Well take you live now to charlotte, north carolina, where joe biden is holding a Campaign Stop today. Its being called a biden for president black economic summit. Its just getting underway. Live coverage is here, cspan3. Mr. President , i was kidding. Hardest thing, only thing harder than being president of a union is being a mayor of a beautiful city. Folks, thanks for taking the time to be here today. I really appreciate i. And we even have an astronaut in the house and thats pretty cool. Look, first of all, i want thank chris and the mayor for being here and all of you for being here. And you know, these are tough times. Over 200,000 americans have passed away. 200,000. And the numbers still rising and impact on communities is bad across the board, particularly bad for africanamerican communities. Almost four times as likely to, three times as likely to catch the disease, covid. And when its caught, twice as likely to die as White Americans. Its the sort of emblemmatic of the ineq
I think thats why were here. [applause] mayor lyles but before i talk about the seriousness of this conversation, what id like to do is make sure that everyone recognizes where we are. We are in camp north end, but more importantly, were in a place where creativity flourishes. The artists that have worked on the art that youre going to see today, we have to recognize them. Theyre people that give so much, and they dont get paid enough. And thats the kind of thing that were beginning to see. In a pandemic, we ought to be rewarding people that are doing the work that makes us better people, and thats what artists do. So i want to recognize dammit wesley. Is dammit around . Okay. Gianna mccantz. Wheres gianna . Gianna . Marcus,w as, garrison, frank, and john harrison. They have done a mural that says camp north in charlotte, north , carolina build back better. And we all know whose plan that is. So thank you very much for being here this morning. I am going to say that i would like to int
Make the American People see why this is a gigantic mistake. Mayor lyles good afternoon. Or good morning. Its still good morning, i believe. I want to say thank you for coming out on this fabulous charlotte fall day to have a very important conversation with a very important person that we will hope to see in january, on a stage, being inaugurated as the next president of the United States. I think thats why were here. [applause] but before i talk about the seriousness of this conversation, what id like to do is make sure that everyone recognizes where we are. We are in camp north end, but more importantly, were in a place where creativity flourishes. The artists that have worked on the art that youre going to see today, we have to recognize them. Theyre people that give so much, and they dont get paid enough. And thats the kind of thing that were beginning to see. In a pandemic, we ought to be rewarding people that are doing the work that makes us better people, and thats what artists
Others to discuss the upcoming general election. This is about an hour. Senator sanders good evening. Welcome to what is going to be an exciting discussion tonight. It will be in conflict with the establishment politicians and the elite who represent the working families in this country. These are great people who have run great campaigns. And let me introduce them to you. Reelected last night in a landslide victory, they told us it was going to be a tough race. What was it, 6633 . Ms. Tlaib 69. Senator sanders really . But who is counting. Congratulations. Ms. Tlaib thank you all. I appreciate it. What i love about you, you didnt become the democratic nominee but didnt give up on this movement and you continue to support so many of us that are speaking truth and putting people before profit and i cant thank you enough for not giving up on this movement. And continue to support. Senator sanders how could i give up when we have people like you guys . You inspire me. You inspire the amer
Index climbing sharply higher. In the month of august, the cyclicals are leading the way on the year. It is all about tax. It is all about tech. Interesting to see how the month of august plays out. Right now a sleepy summer day. Taylor it does not look like it will be sleepily for much longer. August goes quickly. It is a volatile month. We are in an election year. Abigail it is interesting because there are lots of reasons to think we could have a volatility spike, including the fact we are in the seasonally higher volatility time, august, september, october. The vix curve speaks to a big spike in october. The panic index is at levels close to where it was prior to the selloff in february and the selloff in 2018. The fundamental backdrop for this is despite the fact we have a better initial jobless claim today, which is excellent, but it is still extraordinarily high. It is not even put the financial crisis you cannot see the numbers around the financial crisis relative to where we a