craig moffett.. >> twitter question of the day, what is more frustrating, cable airlines or washington? tweet us. >> good morning, everyone. a busy morning. this is important, the president yesterday signed an executive order on a minimum wage, $10.10 u.s. government contract workers and would like to expand that across america. the cover of bloomberg's business week. peter cory joins us. they will not allow the streets of his new jersey. good morning. know on thisd to raging debate of the minimum wage? >> this is a great question. we have it as the cover story in the new issue of bloomberg businessweek. me a few weeks ago, what should the minimum wage be? as i dug into it, i said this is not an easy question at all because i has so many different moving parts to it. there are the economics about which there is more question than there used to be than the moral issue like what is right, and then there is the engineering issue, given the fact that you get different answers from economics and social j

reason to take a light hand showing rivals can work well together without intervention and analysts craig moffett says it reflects well on comcast as it looks for approval on the timewarner acquisition. >> it tells you if you're the department of justice or fcc that comcast is not going to engage in any competitive practices. >> reporter: we'll see this if this speeds along regulatory approval. for "nightly business report", i'm julia boorstin in los angeles. >>> we need to remind you that comcast is the parent company of cnbc, which produces this program. >>> blackberry lands two major deals. shares of blackberry shuurged o news the messager service will be available to windows phone and nokia x users starting this summer. accept prettibre separately ford, picked it for the insync. >>> rf micro devices says it's paying $1.6 million for the semi conductor. the two companies get most of the revenue by supplying parts to device makers like apple and system sung and the deal makes them a bigger player. shares of both companies surged on the news. rf micro up 21%, triquint to $11.64. >>> the suit sag

craig moffett i think. >> you wonder what this means in terms of net neutrality going forward. >> in other words, a disadvantage? >> i must say my goal is to understand what net neutrality means. >> third -- front-page story. mobile congress gets underway in barcelona. a lot of products being unveiled. samsung botching the next-generation smart watch. a smart bracelet as well. apple everyone is waiting for some kind of watch later on that could come out later this year maybe next. >> this is like las vegas but in barcelona? >> this gets a lot of people excited. talking about the kind of economy it generates, to. giving a keynote address as well. technology, mood rings. they knew back then how we felt. like front-page stories. are focused on the events in the ukraine. for that matter thomas our guest host of the hour, richard falcon falkenrath.ard to be kind, one of the great authorities on the economy and interesting relationship, jeff sachs. cannot do better than that. we will talk about russia in a bit. put trying to make a new russian blockin ? >> of course he is trying to maintai

. >> great interview on bloomberg radio with craig moffett yesterday on sprint and their survivabilityllen participated in the q&a, back and forth with congress. boy, did she do you well. the con is participated in heated debates over the labor for dissipation rate. -- the economy participated in heated debates over the labor participation rate. for youjoe brusuelas from a bloomberg senior economist with smart modes -- notes. and michael mckee with this as well. participation rate. this is the angst people have. here is the boomer. everybody is working and then we just rolled over. joe brusuelas, state the bear case. >> is a break in the u.s. labor market which is not repaired will lead to lower savings, lower growth, lower standard of living. policyll be the targeted over the next couple of business cycles. economy, america back to work. many really push against the gloom, don't they? >> why is the labor participation rate going down? go back and look at when it started. it was well before the recession. it is not just a question of people getting discouraged because they can't find w