Dow plunged more than 500. 00 points to break both the 50 day and the 100. 00 Day Moving Averages with big tech leading the decline Global Market slump after the u. S. Manufacturing i assume tumbled to more than a decade low sparking fears that a recession may now be unavoidable as a fallout from the trying to us trade war has now spread historically equity returns are the worst when the i as a manufacturing drops from levels below the 50 threshold whats even more concerning now though are the details about print new orders employment and production they were all either soft or how to tear it even further only 3 of the 18 industries in the survey reported growth the lowest figure since 2009 adding to the bad news European Companies are set for their worst Quarterly Earnings in 3 years the latest data lifted the feds bond rates futures sharply with the november contract now pricing in an 80 percent chance that the fed will cut interest on 30th in mana. Terry turns and looks like were at a race to the bottom the e. C. B. Have we introduced q. E. At 20000000000. 00 euros per month the r. B. A. Cut 25. 00 bits again the p. B. O. C. Is now pledging to get rates lower and meanwhile the fed remains a laggard in this entire rate cycle their funding stresses in the repo market that are not going away and now we have just witnessed vision literally detonating overnight destroying confidence and also more v. C. Ventures and capital and liquidity are now scarce and getting scarcer we are now in the quad Witching Hour with the nasdaq below the 100 Day Moving Average the dow below the 100 day the s. And p. Balut below the 100 day and finally the russell 2000 below the 200. There is news on a relatively neglected front of the trumpet ministrations global trade conflict with both allies and declared adversaries today the u. S. Has won a round in the World Trade Organizations arbitration system in the latest episode of a long running case over european subsidies to airbus and analogous u. S. Support for the boeing company in their latest ruling on the 15 year old case the panel of 3 corporate lawyers deciding the case found that officially subsidized loans for airbus caused harm to us competitors valued at 7500000000. 00 annually and granted permission to the United States to retaliate with tariffs on 7500000000. 00 worth of european imports Financial Services are specifically exempted from coverage in the u. S. Tariff permit a countervailing decision on what european policymakers can do to punish the u. S. For their corresponding defacto subsidies for boeing is expected early next year or bust stock fell more than one percent on todays news. With more on the macro headwinds facing our Global Economy we bring back richard the fact that economics emeritus at the university of massachusetts amherst so professor the market is now reacting hard to the bad guys and as historically there has been. A very strong correlation between the pm i thought i sense and then equities market in the Services Sector however is whats been holding up the entire market right now and all eyes will be on the Services Reading tomorrow the gap between the services and the manufacturing number has never been further apart so while manufacturing start to drag down services or and Services Remain intact. I think i would bet on the pulling down effect of manufacturing on services and the reason goes back if you like a little bit historically this is an Economic System thats very unstable every 4 to 7 years wherever capitalism has existed it has an economic downturn we are now 8 and even 10 years since the last real bad crash back in one in 2008 and 9 we are due for a one Everybody Knows it it would have been bad and probably come a little bit earlier but having pushed it off postponed it mostly because mr trump doesnt want to run for reelection on a bad economy and keeps telling us how good it is weve postponed it and now that the chickens are coming home to roost this is going to be a big one and whichever sector goes 1st its this accumulated historical over and hang on president the debt a globalized economy that is now being ripped apart by these russian u. S. China flying these are all signs that we are in for a very rough ride and professor wolf the u. S. Dollar is now a fresh 2 year high but right now russia is among the actors rapidly reducing their holdings of u. S. Dollars and switching to other currencies in trade contracts are also notably stocking up on gold one of the countries are doing this and what does this mean for the u. S. In the future of the dollar worlds reserve currency. I think what we have to understand is that up until recently. Central banks around the world accumulated the dollar as a reserve currency because they thought the conditions of the next 1020 years would be more or less like they were in the last 10 or 20 thats what people do they project what is happening now is that all projections are being thrown out the window because of this aggressive attack by the trumpet ministration 1st on canada and mexico which at least the democrats opposed then on the immigrants which at least the democrats opposed but finally on china where the democrats are frighteningly silent we now see that the world knows that all bets are off where this will go and so everybody is recalibrating what they should hold and since they had so many dollars before many of them not just russia many countries are in the process of downloading reducing their dependence on the dollar and the long term effects of that are almost anybodys guess but theyre not good right and professor wolf one other sort of fundamental consequence of the dollar being high high currency of course is not a favorable thing in terms of terms of trade because it makes your exports more expensive in other markets and so the dollar at a high in the midst of a trade war whats a potential for the interactions of those factors. Well heres the other side of that same coin when the dollar is high its cheap for American Companies to buy Foreign Companies which theyve been doing