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. ♪ rakuten oh! is this my money? whoaaah! haha! rakuten ♪ ahhh! rakuten!the first in the united states to roll out a universal basic income, ubi. the city once known as america's foreclosure capital, will pay oaf 100 low income residents 500 bucks a month, no strings attached to try to combat poverty. big question is, is it going to work? mattie duppler, senior fellow at the national taxpayer's union. she is working on this president's day. good morning to you. >> good morning. steve: it is not a real universal basic income thing stockton is doing. it is very limited. is it going to work? >> that is exactly right, steve. stockton knows they have seen the other examples around the globe of universal basic income that hasn't worked at out. it is not universal at all. affects 4% the population. it only goes for people below a certain median income. that is on silt of a ubi program. says everyone. get as payout, thinking being this gets rid of disincentives people getting aid to not find work. in finland and canada they tried these programs and they have found

. ♪ rakuten oh! is this my money? whoaaah! haha! rakuten ♪ ahhh! rakuten!turned himself in at 5:15 a.m. chicago time after making a statement to police. ainsley: his arrest comes hours after he was named an official suspect in the alleged hate crime attack against himself. smollett is charged with making false statements to police and if he's convicted he could face three years behind bars, if not more, actually, if they prove to be a federal crime. steve: right. exactly. that's the question is the feds apparently are looking into the fact that the threat letter was sent through the mail. news conference expected to reveal more details 10:00 a.m. eastern time. we will probably hear what was in the statement he made. actor will head to court this afternoon at 1:30 for a bond hearing. syndicated columnist and author joins us from today out in colorado springs michelle, a lot has been said about this case and a rush to judgment. so many people came out and were so supportive of him when he first told the story which as we now know was not true. >> right. it wa

we will be watching some other japanese earnings out later today, including rakuten.coming up, the dollar is on the longest rally for three years, the racing all rises for this year. we will talk about the outlook and whether this rally is sustainable. this is bloomberg. ♪ haidi: we are counting down to asia's first major markets open this morning. japan treasures back online. chinese markets return to trade as well. this is daybreak: asia. i'm haidi stroud-watts. shery: i'm shery ahn. the dollar's unrelenting march higher may find another year as central banks follow the fed's dovish pivot. the dollar has gained in every trading day since the fed's january rate decision. let's discuss that with terry weissman who is in the strong dollar camp. is this because you are seeing risk and that prompting, safe haven buying in the dollar that will offset a dovish fed? terry: it has something to do with the strengthen the dollar the past few weeks, but it is about growth in the u.s., sustaining strong levels against what is effectively lower global growth abroad. like i said,

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. ♪ rakuten oh! is this my money? whoaaah! haha! rakuten ♪ ahhh! rakuten!quarters, remember, they did the big search, they found one in northern virginia, they thought additional headquarters were going to be in long island, city, $3 billion in tax breaks to be there, everyone thought that's where they would be, a lot of progressives and leftists came out we don't want that in the backyard and democrats like bill de blasio wanted in the first place, the left is fighting the left whether amazon should be here in on island city. here is mayor de blasio in opposition to aoc. >> as a progressive in my entire life i will take on any progressive anywhere that's saying it's a good idea to lose jobs and revenue, i think it's out of teach -- touch with what people want, they want jobs and revenue, they want the things the government can do for them, they understand -- >> you will have people on the left, i can't believe i'm saying de blasio has made sense, first time i have ever said, it would create jobs and revenue for new york, aoc, doesn't understand how tax bre

japanese e-commerce giant rakuten considering the impact of trade tensions when it does business with. the ceo spoke exclusively to bloomberg, talking about why the company chose not to go with the chinese supplier. >> when were deciding what kind use, irts were going to talk with the japanese government and asked if i should investment are not and they said no problem, use it. but i kind of sensed the potential risk, even at 1%. i told myself i could not take 1% risk, something may happen to prohibit the chinese network to be used. use huaweid not to or zte because of the risk. i don't know if it is true or not, but i'm very happy i did not choose that. that meansosen them, i would roll back one year. i chose nokia. basically we are building our own hardware. we just by the antenna hardware from nokia, but in the next generation, we are an i.t. company integrating, core network, radio station network, all the technology by ourselves. >> do you think that huawei and zte's business could be seriously compromised as a result? >> it is obvious. it really close and they are still huge com