U. S. iran relations. I should stress these events are strictly nonpartisan and not intended to offer any kind of policy, recommendations, or agendas. Therapy meant to give greater insight into how we got to where we are, which we believe helps us to understand how we can solve problems. A few thanks and then over to allen. The Melon Foundation funds building program. We are grateful to them. The room has been booked by chronicm congressman consequentnellys o. I will turn it over to the moderator of this event. Most of you will find these index cards on your seats. The intent of these is as the discussion proceeds, if you have questions, write them on these cards. We would collect them after formal remarks and use them to initiate the discussion, all right . Think about that as they are giving their remarks. Allen . Thank you, dane. Good morning. In 1941, the influential publisher henry loose declared that, in his view, the 20th century would be the american century. A time when americ
We are seeing every single day. Reporter there are any number of ways to chart the spread of the virus. San francisco like california as a whole is seeing a relatively slower growth. Other parts of the country are seeing rates of spread nearly twice as high if not more. While that is good news even successful social distancing might only biased time. It is plausible that despite all these efforts we could have a scenario similar to the one that is playing out in new york this very day. Where we are today you will be in three weeks. Or 4 weeks or 5 weeks. Or six weeks. We are your future. Reporter new york is racing into a spike of cases that is not expected toat least another 2 to 3 weeks. But while we may have avoided that for now softening the front end of our curve is no guarantee for what the rest of it will look like. You can get an initial to flatten the curve initially. If things go back to normal that curve could easily go back up. Reporter talk about time we had the governor t
Good evening. This is the second officer within that department to test positive. 25 other officers are under self quarantine in connection with both cases. No word on where the second officer was stationed. The first confirmed case with an officer working out of the hall of justice. It is taking measures to sanitize any exposed workspaces. Two hours ago San Francisco laguna honda hospital went into full lockdown after five Staff Members tested positive for coronavirus. They include four nurses and one worker in the Environmental Services unit. The majority of the residents in that facility are over 65 years old with Serious Health conditions. And will no longer be able to reenter the hospital. This is clearly a population we know is in an extremely high risk if they get infected with the virus. The Nursing Homes in seattle and here in california. This is a population we really need to work hard to protect. So far no patients have tested positive for covid19. Tonight at the governor sa
Faculty member of the Economics Department and the cochair of the mit work of the future attack force that was commissioned a year ago the spring and the purpose of the task force is to engage in confront the sense that many have that the labor market and technology is changing rapidly to understand why people are anxious, to figure out how concerned they should be, what is changing and what is different this time and what can we do to ensure that the coming era of change needs to not productivity growth but some that show up in our focus is on the labor market and how we make the labor market function well for as many workers as possible. Thats where we see the opportunity and the challenge in the lesson if you read the Task Force Report which was released last week, one thing that we s say, i think a critical economic lesson of the 21st century, a wellfunctioning labor market is the foundation for a healthy middleclass in a wellfunctioning political system. Without that foundation of
Against midway, against the japanese in world war ii the s p jumping 6. 24 . The nasdaq gaining 5. 60 in spite of the hideous jobless claims number in history this is the best day since 1931. So far covid19 has run the table against us we were not prepared and this virus has had us on our heels the whole way. Attacking the very basis of our civilization, life, liberty and especially the pursuit of happiness which in this case means the right to watch march madness, grab a beer, see Cirque Du Soleil in vegas at least until today were up against an insanely bullish last few minutes of trading. Astonishing return for large caps bully. Weve seen big run in all things tech it wasnt coordinated. Like our initial attempts to homeland the line in world war ii we were overcome by a prettier prepared enemy, virus its killing people directly and killing the economy. Like the greedy win at midway, google, watch the movie, even the terrible remake. I am beginning to think we can hold off one of the