we are very different from europe in many different ways. you can't found ooh county in the united states that approaches not one county. you believe europe is venus, and america is mars. >> i think do think there's a tremendous difference. i think the culture badges are being won in europe in the enlightenment and personal autonomy, and personal freedom and there being one in the united states on the adjudicate christ judeo christian. with cal vun in his um. you're an individual be calvinist that and the we're in something together with god that we have sort of a contract between human beings and god and the american still think this way. you think this rhetoric out of the white house with democratic, andepublican esidents. it's not going away. >> you want to comment on that. >> i think that we have that doctrine and it's held up as an ideal in america it become somewhat attenuated. the other thing about cal vunism. this is of the for and religion it became gradually what happened after the review formation that the netherlands becaformatio

epicenter of political power in europe. you see the european commission on the one side next to the council of the e.u. . and all around that's where you find lobby offices most of them belonging to big multinational corporations and you find them also in all of the side streets all over to the european parliament and beyond. the finance and the lobby at borders of large corporations who find industry lobby groups and their lobby operations being in office traders from offices in that area. two thousand five hundred lobby structures are based in brussels fifteen thousand lobbyists the second biggest blobby industry in the world only washington d.c. has been here. so that european union legislation is as complicated as it goes through a lot of stages it always starts with the european commission they take. new initiatives for the for legislation for policies and then it goes through the institutions the parliaments the council of ministers. and from the moments that the european commission takes its very first steps in devel

got a big gain and it is connected with europe and anything connected with europe, particularly one basedlan, i'm concerned about. blake in minnesota. blake? >> caller: b-b-b-boo-yah. >> explosive boo-yah back at you. >> caller: i'd like to give a special shout out to the university of minnesota golden gophers' women's hockey team. they won the national championship. not bad, huh? >> loving that. >> caller: hey, i'd like to get your thoughts on isrg. the stock's been crushed. it's had a bit of a bounceback lately, and they just announced that they've got a billion dollar stock repurchase. >> right. but i've got to tell you something, blake. congratulations to that woman's hockey team. my friend herb greenberg has told me to be careful, isrg, he's done terrific work and there's more work to come. that's enough for me to tell you to stay away from isrg. biotechs are the new biopharmas. what we see in celgene so far, and gilead, no biogen idec, it's leading the m.s. market. and i suggest if you get a pullback and look, remember, cyprus is going to give us a pullback. that's your opportunity.

europe is just a mess.hey -- the more they have politics involved the worse it gets. >> t got it, andy. you just answered our question about whether or not mri aussie dollar will go far or not so far when i go back to australia next week. thanks. >>> breaking news right now. amman jafers of washington newsroom. the treasury may be making comments about cyprus? >> yes. ve a statement. now that we're a couple of seconds past that, the treasury department says it is monitoring the situation in cyprus closely and secretary lew has been speaking with their european counterparts. it's important that cyprus and euro area partners work to resolve the situation in a way that is responsible and fair and insures financial stability. that's the statement here from the treasury department. of course, a lot of the top treasury brass today on are on their way or already are in china. so, for secretary jack lew's first major over seas trip. now china and cyprus on their minds as well, guys. >> i wish i put a bet on what tr

and europe is still the issue? what does that mean in terms of how you're allocating capital? >> you look at direct sales for europe to the s&p 500, somewhere in the 11 or 12% of s&p 500 sales, a little bit higher you think of indirector and ship something to asia that eventually ends up in the u.s., i would be much more concerned about the cyclical exposure, a place 20% or more sales into europe from the u.s. places like the auto companies and component suppliers and chemicals and materials and capital goods and industrials those have cyclical exposure and corporate corporations cannot borrow cheaply. >> tobias, does this current situation have the ability to linger in the markets, whether the fact you don't get imf supervision or have a chilling going on between europeans and russians? >> i think the chilling between europeans and russians have been going on a long time. not significantly new. gas exports from russia have been threatened as well into europe. i'm not sure that's new news. i think the idea -- this