if the dollar falls it becomes cheaper for others to buy American Industries and coordinate a control abroad so before we get too excited about bringing down the value of the dollar remember that it will increase the power of Foreign Countries and Foreign Corporations who are already strong in the American Economy to become stronger its a situation in which whichever way the dollar goes it cuts both ways and were going to have to see how that plays out before we can say what the balance will be. So now the fed is theyre starting to continue their operation this week and while the drop in total reaper years was certainly an improvement from last weeks numbers they continued to man for reserves now suggest that this funding shortage is anything but a calendar band like what they said it was or claimed it was so doesnt this confirms that there is now an acute shortage in reserves. Yes and it confirms that there are more structural more basic reasons for that aberration over the last couple of weeks in the report markets it suggests that the same Underlying Forces crushing the manufacturing worse in the International Trade are also squeezing liquidity more and more companies are very worried about whether the people they do business with are going to go bankrupt the other companies but increasingly the over indebted consumer we are looking at a very serious economic crunch and we are not being helped by a government that keeps telling us we have the greatest economy in the world which distracts us from the fundamental problems this economy has and professor will finally very quickly we noted that the white house has proposed the president has at least proposed placing capital in the u. S. Capital flows to china is that at all even feasible much preferable. In the past i would have said i dont think so but this is a government thats getting more and more desperate about its reelection more and more aware that what its done so far is causing as many griefs for them as advantages so im beginning to wonder as is the world you know it doesnt matter that i wonder but bankers around the World Governments around the world the United States is becoming what it used to call other countries namely economically at least a rogue state. Someone you can predict doing wild things that have repercussions that the people doing this dont seem to care about or dont understand Interesting Times when the global head of money goes rogue d yes Richard Wolfe host of economic update thanks so much for your insight. Thank you. Theres more drama around the german role in settling the e. C. B. Monetary policy this week the head of the German Central Bank is warning its colleagues at the European Central bank against modifying the current limits on the renewed Bond Buying Program formally known as q. E. In an understated but clear language the blueness Bank President meant told the audience of vienna says the accuracy and importance of the limits set by the governing council on the Government Bond purchases have not changed i hope that the decisions now taken dont lead to these restrictions being questioned mr wildmans comments seem to be aimed at the preemptive concerns of some expert observers who say that the e. C. B. Is likely to hit limits on purchases before inflation hits their target of 2 percent the e. C. B. Policymakers have said that they would not hold the bond purchases until the euro zones inflation reaches that level. For a quick break but stay tuned because when we return amazon has come under heat for controversy around Recognition Technology and now that commerce giant is proposing to write their own regulations for their own program literally author and. Joins a program to give us his view on whats in store for this sector and as we go to break here are those market numbers on a wild day at the close. Up. Rather than to follow on that comes out of the cold war to get out of the set up one among them. A far left for the main t. V. Fade to high is not the high. I thought this month when the sun shone. From close to the most near me a lot of the. Business. And then it is someone who did the board. Didnt. Know why a paradise with some ground turned into a round the experimentation feels great cultural chemicals we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants theres no question otherwise why would the Chemical Company workers themselves be geared up that suited up locals attempt to combat the on regulated experiments that often in day you have many of these people one foot into the biotech pharma and the other foot in the government regulatory bodies this kind of collusion is reprehensible while the battle goes on the chemicals continue to poison hawaii and its people so one has to ask the question whether there is a form of Environmental Research going on in hawaii whether these Companies Feel they can get away with this because the people have less political power. Welcome back there is more legal intrigue in the Banking Sector to report today as a former currencies trader at citi group sues the Global Mega Bank for 112000000. 00 the former head of citi Group European currency trading desk in london. Danny allege that in the wake of the 2013 rate fixing scandal in that market city unfairly singled him out for suspicion in an effort to create a scapegoat plaintiffs lawyers wrote in the suit quote city quite literally fabricated an antitrust case for the d. O. J. Against raunch on danny based upon knowingly false allegations that he engaged in market manipulation and collusion mr Armstrong Dani and tool edged accomplices in the alleged rape fixing were quickly quoted the trial was citigroup eventually settled the rate fixing case with payment of 2000000000. 