who are getting services from kaiser. kaiser will come to the table and there will be a better solution to our pricing >> and to add to that comment i'm very much part of the conversations and echo how frustrating it is but there are - we passed a resolution about a month or two ago we'll be discussing and a number of other measures in terms of open data and transparency are going to happen not only with kaiser but blue shield. we see we're ben with the health certify we're driving down the affordable care act. and so it's a big deal but why i voted again to despite a lot of strong words to support the kaiser rate plan was the open enrollment and those folks who would be exposed it would have been a wrong move not to support that >> we will be perjure other costs for kaiser in case negotiations don't go well. >> so the board has approved the rates. >> colleagues any other questions? staff. i understand there's no agreement yet; right? >> no, not yet. i think we can come to an agreement certainly by our next meeting and we

between 2010 and 2012hhs paid kaiser $87 million more than the services that kaiser actually provided. on may 9 the board instructed kaiser to resume negotiations explaining -- [inaudible] >> thank you. >> [inaudible] >> thank you very much. next speaker please. [applause] >> hi i am emma gerald and a field representative for seiu 1021. i representative nonprofit workers. i think you heard compelling testimony why we need the 4% increase. we appreciate the board's support last year with the 1.nine increase. however this was absorbed quickly with rents and cost of living and food and everyday costs and we're talking about wages tha

between 2010 and 2012hhs paid kaiser $87 million more than the services that kaiser actually provided. on may 9 the board instructed kaiser to resume negotiations explaining -- [inaudible] >> thank you. >> [inaudible] >> thank you very much. next speaker please. [applause] >> hi i am emma gerald and a field representative for seiu 1021. i representative nonprofit workers. i think you heard compelling testimony why we need the 4% increase. we appreciate the board's support last year with the 1.nine increase. however this was absorbed quickly with rents and cost of living and food and everyday costs and we're talking about wages that are pretty low and these are workers that with the poorest of the poor and frankly their work is hard and they deserve to be compensated fairly. they deserve to have family health care where a lot of folks don't have. it's so expensive that some of them use public assistance. it's unacceptable. white the nonprofit funding has been flat in the last five years which is basically a cut and the private contractors have increase and they had increase of 16-point

welcome to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser. and. just sipping some kool-aid it's a technique called method reporting i'm trying to get into the minds of those in today's headlines. nine out of ten cold members prefer to drink kool-aid before partaking in a mass suicide or wanted jumping to assassinate a public figure you don't hear much these days of cult leaders and their crazy followers but we've got some in our headlines to herbert to last more max they used to make the news more often but i think now it's just part of the fabric of our society they were all cult members and if you look at this first headline this is an editorial from the financial times by adam posen a former member of monetary policy committee of the bank of england the cult of home ownership is dangerous and damaging so in the us in the u.k. we have homeownership rates of sixty five to seventy percent and we're told over and over that we need to have more more greater percentage of ownership because seventy percent is enough we need one hundred percent and thi

we have started negotiations with kaiser for 2015. we started on august 1st, and we just had our second meeting. so, we'll be working, working with you going forward. >> thank you. >> any public comment on this item? >>> dennis [speaker not understood], actively [speaker not understood] retired firefighter. i'd like to congratulate the new elected officers and i look forward to watching the year. and second of all, having sat through over a year of i guess presentations and actually negotiations that originally approved the gender -- my mind went blank there, but for the gender operations and so on. it's good now to see that that is recognized as any other procedure because at the time when they went through all that procedure, they tried to tell everybody that this is just another medical condition that has to be dealt with. so, it's nice to see even 15, 18 years later from that time this is now recognized for what it really is. so, i applaud the board on that one. >> thank you. >>> claire [speaker not understood], retired seiu. agai

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welcome to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser you know the dutch have got the economic bliss. private debt has got them down the housing bubble is bursting bursting bursting the economy is contract ing us terry is biting. on. and unemployment is rising but how is this possible when the dutch current account is positive the government deficit is smaller and exports are doing well something does not add up we need to bring in stacy herbert to see what the frick is going on over there in the netherlands well max remember at the beginning of this financial crisis when it was and the economic crisis across europe and we needed to bail out greece and spain and italy and portugal and all these people with a profit get bad spending governments of the south well you know now the netherlands were always the one that were pushing the most foster care ity but it turns out private debt might matter more than government debt and the situation deflating housing bubble at heart of netherlands economic blues household spending has been falling for three straight years and it dropped again two

welcome to the kaiser report max kaiser recently i was asked max what you cover so feel good financial news every once in a while you ask i deliver houses for positive financial news a man in china has had a six inch long worm removed from his brain now you might ask how is this good financial news is quite obviously is proof that we can remove the six inch or analysis six foot long tape worm investing the vital organs of our global financial system and all the headaches and migraines that are bank failures and quantitative easing would disappear is this correct stacy herbert. indeed max it is actually will go over this first headline here it's from china man a six inch worm removed from his brain a man plagued by headaches discovered a six inch long warm had burrowed into his brain is that he was weighing me and he was sixty from chengdu china and doctors removed the worm and here's a photo of it actually and you know to put this into context this is a six inch worm and i want you to take a look at this one now this is sixty five foot long. that goes in the gut and then the six foot w

we have started negotiations with kaiser for 2015. we started on august 1st, and we just had our second meeting. so, we'll be working, working with you going forward. >> thank you. >> any public comment on this item?