means want to stay in europe this is a big difference between ukip and five star movement a five star movement is a movement of the young it is it is. including five star movement voters are culturally approved european and european federalists in general. are believed to ukip much older electorate there are much more protest that is there much more nationalistic and that you know if you look at any younger and they are culturally viscerally on top european so these are very different movements are sometimes right but you cannot say that you keep in touch on human time letting commentary and support go ahead david know your kids have a libertarian support from the young and you can appeal very much to the young in the u.k. who do not like the european union they think is anti libertarian and they want to have their own say in the u.k. they don't want to be dictated to a bunch of school at all to call gentlemen in brussels who are basically a bunch of crooks and we see what the i have a job to do a. five star movement and you see the difference i mean there is a massive generational di

and europe. what does that mean?christy, before we get into earnings, per se, you know, equity markets can't get knocked. >> morning, ross. >> there's still a lot of risk appetite. >> well, the risk appetite, it's interesting how that risk appetite has been emerging in the last three months. we've got less than 20 business days to go to the end of this quarter. >> was it four or five years ago that the bank of england lowered rates for the first time? >> that's four years ago. the policymakers started the process of saying, markets need to recognize that we're now on side to deal with the situation. we've gone into these crisis phases late 2007, 2008, the lehman issue, everything. nobody believes that we can go up from here. warren buffett, i'm sure, will be referring to it again. it's been four years for this rally and there's a lot of people coming through at the end of the first quarter 2013 not having participated very much in that process. >> absolutely. >> so the idea of risk on/risk off is we're getting back t

of eight hundred forty eight is spreading right across europe and starting greece is now moving to italy spain and i can assure you right now france is going the same way the french economy is an appalling polling situation they're fed up with the right all along we had to election in france last year france france is completely different germany would be different this year it's not transit state it was a great. the greek banks greeks will a great deal of money to the french as france's economy is in the polling situation . people are leaving there because of the the republican rich their struggles visit friends the european union opposing in terms of. your you're looking at ironically oppose all right ok all right all right dell and jumping you really hard i've tried to impose limits on the whole deal and if you want to feel like you just go ahead. i'm interested in david's repeated analogies to eight hundred forty eight since as we all recall they were a huge failure this is where it was altered and of and so i i don't know why is taking so much pride in that but i think it's. people

europe is really a mess. i worry about blow back from the split cat swachlths that's an economic political problem. i worry about our own politics. we have, you know, it's one thing. i don't think we need a grand bargain but we need a functioning government. i'm not sure we have that. finally i think the environmental issues, we've been pre tenning they aren't there. but they're going to get more and more visible. we really should have been panicking about them long before now and i think by the time ten years up, it will become undeniable that we really should be scared and acting on environmental issue. >> professor krugman, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> thank you. >> can always count on krugman for a fresh perspective on the world economy. let's take a look at treasury, currencies and commodities and how they did today. ♪ >>> one upcoming movie that hopes to join that same list of box office winners someday is the film based on the canceled tv series veronica mars. and the money needed to

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in europe so we invited to bunch of forty of those. and. after the dinner he said well now that you've got some some food by the commission you only saw things you have to do something for me people sometimes think that the commission comes up with ideas out of the blue pushes them it's not a tool traditionally is thirsty for ideas from the actons to hopeless to decide what to put food. this is where the idea of creating a network of association and companies pushing for the trade in service is used by the private sector came up i became managing director of the open services for. relief. in general to nine we had. eleven months to prepare seattle first every cio i mean it's your conference as a creation of this organization imagine at four and the idea was that this meeting is going to lounge the millenium brown that's so you know britain had so much push for. britain never got to see how to turn commission had to resign because of the massive fraud several commissions were involved in. seattle the millennium round itself took a completely

please booklets are inside missing links missing networks and resave in europe. may take the first two publications going through them something strange about them somehow they look so familiar. euro tunnel. scanning. pier in these corridor. i go to the archives. of. the t.n. projects by the commission. i go through the papers compare them back and forth. for the striking similarity. the projects are almost identical. commission seems to have copy pasted the unity proposals. download the official application to yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from alzheimer's if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. any time anyway. now i'm really curious reshaping europe. a meeting in dublin has mentioned forty five c.e.o.'s all from multinational companies representing billions of euros of turnover. companies like fiat's farce british petroleum kirkstall nestlé siemens shell unit lever and many others all of them supporting what is in this book. the all source free c.e.o.'s. s

