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Question. Sarah ray is the author of field guide to climate anxiety and fought hard for Environmental Issues during this time and madeline levine, long leading voice in thinking about wellbeing and anxiety in youth today and has new book out ready or not, preparing our kids for a really uncertain future and Christine Carter is a leading voice in science of happiness for children and application of wonderful new book the new adolescence. Thank you for joining me and joining the conversation. This is such an extraordinary time, really, transformative and transcended and, i mean, everybody sees you in your living rooms and i want to take wherever you guys are. [laughter] how is it going for you guys right now during the covid19 pandemic, madeline . For me its not that different because im in my office 90 of the time so and im an introvert so i dont mind being in my office. The thing i learned is i have a lot of stuff in my life that i dont need and thought i needed but i really dont, that
Talking about what is happening with the coronavirus and appointing Vice President pence. As he was speaking, one of the cases of unknown origin that happened in europe as predicted if you look at the treasury now, you see the 10year is yielding 1. 297 . Not negative yet. President trump speaking about preparations last night. We are very, very ready for this whether it is going to be a break out of larger proportions or whether or not we are at that very low level and we want to keep it that way he has tasked Vice President mike pence he also addressed the market response i think the stock market will recover. The economy is strong, consumers are incredible thats why we are doing well and other countries are not even before the virus our consume rp is very, very strong very powerful economically. And the president put some of the response of the dow to the democratic convection. Are you suggesting Financial Markets are overreacting here . I think Financial Markets are very upset when