not just for england but for world politics. if we had somebody like maggie thatcher here in the united states wield be better off. not afraid to tell speak the truth and speak for the economy and better life for everybody and not demonize one class. >> let's remember it was her own party that threw her out. >> after 11 years. >> still, she was thought to have firm control of the conservative party which clearly was not the case. but, and i think that probably happens, too, with people who shake things up. it's -- and i like your point about what happened with reagan and clinton. i mean, that sort of moderated the democratic party and she, in her own way, sort of moderated the liberal party in england. >> do you think that same is true now that president obama is pardoning the conservative party. >> dana, he is the opposite of margaret thatcher in every specific way, any way you want to look at it. president obama, margaret thatcher are polar opposites. exact opposites. >> i think what dana is saying is that he is attempting to

the bank of england has a three minute from bank of england.here is a charge they are to fulfill and being answerable day today heists write a letter, explaining when they missed a 2% inflation target they charged them with, explaining why they missed it and while it do better next time. ben bernanke twice nearby statue goes before capitol hill asking questions and how are you doing and why aren't you doing this picture supposed to? there's more accountability now and then 3040 years ago. is struggling, but i'm not sure there's better options. >> host: talk about how you get reporting? today want to ask you are they trying to hide behind the curtains? >> guest: they are secretive group as a whole. don't notice there's relatively few on the record, direct quotations are attributions. those who do talk in interviews the people who lead me to use information, i could not identify what organization they work for. they are more transparent in decades past and it's very much not a situation where they're comfortable in the spotlight and explaining wh

caller: i am from manchester, england. i frequently visit my relatives in england. you know, in the late 1970s early 1980s i was adding there for a little while and i would talk to my cousins. they really hated margaret thatcher because they felt that she was a direct threat to their own livelihood. they were very pro-union, very labour party and they believe thatcher was going to take away their jobs, their homes, their education. and i was there two years ago. speaking to the same cousins, they still hate thatcher. they blame her for all of england's economic woes, blame her for the breakup of the uk that is pending with scotland, if itey really feel that was not for the government, for socialism, they would have nothing. these people are physicians and actuaries, all well-educated, but they came from the working classes, from manchester. they cannot seem to pull away from the belief that if it was not for marxist policies and for socialism they would have absolutely nothing. conversely, if you talk about the falkland islands, when i talk to them about the falklan

not a risk they're saying and inflation's under control because there's no inflation the bank of england going to keep interest rates down to near zero at the same time they're telling their one percent clients that because there's so much friction inflation we're going to tie dividends to higher rates of inflation so you're not gobbled a lot by the real inflation number one number two how can this company the grid afford to pay these escalating dividends to keep up with inflation they borrow the money from the central bank it near zero percent so it's a mechanism what i call interest rate apartheid so if you're on one side. the apartheid wall of interest rates you get dividends from a company that can borrow from the bank of england a near zero percent and as the replacement really bites you're protected because now you're dividends are going higher if you live on the other side of the interest rate apartheid wall then you borrow money from some companies to wanda to make ends meet for the end of the week and they charge you on any wise basis four hundred five hundred six hundred percen

apartheid wall of interest rates you get dividends from a company that can borrow from the bank of england a near zero percent and as the replacement really bites you're protected because now you're dividends are going higher if you live on the other side of the interest rate apartheid wall then you borrow money from some companies to wanda to make ends meet for the end of the week and they charge you on an annualized basis. four hundred five hundred six hundred percent again you're the financial end word what you're not allowed to say because people would panic and you end up being slaughtered so let's talk then about george osborne and his financial non-computer because he looks out at the economy and what he sees as too many workers having too many rights because we have minimum wage could be frozen or cut if it starts to cost jobs or damage economy government suggest the minimum wage for millions of people could have to be capped or frozen in the future if it risks damaging jobs or the economy the government has said so when you look at this economy if you look out here what you see ha

