but recent reports show manipulation may have played a role in this spike cryptocurrency analyst ben swan is back on the program today to guide us through the crypto paper and what it means for the future of the internet we have a jam packed show today so let's jump right into the headlines. as the world's 2 largest economies no hope for a phase one trade deal the u.s. and china are looking at rolling back some tariffs people familiar with the talks say if there's a deal removing tariffs will be part of it the phase one deal would include the increase of china's purchase of american farm goods rules to deter currency manipulation as well as some provisions to protect intellectual property theft a partial deal would also include. president trump holding back on the imposing the planned december 15th tariff but now negotiators are working on rolling back some existing duties when asked if china would remove these tariffs chinese ministry spokesperson jen truong said the 2 sides are making progress. it's not a correct way to resolve the trade issue by slapping terrorists nor does escalating

ask legal and media analyst lionel love lionel media and investigative journalist the tech savvy ben swan on the stump some 2020 dems who reckon that big tech is too big and full trust buster teddy roosevelt's attacks on big oil and big railroads been apples and oranges or apples and apples and i think it's apples and apples and look i think when we talk about what these big tech companies have become breaking up twitter because there is too much tweeting going on i don't think anyone's talking about that breaking up google because their search engine is too large and not talking about that but when google gets into finances it begins opening checking accounts when google now as we've learned is getting into health care and accessing 50000000 americans medical records and compiling them and building a lot of them and there's also creating driverless cars but amazon is creating a way for you to get packages faster oh and by the way also facial recognition software that they're selling to police departments and monitoring their homes. tech is now finding ways to immerse itself in every sing

journalist ben swan ben 30 percent of netflix subscribers surveyed by the wall street journal say they're likely to cancel in the next 3 months to make way for new services so the incumbents are bracing for the challengers thumbnail the major players for us yet so this is really interesting because when you say streaming everyone thinks netflix right that's the one that you're going to like scotch tape absolutely it almost becomes a name brand but when you look at all the others that are emerging now of course the biggest being disney plus just coming along apple plus is now releasing their new form of apple t.v. which really is pretty content poor at this point as opposed to disney which is so much content they have so much stuff they don't even know what to do with it all in d.c. universe will be releasing theirs within the next few years and as part of that they're taking the office from netflix and they're put into the into their own streaming service the number one show by the way on netflix is the office so it's a pretty significant deal there there are a lot of different choices he

block chain applications joining me now to get this and break it all down is crypto currency analyst ben swan ben thank you so much for being with us today. so these firms they're issuing their own crypto currency this is these are under i.c.a.o. is that correct. yeah that's correct so so why is that so significant or even problematic. well i don't know that it's necessarily problematic when when you hear that someone's issuing their own tokens their own cryptocurrency it sounds bad right it sounds like you have all these in firms out there that are like we'll create our own money and we'll all hype it up inflated in the mall sell it and get out of it which by the way some people do but that's i don't think that's the overwhelming majority of what i see those have been so i c.e.o.'s who are essentially the idea of tokenized an economy within a particular space so if you have users who are on your side if you have people who are on your side because of gaining or for real estate you've tokenize the economy within that particular space and then those tokens represent something they might repres

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but recent reports show manipulation may have played a role in this spike cryptocurrency analyst ben swan is back on the program today to guide us through the crypto paper and what it means for the future of the internet we have a jam packed show today so let's jump right into the headlines. as the world's 2 largest economies they get no hope for a phase one trade deal the u.s. and china are looking at rolling back some tariffs people familiar with the talks say if there's a deal removing tariffs will be part of it the phase one deal would include the increase of china's purchase of american farm goods rules to deter.

but recent reports show manipulation may have played a role in the spike cryptocurrency analyst ben swan is back on the program today to guide us through the crypto paper and what it means for the future of the internet we have a jam packed show today so let's jump right into the headlines. as the world's 2 largest economies no hope for a phase one trade deal the u.s. and china are looking at rolling back some tariffs people familiar with the talks say if there's a deal removing tariffs will be part of it the phase one deal would include the increase of china's purchase of american farm goods rules to deter currency manipulation. as well as some provisions to protect intellectual property theft the partial deal would also include president trump holding back on the imposing the planned december 15th tariffs but now negotiators are working on rolling back some existing duties when asked if china would remove these tariffs chinese ministry spokesperson going strong said the 2 sides were making progress. it's not a correct way to resolve the trade issue by slapping terrorists nor does escal

arts and us politics politics today is investigative journalist ben swan r t america correspondent rachel blevins and michelle green side and our team america america correspondent rachel blevins and michelle and our team america producer branch of war thanks for joining us it was very happy and i want to start producer branch of war thanks for joining us very happy and i'm i want to start. for howard as a moment have just already of the time and i'm george of the but i'm an issue the fact that during the bush do that it's affected you know female celebrities female news anchors many non famous women you know women are around female celebrities female news anchors many non famous women you know women around the. world given the cutthroat scam the loving nature of watching world given the cutthroat and scam the loving nature of washington d.c. politics are really going to be seeing more of these types of scandals take place here on time to be see politics are really going to be seeing more of these types of scandals take place here on capitol hill ben i'll start with you. well i think we w

that that was the point of doing that well crypto currency analyst and investigative journalist ben swan thank you so much for your insight and for breaking it down for a while so our expert. you got it. and finally today a story of a young entrepreneur shut down by a donut conglomerate gets a reprieve a college student from minnesota in the united states started a little business for himself jason good solace would drive roughly 270 miles every saturday from st paul to clive i wanted to buy more than $100.00 boxes of krispy kreme donuts and then he would turn around sell his product back home for between 17 and 20 dollars a box that's about a 200 percent increase with hopes of paying his to wish it for those who don't know krispy kreme sells melt in your mouth glazed donuts but here in the states they are in everywhere and in minnesota the last location closed down more than a decade ago gonzalez started a facebook group that amassed thousands of buyers and everyone was happy that people got their donuts and gonzalez had a business for himself well according to a post on the facebook gr

27000000000 in 2009 to 138000000000 in 2018 so if i am down just just this is investigative journalist ben swan so for companies like we were. one of the biggest talent that i have run into again this year losing roughly $100000000.00 and. it's an incredible number isn't aggressive and when you think about 100000000000 dollars of value but look at you and i have talked about this quite a bit it's sustainability right these companies have not designed a way to be sustainable long term lasting companies because they are built upon unsustainable models where they don't make money and imagine this idea what you what you just read imagine the idea of a company saying it is more important that we not grow so fast and take on this enormous amount of of customers it's more important that we can turn a profit who would have ever thought we reached the point in any kind of business eco system or infrastructure where that becomes a thing isn't that like the most fundamental basic building block of any business is to be able to turn a profit absolutely but now these unicorns which have valuations of over a