Professionals, carers, Public Health officials, and volunteers across the country, and the exceptional efforts of the sco abroad. U. K. Citizens the bank of englands role is to help households manage through an economic shock that could prove large and sharp, but temporary. That is why the bank is announcing a comprehensive timely package of measures to help u. K. Households and measures bridge across the economic disruption caused by covid19. These measures will keep firms in business and people in jobs, and they will prevent a temporary disruption from causing longer lasting economic harm. Maximizing our response requires ordination across all of the banks coordinating committees. That is why all policy committees are simultaneously theng today, maximizing effectiveness of our response requires working in concert with treasury. Ys that is why we are acting on budget day, when the chancellor will announce a series of government initiatives to support u. K. Households and businesses. A
Thats important to all of us that are here and so many of our colleagues. Information is power today, and we see it all over the globe when its used improperly it is used as a weapon. Democracy requires wellinformed electorate to function properly but to undermine the principle through socalled Disinformation Campaigns designed to mislead voters and in doing so delegitimize the democratic elections. Actors like russia systematically exploit the media and to distort the truth to an unsuspecting populace with regards to the coronavirus and this information is being spread is a high degree and anonymous and again if left unchecked it could be devastatingly effective. I established this organization it could help lead to the global disinformation effort and work with International Partners. The Bipartisan Legislation within the state department is now the law and to get it up and going we will hear more about that today but we are pleased that we are making progress. They lead, synchronize
I am the president of the policy institute. I want to welcome you on this conversation on will the centerleft rise to the populist challenge . Together with the tony blair and so we are proud to present today a speech by and a conversation with the honorable tony blair, former Prime Minister of Great Britain on this topic of the populist challenge. This event was originally scheduled as a public event in washington. Had several hundred people signed up to attend, but we had it we thought it was best given the Coronavirus Spread and contusion to cancel the public meeting, so we are Live Streaming today. Thank you for all who are joining us by livestream and thank you also and welcome to cspan and the cspan audience to todays conversation. This is obviously the subject of the state of emergency has been declared in washington, the subject on everybodys mind. We want to do our part to slow the spread of this terrible errors, but we also want to carry on with business as usual as much as w
Discussing the rise of populism in the uk and us and the future of progressive politics at George Washington university. Welcome to this conversation on will the centerleft rise to the challenge along with the Tony Blair Institute we are proud to present today as speech by in a conversation of the quite honorable tony blair former Prime Minister of Great Britain on this topic and what the progressives need to do to rise to it. Several hundred that was best given the Coronavirus Spread to cancel the Public Meeting so we are Live Streaming today thank you for joining us by live stream and also to cspan and the audience to todays conversation. This is obviously the subject of a state of emergency has been declared in washington and we want to do our part to slow down the spread of this virus but also carry on with business as usual is much as we can. Welcome to everybody on a personal note i want to say how pleased i am to see tony blair after being reunited after a long hiatus the Progre
Gaze portfolios were slammed but perhaps good news, bonds rose. Maybe the bond market may be suggesting worst of the selling may be over . Well find out meantime the banks despite the yields, battered, even as top ceos wrap their meeting with President Trump at white house, well get more on that in minutes. Perhaps the biggest shock is boeing shares down another 18 today. Boeing, really one of the bluest of the blue chips, now has lost half its value in just six months time. Well dive into why. Joining us to walk through all of this, karen, dan, tim and guy. Welcome everybody. Another big night, difficult night for a lot of people out there. Pension funds, state pension funds, companies guy the question to you and everybody on the panel and lot of viewers what may not be market pros, tuning into cnbc first time, do you sell now if you own stocks, ride it out . See any sign of a stock market bottom maybe the bond yields when let us down in s p, maybe rising a little bit will lead the s