i'm going to revolt at were over we are now in england i suspect the breaking point is is much later than everywhere else when you know we used to have fantastic revolts in the days when they put people in that place behind that but how assaulting is it for the government to give people one p. off a beer. while the same time giving the city of london billions and billions of but that is the headline and that's what many people will notice and they won't understand what's happening to them but it's not a bit and they don't think they think it's hurting the public like monkeys like here's a here's a banana you fricken monkey the zookeepers taken all the real money i mean it's not insulting i mean those who keep are georgia surprise you politicians i'm just surprised people put up with that i mean they're like oh a p.r. pint of beer i'm so happy but that is their journey like a frickin monkey in a zoo bowser the reason of course is because they make it sound so complicated when actually it's very simple they are basing our money it is worth less all the time and that is what everybody n

served with her was a good friend of hers he came on and spoke glowingly over said she transformed england in a way that now the rest of europe needs to figure out how to do right i totally disagree with him but i get it you know the conservatives if you think that you're a particular party with that side of the pond the way conservatives here in the us is few reagan but maggie thatcher supported the national health service socialized medicine aggressively supported that said it was one of the best systems around she thought it was better than what was being done in most of the continental countries she believed in climate change she thought that there should be some direct action being done quickly to address climate change and continue to speak about that until her death or until you know a year or so ago. she once in fact said to the united nations the danger of global warming is as yet this was a decade ago is as yet unseen but real enough for us to make changes and sacrifices so that we do not live at the expense of future generations she supported gun laws to reduce gun violence in e

various places in the united states especially the national archive i went to russia and france and england and turkey and by proxy i had people begin to look in places as far from rotterdam if they had found any signs i would be on the first flight out and at the end of the year i had pulled together a surprising amount of information which allowed me to write the book that i to you about. this man in russia was in american named frederick bruce born in mississippi part of the delta 1872. the delta of his famous stentorious and called the most southern place on earth because it embodies the most trekking features of the old and post civil war it is clear to me that my subject frederick got his lead in life they were slaves and tell emancipation then in 1869, four years after the civil war ended they did something remarkable for a black car -- family in that part of the south they managed to buy 200-acre plot of land for the price of $20 and had three years to pay off the many in installments that met six and two-thirds dollars and some changes all they had to spend. within one year of buyi

his kids and burn to death have he should be running barclays he should be wearing black bank of england not mark carney mark carney is just a supposed talking money printer put philpott he knows how to burn people alive put in his bank of england you frickin morons george osborne so here we have to a man responsible for awful crime of killing his children so let's see how their friends and family and people around them justify their behavior i don't stand what is going to summer thousand pounds a year bonus and a pension plan filled pot he proved himself to be an arsonist a murderer george osborne this is your man run bank of england this is your man to be the chancellor of the exchequer fill bot. so phil potts lawyer says man behind darby fire a very good father a man who killed the six children in the house fire was a very good father who never meant to harm them his lawyer said so with this argument that he was a good father and he just you know accidently killed the six children i want to turn to how people use that excuse for bankers and the banking sector and central banks and we

the bank of england from the british government. having central bankers appointed by elected officials created by elected officials i think and being answerable day-to-day. bernanke has to write a letter to the federal -- he has written quite a few explaining why he did this and why he will do that her next time. bernanke twice a year by statute and probably more often than that goes to congress and they ask him a lot of question and why aren't you doing what you are supposed to? there's a lot more accountability now then there was 30 or 40 years ago. it's still not a democracy and is troubling but i'm not sure there are a lot of better options. >> host: tell options. >> host: tell us ukel bit about how you did the reporting in the book. did you ask central bankers to explain what they did to you? >> guest: those that do talk you will notice they are are relatively few in the wreck or did direct quotations from people and attributions of this person that said that this happened. those that do talk often will do so on a background ba

george osborne this is your man run bank of england this is you're going to be the chancellor of the exchequer phil but so phil potts lawyer says man behind darby fire a very good father a man who killed a six children in the house fire was a very good father who never meant to harm them his lawyer said so with this argument that he was a good father and he just you know accidently killed the six children i want to turn to how people use that excuse for bankers and the banking sector and central banks and we look around us and we see a financial system in utter collapse and bringing quite a lot of grief to people around the world and see how this excuse is applied to bankers everywhere so a tweet from c m b c's john carney says there was a big twitter fight between stacy herbert and is a kaminski but i have no idea what it was about well i'm going to tell you what it was about but first i want to get. our money i got a book. so i want to tell you how first isabella kaminski responded to this tweet by john carney and she said correction i wasn't arguing was being bombarded by accusati

