving e commerce giant amazon, the district judge in question, lima grady has been overseeing the 20 months civil case in which the online

retailer was accused or accuses to former employees, receiving payments from a real estate developer and violating the company's own conflict of interest policies, his cure records all comes after a wall street journal report about the grady family stock holdings in amazon. now it's easy to look at this and say it's an isolated incident, but take this into account. last year, the journal published an investigation which found $131.00 federal judges had failed to recuse themselves from nearly $700.00 law suits from 2010 to 2018 in which they themselves or family members had financial interest. so let's go ahead and take a look into this with legal journalist, molly barrows. molly, i want to start with this federal judge who removed himself from the case. so grady had actually kinda pushed back against cause for accused. so what ends up happening here? well basically he did end up accusing him dial, like you talked about, the details of the tailor case that he was over thing. well, 3 defendants brought forward a refusal motion, saying basically that he couldn't be impartial because his wife had $22000.00 for

the stock in the company. and even though he felt like it was, quote, unquote, insane is how he put it to think that that could affect his bias. in this case, you recognize that there was an appearance of impartiality or potential impartiality. so you went ahead and refused himself, but like you said, this is not unheard of in this particular realm that there is now calls of course for there to be more stringent oversight. the oversight in place isn't doing the job for that to even come to their attention to the to begin last. right? because what do we see those big numbers from that report last year? the claim is that these judges broken 1974 federal law by hearing these cases where they had some sort of financial interest. why isn't there more actually to stop this? and is there a process ahead of a trial or, or ahead of giving somebody a case where you actually find this information out? well, essentially it's an in house process and the way it works right now, there's federal guidelines that judges are beholden to. that say that if they have any financial interest that they should recuse themselves, no matter the size of the financial interests. one of the reasons that they should

refuse themselves in a potential case. and oftentimes they may not necessarily know that they have an interest because they don't know what the case that's coming before them, but they're clerk do their clerks as part of this process will review. have a list of the investments that these judges hold and that they compare it and review it before they assigned to a case. but there is some push back as well. that thing that yes, this is a great report from the wall street journal. however, it represents one percent of the cases, if federal judges here overall. so it's not a widespread problem. but at the problem, if you're a judge in a case, and it suddenly was, you actually did have bias in the decision or if there was the appearance of bias bill problem, because it's the perception of bias. that is that issue. so you have a number of house democrats now that are calling for more stringent action. they want to bring back a law that they tried and failed to pass last year. that basically called for more oversight in more stringent guidelines. and some of these clerks' offices now are saying, oh, well, you know, we'll step up and we'll do a better job of taking

a look at it. but why? again, why should it get to this point? if it is a matter of simple housekeeping, then maybe they need something better and stronger than simple housekeeping rule stand. right, absolutely. and i mean, maybe you look at it and you say $22000.00 and say, amazon isn't huge holdings. but considering the fact that if they were to rule against amazon in this case, that could hurt their stock and but we know how we talk about, dive on the shelf. it's about how the market reacts to an actual news event like that. so i mean, where to go from here that molly, i mean i got about 30 seconds left. well, essentially, i think you're going to see some more pushback. you're going to see more judges that are going to step forward and perhaps be a little more vigilant on behalf of their own cases. because there are high prices to pay. if there is found to be that they deliberately had some bias and a decision, it certainly reversed the decision. i could, for the case to go back to trial, a judge could even looses, is license to practice law. so there's a number of levels that there is calls to action or even wanting to take this

before the supreme court and have justice. is there follow codes of conduct to make sure that they are not biased? in a lot of these cases, i think it's going to be one of those situations where people, especially the press, are going to stay on top of it because the processes that are already in place, they're too large in app that i really do much about it for a legal journalist, probably barrels. thank you so much for coming. the story for us. thanks, fran. it's, i'm now for a quick break, but when we come back, the world's largest trade deal is coming together in the asia pacific region. we'll break it all down for you on the other side. as we go to break here, the numbers with

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in there. welcome back. it's the world's largest free trade agreement, but you likely haven't heard too much about it. regional comprehensive economic partnership is a trade deal between the 10 members of the association of south east asian nations, along with austria, china, japan, new zealand, and south korea. so just how big is it beyond geography right there? well, it covers nearly a 3rd of the global population and its membership accounts for roughly 30 percent of the world's g. d. p. went into a fax for some of the biggest players, including australia, china and japan. at the start of the year with south korea set to officially join by the 1st of february, a handful of partners still need to ratify the agreement. however, one of the major benefits will be a reduction in tariffs to 0 out around 65 percent of good with that percentage

growing. busy over the lifespan of the deal to joining us now to discuss this landmark deal is to rob group that he's a senior policy specialist at the institute for china, america studies throughout pleasure to have you on the show today. china started working to kind of wip up support for this deal nearly a decade ago and many thought as an attempt to say counter us influence in the region. do you think having that impact? yes, it will have that impact on willy nilly. simply because the u. s dropped out off of t b b and you'll correct this. the thinking kind are set are developed at the time that the u. s. and already begun had initiated negotiations towards the tb agreement, the trans pacific partnership. but what i would also say is that apart from china's of bush with regard to getting this agreement we forward aussie on was very much in gold, actually aussie on was the key driver. and interestingly, the australians actually provided

