Christiane and ben next have a lot to get to so lets get started. Heres a headline that will surprise no one in 2020 the u. S. Economy had its worst performance in 74 years since the end of world war 2 it contracted 3. 5 percent now this was of course because of the coronavirus lockdowns and the impact of the worldwide pandemic so whats in store for 2021 especially in an economy that remains so uncertain joining me now to discuss this and more. On it chrystia i ben lets start with you can you give us a rundown of how the economy did or didnt perform in 2020. Yeah i mean as you said in the beginning here its really no surprise to anybody the economy did not do well contract at 3. 5 percent as you said the worst its done since 1946 so its been a long time since the economys contracted that much in a single year and that came off of the 2. 2 percent growth that we saw the year before in 1900 the bottom line here is this is basically every sector was down because of the coronavirus with th
This is a boom bust the one business show you cant afford to miss. In washington coming up u. S. G. D. P. Close out 2020 at its worst rate since 1046. 00 and shrank by 3. 5 percent and the game stop saga continues as robin hood and other Major Trading partners are stressed in trading as the battle between wall street and small investors continues well explain what this means for future trading with the us pros with christiane and ben next have a lot to get to so lets get started. Heres a headline that will surprise no one in 2020 the u. S. Economy had its worst performance in 74 years since the end of world war 2 it contracted 3. 5 percent now this was of course because of the coronavirus lockdowns and the impact of the worldwide pandemic so whats in store for 2021 especially in an economy that remains so uncertain joining me now to discuss this and more. On it chrystia i ben lets start with you can you give us a rundown of how the economy did or didnt perform in 2020. Yeah i mean as y
Inside story of the generic drug boom and im talking t you today from massachutts. Im actually usuly based in brooklyn, new york, but were hunkering down in cape cod this summer. My book is a true crime expose of the generic drug industry an takes the readers deep into the distantanufacturing plants in india and china that make most of americas low cost medicines. Heavily reported over the course of 10 years, the book follows several key characters, an industry whistle blower, a fda investigator as they begin to uncover widespread fraud in these manufacturing plants. The question is, what made me want to pursue this topic . Im an investigative journalist and i have been at this for several decades, but in 2008, i got an unusual phone call that came from a radio show host on npr. He had the show called the peoples pharmacy. His name is joe braden, and he called me with a tip. He said that listeners were calling into his Radio Program and complaining about their generic drugs, they were
Inside story of the generic drug boom, and im talking to you today from massachusetts. Isually based in brooklyn, new york, but we are hunkering down in cape cod this summer. My book is a true cme expoe of the generic drug industry, and takes the reader deep into that distant manufacturing plant in india and china that make most of americas lowcost medicine. Heavily reported over the course of ten years, the book follows several key characters, and industry whistleblower, and fda investigator as they begin to uncover widespread fraud in these manufacturing plants. The question is, what made you want to pursue this topic . I and in Investigative Journalism and i been at this for several decades. But in 2008 i got an unusual phone call that came from a radio show host on npr. He has a show called the peoples pharmacy. His name is joe and he called me with a tip. He said listeners were called into his Radio Program and complaining about their generic drug, the film having side effects of
The wake of this anger thats been rising in muslim majority countries against france in the wake of the death of samuel patti the history teacher who was to capitated less than 2 weeks ago for showing cartoons of the prophet mohammed now the anger has come from the fact the president defended the use of those cartoons lets take a reminder of what happened. Well the anger has been spilling out since president machen defended the use of those cartoons those controversial cartoons of the muslim prophet mohammed and they have been protests in many muslim majority countries such as bangladesh in jordan in libya and also in gaza with people burning effigies of president and theres been this war of words between him and the turkish president who suggested that she needed to have his Mental Health checked many muslim majority countries also calling for a boycott of french products and a warning to french citizens who live or who are traveling in those countries to be extra vigilant at the mome