adult ceremony is now being delayed for an unprecedented amount of time. secondly, because we are still waiting for lee now statement for several hours now. it still hasn't been produced by now the i o c. but the talk of the town and i spoke to both an ex figure skaters, and journalists and experts available at the venue that this may be already delivering a very serious stole psychologically on the russian ice figure, skating team and the whole r o c olympic team. in general, for instance, i, i can only assume this is related, but during the male figure skating performance this morning, all 3 of our o c's status fell during that performance says it's not something you see every day when all members of the team managed to you know, mess up their performances so it might be the case of the team already going through a very serious psychological situation here. but of course we are anxiously waiting for any statement from the i o. c. this situation is expected to be result during this day,

and of course i'll be keeping you updated with all the news in beijing as soon as i get it. many thanks for keeping his company heron naughty international does. again, you can find the latest news and updates on discussion on our website policy dot com. that will be back in 30 minutes. see them with this is boom bus, the one business show you can't afford to miss. i'm rachel, was bred to boardwalk in here that we have coming up for sale currently could be on the verge, white thread adoption in russia. the nation's government may recognize, defend tech as a form of perth in the future. will bring you a full round up from the sector straight ahead. and while the u. s. economy may be

rebounding from an overnight the lows household debt in the nation stored in 2021. we're bringing those figures. then at the u. s. falling the u. s. and the fight to ramp up is production of semiconductor chip has the ongoing global shortage continues to take a poll. we'll discuss what it could mean for the industry. we have a lot to get to select get started and we leave the program with the latest on the convoy of truckers protesting an auto, a canada over vaccine mandates on the industry. the so called freedom convoy raised millions of dollars from backers on the crowd funding site. go fund me. but the company made the decision to cancel the fundraiser and following major backlash online, it agreed to reimburse those who had donated. now it appears the truckers have found a new avenue to raise money for their cause. let's go to our t corresponded john putty was on the ground in ottawa for more on the story.

yeah, well britain, rachel is gone to crypto currency they're. they're taken a bit coin organizers are calling for basically bitcoin donations. i and crypto currency sites i tally coin have started raising money off for the organizers of the so called freedom convoy protest, basically saying that bickley ne, to people's money. so this is all about the people. so after the go fun me side, the fundraising side shut down the donations to the freedom convoy a little over $9000000.00 in donations, saying they'll be refunded instead to the donors of blaming violence and calling in an occupation. well then some others got involved and supporters of this overall protest trying to raise money and funds and several $100000.00 that you asked the equivalent of us dollars now on these various bitcoin website. so that's essentially the latest with that. that's how they're trying to raise money for this ongoing protests. it continues here in the canada, the capital of cannon,

and ottawa started january 28th 29th. when a convoy of truckers really converged upon the city, ah, protesting essentially the vaccine mandates for truckers. but really this is a blossom. it's more into a much greater debate about the country's overall coven, 19 policies and restrictions. and really it's also sparked political debate about candidates, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of protest, laws. canadian officials have called on this to stop the prime minister just intrude our talking about calling the protesters swastika ah, flying extreme. explain a lot of the protesters we talked you in the days we've been here. really bristle at that analogy, saying this has been an overall peaceful protests while there some been some more radical elements here. those type of people have been asked to leave. they've been pushed out because the core message is really about the overall that canada's vaccine mandates. and we've seen the protest not only, you know, grow here over the last now going in the day, 12 out here in ottawa,

but other canadian cities and provinces. in fact, a very important point, the ambassador bridge, this is a main point of commerce between canada and the united states. it stretches from windsor ontario to detroit, michigan. in fact, a quarter of all commerce goes over the bridge. well, a convoy of truckers block the bridge late monday night overnight, monday into tuesday, basically in solidarity with what's going on here in ottawa and other parts of the country. and to that know, we've also seen cod voy, protest, smart, you know, spring up in the united states and in the u. k. in australia as well. so there's been a great deal of support in our also hearing about other provinces, alberta, saskatchewan, lifting cove in 19 measures. now whether that is a result of this protest and the ongoing freedom conroy protest, well that remains to be seen and whether or not this protest continues for another week. another 2 weeks, several more weeks or several months, more much will that remains to be seen. but one thing assure the political debate,

the political dissension over the coven 19 policies restrictions here in canada very much continues. goes back to u. r. t correspondence out honey. thank you so much. and meanwhile, the russian central bank has reversed its position on whether or not the sport recognizing crypto as a form of currency of agreement is a significant reversal considering the fact that the central bank last month proposed banning crypto miners and crypto operations saying that those systems endanger the countries financial system. now the russian government says it has reached an agreement and draft legislation or amend legislation to recognize crypto as a form of currency. so how does this change stand to impact the world of crypto? let's bring in boom, vascos and her feel analysts, benz von and kristy, i to discuss ban. let's start with you here. now this is a huge reversal for the russian central bank. so why are they changing positions now? well again i, i love to come on here and say i, i told you guys,