and in sochi the oldest city in europe on the host of the twenty fourth she withdrew the figure. she. thank you. so much. thank you. dr these. days it. it's so true. is trying to get rid of. a treasure. worth fighting for. and the trap was no way. welcome back an hour russian soyuz spacecraft pass excessively docked with the international space station after a record breaking journey it took the crew of three just six hours to get to the eye assess a cosmic cut compared to the usual today flight artists on thomas has more now from russia's mission control center now that the hatch has been opened and the astronauts and cosmonauts have agreed to do it march at the very beginning of it i assess expedition number thirty five which will last for six months the crew of three that have just come with the soyuz capsule that will be making the crew of the international space station a full six man crew in fact this particular crew is consisting of pawel been a good out of the this is his third trip in space he's the commander of the soyuz capsule the rookie of the flight alexander me sor

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it's northern europe, central europe, very strong, our italian business, our spanish business, underuble digits, but germany, turkey, russia, scandinavia, france and the uk all up solid double digits for the second half of the year. >> you have been dead right about the american consumer. you came back to school, said it was going to be good, holiday said it was going to be good. is it still good in america? >> well, we had a fantastic fourth quarter based on the results. we started the year off really strong, january and february, really were strong months. but as we've turned into march, i hate to talk about weather. it's like one of those things that, you know, it's almost like an excuse. but 65% of the business that's done in the united states across all retailers is under such pressure from a weather point of view. temperatures are down from this time last year on average, 20 to 25 degrees. it's very tough selling shorts, with the kind of martha we've had. so we've really seen across the board a bit of a pullback in march. i really believe it's temporary as we start to see the b

>> yes, europe is challenged. yes, the consumer confidence is very mixed in europe. yes the entrepreneurial spirit is down in europe. yes investment is down in europe. unemployment is high. but let's not forget europe is a very rich continent. there is fre amounts of disposable income in europe, and therefore the bright side is you're in one of the most richest geographies in the world, and can you generate consumer demand for your brands and product. >> muhtar, coca-cola does business in prablgtically every country in the world, but with this banking crisis going on in cyprus, are you rethinking where you keep your cash surpluses? are you shifting your deposits to countries where the banking system is more stable? >>> what is capping in cyprus, or or what happened last year in europe didn't play too much into our strategy. it's not about one region because we operate in 207 countries, and we don't believe that if there was -- if there's an issue in a certain geography like cyprus it really has any impact on how we do business. >> i want to -- i want to get your thou

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it will not affect europe.phases one and two and three are the ones who affect your. >> thank you. >> general kelly? >> in your opening statement you said that china is attempting to compete with the u.s. military activity in the region. you mentioned the last economic influence. can you elaborate on that? >> yes, senator. the chinese, first and foremost, are very active in latin america commercial way. when they want to buy something, they by and large numbers. whether it is soybeans far south or oil from venezuela. they are buying up commodities. they are also very good at building things like fords and running like fords. i don't personally see a threat there. the dude is a commercial interest. they deployed this to the region. much like our own hospital ships. tremendous goodwill. large numbers of medical procedures on people that have never seen a doctor. obviously, they want to sell those to any nation that will buy it. it is much easier, you know the frustration that her friends and partners around the w

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let's go to europe, the backyard so to speak. open that chart up to mid-december, we are making fresh low yields for 2013 in the boom complex. it's all about cyprus, the resignation, whether accepted or not, euro versus the yen. depending on the final close, tyler, it's all yours. >> rick, thanks very much. a really fascinating developing story in the art world. the fbi says it is getting closer to solving a $500 million heist that took place 23 years ago in boston. nbc news' justice correspondent pete williams is with us now. the fbi says they are making progress. what does that mean in this case? >> well, the reports come from the fbi itself and say they have made progress. they have never arrested anyone but now know who did the actual theft. they are not arresting them. they are not charging it with them because the statute of limitations has long since run. they are members of an organized crime organization that operates in the mid-atlantic and new england but say they've never been able to figure out whatever happened. now

