economy i spoke with dr graham a politics and policy expert and founder and president of deep p.r.m. group dr mohler room helps fund managers better understand how politics policy and geopolitics impact the financial markets we spoke about the u.s. macro economic growth inflation and the emerging markets now i first asked her what she sees for u.s. macro economic growth and twenty fourteen here's what she had to say. well i am very bullish about the u.s. what i have seen in the last few years is americans have been the quickest to sort of tighten the belt rationalize businesses get to the bottom line and make the cash flow work in a positive way of abandon anything that's not working and this is apparent across just every sector of the economy and i guess the big question for investors is are the prices already too high and there is a lot of concern about that especially now that we've got the fed started talk about may be we start to talk about policy at some point in the near future i don't actually think they're going to do that i think that asset prices are going to go a lot highe

dr. graham strong, a professor of optometry at waterloo university, was asked to determine whether the crimene glasses were the same as those worn by jim brown in a police mug shot taken several years earlier. >> the problem that we had with the mug shots is that they really weren't a frontal mug shot. he was angled relative to the plane of the film. >> to solve the problem, dr. strong mounted the glasses on a styrofoam head and tried to approximate the angle in the mug shots. >> we didn't get it quite right. it was compelling, but it didn't rise to a level that was significant in our mind. >> then, dr. strong enlarged the mug shot photographs and noticed something important. tiny white dots, reflections from the photographer's flash in brown's corneas. >> you actually use the reflection from the front surface of the eye to make a very standard measurement when you make a pair of glasses. namely the distance between the two eyes. so what you do is you measure the difference between the reflection from the right eye to the left eye and that's the interpupillary distance. >> from medical recor

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the politics of the european union and the possibility of a breck's it and now we're bringing you dr graham's take on euro politics and the political rise of euro skeptics then we bring you dr thomas pollies take on the monetary policy now he argues that monetary policy is the wrong tool to deal with the issues facing europe it's pretty interesting stuff and of course monetary policy is the only game in town these days so economist him do it discusses how a layman might understand what exactly is happening over the fed these days as well do you breakdown why the fed doesn't just hike the fed funds rate as it continues to tighten also interesting then the dire levison of love it discusses the reason why edward harrison's revolutions are so important to the conversations we're currently having about digital privacy and surveillance yesterday was the one year anniversary of the first of many stories do tell you how the u.s. is sucking up debt on average american citizens and finally to end on a very fun we have to it's friday i asked famed investor jim rogers to recount his story of hopping on a

about it now to help us understand the challenges currently facing the eurozone we spoke with dr pipp mall graham politics and policy expert and founding president of principalities asset management now dr mall gromit helps fund managers better understand how politics policy and geopolitics impacts financial markets i first asked her if deflation should be a concern for european policymakers take a look at what she had to say. well it clearly is a concern and that's why the e.c.b. mario draghi is talking about potentially adding more liquidity some kind of a quantitative easing program which they think will kick off next month and they're saying oh i don't have your expectations too high they're already trying to manage the markets expectations on that one but the thing i find really interesting in the context of europe and particularly the eurozone is the split the widening divide as inflation begins to pick up a little bit in germany and deflation continues to accelerate in spain so the do lie between the two say this is getting wider that's going to make it much harder for the e.c.b. . because

that was dr pepper mall graham president of the kenyan dairy group and co-founder of principalities asset management. time now for a very quick break but stick around because when we return the man behind the widely read economics blog i cannot economists view well there you have it marked on my news on the program and he's weighing in on the drama surrounding thomas kinkade he's booked at the moment capital in the twenty first century and he's giving us his views on where exactly u.s. economy is headed and that in today's big deal edward harrison and i are talking sports shenanigans a financier a gambler a goal for a walk into a bar as a joke and you got to stay tuned to find out on today's big deal but before we go here are a look at some your closing numbers of the bell stick around. seven people in cambodia died of oxygen deprivation after climbing into a fifteen foot deep well of water to tree seventy five cents in the global markets an equally sad and deadly tragedy is brewing us trillions of dollars of investor wealth just throw into the black hole of debt seeking bigger scraps of

configurations a lot of them will result in hot air but it's an important trend that was dr put them all graham president kevin barry group and co-founder of principalities asset management. time now for a very quick break but stick around because when we return the man behind the wife thing read economics blog could not economists view well there you have it marked on my news on the program and he's weighing in on the drama surrounding thomas at kitty's book at the moment capital in the twenty first century and he's giving us his views on where exactly u.s. economy is headed and then in today's big deal edward harrison and i are talking sports shenanigans a financier a gambler a golfer a walk into a bar as the joker and all you got to stay tuned to find out on today's big deal but before we go here are a look at some your closing numbers of the bell stick around. i was born in the ukraine i grew up in a family of alcoholics as did many of my foster son's kids who had slept rough on the street since they were four years old some since they were two enough i'm not the rigid man where are you her

senator graham, senator blount, the director of our defense agency, dr.flynn's testimony before the senate armed services committee in february and in that testimony he said that it is likely that -- specifically, isil may well take territory in iraq or attempt to take territory in iraq. now, that doesn't negate, why weren't you prepared, why didn't you know about it. the other part of that is -- and i think it goes back to what general dempsey was talking about. i think we were surprised that the iraqi divisions is -- specifically the ones that general dempsey talked about, just threw down their weapons. we had obviously as general dempsey said are always working options and scenarios. and we knew isil for the reasons general dempsey talked about has been a threat in syria and elsewhere. so, again, i go back to we can only do so much. we didn't have a presence in iraq, as you know, for the very reason you mentioned, because the iraqis would not give us the immunity and what we needed to get. i think all those are parts to your question. >> would you agre

dr if brat wins, he's not going to be the majority leader, right? >> no, no, no. >> it's one district as well. >> zach? >> go ahead, zach. >> lindsey graham won his primary in south carolina, and he clearly has gone at least within the rubric of the republican party gone more to the center. >> ma that smells for the debt ceiling debate. if it's $3 billion it will be a lot easier to resolve. so i'm -- gaming out march of 2015230 the markets over the next several months is probably not a wise move. >> i think one of the greatest untold stories in washington has been the shall rimpgic deficit this year, $472 billion, 2.8% of gdp. i mean, the fiscal restraint has been having an effect. i would like no deficit. >> i think everyone would like no deficit, but i think i would also like a lamborghini and a porsche. >> i can't believe you don't have them. [ laughter ] >> i have a scooter. thank you, guys. >> how about a tesla instead, which is a perfect sig way. it looks like the battle for the hold of the new battery plant for tesla is coming down to two cities, in many ways similar, but in also ways could not be more different. san antonio, texas

of your question was surprise, we did not anticipate this. , nator graham, senator blount the director of our defense eages agency, drynn's testimony before the senate armed services committee in february and in that testimony he said that it is likely that -- specifically, isil may well take territory in iraq or attempt to take territory in iraq. now, that doesn't negate, why weren't you prepared, why didn't you know about it. the other part of that is -- and i think it goes back to what general dempsey was talking about. i think we were surprised that -- iraqi divisions is specifically the ones that general dempsey talked about, just threw down their weapons. we had obviously as general dempsey said are always working options and scenarios. and we knew isil for the reasons general dempsey talked about has been a threat in syria and elsewhere. so, again, i go back to we can only do so much. we didn't have a presence in iraq, as you know, for the very reason you mentioned, because the iraqis would not give us the immunity and what we needed to get. i think all those are parts to your question. >> would you agree, mr.