and the bank of england employees spend their work time playing. online games planning trips to expensive shops and working out how to buy gold according to data obtained by the capitalist newspaper here and what they found is of the top five hundred sites one of the most frequented is the s.p.d. our gold shares company a company that promises an innovative relatively cost efficient and secure way to access the gold markets at the time of going to press they say max the capitalist could not confirm whether this pointed towards future monetary policy well a lot of people who work in slaughterhouses become vegetarians and people who work at the bank of england who say what they do at the bank of england just trashing the pound trashing currency making sure merrily lopsided bets in favor of entrenched aristocracy they go on they start buying gold and you also brought up them frank he's in the news in the headlines this week by accident fed gives early data to banks the federal reserve alerted bank officials on tuesday that policymakers were considerin

richard the third was one of england's most controversial kings. now more than 500 years after his death on the battlefield, he is still stirring up arguments. >> king richard, a warlord who died in battle. more than 500 years later, his grave was finally found underneath a local car park. plans to re-enter the remains at a cathedral are being challenged by distant relatives who claim the decision is a breach of their human rights. david is leading the challenge. this is the first time he has visited the site. he believes the decision by the ministry of justice to grant a license to the university to start the search was flawed. >> the idea that they consider reinterrment without consultation is morally wrong. has claimed a loss king as their own. an exhibition about the search for his grave has already attracted almost 60,000 visitors. >> i have no doubts the court will treat this case as being something that is daft. after 500 years in the shadow of the cathedral, in accordance with the license, the bones should be and will be reinterred in the c

the bank of england, of ryder, editor of the economist wrote about this, the bank of england looked at a penalty rate. the lender of last resort, led to this man and that man. and, you know, what you find is the central bank was the mistaken history. bernanke made an academic career of it and does it not seem to have a great awareness of history of the lender of last resort in the history of the zero interest-rate policy, the great depression and what happens with hyperinflation on the great depression. >> host: pretty unusual to be in a situation where you have zero interest-rate now for almost five years and you have this great quote from alan blinder in the buck or he asks, does a normal economic lot work at zero or is it like vendors, when you get to zero gravity or 0 degrees kelvin that the world act differently? >> guest: the evidence increasingly points to the 1999 having had a point at which was what we have seen -- the fed got to 0 inches rates in december december 2008, for a half years of not knowing that. they have been trying out kinds of things to stimulate growth since t

evidence found overwhelmingly shows these two men traveled 230 miles across england with the intent to rob and kill the singer inside her home. a plot that police were able, thankfully, to put a stop to, erin. >> so, erin, what about motive? this just seems so bizarre. >> well, jocelyn was actually not the only celebrity mentioned in their writings. they also talked about r. kelly and beyonce. prosecutors say as to why she specifically was singled out in this plot, we may never know. some of the writings did mention her royal connections.

scott yount from new england cable news. thank you very much. kate snow has been in watertown tonight. and kate, tomorrow it seems to me gets very interesting because while the temptation tonight, and who can blame them, is to be happy. there was a resolution tonight. we've got a suspect. he's in serious condition. he's in the hospital. that cloud of oh, my goodness, all of these victims stay with us, they stay in the lives of boston, and then the investigation gets underway in earnest. >> reporter: right. and let's not forget both of those things. the investigators are going to have a huge task ahead of them. we've been talking to former fbi officials who say, look, they're going to have to now go through and sift through all of that evidence that they gathered. we saw them taking computers and other evidence out of homes over the course of today and yesterday. so they'll go through that, they'll try to figure out who these young men were in contact with. what their communication was about. what their online activity was about. they'll be talki

and down the eastern seaboard, mild into the southeast but chilly here in the northeast on into new england. that's what's go >>> 8:05 now on a tuesday morning. good morning, i'm meteorologist christina loren. cloudy sky over san jose. not going to last all day. we'll see those clouds burn off by about noon. sunshine will warm us up into the 70s. concord and napa and santa rosa, 68 right here in beautiful san jose. tomorrow closer to 80 degrees inland and the rain comes in thursday morning. we'll get a break on friday. more rain saturday into sunday. >> savannah, penny for your thoughts? >> sure, my thoughts are what's coming up next on the show. >> abe lincoln, see, penny for

