all right let's take it to the top from greece dimitri kovtun as our producer and contributor is here to talk about it he's covered great extensively both on his blog and he was there covering the austerity protests right there in athens months ago so he really knows everything that's going on dimitry first of all how do we go from a deal to suddenly the prime minister of greece maybe not being prime minister anymore at all but he surprised a lot of people with that referendum losing his deputy minister has been driven out of us and he was actually hospitalized. exactly to the stress with actually but yeah this was happening friday is a confidence vote so the greek parliament is going to vote this is something that we saw in june if you remember there was a confidence vote on the prime minister they're going to vote to see whether they want to maintain him as head of the party or if they want to dissolve the party entirely dissolve the coalition fairly go to new elections in the event that. it's a no and he loses the confidence of the coalition then he said this would step in the depu

british investigators were actually targets of assassination themselves up the same time these are dimitri kovtun a businessman and former f.s.b. agent he was implicated in the case up there having a meeting with alex hunter and under a little boy who still remains the main suspect wanted for questioning by british police over the murder which took place in london he denies all of the allegations that have been made against him by the british police. that britain had asked for him to be extradited to the united kingdom to face questioning this is out of the question and actually against russia's constitution since entered politics and is currently a state duma deputy meaning this extradition cannot take place and he will not under any circumstances be going to london to face questioning in the five years since that been yank his death we've seen really frosty diplomatic relations between britain and russia mostly due to the britain wanting to see a little boy extradited the russians question the thoroughness of the british investigation and the british so i could provide russia with information s

his life was also made when litvinenko was killed in two thousand and six another key witness dimitri kovtun was also a target of reports. russia's investigation into the murder been yanked. the two people who guarded as suspects in the murder by british investigators were actually targets of assassination themselves at the same time dimitri coughed a businessman and former f.s.b. agent he was implicated in the case after having a meeting with alexander litvinenko and under a little boy who still remains the main suspect wanted for questioning by british police over the murder which took place in london he did nice all of the allegations that are being made against him by the british police. britain had asked for him to be extradited to the united kingdom to face questioning this is out of the question actually against russia's constitution since entered politics and is currently a state duma deputy meaning that extradition cannot take place and he will not under any circumstances be going to london to face questioning in the five years since that can yank his death we've seen really frosty

financial headlines and you don't have to just listen to me banter on and on who are joined by dimitri kovtun as our producer as well as shannon donahoe our producer in the control room was multitasking over there does both what they think about this so protesters in seattle at the sheraton outside of it they went to protest j.p. morgan c.e.o. jamie and jamie dimon he's really kind of a hot target for protests in occupy wall street protesters and surprisingly i don't know if this is a little brush of p.r. genius on his part he spun it is speech to agree with the protesters however he kind of recuse j.p. morgan saying that things have become or any one there are big institutions to blame but in his bank and he doesn't qualify you can't lump everybody together this is great. i mean honestly it ok so if his net worth two hundred billion and he makes twenty two million annually so that any of those people that he was i don't know the people that are out there some of that might not even make twenty two thousand a year but this is really great because he did say keep the faith in the media so you

another new development reports suggest another suspect could answer the frame in the shape of dimitri kovtun he's jordan this road before formally a suspect he was with living and lugovoy here at the millennium hotel on the day it's believed living and who was poisoned he was investigated by german police in connection with traces of polonium that were found in his handbag apartment but the case with dropped the lack of evidence he also russian citizen so you can't be extradited another day there and the u.k. investigation. following the closure of the criminal case in two thousand and nine kovtun got hold of the police evidence against him he doubts they'll be able to pin anything on him this time around either. there is a significant amount of information in there regarding written communication between the government's emergency committee and the prosecutors department in germany an actual department of homicide according to these materials google has no grounds for charging me with anything or at least they had not back in two thousand and eight explore different scenarios in case i will

so dimitri kovtun as our producer joins us here in the studio as has shannon donahoe who joins us remotely from the control room all right guys so a lot of people have heard about american companies outsourcing jobs to india to other countries like that. obviously hiring in the u.s. as and you know it's a difficult thing jobs are scarce so one solution is immigrants coming here to create jobs and that's what one indian man is doing who he's hiring one hundred people and one hundred days the c.e.o. of this company an indian immigrant believes that he needs to do something about this economy he's decided to do his part so is this a little like how the u.s. government was kind of trying to lure chinese tourists to come to the u.s. to spur spending now we're seeing immigrants come over to help with our jobs crisis is this what it's you know our last hope oh there's a funny story i mean i didn't know what you think about this you or your partner this one here you pick this one up. i mean i think it's awesome that he is coming over creating jobs and you know she said that it here already felt li

with the derivatives conversation because there's so much to touch upon and i know our producer dimitri kovtun as wants to get to this discussion to ask you something about it you know my question of the do with your conversation with lauren before you were talking about the five biggest banks have about ninety six percent of the o.t.c. derivatives market and to me that seems or rather me ask it this way how is that different than a racket because if the march is running a protection racket they basically go to a local store and they say give us this much money every month or we're going to light your house on fire how is it different when these banks are in such a position where they can continue to take risks like this expanding the size of the earth is the market by over one hundred trillion dollars but every time there's a problem they say if you don't bail us out or give us more money we're going to crush your economy. it's very like the mafia the thing that the banks have going for them the sort of local mafia bosses might might not is that they can throw in the fear factor definitely ho

them over twitter and one of them with our guests so before we get to that i want to bring in dimitri kovtun as our producer and of course janet dano in the control room our other producer to multitask because there is a lot to say about this. is he. so our first twitter war we have been waiting for this and it sprung up yesterday it involves nuri al roubini who is an economist very well known also known as dr doom and one of our guests who was on the show last week he was on on thursday and to give you a hint he was on talking about his new book currency wars is a new york times best seller it is from roll please james records jim rickards so how did this all happened well it started i believe last night when you had nouriel roubini lashing out saying why is james records for a return to the gold standard in his currency wars when such return was a major cause of the great depression so this prompted jim rickards to respond with the following let's see it he said the cause was not gold the cause was the price of gold price was too low currency worth explains how to get the price right befor