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by that each day our special events. We had a special event today in studio from London. Tina Fordham joined us with their colleague Abrambari at Fordham Global Foresight. They are the foundation of what City Group built in research and it's a long history. I'm not going to bore you with it. But the recent liftoff of City Group expertise was David Balin in the equity space and over into fixed income, and Willem Bouder, the giant from the
Netherlands in economics, and then Katherine Mann. Catherine Mann came out of my record I can't remember right now, but I want to say over to brandeis outside Boston and then expertise, foundational expertise in the relationship of China with the United States, and wrapped around them was Ibraham Obarian Foreign Exchange in Tina Fordam in international relations. Here Tina Fordam her latest on Ukraine.
Ukraine joining native I don't think has been a realistic goal. But Ukraine with having a European perspective, as the EU likes to say, is a realistic goal, and that is an anchor for the European Union. I think, you know, the military strategists like to quote the old saying that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. When Vice President Advance gets to Munich, he'll get an earfull and be confronted with the European reality because Russia's on our doorstep.
We've got several Natal member states that are very concerned. This isn't just about creating a demilitarized zone in the occupied territories. If it were that simple land for peace, it would already have been done.
China Fordham now her colleague imbrah Mbari here on our debt and our deficit.
I think people have been missing how focused they are on to some degree managing what they see as a vulnerability in terms of the level of debt and deficit and how much power they have. I mean, the standard answer you get from anybody on US fiscal is well, the executive can't really do very much. Is congresses job. Congress is so dysfunctional and divided. We are seeing them
taking out They're trying to cut spending. They have a lot more power over Congress than previous administrations have had. So there's I think interesting fiscal action going on right now, which is different from what people expect. There's the bigger question that a lot more people ask about, which is, you know, when are we entering the period of physical crisis in the US. And there, I think massive topic
to watch. But that timing, you know, if anything is actually slightly pushed back relative to what we thought a couple of months ago, than you know, what people were expecting.
Ibrambari and Tina Fordham A Forulnerablobal Foresight. What an eventful February it has begun. Of course, the Chairman's testimony and the CPI today and the PPI tomorrow, retail sales on Friday, all of a sudden becomes very important. I'm not going to take the sharpness of single best idea to pontificate on that, but it's a nominal number. That means it's
a top line number. It's all in, including inflation. It'll be really interesting to see the linkage there retail sales dynamics over to what we see within the CPI on your commune across the nation. Thank you on Serious XM, Apple car Play Android Auto. Good morning to a snowbound ninety nine one FM. Nathan Hager's batteries wore out in a snowblower. It was so deep by that I think I got the three inches of snow, so it just outrageous. Good Morning in New York, Bloomberg eleven three to zero
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