this was gonna happen and told you that this is going to happen. and why is it out? it's happening because the russian central bank came out and said the coins bad. and it's a threat to our system. and then the russian president, vladimir putin said, well, slow down, hold on, let's have some meetings and talk about it. well, what do they talk about? they talked about the fact that the western banking system, specifically the swift banking system, is being controlled by the west in order to issue sanctions and a harm countries like russia. and so how do you get around that? well, you get around that with the world's most efficient monetary supply, and that is bitcoin, the world's most efficient systems for money, anywhere in the world are crypto systems. they are so efficient that they're being copied and they're being imitated by governments around the world. that's how successful they are. and so what we're seeing now is the russian central bank saying we'll actually okay, rather than banning minors rather than banning the trading of big coin and other crypto currencies. now let's talk about whether or not we should just recognize it

as a currency. it shows you that when you apply too much pressure on countries like russia or china or venezuela or iran, they don't just simply crumble into the dust. they innovate and they get around the systems and in this case they don't even have to do the innovation. the innovations been done for them. absolutely. especially now that that technology is moving so fast, but air fast, you're absolutely right there. bad. now kristie. what would it mean for crypt, it'd be recognized as a form of currency and how similar would this be to say what l salvador has done? i mean, technically, the wording right now says analog of currencies and not as a financial digital asset, but it's also not legal tender either, which is different than what our salvador has, where if something's legal, tender and stores and shots have to recognize it and accept as a form of payment, so that is not quite the same. and this announcement, well it's very good for a bit coin in terms of recognition. it's more of a way to regulate it rather than to embrace it. because according to the governments blueprint crypto currency purchases in russia may take place,

but only through locally registered and licensed. so that users are fully verified and information about their transactions can be made available to government agencies and all crypto related transactions, bigger than 600000 roubles, will have to be reported to the federal taxation services. and fairly to do so would be considered a felony. and bank, there are also allowed to operate as intermediaries between users and crypto exchanges, even though that defeats the point of crypto currencies. and they have to report taxes and exchanges and peer to peer marketplaces. they would also have to register as legal entities and join an official register of digital currency operators and satisfy certain requirements that are currently in place for traditional financial organizations. and so all of this to say that it would mean that everything is now subject to tax, which is the biggest incentive for the government to actually legitimize it. so this is a big step for big coin as it takes a lot for any government to recognize it. but i can't say that i'm thrilled about

how they're trying to regulate it and centralize it. according to bloomberg estimate russians now own over $200.00. $15000000000.00 worth of bitcoin. so they're definitely hoarding. but nonetheless, it's a big step for big quite as the russian government recognized that a complete ban of the segment is now impossible. absolutely. when you read the details of this, you know that, you know, a lot of true believers, if you will, are going to love the idea of actually regulating it. but that's kind of where, where we are with that. now ben, we just heard from john, how do you in canada that there is a movement to fund those truckers through crypto currency? is that working? yeah, you know i'm going to say this is my favorite story of the week by far. you have these truckers from canada and john pointed out, you know, it wasn't just that their funds were frozen by go fund me who then said, well we're gonna refund them originally go from. we did not say they were going to refund them. they originally said that they were going to distribute those funds to the charities of their choosing. and then if you wanted your refund, you could go through a process to get it. there was so much outcry and legislators from the united

states threat in to investigate go for me, then they said, okay, well issue automatic refunds. but the beauty of this is, is that it has, it has signaled an awakening and alarm if you will, for folks who are trying to raise money to fund things exactly like this. look whatever's happening to canada, whether you like it or not. it is a middle class movement of people who were saying, we think the government has gone too far and were standing against that go fun. they gave some, you know, vague description of violence. and so that was the reason why they said they weren't going to hand over the funds without showing any evidence of anything. the bottom line is, this is where the trucker should have gone in the 1st place. and what this will do is it will create an opportunity in the future where you want to raise funds for something like this. don't go through some silicon valley venture capital backed group in order to do it. you go and you utilize crypto currencies. you utilize the people's money to get it done and it will get done and it will go directly to the people who are asking for it. and it's certainly a powerful statement. christy,

we've got about 30 seconds left. i'll give you the final word. yeah, looks like this is a perfect example of how bad the traditional funding methods are, because if there is government pressure to freeze on a venture back to the c company will obviously say, oh, we don't want to have a lawsuit. we don't want to fight. here's your money back, we're not going to do anything. whereas platforms like talley coin, they actually stated that while centralization as vulnerable to being politicize and censor, bitcoin is truly censorship resistant. so this isn't the 1st time that protesters are trying to crypto after authorities try to censor centralized donation methods. we seen this happen in 2020, with the nigerian police protesting brutalities. and now we're seeing it here. and the funny thing is, ne, there's a big coin. they will continue pointing fingers saying that pick one is only used for money laundering and financial fraud and everything. but they will never point to the good, the tremendous good. that big coin does by actually allowing it to be the people's money and allowing the people to direct it to platforms such as this,

