history as president joe biden is announcing a plan to rebuild u.s. infrastructure to reshape the economy now the 2 trillion dollars price tag would translate into 20000 miles of rebuilt road repairs to the 10 most economically important bridges in the country the elimination of lead pipes in service pipes from the nation's water supplies and a long list of other projects intended to create millions of jobs in the short term and strengthen american competitiveness in the long run joining us now to break this down boom bust co-host investigative journalist ben swan now ben obviously a plan like this it's massive let's start with the issue of the taxes what kind of increase are we actually talking about here. yes so essentially this is kind of rolled out over a long period it's not going to happen immediately but the idea here is to propose increasing the corporate tax rate back to 28 percent to the level that it was at prior to the trump tax cuts that took place in what 2017th so they want to go back to the 28 percent tax rate they also want to increas

biden the great geo political struggle of our time is democracy versus autocracy for biden we are in another great ideological struggle but there is a difference the west particularly the united states is the only ideological actor . this is boom bust the one business show you can't afford to miss branch of war and washington coming up millions of jobs and vaccine doses are going to waste following a mistake from a 3rd party producer should have we bring you the latest on the fate of the united nations process and how south korea is using block chain in its fight against kobe and with the vaccination process heating up in the u.s. what could the future hold for the movie industry after its evolution in the age of coronavirus later on we dive into the subject of a packed show today. and we lead the program with an issue affecting production of copan $1000.00 vaccines now according to reports baltimore maryland based emergent bio solutions improperly mixed ingredients several weeks ago which contaminated. 15000000 doses of johnson and johnson's vaccine now the facility has been working

become so critical in fact the white house is now stepping in saying it was 0 in on the issue president joe biden is now urging congress to invest $50000000000.00 in semiconductor manufacturing and research during a meeting with top executives from nearly 20 major companies president biden spoke about the situation tying it to his proposed 2 trillion dollar infrastructure package i was going to say for some time now china and the rest the world is not waiting and there's no reason why america should wait. seen aggressive leader is going to semiconductor batteries that's going to lead in others so we american jobs plan put forward to. revitalize the american manufacturing and securing our supply chain to invest in research and development as we used to and a very healthy matter but it's also about much more than it's about investing in infrastructure and infrastructure operate in the 20th century but the 21st century . so what can congress really do to resolve the problem and just how bad is it will joining us now to discuss this boom bust co-host investigative journalist ben swan now ben le

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president joe biden moving forward with a new round of sanctions against russia citing cyber spying and efforts to influence the presidential election now as i mentioned this is just the latest round of sanction sanctions which have been piling on 2014 this latest round comes as tensions between russia and ukraine are heating up president biden reached out to russian president vladimir putin in an attempt to calm these tensions with the u.s. president even proposing a summit between the 2 later leaders now are down to what exactly is included in this latest round of sanctions and their economic impact let's bring in boom bust co-host and investigative journalist ben swan now ben in these sanctions they've sanctioned 6 russian companies they reportedly support russian spy services what else is involved in these sanctions. yeah it's as you mentioned it's sanctioning essentially these you know to number of companies but it's also saying that in a series of other into these essentially in russia that are accused of being involved in interference in the election this goes all the back to 201

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at where markets ended up for the week global equities were largely up on new details for president joe biden's infrastructure plan while investors look to get their trades in before markets closed for good friday we start in russia where the mo x. is up this week a new report from the country's statistics service as russia started to pull out of its covert slump in the last quarter of 2020 g.d.p. shrank only 1.8 percent compared to a forecast of 2.2 percent and at the same time russia central bank is raising interest rates for the 1st time since 2018 moving to asia the shanghai composite it's also in the green this week reuters reported the country is looking at creating a nother stock exchange hoping to attract firms listed in hong kong and the united states and the. this comes as the u.s. regulators have put more pressure on chinese companies over any alleged government ties in hong kong the hang seng continues our street the index gained nearly 2 percent on thursday alone this was part of an overall rise in asian markets helped by a rebound in chinese manufacturing and containment o

of this country every adult or the age of 8018 or older will be eligible to be vaccinated president joe biden cutting 2 weeks of his may 1st deadline for states to make all adults eligible for coping vaccines that date is now april 19th according to the white house nearly one in 4 adults are fully vaccinated and one occupation rates are up biting urges americans. not let their guard down while still in the pandemic now being by any administration is launching a funeral assistance program it will provide up to $1000.00 to those who died of coated reporting for boom bust. time now for a quick break but when we come back corporate america is not too happy with the by an administration plan to increase their tax rate as the markets react to the hopes that any 2.3 trillion dollars spending bill could be right around the corner for the best that all met and as we go to break here the numbers of the close. russian officials are born a renewed military assault on the country's east could lead to the end of ukraine itself this is how serious the situation is washington and its nato allies blame

this country every adult over the age of 1818 or older will be eligible to be vaccinated president joe biden cutting 2 weeks of his may 1st deadline for states to make all adults eligible for coated vaccines that date is now april 19th according to the white house nearly one in 4 adults are fully vaccinated and while an occupation rates are up biting urges americans to not let their guard down while still in the pandemic now being by the administration is launching a funeral assistance program that will provide up to $1000.00 to those who died of cove it reporting for boom bust and cautious wait r.t. . time now for a quick break but when we come back corporate america is not too happy with the buying and ministrations plan to increase their tax rate as the markets react to the hopes that any 2.3 trillion dollars spending bill could be right around the corner for the cats at all net and as we go to break here are the numbers of the plough. to remember monopoly it's great to have a telephone boardwalk and park place. while we're entering answer big monopoly. we are segregated only by soc

