all up in this thing steve kean professor of economics at kingston university in the u.k. joins us live on the program to offer his take good to see you steve how would you assess donald trump's economic policies there so seems to be a bridging respect from his critics that you know jobs are being created markets are up but he is protectionist to the core disney is he doing as much good for america as he claims. of course not because he always dramatically exaggerates everything that's been his business practice all the way through and he got quite a bit of bad press from that in new york for quite some time before he ran for president but he i am actually in favor of his industrial attitudes because he doesn't see free trade is being a vehicle of growth and frankly when you look at the economic theory behind it it's not just nonsense only economists could believe the nonsense that spouted support for a tried what gives you growth is investment and industrialization and actually to some extent what he's doing help america invest slightly more but of course the rest of what

seventeen thousand dollars to discuss this issue let's cross live to professor of economics at kingston university steve keen thanks for joining us been a rollercoaster for a bit going has the last few months why do you think south korea's promise of trades. well i've heard anecdotally that about one third of the industrial workers in south korean corporations invested in bitcoin and quite a few of you borrowed money to do it so there's certain worry about this being biased on the belief that the corn price always rises so they've got cheap figured money they've borrowed and rising value in bitcoin it's a nice way to make a fortune of course is the big con process going the opposite direction will be lots of potentially bankruptcy of south korean workers so that's one major issue the other of course is if it can is actually being used to evade tech session. in those countries have every right to say we're going to crack down on it we've cracked down all of the forms of tax evasion why not this one i mean if more and more countries are going to ban or at least you know have a restrict the use of cr

former minister of information and in weybridge fast skype gunderson a middle east specialist at kingston university london and i will welcome to all of you with other first of all if you will your response to this new york times report on egypt you surprised by what a pretty shocking revelations i am not sure how serious this report is or how accurate it is because it is building the whole story on information leaking from one officer. which contradicts the official positions that were declared very easy and we know that those israeli side so many other parties trying to put a list in use in confrontation with. not only the united states but also with many arab countries and we will not allow that to happen but that does not mean we should not be very clear about our position as you lose a limb is the capital of palestine anybody who there has to touch the rights of the palestinian people. in jerusalem over the rights of muslims and arabs in jerusalem or to christians as well will be perceived as a threat to the rights of people to history of this place ok and i do not buy much of what was said bec

seventh of january when it hit seventeen thousand dollars we spoke to economic professor at kingston university steve keen who thinks was only created for speculators. it's perfectly designed for speculation it's very very badly designed for money now once people can see the speculation to down as well as up then all this left is it's used as a form of money and i don't believe it has that capability so i think the the downside is a damn sight larger than the upside there sure the concept of having a guy in alberta than replacing having a trust that the saudis are transactions can work if the transactions can occur at the speed we need which is something of the order of you know hundred thousand old mole transactions per second so i know there are some crypto currency s. that are working in that direction there are even block china technologies that don't use a crypt currency they use existing currencies that enable you make the transactions through the algorithm rather than through a banking system so one of those more than one warlock is going to survive but i don't think that coin is going t

can speak now to apriljackson — a former miss jamaica universe, restaurant owner and one—time candidate on the bbc‘s apprentice. she grew up in kingston my holiday is just as amazing as when i arrived on sunday last week. do you feel safe? pardon? are you feeling safe? completely safe. i think that's why i was urged to talk about it. if i was reading the headlines i have seen, i would probably be quite worried. he underground, i wouldn't know. why'd you think it is that people outside ofjamaica you think it is that people outside of jamaica are very you think it is that people outside ofjamaica are very worried, when we have spoken to two people... it looks like we have lost april. that isa looks like we have lost april. that is a shame. we were speaking to apriljackson error. she is on holiday, born in kingston. can you hear me? i can hear everything. why do you think it is that outside of jamaica, people are very worried? what's going on? i think... when i'm in brixton and my restaurant on something happens in brixton, whether it is my crime or a shooting, when you read it it can be quite concerning because we don't apply the same r

seventh of january when it hit seventeen thousand dollars we spoke to economics professor at kingston university steve he thinks but corn was only created for speculators. it's perfectly designed for speculation it's very very badly designed for money now once people can see speculation to lead to down as well as up then all this left as it's used as a form of money and i don't believe it has that capability so i think the the downside is a damn sight larger than the upside their actual a concept of having a a an algorithm replacing having a trust that the body for transactions can work if the transactions can occur at the speed we need which is something of the order of you know one hundred thousand old mole transactions per second so i know there are some crypto currencies that are working in that direction there are even block china technologies that don't use a crypto currency they use existing currencies that enable you make the transactions through the algorithm rather than through a banking system so one of those more than one more law is going to survive but i don't think that coin is go