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Spain Considering a Tax on Using the Sun’s Energy

October 21, 2013

JBS CEO Art Thompson’s weekly news video update for Oct. 21 – 28, 2013.

In this week’s analysis behind the news video, JBS CEO Art Thompson discusses how the Spanish government is considering taxing the electricity generated from sunlight; how in 2009 the United States and China signed an agreement for a U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center; how China is investing in energy all over the world; how the Chinese government is re-educating Chinese journalists to toe the party line better, but with a Western journalistic flair; how the Chinese are buying up financial sector properties in New York City; and how House Speaker John Boehner is a member of the Transatlantic Policy Network, an organization that is encouraging the United States and the European Union to agree to a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership that would lead to the economic and political integration of the United States and the EU.