the most christie, i and ben swan. thank you both for your insight and consumer debt in the united states crude, it's faster clip in nearly 20 years for 2021. as americans borrowed to buy homes, cars, and other items as prices continue to sore household debt was up one trillion dollars for the year. the largest increase in 2003 now totaling more than 15 trillion dollars. according to a report released by the new york federal reserve mortgages were the biggest contributor as balances, rose by $890000000000.20. as many homeowners anticipated higher borrowing. 5 costs many took advantage of refinancing packages to take in lower rate. now the report also shows new auto loans returned to pre panoramic levels rising by $90000000000.00. but the new york fed pointed out surging prices due to the ongoing going supply chain constraints, which saw the average price of a new car jump more than 6000 dollars last year. met loan amounts were up considerably as for credit card debt. well,

the last 3 months of the year saw balances grow by $52000000000.00 showing sign spending habits are returning to normal, but we should know balances were actually $71000000000.00 below where they were at the end of 2019. so what impact will this increase have on consumer debt? well, joining us now just jot is richard. what is the host of economic update and author of the thicknesses the system when capitalism fail to save us from pandemic or itself, professor wolf? i mean, if it concerning that we're seeing this big jump in personal that are there worries that when the economic bubble does burst as it eventually will, this is going to become a real problem. absolutely. we are now seeing levels of consumer debt higher than they were in the run up to the great recession of 2008 and 9. let's remember what the name of that was session was a sub prime mortgage recession. that's what it was originally calls. and why?

because people had loaded up on so much personal said that they could not anymore pay off the debt, not the interest and the principal. and so they chose not to pay their mortgages as $1.00 of the things to save on cars. they couldn't do it, and we're here now again with a population deeper and deeper in debt. it's constant crash, one of the worst we've had in our history. and it's every indication that we're moving in that direction again. absolutely. and concerning as an understatement there now how much of this can be attributed to the policy? an easy money we've seen from the federal reserve, which has just pumped big backs into the economy over the last 2 years. i don't think very much and let me explain, easy money has in certainly increased the debt of every corporation virtually in the country. because for the last many years, any difficulty,

any company had of any kind, could boast easily and quickly and cheaply be solved by borrowing all that money. the federal reserve was pumping in at interest rates at or near 0. so that's why the companies did and why they have to let a dent level that we've never seen before. and pretty much the same goes for the government. the problem is that's not what individuals do, because they're not in that kind of a of position. what individuals do is find that they need money dead when they can pay for things that they normally buy. and that's what we handle last year. let's be real honest. the inflation rate is listed at 70 percent. and whenever they tell us tomorrow, but the wages haven't gone up, anyone near that, which means that gap between what you earn and what you have to pay for as got worse. and of course americans being what we are,

we borrowed to help cover that difference. it's a whole different network of reasons, so i'm afraid that the extra money has explained the debt of corporations and, and the government. but it's the underlying imbalance between wages and prices that explains the household that explosion. and absolutely, there was the mayor of the next point that i actually was going to bring up here because is this kind of a and i don't know if it's the right terminology, but a kind of a k shaped phenomenon where those who are doing well are picking up debt for homes and high dollar vehicles. well those are actually struggling or taking on more credit card debt to just get by every day. yes, and you know, this is an old story if you're wealthy, if you're wealthy enough that own some shares expands things like that, which the upper 1015 percent of the income distribution, they have that then you are in a position to sell, for example, the bonds that are going down and to move them into stocks of things that are going

up in price. we say in economics, you can adjust to the changing conditions. but most working class people are not in that position. they are tied in to a job. they can't get a wage in greece to compensate for higher prices. try going into your boss and saying, gee, the cost of my hamburger just went up, give me a raise. it's not gonna work. unionized workers have contracts, typically 2 or 3 years. they can't re negotiate the price in most cases for what they get for their labor. so the bottom line is, when you are working class person, the majority of the employee, you're not in a position to adjust to an inflation the way wealthy people are. so i'm afraid the bottom line is, these inflations tend to make the inequality already a problem in our country, even worse, right? absolutely. into to that point we're obviously heard businesses say, well,

we don't want to raise wages 7 percent because inflation will eventually come down professor richard wolf. thank you so much for your insight as always. thank you. and i'm now for a quick break. only come back to you is joining the u. s. and plans to ramp up trip for chip production and hope of putting an end to the ongoing shortage. we'll discuss and as we go to break here, the numbers at the close. ah, [000:00:00;00] with

