if we balanced our trade accounts and i think there is a moreo do that by investing in energy to messick lead that would reduce our energy imports. if we had policies that would boost our exports, that would bring our imports down a little bit. insteadntage would be of struggling to get 2% growth every year, our economic growth 3%the top would be between and 4%. they would be a lot more people getting jobs and if you letting .- accumulating wealth unfortunately, the benefits of the trade deficit right now are accrued mostly to wall street or to our foreign policy. americans,le-class who want good paying jobs. host: our next call from the republican line, mary jane. you are on with scott paul. outer: i wanted to find what areas of manufacturing are going to be promoted in this latest agreement -- trade agreement. guest: that's a good question. tpp, which is a trade agreement between the united states and about 11 other countries including mexico and canada, who we already have a trade agreement with. the biggest would be japan, from an numberia -- an economic scale. this agreement has bee

the dax is focused on more export oriented companies, and these midcap stocks are more to messick focusedn something every day when he listened to mark barton on bloomberg television, and to #metveven more, betty, g 790. v 790. but when it comes to height, you know who is better. betty: i have to hand it, mark, to our friend, matt miller. this is a really awesome chart. yours is great, but mats is a little more global. there you go. that's my justification today. thanks, guys. still ahead on the european close, alaska air has struck a deal to buy richard branson's virgin america for $2.4 billion. will this market new wave of consolidation in the airline industry? we will find out. ♪ betty: the wave of consolidation takes flight again in the airlines business. today, alaska air agrees to buy virgin america for $2.6 billion. the 47% premium to return america stock price since bloomberg first reported that richard branson's packed airline was looking for a buyer. told kush has just bloomberg news is unlikely the u.s. government will seek to investors. he also added that jeff lu did not bid s

scarlet: the government believes the solution for a limited chilean to messick market would be to provideower for neighbors like argentina. what kind of steps would be necessary for regional integration? maximo: we have taken the steps already, as a matter of fact, we've started to export from chile to argentina in the northern part of the country. we've also builds, in the 90's, eight pipelines, gas pipelines that we used to import gas from argentina, now we are exporting gas to argentina, gas that we don't have but we bring from other parts of the world through our infrastructure. and now we are exporting gas to argentina, which is a net importer of gas. scarlet: speaking of exports and imports, the minister had mentioned commodities and copper. i want to show you a function on the terminal which is ett are go, a trade flow. i'm sorting by exports. this shows where chile sends its goods. not surprising that, it sends the bulk of its goods to china. $21 billion worth of exports in 2014 copper is a big part of that. that's more than double chile's next biggest customer, which is the unite