00 in fines to authorities and the u. S. And the u. K. France is now the latest country to start cracking down on short sellers as a country reacts to a growing wave of activists investors who are targeting some of its best known company cars on block who is the worlds most feared short seller now turn his 10 year reign of terror from china to france blocks hedge fund muddy waters has launched bear attacks on france hottest stocks including retailer casino. I t Firm Solution 30 and rally as say thinking those share prices down over 30 percent now government commissioners have published recommendations and to prevent short sellers and activists from what they call the stabilizing french corporate these have included widening the disclosures of short positions to derivative instruments pushing for more transparency around the borrowing and lending of the stock and investigating whether the market functions are jeopardized once short selling reaches a certain volume of. Shares so there has always been a controversy around shorts i however they play anything never gone wrong in the markets they contribute to oppression price discovery increased market liquidity uncovering fraud and corporate misdeeds but still take hedging and limit aboard market manipulation a really good example short selling thing never get involved identifying the overpriced enron and then up subsequently unraveling their accounting practices. French president emanuel my kronwall visit china next month to meet with his chinese counterpart president xi jinping for talks on an agenda includes Climate Change and trade this is the french president s 2nd trip to china since taking office in 2017 r g r t surely paris has a story on this upcoming diplomatic journey. Well its been confirmed president maclin is to make a 2nd official visit to china late in the next month in the hopes of deepening trade between his country and china and also to try deepen relationships when it comes to fighting Climate Change now this comes at a time when there is an escalating resistance from e. U. Leaders and also from businesses to do trade with china over what many have seen as chinas reluctance to change its practices over what many say are unfair issues such as currency manipulation which also has been a criticism from the United States now this visit will be seen as being very important of course china is a huge economy and a big trading partner for the European Union so president maicon wants to get ahead of that hes also hoping that that trade will bring some sort of appeasement to european leaders who at the moment are concerned that washington could be about to make some retaliate or tree at tax and levies on european products this is retaliation for a verdict earlier this year the World Trade Organization ruling that european governments had illegally subsidize. European Company Called countries in europe fearful that their products could soon be what with extra tax and cost much more now the e. U. Is also being present as well to move closer with china in regards to Climate Change while at the same time the u. S. Seems to be moving further away so interesting to see the president making his 2nd visit next month to china and officials use it in the hopes of strenth singhs toys when it seems that ties with the United States are only getting. From paris last. The fusing of facial Recognition Technology with the corporate powers of amazon empire is causing many privacy advocates to warn that the pope in visions of the future may be much closer to becoming a real life philip k. Dick novel than we think the u. S. Based global retail. Who also owns the Washington Post newspaper has developed a facial recognition system known as recognition with a k. The company has faced criticism even from amazon employees over their past attempts to sell recognition to interested customers and as well as the police and Immigration Enforcement regimes that tortures children by separating them from their families now mr bezos the richest man in Human History has generously offered to advocate the Public Interest in this debate by writing the very laws that might regulate this unsettling and profoundly risky test knology joining us now to discuss this issue at the cutting edge of technology and the Global Business is the author and tech executive alex. So alex writing regulations for your very own and very lucrative company is a very interesting predictor meant right now and it seems a very bold move for this Company Facing an antitrust investigation from the d. O. J. So what they may mr baseballs proposed this week in seattle at the annual event to promote their alexa device a product that already has privacy issues of their own. So i think youre correct in saying that this could be a problem i also want to point out and really unpack this in in 2 ways 1st of all every company in the u. S. That has a serious lobbying arm is interested in writing their own laws so i dont think amazon is any different in that regard and this is to be expected because they want to get ahead of the privacy concerns they want to get ahead of what people are saying and ideally as weve seen with all these Tech Companies the way they prefer to deal with any type of controversy is to either make sure that there is voluntary compliance rather than mandatory compliance or if there are laws being written that they are way ahead of that curve now to take the 2nd level though we should ask a bigger question which you alluded to and thats how do we handle a society where literally our face is being captured almost every word go by cameras by all Different Companies that want to use that for their own purposes maybe without telling us how theyre going to use it right alex you started touching on some of the issues involved here but temporarily setting aside the ethical and Security Issues presented by recognition theres practical matters the city of Orlando Florida canceled their pilot deployments of the technology because as you know linda weekly put it this cap to 15 months of technical way eggs been with the issues and uncertainty over whether the controversial phase scanning Technology Actually works so what are the protests persistent technical bugs here aside from the ethical issues and what is amazon doing to patch those bugs. So i think actually everybody is having these kind of bugs when theyre trying to run facial recognition at scale even