bec we can do projects at home but we don't have the confidence. you can see growth better than 2.5% over the next year or two. >> that's a really interesting argument. i talked to some people this week saying by the fed giving the confidence that might create confidence and the thing that breaks us out of it. do you put any faith in that? >> not a lot. i think if the economy grows faster than the confidence will come back. we have a 4.1% reading on the gdp. if we get a couple in a row i don't think we will. the one thing i would add is in addition to the corporations, the banks are sitting on a ton of unused cash. if they would be more confidence then they would lend more then i think we could get the engine revving up. >> the fed has talked about cutting the interest rate at the federal reserve. would that help? 25 basis points isn't a whole heck of a lot. >> not at all. i'm pushing that idea for almost four years now. i'd like to see them cut to minus 25 points. >> charnl it. >> make it a charge. >> that would get them to get the money away from

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.: bec avowed, non-violent advocate for peaceful social change in china. >> let's talk about the similaritieselson mandela and leo shalvo. >> the biggest similarity is these are two men who made enormous sacrifices to challenge an abusive status yeah. nelson mandela spent 27 years in prison. shalvo is on a 11 year sentence on a spurous charge. their families have suffered significantly. it's worth noting that shalvo's wife is under unlawful detension in beijing, isolated from her family from society, undergoing extreme mental and emotional strength. >> talk about the pressures for political prisoners. they challenge a one-state party with a ruthless approach to containing quote, unquote dissent. at the time t south africa and apartheid was similar to china. it has a state security apparatus that is dedicated to maintaining this monopoly on power. so, you know, their challenges are very similar. >> when china comes out and supports nelson mandela, do you think the chinese government recognizes that a lot of people think of it as hypocritical? >> absolutely, and their spin, the chinese governme

policies unraveled bec@ insurer? policies unraveled because policies set forth a certain set of values and we don't know if we really abide by those values. i think those discussions about what is great about the u.s. health care system and not so great i really critical and to do in an open way that is not overly medicine. or we listen to each other and really learn from each other. that makes me deeply optimistic. >> i think that is a good point state thank you thank you for coming. thank you for writing the book. [applause] this is precisely the type of discourse then i want to help promote. there's so much noise out there about what's going on in health care pose to you. to have academics who want to put ideas on the hot discussions about them and use them to provoke a conversation. we can't think of anything better. thank you. as for coming. we look forward to having a discussion afterwards. [inaudible conversations]

all you did was piggyback on bec becky's call, yesterday. >> sure. i'll take what i get. >> here is your bow. see if you can get it. >> i'm ready to bow. >> did you see it? >> that was like a 11% bow, not even. that was like you went backward. also, let's talk about -- >> yeah, i did. it was a reverse bow. >> we'll see whether these guys are going to bow today. blackberry is expected to report quarterly results about 7:00 a.m. eastern time. this will be the first time that they're reporting under the leadership of their interim chief, john chen. hard to believe they could do that much in a month or two here. he was expected to turn things around at that troubled smartphonemaker. chen will talk exclusively with our own jon fortt today. that's coming at 11:00 eastern time. don't miss that. >>> also, sycamore partners is expected to buy jones group at about $1$15 a share. do you wear any of this stuff? and get this one, citigroup reportedly getting ready to make a move. they're going to cheaper real estate in new york city. crane real estate saying the