. >> chrystia freeland, editor of reuters digital. here's the thing, the president alluded to this in a different part of his speech, how about taking these protests and picketing the lawmakers who are blocking the protection bureau from fully functioning. it was designed to protect people from the banks that got us into this financial mess in the first place. whether that's a solution or something else, how do you focus the anger, random anger of these people occupying wall street into something meaningful that could actually result in positive change? >> i think you're right, ali, to point to the fact this is a movement at the moment which is about protest and anger and frustration with the way the economy works, the way the economy is structured. it is less a movement that has a very clear agenda for how to fix it. in that way, i would contrast it with the tea party. i think in some ways the grievances are -- >> contrast did not compare -- >> i think grievances are the same. i think grievances are legitimate. i think the bottom lin

chrystia freeland editor of reuters. speaker of the house john boehner says he's disappointed in president obama. >> i can't tell you how dangerous our situation our economy is in, how dangerous the situation in europe is. yet the president some 14 months before the election throws in the towel and decides he's going to spend all this time out campaigning. >> if you recall, chrystia, during the debt ceiling debate, the president was saying the same thing of congress. i'm here, why don't you come back and deal with this problem. what do you make of this? >> there is a certain pot calling the kettle black here, right? isn't there, ali? i'm disappointed in everyone in washington now. i do think boehner is right on one thing, now is a moment when america needs very decisive leadership. the world needs it. i think sometimes when we look at what's happening, fragility of the u.s. economy, what's happening in europe, it's easy to throw up your hands and say disaster is inevitable. it's not. good policy right now could save the

>> yeah, my question is actually related to what chrystia was saying about who's the next game changers, which is, what direction is economics headed in? because the classical economics makes a lot of assumptions, it assumes people are wholly rational, we have perfect thinking. and what i have been seeing is a strain of new thinking that tries to take some of that into account. obviously, i'm an amateur observer. i was wondering if you're seeing the same thing and the same movement in the profession? >> i'm not an economist either, i'm a journalist. >> i guess i'm the only economist here. >> i guess you are. >> well, game theory. all these things about how people make decisions about that aren't strictly rational, that's what dominated the theories in the last new years. what it means is that economists can use their apparatus of the mind, their engine of the analysis, now to say something about subjects that they couldn't really address, that they haven't had anything to say about before. >> has the crisis somewhat discredited that engine of analysis? >> and specifically, because i ac

. >>> chrystia freelander and economist stephen moore. the president traveling through battle grounds on a key trip, wants to push congress to pass every part of his jobs act piece by piece. what is this about? whose job is he looking for. >> my view is if he had really been serious about passing a jobs bill earlier this year, if he had moved to the middle he might have gotten something through congress. once he started talking about a big tax increase on the rich, there was no way republicans were going to go to that. i think this has become a polit debate, not what we can pass now. that's a problem when you have 4 million unemployed people. >> didn't they teach the white house there was going to be no consensus and trying to do a deal, trying actually to move to the center is what the white house tried to do over the debt ceiling isn't going to work. you talk to the white house -- precisely for that reason you talk to people at the white house they say actually we really tried hard to do a deal and we think it's a huge mistake because t

chrystia freeland with digital editor and joe with us. let's talk about markets. the market has been volatile would be an understatement. one day up 300 points, the next day down 200 points. wild swings. to understand the markets these days, i don't know whether we need an analyst or a shrink. >> and do we need to be in new york or london or berlin. i think part of what's going on is we understand the world economy is very interconnected. there are lots of big things happening outside the united states. i think the big driver of the latest volatility has been europe. people have realized what's happening in europe has the potential to be another lehman. they have also realized there is the possibility of a political solution. i think the markets are following that very closely. what you're having is people thinking, okay, europeans have it figured out. oh, no, they don't have it figured out. >> that's right. european markets, operations markets up on the hopes there might be a looming solution to the european budget crisis, next day markets down, why, because we'r

selection while selection of course is has to be done according to some critical rear guard our main chrystia area and we've got the strictest selection i believe out of all the first film festivals in the world as we like or dislike the movie works either doesn't work so we it's not about format we can include. blockbuster movie in the competition if it if it's really a work of art for a work of for personal expression but you know it's like vodka vodka can be out a form of it so the cold or or or warm i mean. well the are the water. makes you feel good or it makes you feel bad sometimes it doesn't the pound upon the quality of vodka depends upon the atmosphere i don't want to. well not only quantity but i mean the selection selection also relates selection of company so there's a lot of you know most of this field for everything also to do a movie yeah exactly so ok let's let's drop for a minute so do you the atmosphere of your festival there's that does it suppose that you have to have some some some special sort of movies because you said it could be anything including a blockbuster well

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. >> this is for chrystia, even if the president gets parts of his jobs bill through congress going forward he's facing record high levels of pessimism. according to a cnn/orc poll, 59% of americans think the president's policies will fail. is he better off running on his policies or gridlock in washington? >> i think he has to run on his policies but i think it is really, really tough. i think for him to run on gridlock, which is a little bit what we're seeing and also trying to blame the previous administration for the economic problems, i think that's going to be really difficult, because people are going to say you've been president now almost for a full term. >> he also -- >> you own the economy. >> he ran as a uniter, not a divider. >> what he's saying is uniting hasn't work. i haven't been able to do anything. but at a time when the economy is in such really, really dire straits, i think that's going to be a really, really tough sell. >> bring in ken, fed out, the beige book. we love the beige book. our economy is not in recession but losing steam, not doing anywhere near what we wou