Hello everybody and i hope you can hear me. Sonnon the secretary of agricule along with my co moderator and and rated and you are here today to welcome you to this Bipartisan Policy Center food summit. We want to thank you all for being here. We want to thank our guests and especially secretary sonny perdue who we will introduce in a minute. This is become one of the most talked about issues of the whole covid19 issue. It has to relate to the food supply. From the production to the processing to the distributing to the consumption. And how it affects farmers, how it affects processors and how it affects the average person and particularly the hungry. So we are delighted to be here. We can dove into every issue in great depth because of the time. But its a way to start the discussion and we think we will have an interesting time listening to this very important issue about feeding this country. So i would like to again welcome everybody and thank the Bipartisan Policy Center for their h
Good evening, everyone. Im the director of outreach here. I want to welcome you to this talk. First nurseries of spring programs. You can find out more about these programs by picking up more at the front desk. You can fill out the information evaluation sheet. You can also pick one up at the front desk. We are a National Research library Whose Mission is to preserve and share the printed record of the United States, portions of canada, before the 21st century. We collect anything and everything in these parameters. From graphic prints to newspapers and periodicals and pamphlets and books. We use these collections as the basis for all of these programs. Together to it is death participate in a workshop, performances, and other things. Tonights lecture is part of a program we are operating connecting it is beyond midnight, paul revere. It is an two parts. The Wooster Art Museum and other at the museum in massachusetts. It will be on display from july 4 to october 26, 2020. I highly enco
Just like this miserable quarter. The house of pain the s p shedding 1. 60 . The nasdaq declined 9. 5 the Dow Jones Industrial average had its worst quarter ever the craziest thing, though, truly crazy, do you know it could have been a lot worse. All sorts offer stocks have roared since the bottom a week ago. S p rose 1. 9 last week. Were leaving the quarter with almost as much hope certainly we had it than despair. How is that possible when the pandemic is raging and the entire economy is in dire straits . This decline was vicious as anyones ever seen it. Investors tend to regroup. They figure out what they can make peace with, but whats too toxic to touch the ones they made peace with have stabilized and can actually rally on good days, but they may not have bottomed. You know exactly what time talking about. Days like today theyre going to give up the ghost a little bit theres some terra firm a there for some of these companies. The question now, are the stocks that led us in last w
Package may not be needed. Dow industrials down 76, s p down 4 points and nasdaq lower by 2 and a half this after roller coaster week on wall street where we saw dow industrials go back to bull market territory posting largest weekly gain since 1938. Dow, nasdaq, s p 500 up better than 9 on the week. We are now off of the lows at 20. 54 a barrel, down 97 cents, 4 lower. Cases of coronavirus are rising across the country, death toll topping 1,000 in new york. Mayor de blasio says people who do not practice social distancing in the city can face fines up to 500dollars. A Million Dollars raised fox last night including fox business. More Companies Help to go fight the war on coronavirus. Manufacturing, medical supplies to free flight to healthcare workers. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria lets check Global Markets this morning as u. S. Searches for direction. We have weakness across europe, cac quarant down 41 and dax index in germany lower by 32 points. European leaders conti
Response efforts have not instilled much confidence either. Testing kits were notg probaby sent to the hospitals, and medical labs around the country, political personnel has overruled the recommendations for the cdc. In the administration was slow to appoint any single official for the Public Health expertise to coordinated our governments response. Even now, President Trump seems to be spending one of us time blaming commedia and blaming the democrats and being constructi constructive. Infective blades everyone. He is downplaying, the virus to a dangerous degree. His chief of staff amazingly said to americans, turn off your televisions. They know the history of how these viruses spread and work. Winnie to deny them, you dont let people know what is happening and what to do about it. Things getd worse. And if the president , being self centered as is only cares about himself and his image any tribes uas usual instead of solving te problem, blame somebody else. The deflection and finge