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Speaker 1: We tell you it is eight forty eight on Wall Street. Well,

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Speaker 1: be upon it. Mike, why don't you bring in our

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Speaker 1: good guest. Is William Cohen going on here today? Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's very appropriate to talk to um. Well, I guess

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Speaker 1: you'd called him Secretary, Senator, Congressman Cohen because he served

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Speaker 1: state of Maine before becoming the Secretary of Defense. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And he served under both parties he served as Secretary

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Speaker 1: political parties fight it out on this Super Tuesday, I

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Speaker 1: lot of people talk about that, but they don't talk

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Speaker 1: about the fact that he was a tremendous isolationist UH

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Speaker 1: mistaken policy. The world has become much more integrated economically,

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Speaker 1: been overcommitted in time to recommit ourselves in build nation

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Speaker 1: saw you you said, look, this future is a brown America.

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Speaker 1: I knew Secretary Cohen with what you have heard the

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Speaker 1: thirty nine excuse me, surveillance mistake. What you have heard

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Speaker 1: appealing to very racist sentiments that are still are quite

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Speaker 1: this goes back again the Secretary Cohen's book with his wife,

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Speaker 1: years ago. Secretary Cohen, thank you so much for joining

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Speaker 1: us today. William Cohen, of course of me, as was

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Speaker 1: wonderful Michael, just a great conversation to have after what

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Speaker 1: outside of the capital. Yeah, that would be the debate

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Speaker 1: as well. Right now from Washington, it is eight fifty

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Speaker 1: Opinions and commentary from Bloomberg columnists I'm Justin Fox, a

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Speaker 1: columnist for Bloomberg view. The cities with the healthiest job

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Speaker 1: markets are often those with the least affordable real estate. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: Five metropolitan areas met my test Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio, Minneapolis, Omaha,

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Speaker 1: Columbus is the fastest growing of the bunch, and it's

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Speaker 1: these places all have unemployment rates well below the national average,

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Speaker 1: faster if only more people moved there. So what are

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Speaker 1: you waiting for? I'm justin Fox, a columnist for Bloomberg View.

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