in china which probably has the most advanced facial recognition programs of anyone in the world and some of their companies over there are actually selling technology back into the u. S. They struggle when theyre trying to do facial recognition thats running in the field in wild conditions without specific band with or without specific ways of making sure that it works amazon is also struggling the same way because facial Recognition Technology as something thats just happening out there is still pretty cutting edge you dont get me wrong the algorithms that can do this are everywhere theyre easy to use they are essentially open source but at the same time its a big difference between making it work in a lab almost a limited subset of people versus making it work in the field or on a database thats less structured where maybe the images its trying to recognize the faces are not all perfectly positioned theyre not all perfectly spaced maybe someones word or glasses or Something Like that so now turning back to the issues around the collusion of recognitions with this the stomach racism in u. S. Law enforcement the a. C. L. U. Of Northern California notably tested the system using headshots of members of congress with mug shots so they found a high that also match rate of 28 out of 535 members falsely identified as a match with people of color being disproportionately represented accounting for 11 among those 28 false matches so tell us how these technical issues can begin to get tangled in issues of Racial Justice as well as general privacy. So look this isnt just a recognition issue this is an ai issue and this touches on the fact that all they are learning is built on top of Previous Data the only way that Machine Learning systems can learn is by looking at what we tell is correct and building off of that so if all of the Previous Data all of the previous. Theyre biased which we know they are then of course youll start to see racial bias pop up in newer systems thats not necessarily a fault recognition or a i thats a fault of us in our inability to create data thats actually clean and not racially biased and its going to be a tremendous problem Going Forward not just for what youre seeing with facial recognition of politicians or facial recognition of everybody but all sorts of issues were ais touching our lives whether we get credit and bank loans whether we are awarded jobs or whether we pass through the interview process is all things like that and alex you touched on this earlier but some observers have said of course its understandable that mr bass those would propose self regulations and many legacy sectors of todays economy have effectively captured the agencies that are supposed to regulate them but is that view perhaps cynical likely to be vindicated in the end with amazon and ultimately winning the privilege of regulating itself in a manner analogous to the way we say see say the oil industry influencing the u. S. Interior department. Oh its absolutely a risk and i think its a terrible idea for the companies that are making the technology to write the rules and be given the right to decide how they will be held accountable i think that that should be a much broader discussion i think the risk here is that the technology is really out running the regulations right now you can go and buy amazon recognition as a service with a credit card you dont have to have any special technical capabilities theyve designed it so that almost any programmer can bake that into the algorithms that theyre running so right now this is out there its being used and i think that amazon of course wants to regulate themselves or wants to at least write the laws but as a society we really need folks like the a. C. L. U. Or f. F. To weigh in and say wait a 2nd how is facial recognition really going to be use will we have control of our faces Going Forward and its literally that question will we. Be able to control the use of our free so the data from our face in the way systems interact with us in society i think jeff bezos is just trying to implement some regulation a space where there hasnt been any yet somewhere and watch as well author and tech executive i thought i thank you so much for and site. Thank you. Then finally nasa has selected 14 u. S. Based companies to receive a total of more than 40000000. 00 that will Fund Projects for further rect exploration of the moon and mars individual companies will receive grants between one point 3. 00 and 10000000. 00 for projects that will work to solve a myriad of issues that affect space travel the funds come from nasa as Artemus Program which hopes to land humans on the moon again by 2024 the largest block of funding is going to amazon founder jeff bezos as blue origin that company will focus on Cryogenic Technology that they hope will eventually lead to be able to be able to produce fuel on the moon you know on mosques space x. Also receive funding as part of the project its ironic picked. And all their companies are actually powerful and they have been making so much money that they dont need to fund a. Government entity that doesnt even create any profits for their own right one and then jeff bezos of course famously said theres really no way for me to spend all the money i have. Trying to get in the space but i dont know why needs the grants in that case and any case that by this time you can catch the must on direct t. V. Channel 321 dish network to 80 or screen 27 on player t. V. The free t. V. App to 79 or you can always catch is that you tube dot com. Danny and by north its so many people because a cop beat him hes so good that even such a bad cop be sending. Im not killed to dog anybody. Im here to find the next guy. Looked up live on. Sunday and fell to feed the dog she went on party at. The click some for the c. E. O. Saying to the deflection boards are pretty safe. That is a god given that i got off the mini answer. That he and others are going to write about that. He can bank on he gets nothing like a. 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