Financial Services Subcommittee hearing on creating a federal pandemic Risk Insurance program. Even when they are not recognized by the chair. Members are also reminded that they are responsible for muting and unmuting themselves, and to admit themselves after they are finished speaking. Consistent with the regulation accompanying house rest 965, staff will only mute members and witnesses as appropriate. When not recognized to avoid any background noise. Members are reminded that all house rules relating to order and the corn to this remote hearing. History is entitled insuring against a pandemic, challenges and solutions for policyholders and insurers. And i now recognize myself for three minutes to give an opening statement. According to the Congressional Research service, 110 Million People worldwide could enter a state of extreme poverty due to the Global Economic contraction, and here in the United States 657 Million People have filed for Unemployment Insurance since march of this
Period, the nasdaq has more than doubled, up 115 in that time, carl, and it really tells you how important technology, and particularly those large caps, have become to this market and just how much they have surged this year as we see a Digital Transformation amid the pandemic. Thats a great point. And jon, were going to continue to look for names that are going to perform well, no matter what kind of reopening or reclosing environment were in amazon, one of the top leaders, but so is zoom on teleconferencing and in tuit on payments and those are the markets well be paying attention to. Tech investors have a lot to be thankful for this year in a tough year overall for the world. Lets talk more about the need em Portfolio Manager and chief investment strategist. Guys, good morning brian, where are we now with kind of rationalizing and strategizing around the tech trade, given how far so many of these trends have run . I think some of these trends existed before the pandemic and have be
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