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welcome back to the kaiser report imax kaiser time out to go to gainesville georgia to talk with robert practice author of conquer the crash pop roger welcome to the kaiser report yes good to be here thanks max ok let's talk about this idea you call yourself a one handed economist who sees no chance of inflation that deflation is our future self speak about that a little bit. well i think the big problem is debt there are fifty five trillion dollars worth of dollar denominated debt when you go around the world and add up to debt it comes to about two hundred trillion dollars when the government ran out of steam pushing home ownership debt they started moving over to students and trying to push student loans those are now up to a trillion dollars when you add eighty four trillion dollars worth of unfunded liabilities of the federal government. when you look at perhaps a quadrillion dollars worth of what i call iou if which are derivatives i think the debt burden is so great that it's on payable no matter what anyone does including governments and central banks so i think it's going to go

welcome to the kaiser report i-max kaiser is george osborne the straw man of treasury secretaries according to wikipedia a straw purchase is any purchase where in the agent the straw person agrees to acquire good or service like a mortgage for someone who is unable or unwilling to purchase the good or service himself. and the agent transfers the goods and services to that person after purchasing. the mind boggles let's get stacy herbert in error to discuss this yes max today this morning across the world i've been noticing that this scam that happened in the us towards the end of the housing market bubble which was a famous case in arizona where this guy had a development he wanted to sell and flip all these condos so he got some straw persons to buy the properties and start bidding wars as if they were some huge demand for their property so with this in mind i would look at this headline no rush to sell lloyd's shares as bank returns to profit u.k. taxpayer now is thirty nine percent of lloyds max and the shares are booming shares left as it was announced it made two point one billion poun

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welcome to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser last week in london a sixteen and a half ton confluence of wet wipes and lard was found lurking in the sewer system no it wasn't j.p. morgan's london whale nor was it j.p. morgan's derivatives book its manipulation of the energy markets or its bogus mortgage backed securities this was a whole different ball of wet wipes and lard this was. burke more stacey yes max this is fat bergen it was lurking in the sewage system here we're going to use this as a metaphor for the global fat burger fraud going on around the world so first let's look at this thing that was in the sewage system here blimey it's slimy meat fat bird london sixteen point five ton confluence of wet wipes in lard the thirty three thousand pound berg came from modest beginnings flush wet wipes of food waste created from brits pouring grease and fatty foods dema drene fat bird creation is a vicious cycle thames water media relations manager simon evidence told henry gibraltar city's fact clings to wipes wipes cling to the fat oh right it's big as two of these huge london buses and

welcome back to the kaiser report imax kaiser time now to turn to dominic frisby dominic welcome back to the kaiser report thank you very much thank you very much much slower to be here i want to just point out that you are the resident gold bug at money week so fine publication in the u.k. are also the author of the crowd funded life after the state yes absolutely right and it's coming out in about a month's time all right down to beat let's talk about the u.k. economy g.d.p. is up is it up for the wrong reasons however as some are suggesting just tied to housing your thoughts well the housing market is enjoying a rally and our economy's too dependent on housing and finance few recoveries few by debts and money printing and so on and so forth the bottom line is we don't make enough stuff i think something like ten percent of our industry ten percent of g.d.p. is manufacturing once upon a time it was over fifty percent right so prior to the two thousand and seven two thousand crash the u.k. economy was over reliant on finance and housing so they after the crash george osborne decided

welcome to the kaiser report imax kaiser you know an eight hundred ninety congress passed the sherman antitrust act at first of course those modest at the supreme court refused to enforce the law always siding with the monopolist unless it was to break up a union but then in one thousand to two teddy the trust boss to roosevelt went after john pierpont morgan j.p. morgan who controlled the bulk of the railroad shipping across the northern united states through his northern securities of course j.p. morgan was. that he had not been warned that given a heads up for being treated like a common criminal today j.p. morgan is still around it relating rigging and monopolizing but we have a trust enabler in chief no trust busting trust a little or trust enabler stacy that's right j.p. morgan was of course outraged that he was treated like a common criminal of course nowadays it's impossible to treat them like a criminal no matter what they do whether they're reading energy markets whether they're bribing chinese officials whether they're rigging all sorts of markets across the world so we're