command in europe. general charles jacoby junior, commander of north american aerospace and norad and general john kelly, u.s. southern command. we also welcome james stavridis. we thank you for your leadership and please pass along our gratitude to the men and women who serve in your commands for their dedication and sacrifices, as well as for the sacrifices of their families whose support is so essential to the success of our military and our nation. since last year's eucom posture, it was likely her last appearance and i am glad that i included the word likely. so now we can thank you. thank you again for your four years as the supreme allied commander, which makes you one of the longest serving commanders in u.s. history. you have been a steady hand during some very turbulent times and we wish you the best in retirement for military service. the witnesses before us represent the united states commitment to defend the homeland to help our neighbors and to come to the collective defense of our close a

this is the vanguard europe, compilation of all the big stocks in europe. widely traded. highs of the day. germany, for example, was down nearly 2%. it's down less 1% right now. most of the european indexes, all of them are off of their lows. i'm not sure it's just all the money is coming out of europes cascading into the united states story. maybe some people are starting to re-evaluate just a little bit. if you look at the banks and, yes, of course, the big european banks are down 3% or 4%, deutsche, barclays, credit suisse. everybody has been talking about the concerns about run on european banks. i'm not worried about that. two things worry about short term. one is that this is going to strengthen the anti-austerity crowd that are very at much sbreed sbre interested in fighting this austerity thing and mayhem them and may make it tougher to form an italian government. they may feel now their possibility in a second election might be strengthened. anti-austerity crowds, that might make it difficult short term. one reason i think italy is down more than the rest of euro

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europe's negs generational think is beneath the way ahead is to give brussels a bit too will tell you what. you need to see good leverage sure to mccurdy was to build the needs most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach creation why it should care about humans. this is why you should care what you are only. do we speak your language or not but they. will use programs and documentaries in spanish matters to you breaking news a little too much of angles to the stories. here. the spanish find out more visit. it's been a record breaking voyage for the russian rocket which has successfully docked with the international space station three space travelers on board set at the previous best time of two days getting there in just six hours sun thomas has more now that the hatch has been opened and the astronauts and cosmonauts have greeted each other it marks the very beginning of expedition number thirty five which will last for six months the crew of three that have just come with the soyuz capsule will be making the crew of the in

it is failing europe.g this morning to see if there would be lines forming outside italy or spain. that hasn't happened. does that mean the worst case skin narrow has been averted? some are remaining calm. or is there potential other things could develop. >> it's really good news that it hasn't happened. it is really difficult to contain. it is very important that it hasn't happened. but it's too early to declare victory. there's a lot of hope that the cyprus and europeans will come up with a better solution. this is something you need to monitor quickly. >> mohammed, when you were here with us on the set during the final crisis in the united states must have been 2008 or 2009 there was a point you said, you know, i'm thinking i should be taking money out of the atms at this point. is that this stage in europe? would you worry if you did have money in the european bank? >> no. i think the central banks are much more engaged. so the central banks have understand the lehman moment and do not want it to happe

with your approval there my gavel to europe. the internal market of you was becoming any very important market rich market was a high g.d.p. per capita and that when the european union was going outside and negotiate as a bloc they had a real power because it was a biggest exporter the biggest importer the biggest foreign investor. but so in britain the trade commission of european union was complaining that i would every time he was going to negotiate with the united states in front of him when we see his counterpart here you have your recent gardener observed through the stories and on his back he would have c.e.o.'s of big banks a big insurance companies telling please do that for me please do that for us but winterland britain was turning his back to see where this report was he was actually having only some minister saying don't do this don't do that and please do that it only but not more and he was really not very happy you know. we discovered that there is a whole world of lobbyists in washington to tell the government w

decision makers are so far failing to stay on the contagion disappointed students all across europe to tackle the problem were reporting that later this hour. plus the power of radical hamas gains momentum in the west bank as more and more palestinians accuse their government of failing to resolve the political deadlock with israel that more just ahead for you here on our team. wealthy british style sign some time to. market. what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines two kinds of report. is trying to get rid of. a treasure. it's worth fighting for. and the trap was no way. welcome back you're watching r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital that web users online communications may be about to get a wider and possibly unwanted audience they have the eyes seeking more powers to spy on people's emails and internet chats real time the proposals have already been met with criticism or a complete breach of privacy as artie's marine fortnight outs planes. an estimated six hundred million people use sk

