Common occurrence for commissioners, pandemic or no pandemic. I have been muddling through that, and in terms of the work of the agency its been a really important and really fascinating time. We switched to all telework pretty quickly and i will say relatively seamlessly in march, which i was very impressed by, but even though the technological work got up and running very quickly, at least for me personally, i found it incredibly challenging to be juggling the responsibilities of the job and fulltime parenting. This baby here is my fourth so i have three kids home fulltime and needed fulltime attention, and a job that need fulltime attention. Even with an incredibly supportive partner that was in normalcy challenging. My first reaction to your question is really to think about the logistics, and i know if that was true for me, it was maybe doubly true for our staff across the agency just like it is for people working from home across the country whether they have small children in th
Benefited from the stay at home trend, both popped into the open both have gone lower all day long big swings and stocks are set for the second straight week of losses the s p 500 just fell through the 50 huday moving average. 59 minutes to go on a volatile day, week, and final hour of trade. The s p 500 is flat right now. Fwha but that belies the volatility that youre talking about. We have a big lineup on the show coming up, the ceo of kroger will join us on the back of the companys strong Earnings Report better than expected guidance as well plus, labor secretary Eugene Scalia will be with us to discuss the job situation in the country and the renewed push by some companies to bring workers back to the office and one brookings economist has a bold idea to get america back to work and speed up the recovery pay people to have a covid19 vaccine. But lets get straight to the market another wild session to close out a roller coaster week. Mike santoli is tracking all of the action today
Points the s p which is then up five out of the last six weeks and up the last six sessions in a row is up by 5. 5 this morning and then the nasdaq which has been this incredible out performer for months on end is the other performer this morning its down by 13 points but remember nasdaq was only down friday after being up for several sessions in a row. Setting a new high every one of the closes. The s p is less than 1 from its all time high. Its up back in february the treasury markets youll see right now. The treasury yields are where they have been the ten year is at 0. 556 . Melissa. We have an update on the pandemic the United States surpassed covid cases. It took just six weeks for u. S. Covid cases to double. The growth appears to have leveled off at an average of 54,000 per day over the last week in College Sports news over the weekend the mid american conference scrapped its all football season delaying all fall sports until the spring of 2021 the logistics were too complicate
Those are the headlines this hour the cause reporters on your way in just a few moments. In the studio. To give you the morning news headlines. Hi im max kaiser welcome to the kaiser report Summer Solutions thats right we solve all the worlds problems by bringing in the biggest genius to the way we know that ive ever been on the show and were going to talk about a very scary the word and that of course is the flakes and joining us former tech entrepreneur jeff booth hes the author of the price of tomorrow why deflation is the key to an abundant future this book has caught fire amongst the crypt a community they Call Community all communities its really a fantastic book stating so jeff but i want to ask you because deflation is usually associated with depression and bad times and nobody likes us but based on the title of your book the key to an abundant future it sounds like youre quite optimistic about deflation so how exactly do you define deflation and how might it lead to abundance
Joining us. Everybody, im Vicki Liviakis and im Catherine Heenan for grant lotus tonight pg and e is urging customers to conserve electricity during peak hours because of the high heat because of the predicted demand. They say they will not initiate a Public Safety power shutoff kron fours michelle kingston is live for us tonight with more on plans for the rest of the fire season. During these hot summer day michelle. Catherine it is hot out here and it is only going to get hotter pg and e is staging crews and equipment throughout the bay area over the next few days. So pg e is preparing for Power Outages and we want our customers to prepare for possible Power Outages as well if power goes out over the next few days pacific gas and electric says its because of the increase in electricity usage over the bay area and not because of a Public Safety power shutoff the Electric Company is sending out more crews and equipment to handle any possible outages during the extreme heat. Theyre also