a lot of intellectual input into how our sept should be framed out. so it was it really a region wide initiative. but it, i can understand how it's been seen in this day and age, and even the tiniest bank as a china was us on competition in asia. of course, we always want to make the dichotomy between the world through largest academy and the, the conflicts there. you know, you just mentioned that australia had put a lot of input into this, an em in the last year, year and a half or so australia and china have really faced some economic tensions of their own. does that play into our separate all? i mean, obviously was already in the works before that, so that kind of women had with it. but does that cause any problems moving forward? not exactly doesn't cause problems moving forward with our set in particular, all but the nature of the china, australia, coral, is now fairly entrenched even in the economic area. in the economic area. there is movement,

obviously towards decoupling in terms of supply chains. it will have some impact on the, on, on our so not in terms of legal violations in our set. but the extent to which australia and china can be integrated together as economies. because china is trying to go out continuously and source from anywhere but to australia. and given that australia had a lot of raw materials and commodities, of course, it has important services, exports to what it was prime, the raw material provider, china can, to some extent exclude our set. i exclude australia from this dynamic, but fundamental with regard to our sam. no, i don't think it really matters that much. you know, one of the biggest economy than the region is missing, as india withdrew from the deal. and i, late 2019, early, 2020. what was behind that decision to opt out of our sep, in, is that a problem to not have them involved? yes, it is a problem to not have them involved, but it is

a bigger problem for india not to be involved. india is not really engaged in issue wide supply chains. this was an entry door to into and i wish the indians have been a little more courageous in this regard in trying to adhere to these accept these commitments. the main problem has been that because india has not been within the supply chain, it's manufacturing sector is not as competitive and with whoever then goes and has the free trade agreements in the asian pacific region. it ends up running make trade deficits with them in manufactured goods, particularly. and india was very scared, like with china then the manufactured goods deficit, which is any of it is already very large. would just go explanation the larger and of all the minor considerations. you know, australian importing to india would disturb its farm sector and b c level. so there has been so much progress and disturbance in the farm sector in india. and that was also a secondary consideration when you opted out. but at the end of the day, i think it will 100 year long term wrong or rather than hurt our set countries

learn from be good to have be a real issue wide trade liberalization initiative with it. if the door closed for a data, maybe for at some point join into this agreement. oh, absolutely. it is a living agreement and the singapore is upset and very clearly be wishing. yes, you can come on board and we will keep up privilege police funding yet. so it is for india to make that decision down the line. of course, we'll have to negotiate with each of our set entrees. but yes, the door is open, but i don't frankly see that happening right. any time soon given the trajectory of indian trade policy making, which is geared towards higher tariffs robin who are terms on fortune and there was talk, this is the 1st trade deal for japan, which actually includes both china and south korea. what is the significance there? i think it's a very significant, you know, these 3 countries are tied so closely by supply chains and yet at the same time don't have any trade liberalization agreement among the 3,

even though there. well sporadic attempts in that regard. and therefore, this will knock down whatever barriers that exist in manufactured goods, particularly among the 3 countries, and sharpen those supply chains. i will also make the point that one of them create benefits of our sep, in our set is a harmonization off r c. and plus, one is, and so many of those rules of origin, the, you know, that's, i get the ball where all sorts of different rules of origin existent made it harder for important. an export us to take advantage of trade liberalization, are sup, actually does vehement that spaghetti blow and makes it that much, it makes all parties. it makes it facilitates trade between all parties, by harmonizing the rooms for its origin. and i mean, what is the economic impact here? and i have about 30 seconds. i mean, are we going to see a lot of the, especially the smaller nation, some of the smaller the, our nation. are we going to see their g d p grow as they get part become part of us?

then? no question about it. absolutely. it benefits the big guys, my benefits, the smaller guys by integrating into these value chains and integrated into the grow and consumption trends in a show which is just exploding, growing, growing and not right now during the during coven. but which will, over the next 5. interesting years and i think it's a great fall or everybody should throughout group to figure policy specialist at the institute for china, america 30. thank you so much for break of the found forth today. rent. and finally, it's something that has been talked about in many groups of friends, the blue text of the i phone users versus the green tax of android users. now it seemed this was just a discussion, a mid fans of either side, but now the senior vice president of google products took the twitter to call out apple for locking and users to it's messaging service. i message in response to a wall street journal piece on how young people favor apple due to their dread of

the green text bubble. he tweeted, using peer pressure and bullying as a way to sell product is disingenuous for a company that has humanity and equity as a core part of its marketing standard exist today to fix that. now the official android account also retreated this comment and with the call to fix this, it's interesting to see what could be done to bring the 2 sides together. and that's it. for this time, you can catch boom bus the on demand on the portable tv app available on smartphones and tablets. google play in the apple app store by searching portable tv, portable tv can also be downloaded on samsung smart tv, then roku devices. or you could check it out portable dot tv with the next time .

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