biden's proposal is also to raise now the corporate tax rate in the u.s. up to 28 percent if you don't factor in state taxes the u.s. is going to have the highest tax rate on corporations in the industrialized world and the o.e.c.d. and that's not good. no no they're saying the devil is in the details certainly same they do apply here and there's been a lot of talk about what this new spending plan what it includes and what it's going to look like moving forward so christy what problems do you see with this massive infrastructure plan that the buy administration is promoting. well one of the main problems of those item is that it's largely politically and public sector driven it includes almost 40 percent subsidies to local corporations and the public sector which can actually reduce productivity and efficiency as it already happened in the past so on top of that it comes with the largest tax increase in the u.s. history and it basically is a massive increase in subsidies to nonproductive areas of the economy against a series of protectionist and very misg

joe biden is a centrist he's not the progress if is long right ico but we see that basically it doesn't matter who biden east because they're all much more powerful force and hoff and the 2nd reason is basically a already way you have the so-called centrist audience because. and more and more aggressive i mean look the wars in iraq and in yugoslavia were started by people in august who officially were not the extreme right the extreme left they were the so-called moderates sat on the german social democrats for the boat sake went to war for the 1st time since 1405 in yugoslavia it's the same story here basically of their so-called american sat that has become so corrupt and so paranoid i mean any question of bog they lections which wearing d. and you know very very strange and the won't of people have questions any such question is now ole bolt s. a conspiracy theory you know we see how good washington pols ghost off the door horny you know if we just question you know questioning once we're in the long you know why why a big tech company as you know why don't you know they have actuall

with joe biden seems to be really quite willing to embrace that i mean when we look at biden's policy towards russia towards china his administration is going to places really fast i don't think they know how they're getting there and what the outcome is going to be because it's terrifying a lot of people how do you see this scott go ahead. well understand it but i do ministration was compelled to reconstitute the mechanisms of national security policy and foreign policy making that the trump administration had done rogue for their term in terms of how policy was made many positions were not staffed other positions were just ignored and you know trump and his inner circle were making policy as opposed to the old fashioned way where you know ideas were put out to different departments they came together and deputies committees in the national security council came together and principals committees where the cabinet members got together and made you know again the president. that's what's his returning to and when you do that you become a prisoner of process and so that's what we see w

washington sends a confused message to russia as joe biden pulls for a stable relationship while cracking the sanctions with. washington has to understand that there will be a price for the degradation of bilateral relations and it is the us that is entirely responsible for what is happening. washington also rolls back on the sensational claims that russia often.

pushed it sends a confused message to russia was joe biden calls for a stable relationship while also cracking the sanctions with. washington has to understand that there will be a price for the degradation of bilateral relations and it is the u.s. that is entirely responsible for what is happening. as the founder of investigative journalist group project very tough stuff this latest exposé in which a c.n.n. executive that slipped the channels coverage is biased in favor.

well i of course agree horrible as joe biden was as a presidential candidate if his promises the better promises dozens of them were being kept things would be not quite so bad the war on afghanistan would be ended the troops would be out. so the wars across the middle east and the troops and the weapons would be out. you know and it's it's incredible that he comes right in and picks up where trump left off changes very little has yet to lift the sanctions against the international criminal court it for his rule based order has yet to lift the the the trade sanctions the tariffs on on china and continues with the weapons that the united states take the 50 countries on earth that the u.s. government itself calls the most oppressive $48.00 of them 96 percent are getting weapons and training and funding of their militaries from the united states military and so it's incredible that you can do that while at the same time preaching democracy and peace and rule of law it makes absolutely no sense to me and it requires incredible contortions and what i said that the president went by and by th

ideological confrontation western liberalism versus soviet communism according to joe biden the great geopolitical struggle of our time is democracy versus a caucus the. we are in another great ideological struggle but there is a difference the west particularly the united states is the only ideological actor . cross talking geopolitics i'm joined by my guest rick ross off in chicago he is an anti nato analyst and a contributor to antiwar dot com in bath we have bruce gagne he is the coordinator of the global network against weapons and nuclear power in space and in charlottesville we cross to david swanson he is the executive director of world beyond war all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate david let me go to you 1st in charlottesville . going after my introduction right here listening to the president the united states we're in a great ideological struggle against autocracy here very much in tune with what we experienced during the cold war which i remember very well and it was an ideological struggle but is ar

up until now but since taking office joe biden waited 3 months to calls alecky and we know that joe biden feels in some way compromised by his potential past links for the past leaks of his family members to ukraine so it's a tough issue for him but actually after the most recent round of worrying escalations in the east of the country you have biden called selenski this weekend for the 1st time so it's clear that i think this is a lever he believes he can poll in order to maintain his relevance in order to maintain his position as a as a world leader of porton and at the same time kind of throw meat to his hardliners and encourage as much support as possible in this kind of war effort and i think ukraine does still very much see itself as a country war i speak to ukrainian friends about this all the time and they say whatever our assaults on for example russian language might be whatever our compromises are on basic human rights because we are fighting a war and that psychological element that has kind of persisted since 2014 has never gone away in my view mary i mean ok this is a very d