This is a CBSI and the world. I'm John Bachelor. Bloomberg headline,

positive. World economy has growing chance of soft landing, G20 says.

G20 are the 20 largest economies, the US leads of course,

and the meeting of the finance ministers in Sao Paulo promises better days ahead, we believe.

We note that the likelihood said the draft of a soft lending and the global economy has increased.

Risks to the global economic outlook are more balanced.

Upside risks include faster than expected dis-inflation.

I welcome Mary Kessel, Executive Vice President Stevens Incorporated,

former senior advisor to the Secretary of State, and before that many years observing

China in Hong Kong for the Wall Street Journal

editorial page. Mary I begin with prosperity or the promise of such because we

know the best tool that the US has and its allies against the axis of resistance is that

our economies are beautiful, transparent, ambitious, and at the same time free.

And that is a great recommendation.

We've gone through a bad patch of the pandemic.

We're in some stage of recovery that we can argue about percentages.

But in any event I start with the G20 finance ministers in Sao Paulo because I think that's

the best single advertisement to the part of the world that wants prosperity. Do you agree with me, Mary? Good evening to you.

Good evening to you, John. Of course we should all want robust sustainable, healthy, economic growth because it's the key to human flourishing.

And it's been the secret to the United States' post-World War II success, this incredibly competitive capitalist system that we enjoy, underpinned by a strong

predictable rule of law, property rights, and a free press which allows an outside monitoring of boards of

directors and CEOs and and the like it's also very easy in the United States to go bankrupt and to start over again.

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