naim isn't too tall story of unusual when and i want to tell the stories of ordinary, frightened women who could have been me and that is when i started with my mother put them of course it spread out. her story was very sad pity if she was in love with a man that was killed in 1943. she had to get through the rest of the war in the state of tragic loss and she then picked up her life post war in a very interesting way by taking up the job in the reconstruction of germany. she went out to germany in late 1945 and stayed until -- i think cn which state of germany she said we had it bad here in london berlin was flattened. she went to see the concentration camp after it had been liberated obviously after the people had been released but i think she was shocked and put her own suffering into perspective and started the healing process so that she was able to pick her life up after that and of course she did leader meet another man and had lived long happy marriage with him. >> host: first of all your first book is completely unrelated to the women in the war. is there any connection betwe

didn't expect the pitcher, in this case the pitcher is the bond market, to be able to whirl around and naim nail them. you are complacent and confident one minute. you are plain out the next. head down, walking to the dugout, kicking yourself, furious at yourself because you thought you weren't vulnerable since you just arrived safely at 1st and didn't think you were exposed nearly as much as you thought. that's what happened today and yesterday afternoon. for the last longest time i have been talking about saver's us a territory. that's the process by which the federal reserve lowered interest rates down long enough to give access to cheap money. we know, of course, only the most qualified borrowers were able to get money from banks. we know from aig, you need a fico score of 750 to qualify for a bigger mortgage. we know that housing prices are coming back. a stackering figure that combined with the rising stockmarket has made people feel much wealthier, even though we are down from the 2006 high for homes, not stocks. hence, why we just saw these statistics yesterday showing americans wer

. >> host: it is my pleasure to interview moises naim for this episode of "after words." you are a noted columnist, international economics and globalization. you are also a scholar for the endowment for international peace and formerly editor of foreign-policy magazine and former trade minister of venezuela. so, all that said you have also now written a new book

>> host: it is my pleasure to interview moises naim for this episode of "after words." you are a noted columnist, international economics and globalization. you are also a scholar for the endowment for international peace and formerly editor of foreign-policy magazine and former trade minister of venezuela. so, all that said you have also now written a new book called "the end of power" and that is what we are here to talk about today. so, let's start at the beginning. which i think is how did you come to write this book and how did all of those various experiences and form what went into this? >> guest: thank you and you encapsulated many of -- by doing all of those things as you mentioned i arrived at having an instinct and intuition about what was going on with power. we all know that power is shifting from west to east, from north to south, from very big companies to startups and people and presidential palaces to people in the streets. we know that is happening in the world. i suspected there was something more profound happening to power. power was experiencing au

of the 108 cases approved, 31 or t party and the naim/12 patriot organization. >> so the question isr fun, adventure? no it is it for the money? there are easier ways of making a living of and by doing that. we do it to understand the world. and how it changes. the world tends to move like the earth's plates. the tension builds and then suddenly they snap with violent political change and we go to where the cracks are to see how this place is putting together. we do this so the innocents have a voice and show tv pundits the studio jockeys that they are usually wrong. we do it because we decided that this is what we want to do with our slice of time on this planet. yesterday the senate labor committee heard testimony from the national labor relations board. an independent agency that enforces employees and employers rights. three of the five nominees were appointed last year to the board by president obama through recess appointments. in january, the d.c. federal appeals court ruled those appointments were unconstitutional. although the administration has appealed the decision to the

we made up in naim town replica. standing up like this, not lying down. we moved it with 25 people, even 1 inch rope and we put it on a kind of bobsled thing and pulled it forward over the fence posts. we moved it 150 feet in two minutes rolling time. i thought that was pretty well solved but now they are starting to walk statues and do a few things if you see the national geographic recently, look out for the contrived part of that. they haven't done the archaeology of the roadways. 27 of my students and i went down there, not all at once, and the excavated a thousand feet of the roadway looking for clues how the move the statues along. they haven't done that yet. they haven't done the background archaeology which is interesting. anyhow, the point i am trying to say is when you see the new documentaries on easter island they will cover it with trees when. at the end result of all of that is that they take two or three years to germinate, and another 81200 years to grow into a mature palm. when you cut one down is down for ever. easter island is as bear a

were you surprised when francis naim and that a judgment was selected. >> i'm more surprised by the latteran the former. [laughter] >> that's why i don't say anything. i can be pretty much a smart alec and that is what got me on the national news. spec ironclad -- i don't know. i just go to church. >> here is a question from bridget daily. without discussing the merits of the same-sex marriage case is argued in the court rather than the legislative branch of the state's. >> a for effort. [laughter] >> let me try this -- >> let's try this one. >> married to your wife, a white woman and as you know the supreme court struck down a virginia law that prohibited interracial marriage. was the court correct in waiting on that issue? >> that's pretty much eight. it is a racial classification. >> we look at some of the things written and i tried to talk about the racial classification. we have to be really careful because some of the things that we are really comfortable classifying people by race why? because we like a particular classification. welcome some people particularly like the racial clas