Communities with inclusion and id like to take a moment to recognize our members attending today. They continue to be the background of support for the club and help enable us to offer wonderful and diverse programming now and in the future and we also like to welcome members of the 20 20 class of fellows with rising nexgen business. [inaudible] its an honor for me to introduce our special guest today, trustee at the economic club, deanna mulligan. Deanna was chief executive officer in 2011 and served in that role until this month. She joined in 2008 the Vice President to leave the company in its Spiritual Life and was appointed to presidency operating officer assured as a trustee on the board of the vanguard group, a position she held since 2017 and has a background in both energy and operational themes. [inaudible] she was previously a director on the board of arts council and active in the industry and in the daa and directors of life insurers and the department of Financial Service
A separatist struggle also an economy near collapse we meet Syrian Refugees living on less than 3. 00 a day in lebanon. Well its been 3 days since election day but americans are still waiting to find out who will be their next president the race to the white house is headed for a photo finish with every hour now rowing the gap between donald trump and joe biden or heres the overall picture so far with just 4 battleground states left to count any of them could give biden the win now hes pulled ahead in georgia in the last days in the lead in nevada trump is ahead in the other 2 states but the margins a razor thin now those states being continue to be counted are the ones that you see here in yellow biden now has 264 Electoral College votes trump has 214 but still puts both in the range of that magic number of 270 likely result is not enjoying her on 2 states well as weve been saying biden is now leading in georgia by around my. 100 votes the bulk of the remaining mail in ballots are fro
This weekend kron fours gayle ong live force and walnut creek with a look at how things are going in Contra Costa County tonight. Yeah. More than half of Contra Costa County residents have already voted im here at the heather farms park and this is one of the sites where people can vote early in person. Im really im glad its done. On saturday lily wescott crossed off voting on her to do list i actually came in with my mail in ballot and didnt realize that i had the ability to just go ahead and vote early so i went ahead and took care of that right away. Early voting in person began friday in Contra Costa County jennifer look many leads the heather farms park site and says so far almost 500 people voted in person by saturday, the crowd tapered off today its been pretty well its not that slow but yesterday was earlier in the morning would have lines all the way around parks with election day fast approaching over 50 of residents in the county already voted. County officials have been enc
September retail sales, nice beat there, the srt up 102 from march lows, thats a new high, Dick Sporting goods, best buy, dollar general, costcos and lowes, bed, bath and beyond on its best pace ever is it time to buy retail there are still select names you can buy at retail and some names that have absolutely exploded the up side you just went through a list some of these are at alltime highs. The consumer is strong, the consumer return, the consumer has gotten out there the september numbers were well above what the expectations were these numbers are very, very impressive it does go to show you just how strong these guys are in terms of everybody getting out and about and getting into different retail its not just about the essentials anymore you just went through the laundry list the reality is, it is about people going out and getting clothing, shoes, yoga material whatever it is we might be, we are seeing an absolute run towards that area and a nice spring board were seeing a lot
31 was exceptionally important. I spoke to the vice chairman yesterday, and hes really enthused about expanding on a lot of this monetary mumbojumbo. It is an important speech, but the backdrop, you nailed this weeks ago, is the massive case build up in the United Kingdom that the Prime Minister talked about yesterday. Im sorry, the landscape changed yesterday when he went out to march of 2021. Jonathan the outlook for europe gets a little bit worse. The data on the Services Side backing that up. From my perspective for the Federal Reserve, the message they want to send if things get the message they want said, if things get better they want to send, if things get better. Tom how many times will we mention it . Jonathan i lost count. Lisa, will you count it . Lisa no, but im going to let tom know that. Tom 47 times. Lisa there you go, 47 times we mentioned fiscal stimulus. Jonathan just to clear this up for our listeners, our audience worldwide, tom keene has not counted how any times.