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but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever. the challenge is great, the response has been massive. so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we're in it together with the welcome back. the ongoing chip shortage has been felt around the world as it impacts everything from phones to cars, to household appliances, as tension continue between the united states and china. washington has been looking for ways to move its rely away from asian markets with the baton ministration, proposing 52000000000 dollars in grants and subsidies to help to strengthen the chip industry in the us. now the european union is moving forward with a plan to ramp up its own production with

a new chips act aimed at investing more than $40000000000.00 and micro chip production plan's. while the e. u is currently responsible for 9 percent of the global market share. the president of the european commission of the goal is to increase their share of the chips market to 20 percent by 2030. you will know that the global shortage of ship has really slow down our recovery. we have seen that whole production lines came to a standstill, for example, with cars. while the demand was increasing, we could not deliver as needed because of the lack of chips. europe need advance production facilities which come of course with a huge upfront cost. we are, they are form, adapting our state age rule, of course, under strict conditions. meanwhile, tension between the you and the u. k. continue in the latest that shows that britain britons exports the germany dropped a point 5 percent in 2021. as a result this comes even

a total import. the germany were up by more than 17 percent, with imports from china, up nearly 21 percent. while some of the blaming blaming the new board, her checks introduced as part of breck that the u. k. notably delayed it checks until 2022 and still imports from germany fell by 2.6 percent in 2021. now this all comes as the british parliament's public accounts committee releases a new report in which it highlights how trade has been hit with increased costs, paperwork, and border delays for u. k. firms in the aftermath of rex it in a statement, the committee's chair said, quote, one of the great promises abraxas was freeing british businesses to give them the head room to maximize their productivity and contribution to the economy even more desperately needed now on the long road to recovery from the pandemic. so where does post breakfast trade go from here? well, joining us, i'm record which president of straw mark business development consultants and board

member with the british american association. hillary is great to have you back here. now. let's start with this report. what do you make of this claim that the u . k. government should be doing more to minimize the current burden on those training with the you as a introduce, new import controls will pleasure to be back with you, rachel. and brent. a couple of things here with that report, it is correct about. there are a lot of regulations that need to be sort of minimized. but lot of those actually, all the things that the government is trying to do to help, for example, only 6700000 pounds has been used of the 20000000 pound fund, which is there to help small businesses. a smith, small business is an enterprise. the breakfast fund, and that's due to the now definition of those businesses and also sort of the, the deep amount of regulations within that fund. so even the government's own funds have been difficult to use. there's also a service called the one on one export services support and people have reported and businesses of reported that's difficult to use. i think the government could

also you have less regulations on their own things they're trying to provide to help. but there are ambitious plans to have that board to be the most effective in the world by 2025. so one hopes that this report will help jimmy that along and that the government will loosen some of their own regulations. i and hillary, the, the, the report points out that it's not obviously just breaks it, you know, somewhat different, forgotten solely on breaks. i can think of a bigger. yeah. there's a lot to do with the pandemic and supply chain issues as well. what do you see there were a couple of things. i'm so william cash, he's a former, he's a bus carrier, current senior m p. his own as so bill. what he said is he said look, this report really jumped the gun exactly to your point, brent. he says, the government has been totally and utterly distracted by brakes and everything that it took to get through this pandemic. and think about that demographic you just alluded to all the nay sayers with regard to bricks it. there was gloom and doom predicted. they didn't even know about this pandemic,

if they gloom and doom protect projections had been correct. then how come the u. k hasn't totally lacking failed even through this pandemic. things aren't as bad as they were projected to be. what so bill says, is that you can't undo 40 years of regulations. a lot of them went on in the back room by e u members. there were obviously not voting in favor of the u. k. you can't undo over 40 years of regulations in just over 4 years, even if it wasn't to do with a pandemic. correct? so it's not just breaks it. it's to do with the deep ingrained amount of regulations that you have to undo in a very short time frame. now we've got about a minute left here, but how do you serious tension between the you can you playing out in 2022 that we're all sort of getting back to some sort of normalcy. well, a couple of things i can think of negative is going to be when the volume of truck traffic does get back to its normal levels. goodness knows what those borders are going to be like if it's like this already, just for laurie's hopefully the e u. m protecting from most german call manufacturers who want to do more business

with the u. k. there will be pressure from them. because even though we just have the announcement about the chip manufacturing the semiconductor chip manufacturing, don't forget theory both. and he's the one in charge of that the e u has their own regulations to have to mitigate because they usually don't go in for subsidies. and that whole plan includes subsidies for the chip manufacturing industry. and that won't be easy for them to get over. absolutely, and we will continue to call it as we go along. hilary ford, which of the british american business association. thank you so much for your time and insight pleasure. and that's it for this time. just boom, both on demand on the portable tv app available on smartphones and tablets. play in the apple app store by searching portable tv, worried about tv. you can also download it on samsung, smart tvs and roku devices, or simply check it out at portable dot tv will see you next time

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