Have the infrastructure we dont have the institutions like all these small and Medium Sized Enterprises having to borrow via you know the s. B. A. The Small Business administration that used to be set up during the end of the Great Depression to give money to them instantly and directly from the treasury now it has to go through banks but banks no longer lend to small and medium size and prices because everything is about real estate in the commercial real estate and Derivatives Market and free money for them so we have a situation where theres no distribution of the liquidity of all the abundant capital in the system wont remember the soup nazi from seinfeld saying no soup for you right i mean there was soup available but there was no soup for you so now the central bank has plenty of soup theyve got plenty of cash but no cash for you but why for no reason that makes any sense other than the fact that they are in the service of a bunch of. Kleptocrats and are simply printing money for
This is a new york pandemic which frankly with the great chart the Johns Hopkins is doing and john von murdoch is doing, new york is essentially the mathematics of catalonia. Francine yes, and the mathematics of milan just outside of that. You wonder if we shouldve started preparing for this as far as resources and getting hand sanitizers and much needed medical equipment earlier. There is a pattern and we have charts charting that. Wuhan and in china in then the epicenter was italy and it is slowly moving to other countries that will have to deal with similar fatalities. Tom some doing better, others less so as well. The economic ramifications to be very clear, worldwide in the last 24 hours, the news in economic america is the furloughs to come. We saw that yesterday with a vengeance from retail. Right now, with our first word news, here is viviana hurtado. Viviana the mathematics of the human toll in spain. Yet. D its deadliest day fatalities,ing 849 bringing the death toll almost 8
Locations. Its an historic morning as the fed injects 2. 3 million in loans into the american economy. Powell has a live webcast in about an hour. We have the opec plus meeting to watch. Jobless claims, 6 million for a second week. But your point a moment ago is the fed is helping to take a credit crunch off the table and all we need at this point is a break on the science the fed is not going to be the reason why we go into a depression they want to stop that they want to make it a recession. Sometimes, i mean look, i was critical just a couple years ago when powell was talking about tightening when the economy was actually getting weaker. He is so far ahead of the curve that it will be studied. We will be studying this period, and we will say, unlike 1937, when the fed got tight and they threw us back into depression, we will say that jerome powell, after being a little unsure about how to handle things, decided to go out front and said we will make it so that if you want to make loa
Thank you, guys. Okay. Alex gorsky from j j, appreciate it well be back tomorrow cnbcs special coverage continues right now. Good monday morning welcome to squawk on the street, im Carl Quintanilla with jim cramer and david faber. Coming to you live from separate locations even on set as we practice social distancing futures are stable to start the week as the president extends those social distancing guidelines to april 30th j j, as you just heard, announcing a lead candidate for a covid19 vaccine a lot of people were astonished that the futures, just at the moment when the president said, look, we have to extend things. Take away that april 12th deadline, it will go all april at the very moment we saw the futures start reversing. I think this is a day, dont know how much more, a day where science trumps the pain and the disaster frankly that is covid there have been many, many days weve come in and science has been playing catch up game today it sounds like science is on target. List
To back the bell and set to publish their own support program. Force johnson orders the u. K. Into a three weeks lockdown, sweeping new laws to breakup gatherings and fine any dissenters. Taylor meantime, i want to bring you some breaking news coming out of china. Their companies are having the worst quarter on record, according to china. The headline as it catches my eye, the economy has not gotten better as much as we thought they would be returning to work. It looks for the first three months of this year, a Quarterly Survey of all the firms, it looks like every individual sector was reporting worse results than originally thought. Saleswas a widespread in amid the harder hit retail sectors. The collapse in revenue and profit. Again, Economic Activity collapsed in february. This is as we knew that there was the massive virus spread that was going on. I think the key headline is Chinese Companies continuing to have the worst quarter on record. Every individual sector reporting worst