Maria and we kick it off with Global Markets lets taken a look at european indices a selloff there as well. S p 200 down 250 points right now and paris down 165 and dax index in germany lower by 362. The European Union announcing the closing of its borders for 30 days to slow spread of coronavirus. In asia is overnight markets started with early rally on heels of wall street rally but then reverse course to finish in the red. Take a look at these numbers you have all of the major down better than 4 as you can see, the nikkei and japan and shanghai and composite 1. 8 and then theres oil. Oil prices tumbling touches levels not seen since 2003. As price of oil between russia and saudi arabia wages on demand is dropping oil prices right now at 25. 40 a barrel havent seen those numbs in quite some time. Check treasuries and yields right now on tenure treasury rising this morning once again, it is back above 1 . Tenure now sitting at 1. 8 that is up ten and a half basis points. The coronavir
The Unemployment Rate rose to 4. 4 . However, on mornings with maria this week, i spoke with the former president of the atlanta federal reserve, and he told me that the Unemployment Rate is much closer to 10 than 3. 8 given we did see. 6 million Unemployment Benefits this past week. Joining me now to discuss the backdrop and the markets and investing around it is the alpha one Capital Partners Founding Partner dan nice. And, dan niles, and it is good to see you. Were going to get into the health part of this and, of course, what corporations are doing, including 3m, but i want to ask you about these markets. How would you look at the jobs numbers and your expectation in terms of when things might come back . Sure. I mean, i think thats really the key to the market, is jobs. As you pointed out earlier, you lost 3. 3 million jobs two weeks ago, then the most recent week you had 6. 6 million. And the funny thing is that as you get into april and may, thats when corporations, the big ones
The Unemployment Rate rose to 4. 4 . However, on mornings with maria this week, i spoke with the former president of the atlanta federal reserve, and he told me that the Unemployment Rate is much closer to 10 than 3. 8 given we did see. 6 million Unemployment Benefits this past week. Joining me now to discuss the backdrop and the markets and investing around it is the alpha one Capital Partners Founding Partner dan nice. And, dan niles, and it is good to see you. Were going to get into the health part of this and, of course, what corporations are doing, including 3m, but i want to ask you about these markets. How would you look at the jobs numbers and your expectation in terms of when things might come back . Sure. I mean, i think thats really the key to the market, is jobs. As you pointed out earlier, you lost 3. 3 million jobs two weeks ago, then the most recent week you had 6. 6 million. And the funny thing is that as you get into april and may, thats when corporations, the big ones
Jobs since 2009. The Unemployment Rate rose to 4. 4 . However, on mornings with maria this week, i spoke with the former president of the atlanta federal reserve, and he told me that the Unemployment Rate is much closer to 10 than 3. 8 given we did see. 6 million Unemployment Benefits this past week. Joining me now to discuss the backdrop and the markets and investing around it is the alpha one Capital Partners Founding Partner dan nice. And, dan niles, and it is good to see you. Were going to get into the health part of this and, of course, what corporations are doing, including 3m, but i want to ask you about these markets. How would you look at the jobs numbers and your expectation in terms of when things might come back . Sure. I mean, i think thats really the key to the market, is jobs. As you pointed out earlier, you lost 3. 3 million jobs two weeks ago, then the most recent week you had 6. 6 million. And the funny thing is that as you get into april and may, thats when corporati
Wrote about the 1930s. He called them the turbulent years. The years of militancy and organizing we saw. These years were equally important to shaping 20th century working america, but in a different way. They were not years of upheaval, organization, and progress, so much as a big turnabout. A way in which the working american class took a turn to a different stage in its existence. We could say that from the 1930s to the 1970s was an experience of unbroken promise and expanding rights for workers. In the years between 1968 and 1988, a lot of that turned around. So, turnabout years. I want to start with three stories that help locate what is going on in this period, and talk about whats going on with the economy. Talking about publicsector workers in the period, what they faced, and then conclude with some barometers of whats happening to workingclass america by the end of this period. To begin, let me start with three stories. I am going to locate these in 1977. Roughly about halfway