Ill hop of here and let everybody get started. Thank you so. All right. Well, good evening or hello, whatever time of day youre watching this. Ive got a brief power point im going to use to get into this book. Its based on academic study presented in a nonacademic manner. That was my job as a collaborator. I have been studying this science for a little over a decade and written an earlier book on it, as ill mention. So my job was to keep my co lab to keep it for a lay audience. Before i get into the book i discovered a very interesting study done by the democratic fund, their voter study group, that is actually an examination of attitudes in america of authoritarianism, and i will define authoritarianism for us. We could spend i could do a whole book on that subject alone. But i think most people have a pretty good idea what it is. Larry diamond at stanford shared this information with me and its fascinating. Americans are overwhelmingly love their quote democracy, but that overwhelmin
About it. And all jokes aside, the first public apology from Ellen Degeneres. What shes saying about toxic workplace allegations now that shes back in the studio. She had some things to say. But first, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. As our nation mourns the loss of ruth bader ginsburg, i will soon announce a nominee for the United States Supreme Court. The president told his crowd of supporters that he will name his nominee for the Supreme Court by this weekend. The president said he wants this done very quickly. Before election day. Can it be done . We believe that it can. With a fight over the next Supreme Court justice looming, joe biden tried to keep voters attention focused on the pandemic. The virus was too big for him. He just wasnt up to it. He froze. He failed to act. He panicked. The u. S. Will likely hit 200,000 coronavirus deaths today. Were rounding the corner in any event. But were going to have a vaccine very soon. A great vaccine. Tropical storm
Mexicos missing students the arrest warrants are issued for members of the military. And sudans new government looks for ways out of an economic crisis made worse by the coronavirus pandemic and devastating floods. 8 days after the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg u. S. President donald trump has officially nominated Amy Connie Barretts to replace her if confirmed speratus appointment would adds another conservative voice to the bench further shifting the court sponsor pirates of the rights for decades to come our White House Correspondent kimberly hellcats reports. Theres a highly anticipated nomination made official when u. S. President donald trump an announced her name judge amy coney barrett. Judge barrett currently serves as a federal judge in chicago and is president trumps 3rd pick for the u. S. Supreme court she is a woman of unparalleled achievement towering intellect sterling credentials and unyielding loyalty to the constitution if confirmed judge barrett
That is really interesting, if they are allowing them to take on risk, you would presume that would help the economy and funnel more money out there. Later on, speaking with a buyer ceo. There has been a 10 million settlement after the acquisition of monsanto. So lets get into the bigger story of the day, what is happening with infections. We want to bring in a doctor to help us understand everything. We have with this a senior scholar from the Johns Hopkins school of Public Health. This after records have been anden in florida, texas california with hospitalizations. , whatmarket participant are the figures and numbers we have to Pay Attention to to understand the feedthrough of infections into the economy . Amesh it is the percent positivity, meaning how hard has a become to find cases. We are seeing places like arizona, florida and texas where it is about 5 , now going into the 20 range. That tells you the outbreak is not under control in those states. The other thing to look at is
Versus value. We had the nasdaq earlier this week trading at record highs. We have not really seen the other indexes get back to those record highs. Wayrussell 2000 is a mild is a mile away from its record highs. Are you comfortable with this idea that we only have a relatively small cohort of companies and sectors pushing this market higher, or do you want to see broader participation . I think it helps make sense of the market action. Thinking through, where would you want to put capital to work . What is driving this vshaped recovery . I think it would be quite irrational given what is going on with the pandemic and the broader economy. Investorson here for is where do you put capital to work from here on out. These positions within technology, there are some unstoppable trends like digitization, cybersecurity, which are really interesting given the work from home environment. Some of that, we do believe would continue to move higher. An area that you like. That not just the fact th