tell people of the cross lots of jack rasmus, the economics and politics professor at st. mary's college and santa clara university is great to have you with us on the program today. thank you for coming on without this this gas pipeline nor seem to it is essentially finished. that gas is about to start flowing any day. now, why is the u. s. and now germany, why are they still posturing over this gas pipeline? well, i think you got to look at in contexts as a recent meetings of discussions between biden and europeans, particularly germany, you know, the germans, the europeans, considered us position on the global tax, and not taxing us tech companies. i think this is probably a quid pro quo to some extent of biden can feeding. what as everyone knows is already a done deal and allowing the germans to continue and get the cheaper gas. you got to understand that this whole sanctions over a gas began nordstrom to begin under trump, when the us had a lot of natural gas and prices were falling. and you know, the industry and oil industry, which trump was running interference for

we spoke to an economist jack rasmus, who says that the u. s. concession could be assigned that biden simply did not have another card to play. i think you got to look at an context as a recent meetings and discussions between biden and europeans, particularly jeremy. you know, the germans, the europeans conceded and us position on the global tax and not taxing us tech companies. i think this is probably a quid pro quo to some extent of biking, can feeding what as everyone knows, it's already a done deal and allowing the germans to continue and get the cheaper gas. you got to understand that this whole sanctions over a gas began nordstrom to began under trump, when the us had a lot of natural gas and prices were falling. and you know, the industry, oil industry, which trump was running a interference for their solution, was to make the europeans force them to buy us gas. that would cause prices arise in the us as well as more volume sales in europe. but the problem was, the gas was just too much more expensive and the europeans just waited is