as we go throughout tuesday and wednesday, it's shifted to new england. we finally kick all the cold air north up into canada. by sunday and monday much of the country will be in a warming trend, especially the northern half of the country. a very cold april day. northern plains, great lakes, all of that cold air, betty, will make its way to new england and the mid-atlantic. for those on the east coast, enjoy what's left of the warmth today. >> we will. >>> your monday morning business headlines are straight ahead. plus, nelson mandela spent easter in the hospital. we'll tell you how he's doing. >>> massive flooding washes cars away. >>> baseball fangs everywhere, rejoice. opening day is here. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. [ male announcer ] how do you measure happiness? by the armful? by the barrelful? the carful? how about...by the bowlful? campbell's soups give you nutrition, energy, and can help you keep a healthy weight. campbell's. it's amazing what soup can do. you'll have to pay five hundred bucks for your deductible. the truth? at allsta

snow threatening northern new england. some spots 3 to 6 inches including northern maine here as we head through the afternoon into the overnight hours. john and marci, back to you. >> all right, jim, thanks. >>> our extreme weather team is out in force this morning. they will have the very latest on this wicked weather on "good morning america" reporting from the heart of the storm zone. >>> breaking news overnight in arizona. they found a bomb addressed to joe arpaio. it was found the a post office in flagstaff far from the sheriff's office in phoenix. arpaio is well known for his tough policies against prisoners and received numerous threats during his 20 years in office. >>> a second white supremacist is in custody in connection with the murder of colorado's prisons chief. thomas guolee was arrested yesterday afternoon. he's being held without bond for a parole violation. investigators say guolee and another gang member spoke to shooting suspect evan ebel in the days leading up to the murder of tom clements. >>> well,

the decision to reject the appointment of baroness tanni grey thompson to the chair of the sport england? >> these decisions are made by the secretary of state for culture and sport and i think she reached a very good decision. >> nick de bois? >> mr. speaker, the armed forces covenant is something members on this side of the house are proud of. the prime minister will also be aware of the community covenant launched by the british legion to which 300 local authorities have signed up to, sadly not mine in enfield council nor another 132. will the prime minister join me in urging these councils to sign this covenant locally and help support work across the constituency and in particularly before armed forces day? >> i'm very grateful to my honor habble friend -- honorable friend for raising this issue. my local authority in oxfordhire was one of the first to sign the community covenant with the largest air base in the country. i urge all authorities to look at this. i think the armed forces covenant is a breakthrough for our country in a way to show respect for what our armed forces and t

if you put a call through to new england come you say or? if you say to an american are you through, and means you are connected. it is a completely different language. ..

being there when soviet communism finished and contributing to that there are others in the north of englandbecause she was a choose a warrior she liked to go to war against what she didn't believe in but she wasn't a healer and she was someone who could pour oil into the old wounds and bring the nation together so in that sense war she's a very important private mr is it necessarily one of the whole of britain will remember with affection or war specially in the north of england the working class industrial areas which she didn't really a bunch of sympathy for compared to her friends in the city the financial sector the south of england her own middle class values tributes will be coming in condolences will be coming into the british people how will her legacy as a leader influence decision makers of the scene setter. very very important the present government the present prime minister most of his ministers would all proudly say they are the children or maybe the grandchildren of mrs such and they came to age politically when she was prime minister they entered politics because they were i

look at the migration of chechens after the war you can find them anywhere you can find in europe in england in the united states as we can see the question is whether they still have some affiliation with the with the militants or whether they. were just acting alone. right we've just got word right now reports say that the governor deval patrick says that there is a massive manhunt underway and a law down has now been extended to boston we've heard guided they also say that public transport has been shut down boston is basically on a stand still i want to come back to what we do know about these suspects we've heard stories that the own mind preserve and actually tells us a little bit more about them what can you share with us that they've they've come up on the russian social networking. what do you know about them what what has come out of that there is like a very popular russian social network something like a facebook copy in russia and one of the friends of one of the suspects had a video with one of the suspects. this really hard to say what the content of those videos were because

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