Coronavirus cases in the united states. Hello and welcome to axios virtual event, health care 21. I am sam baker coming from my home in washington, d. C. I would like to thank United Health group for making these conversations possible. I would like to welcome our audiences. You can follow along on twitter using the axios events. Over the next 30 minutes we will unpack the best way to unpack Health Insurance access and Health Insurance coverage in the united states, and what that path forward looks like both following the president ial election and in the midst of a pandemic that is getting worse every day. Our first guest today is senator thune smith of minnesota. Smithr, senator tina of minnesota. Thank you for joining us. Sen. Smith thank you, sam. It is terrific to be with everyone today. Sam i would like to start off to frame this conversation obviously, Health Care Access and Health Insurance coverage has been a very hot topic for a long time, but i think the pandemic has set of
Populist politics his combine standard republican tax cuts and deregulation with restriction policies of trade and immigration. And sometimes inflammatory those with lawmakers alike. Have those policies been successful in Going Forward what lesson should policymakers apply with the left and the right . List two great guest first Casey Mulligan is a professor at the university of chicago serving as the chief economist the council of economic advisers with the Trump Administration from 2018 august 2019 and the most recent book just last month is your hired. And michael is the director of Economic Policy studies here at aei author of the American Dream is not dead. Released february of the sheer. To start off casey will speak for about ten minutes then mike will offer a ten minute response and then we will have a Panel Discussion and toward the end at about 1045 we will do q a. Please submit your questions on twitter with ask aei. Good morning. I have some slides to share during my presen
Have those policies been successful in Going Forward what lesson should policymakers apply with the left and the right . List two great guest first Casey Mulligan is a professor at the university of chicago serving as the chief economist the council of economic advisers with the Trump Administration from 2018 august 2019 and the most recent book just last month is your hired. And michael is the director of Economic Policy studies here at aei author of the American Dream is not dead. Released february of the sheer. To start off casey will speak for about ten minutes then mike will offer a ten minute response and then we will have a Panel Discussion and toward the end at about 1045 we will do q a. Please submit your questions on twitter with ask aei. Good morning. I have some slides to share during my presentation good morning i really appreciate aei organizing this i want to monetize your time you can find more in my new book readers have been time for also coming away agreeing that pop
Thought to be controlled by the Peoples Liberation army. And policymakers seem less likely to go down that route decide besides providing support for a long time. Shery lets take a look at how we are setting up an asian markets. Looks like trending a bit lower in sydney. U. S. Stocks really doing pretty taking overrallies adding to concerns about tougher lockdown measures with the existence of an effective vaccine. Downside about a quarter of 1 and that market along with new zealand looking pretty overheated after the recent run of gains. Continuing to push back expectations for negative rates. Chicago futures moderately positive at the moment. The yen seeing a little bit of a gain but we have seen a new daily record for Coronavirus Infections in japan this week. Authorities hinting they could need to take stronger measures to halt the increase in the spread. S p acted futures up by. 2 sessione active cash sank as much as 1. 5 overnight. Shery lets turn to our top story President Trump
Im becky quick along with joe kerr de kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. After two days of optimism, the get out there again trade was on turned around a little bit yesterday. We did see people rushing back to the stayathome stocks as covid cases and momentization hs continue to climb. And some states are imposing restrictions and the nasdaq ended up 2 after being down monday and tuesday. Yesterday the dow ended flat, right now indicated down by about 115. Never made to the record, still waiting circumstanling around tt s p 500 down by 2. 5 and nasdaq indicated up another 51 points this morning these were the stay at home stocks, amazon up, apple up 3 , zoom which had gotten hammered, yesterday up by almost 10 took c docusign 5. 2 and netflix 2. 2 and treasury yields, yesterday it was closed for veterans day this morning it is open and you can see the ten year still around the very heightened levels, again, not historically, but based on what weve seen in recent history within range of 1 a