that's an undeniable fact so do you think what they want this equality will be beneficial from the coble economy let's say we just start this massive anti-trust tax to reach all over the west do you think it's a good thing for the global economy i think that you're bringing a very deep issue which has been in debate for ages among economists the trade off between efficiency and equity how can you ensure. that when you are out helping the society to be more equitable through transfers from the rich to the poor cetera that you also maintain efficiency in the economy so that you don't have you don't cut the trees that gives you the fruits what do i have in mind i'll take it to a power docs suppose that you take you cut half of the g.d.p. product of the country and you take that half and you distribute it equally to everyone you will win the nobel prize by saying i have full equality but you have equality of misery. you want to make sure that the quality is not just a slogan of misery but it also is associated with a rise in the standard of living how can you have a rise in the standard of l

people get into having different clothes different things and we have this feeling a threat from global coble i say ssion from from immigrants from things we can't control and this is it's like it's seems like a child in puberty you know who hasn't really secure identity and who has to kind of have a huge you know question directed out what's to have a stronger feeling of being identical with yourself and your and your partner's it is simply a challenge to the traditional beliefs political split everybody was a social democrat on then. party the world and it could be overrated because when else we are right when pope was on post won the presidency if you make the governments of italy is challenging in germany but then got to be second party but still with a fifth of the can people get too alarmed. a fifth of the country hunkering down to two old values yes but they have a lot of saying it's kind of they have these deals is that the liberal party wants to say reduce taxes so they said what can we give the right wing party for that the breitling party always wants the same stronger rules agains

we know that his long time friend, arnold coble said had a video of him earlier this year which everyone around him thought intensely to keep from the public eye. the wall street journal, i wrote a letter and filed a request to the court i think investors should know how he's doing and they tried very hard to block that. it probably doesn't look good. so what did i mean about sherry? people around her said she had a reconciliation with her father once the women were pushed out. i think it is possible for both that to be true and for him not to have capacity. >> one of the most fascinating parts of this whole thing is how all parties involved in this i think it was between sherry and the former ceo of viacom and the women that were his girlfriends thagirlfriendthat he gave $150 . .. . >> her father gave it to her in another era and to what extent of her dad's capacity quick. >> right. you ask that question and ultimately i agree withmo you so the things that she has done are the right things. that they were gone because of what happened because of the stock and her family is glad to be cl

and coble equity markets were down 13 and a half, and about 12 and a half% respectively. we lost 3.77%, relatively much better. 7030, whether that is u.s. or global, would have lost eight -- 9.1 and 8.5 respectively and we lost about 3.8%. the fiscal year to date, what we are really sensitive to is what our fiscal year returns are. the interim volatility during the year doesn't matter, but our frontage status is measured at the end of every fiscal year. for the six months ended, the two equity indexes lost 6.6 and 8.8%. not good at all, but we lost a little less than 1% and on the calendar year basis, excuse me, relative to 7030, those would have lost 4.2 and 5.7 and we lost less than one. >> so take 218. >> that is next. fiscal calendar year. calendar year, the smp lost 4.4. they lost 8.9, and we were up two%. >> 7030, if the 70 west the smp, they would have lost five-point 2%, excuse me, 5.2 and 7030 global equity would have lost 6.3. >> what about -- do you have a 64 tee? >> i could easily calculate that but the numbers would be marginally in the same direction these d

earlier we teased this brad meltzer with barbara bush and lucille coble.explain what they are about to see. >> guest: this is how much barbara loves literacy. i wanted my daughter to have this book we used to watch lucy together and we used to do these storytimes we would read the book with someone and do something fun and funny and i said what if i dress up like lucille and we re-create the conveyor belt seemed. the office said that's great for going to be in washington said they put us in the car together and we are going back to the president's office and i figured she had been briefed and knows everything so we are in the talking and she says what are we doing anyway and they realized they didn't tell her and now it's up to me. like i'm not even going to tell you. i told her this and this is what she basically said yes to is creating the scene and a thousand chocolates. >> host: we are through the conversation on c-span2 book tv and this is the final of the series in which we featured fiction authors. our guest this month brad meltzer. we will come bac