this time reaching another nation in africa while it continues to roil markets around the world fred kaufman author of bet the farm joins us to sort through the swine situation and later big pharma is back in the headlines of major drug giant pfizer has carried out yet another takeover barrow's contributor to america's lawyer is standing by to dig into the details of the drug making deal with the past show to this let's go and dive right in. the continuing and increasingly consequential effects of a trade war between the u.s. and china on chinese tech manufacturer why way lead our global report today the shenzhen based smartphone giant announced monday they are ready ng for a 40 to 60 percent decline in international smartphone shipments as they face falling sales and a serious and perhaps crippling supply challenge the company has been reeling after it was placed on an entity list by the united states which bars them from being able to procure components from american suppliers while we sustain a 40 percent fall in international smartphone sales in may compared to the month before while he'

going forward for not just china but the globe altogether for that answer we turn now as we do to fred kaufman the author of bet the farm how food stop being food fred you've been such a great guide for us in this crisis get us up to date tell us what's the latest on the swine fever epidemic. well you hit the nail on the head with paul donovan he's the chief economist over at u.b.s. who just was given a leave of absence this morning for saying the words chinese pig what this tells us in the vernacular is china is freaking out about what's going on and they are in total shutdown mode see no evil speak no evil hear no evil there is nothing here to see when in fact there are more than 100000000 swine that have been killed and we are looking at a global crisis in terms of pigs we have never seen the likes of before and it's going to affect the agricultural markets through and through the world and it's not going away any time soon so it sounds like maybe we're in the messenger shooting stage of the crisis the chinese agriculture ministry made a head turning prediction that pork prices could increa

been called in efforts to limit the spread of the disease joining us now to discuss in detail is fred kaufman author of bet the farm fred 1st of all catch us up on the latest how far has the outbreak spread the swine fever now and what is the toll so far. this is no joke this is the largest outbreak of animal disease in the history of the planet it started breaking out in china in the shenyang province in august of last year and has since riddled the entire country we are not talking about 1000000 pigs that have been killed but we're looking now at about 128000000 the estimates are that we're going to go as high as 200000000 this is unprecedented this blows the avian flu epidemic away and now what's happening is the infection the virus is spreading out of china . into russia into mongolia into neighboring countries such as north korea vietnam this thing is going and it's going fast it's going to be really tough to stop. suffering at your food safety experts so let's be clear this is not a food safety threat in the sense that this disease and it's not a fact humans though they can apparently c

fred kaufman author of the bed i love that the farm is on hand to give his outlook on what will be in store for the world daunting for a problem. finally another day another thread this time has seen 10000000000 dollars in ripple solon turns the analysts and one is standing by to help us dig into the whole point of property shows today so let's go and dive right in. china and russia continue to strengthen their ties at the same petersburg international economic forum and are committed to fostering a deeper cooperation in the face of an increased political and economic hostility from the u.s. this was a reflected by the russian president vladimir putin's comments on huawei who has now agreed to be the leading force for russia's 5 g. development. situation around wildly for example which is not only being sidelined . out of the global market in some circles it is even called the 1st technological war. the us is blacklist for several companies including google and qualcomm from doing business with hallway furthermore the u.s. is pressuring other countries to pick a side and decide whethe

this time reaching another nation in africa hole that continues to roil markets around the world fred kaufman author of bet the farm joins us to sort through the swine situation and later big pharma is back in the headlines as major drug dry and pfizer has carried out yet another takeover barrow's contributor to america's lawyer is standing by to dig into the details of the drug making deal. we have a packed show today so let's go and dive right in. the continuing and increasingly consequential effects of the trade war between the u.s. and china on chinese tech manufacturer weiwei leader global report today the shenzhen based smartphone giant announced monday they are ready ing for a 40 to 60 percent decline in international smartphone shipments as they face falling sales and a serious and perhaps crippling supply challenge the company has been reeling after it was placed on an entity list by the united states which bars them from being able to procure components from american suppliers while we sustain a 40 percent fall in international smartphone sales in may compared to the month before wh

spread this time reaching another nation in africa continues to roil markets around the world fred kaufman author of bet the farm joins us to sort through the swine situation and later big pharma is back in the headlines of.