>> well, again, we've got this problem in europe. as rick santelli said a few minutes ago, europe is not going away. europe's demographic trends are only plateauing here. after 2014 they fall off a cliff even larger than japan in the late '90s. europe's only going to get in deeper trouble. longer term i'm bearish. short term i just see a minor correction over the debt ceiling debate, over europe. and then a new high. i do see the s&p going to 1600 this year. probably this summer. >> really? >> then i see growing chances of a major correction that may take a couple years or may take several years. but it's clear to me u.s. demographics only get worse. we're running $2 trillion. fiscal stimulus. in qe a year to create $300 billion in gdp growth. 2% growth. that's a bad equation. >> nathan, why don't you pick it up. part of harry's argument seems to make sense. he is looking for 1600 in the s&p at some point. change your view at all? >> yeah, i know. harry has been calling for the world to come to an end for a long time. i brought my um

coming up, talking about europe. how much of a threat is the happening in europe to the u.s.nomy right now? >> also, two huge interviews still to come. meredith whitney tells us why she's very bullish on one of wall street's biggest banks and right now. and cit group chairman and ceo john thain reacts to the rumor that will not go away. namely that his company has been shopping for a suitor. john will try and lay those fears aside once again, those rumors. >> a look at where we stand as we approach this final stretch, final hour of the day. dow jones industrial down about 26 points. had been down 110. we are well off of the lows. nasdaq looks like this. also pretty volatile in the afternoon here. as you can see, it is down about five points at 3243. s&p 500 really similar move here. down five points. equities showing great resilience, pushing back from a triple digit loss today. will the crisis abroad keep the markets in jeopardy? >> you had to be named steve to be on the panel today for the most part. steven water from russell investments, steve sacks. steve liesman is with

know i'm really curious reshaping europe. a meeting in dublin has mentioned forty five c e o's zero from multinational companies representing billions of euros of turnover. companies like fiat's. british petroleum kirkstall nestlé siemens shell unit lever and many others all of them supporting what is in this book. the all source free cd or else. showroom or no. hummer and this is decker. living in the netherlands a new vista decker he was the head of philips one of the largest companies in the country. good enough i was the head of volvo a car producing company. and showman nor was the head of lunesta so very large french automotive national. so the authors of this report were three c.e.o.'s from some of the biggest companies in europe. it was a political manifesto written by these industry leaders. oh it was so stunning was that these two three c.e.o.'s boards would sit down and actually write. a report that was a detail set of recommendations for how to change the good face of europe. for. six days a year and so on. i fini

it killed the artist lorenzetti and half the population of europe.t was the greatest catastrophe in the modern history of the west. but surprisingly, for some regions, the plague was a springboard for economic growth. [bells ringing] for the survivors, there were new opportunities. florence recovered particularly quickly. by 1400, this was the city-state that dominated central italy. but bankers and textile merchants were expanding their trading empires all over europe. over the next 100 years, an extraordinary interaction took place in florence-- the innovations of artists and architects, the excitement of rediscovering classical achievements, and the patronage of a wealthy commercial class. these key elements brought about a series of artistic and intellectual breakthroughs that came to be known as the renaissance-- literally the rebirth of learning and culture. in the church of santa croce, a series of frescoes painted around 1320 were to have a revolutionary effect on florentine painting. here, the great merchant families competed with one anothe

decision makers so far failing to stem the contagion disappointed students all across europe teamed up to tackle the problem we report on that later this hour. plus the power of radical hamas gains momentum in the west bank as more and more palestinians accuse their government of failing to resolve the political deadlock with israel that are more just ahead for you. russian so you spacecraft has successfully docked with the international space station after a record breaking journey it's a crew of three just six hours to get to the eye assess a cosmic cut compared to the usual two day flight r.t. sean thomas has more now from russia's mission control center. now that the hatch has been opened and the astronauts and cosmonauts have that greeted each other it marks the very beginning of i assess expedition number thirty five which will last for six months the crew of three that have just come with the soyuz capsule will be making the crew of the international space station a full six man crew in fact this particular crew is consisting of been a good out of the this is his third trip in s