welcome to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser you know the dutch have got the economic. private debt has got them down the housing bubble is bursting bursting bursting the economy is contracting us therapy is biting oh on. and unemployment is rising but how is this possible when the dutch current account is positive the government deficit is smaller and exports are doing well something does not add up we need to bring in stacy herbert to see what the frick is going on over there in the netherlands max remember at the beginning of this financial crisis when it was and the economic crisis across europe and we needed to bail out greece and spain and italy and portugal and all these people with a profit get bad spending governments of the south well you know now the netherlands were always the one that were pushing the most foster care itty but it turns out private debt might matter more than government debt and the situation deflating housing bubble at heart of netherlands economic blues household spending has been falling for three straight years and it dropped again two p

well it was a kaiser report on max kaiser guys during it mom and pop you've gone and done it again almost playing the greater fool i guess that's why the wealth of mom and pop investor is going the way of the mom and pop convenience store frickin extinct right stacey exactly max well there's a myth going around that this is an unloved bull market by mom and pop that they have not participated in this rally in the dow and s. and p. well well mamma papa vespers blow it again data shows that the ordinary retail public mom and pop are back on wall street and have no according to the investment company institute the great american public has poured ninety two billion dollars into the stock market via stock mutual funds since the start of the year now if you put that into context last year at the in the beginning of the year they withdrew one hundred eighty billion dollars at its low but the mom and pop investor are the average investor let's give you a visual demonstration of what happens to these poor people oh my goodness that was my net worth i just went into that those fair you see they al

welcome back to the kaiser report i max kaiser time not to go to mass just sits and speak with chris martenson of pig prosperity dot com. chris welcome to the kaiser report thanks max it's good to be back all right chris. in a recent peak prosperity dot com you write of the four signs that we are in a dangerous bubble territory i'm assuming that means dangerous bubble territory in the stock market tell us about it well it's a dangerous bubble there it's also a really dangerous bubble in the bond markets the quantitative easing efforts across the globe all the central banks they've driven up asset prices everywhere of course they haven't gotten the growth that they've been looking for so what do you have what do you need to have a bubble will you need to have over priced assets that are well beyond the ability of incomes to sustain them whereas our income g.d.p. is not coming back and certainly not in europe not in japan not in the u.s. and so we've got overbought markets dangerously overpriced on both the equity and bond side so if you like rising stock prices and falling by the yiel

welcome to the kaiser report imax kaiser the great big cult of carney says inflation is tame at a mere two point eight percent in northern england this waco ever a pair of armed thieves were involved in a five hour standoff with police after barricading themselves into a cafe in order to steal quiche yes this stuff kiddish there is still a cast there curry is trast they know that it's worth next to nothing in this economy they just wanted. the mere existence of kids thieves in the u.k. it's a resoundingly dykeman of quantitative easing because while the creepy cult of carney says that inflation the same the headlines and the kids thieves tell us the truth about these times they headlines reads. train fares to outstrip inflation to rise four point one percent from the telegraph the headline reads pace of rising house prices outstrip the inflation with the economists predicting a headline house pres growth gets seven percent energy prices and food prices are also outstripping inflation there are more prices outstripping than a pole dancing i mean first of all states ever if prices are ou

he calls up clay who had with kaiser build roads in cuba, knew how kaiser work. clay, we're going to build a shipyard. clay did know a shipyard from the banana boat, but he knew his boss and said okay, where? richmond, california. there was nothing there. before long there were three shipyards there, richmond one, richmond two, enrichment three. his son went up the coast of vancouver and there were to our shipyards there. huge ones. and what kaiser did was, if you look at the existing shipyards, they were always crapped for space. so when you build a ship, what happened was you build it piece by pace. it's another boutique operation, and the result is you have all these people falling all over each other trying to do whatever job they are doing. and it's a very inefficient thing. it would drive a production manager crazy. kaiser changed all that. he said, build them from the bottom up. break them down into larger part as you can make. you number the parts and they literally do this. you know, it's like a puzzle. and what determine how large a part you could make?

welcome to the kaiser report imax kaiser scientists say we can now control rates with our minds. for ben bernanke and mark carney the canal just stare at the interest rate yield curve think real hard and make it do what they want now understand forward guidance x. x. x. rate it's a rat it's we can now control rats with our minds next up human oh oh i say yes i read about that. you can think your thoughts can move a rat make the red wagon stay a lot of people saw the news yes but it is a good idea to control rates maybe mark carney and ben bernanke and all the central bankers just sit around stare at the interest rate curve well it's in everybody's interest susan they speculate or class to keep interest rates artificially low so they're staring about older it's like the modern day we board but you know here they're speculating that maybe one day we might be able to control humans as well with our mind but in fact in london you can control humans with a recycling bin this recycling bin is following you recycling bins in the city of london are monitoring the phones of passer by so a