staying in place and may even be broadened joining me to talk about cuba's financial future is john cavil the president of the u.s. cuba trade and economic council john we wanted to bring this up at r.t. because cuba is essentially fallen off the media landscape since trump's promise to enact stricter regulations on the country so i wanted to ask you what is the current situation in cuba. cuba is undergoing again a severe economic crisis primarily brought on by the implosion in venezuela and for the last seventeen years cuba has looked to venezuela to provide much of its energy as well as financing and now that is at risk substantially it's decreased fifty to seventy percent in the last three years and so cuba is finding that its the increase in its tourism revenues decrease in commodity prices decrease in production of commodities is all providing a of a very bad situation well if cuba and venezuela are so closely tied we've been hearing so much about venezuela why do you think more people have not connected these dots to talk about cuba as own economic crisis. i don't know why people ar

continue to be a developing story and police and we'll definitely be following those developments john cavil the president of the u.s. cuba trade and economic council thank you so much for sharing your insight with us today. you're welcome. stop me if you've heard this before bitcoin broke another record thursday of the digital currency top forty five hundred dollars in trading which means it's doubled in price in the past month alone that's huge and since the concept of crypto currency is still so new many people see growth like this and want to compare it to a theocracy wondering when the bubble might burst cyber security expert john mcafee says this type of thinking is a mistake he joins me now john why do you think the word bubble cannot be applied to bitcoin. well first and foremost bitcoin is not a currency it costs over a thousand dollars to create a bit corn today and electricity and computing costs second the value of bitcoin is linked to the number of users and the number of transactions it is not a speculative investment even though it is being used as such a very many people as.

a developing story and police and will definitely be following those developments john cavil at president of the u.s. cuba trade and economic council thank you so much for sharing your insight with us today. you're welcome. time now for a quick break stick around when we return a stolen are worth more than one hundred million dollars turns up in an unexpected place where no one was looking and i.r.s. has the world wrapped around its finger with a little known law called. as we go to break here the numbers at the closing bell. and all the world's a stage and all the news companies merely players but what kind of parties are in t. america playing party america are so much more american personal. many ways. just like the real news big. bad actors and in the end you could never hear all. of the parking. worlds of the world all the world's a stage we are. a trial where i've spent countless hours boring through documents that tell the story about. corporate media everything uses to talk about. i'm not a clear picture about how disturbing. for her. these are stories that no one else. question. w

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