About the blockbuster revelations about hunter biden, biden got a pass, the network fix was in, beat up trump, give biden a pass. We do have news on the stimulus. A little give on the part of the white house, Speaker Pelosi and secretary mnuchin have agreed on the democrats Virus Testing strategy. It is not much, a strong report on retail sales just came out, a halfhour ago, big loss for the stocks yesterday but a rebound today in part on the back of the retail sales report. The dow is up triple digits 130 points, the nasdaq, 93 94 points higher. Censorship are very much in the news, social media may be in trouble after blocking coverage of the bombshell allegations against hunter biden, the authorities are taking a close look at facebook, twitter and other social media liability immunity after four years of obvious media biased in social media censorships and is there any doubt that you are blocked so frequently from seeing or hearing conservative opinion. We will get more on that com
Former cia directors to look at the intelligence organizations operations. At 9 00 pm eastern on after words political commentator Candace Owens on why black americans should vote republican in her book, she is interviewed by matt schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union. This weekend on cspan2. The house ways and means subcommittee on oversight held a hearing on the use of loopholes to avoid paying taxes. The subcommittee look at potential changes to the law to prevent wealthy americans from getting out of income tax. Good afternoon. Welcome to you all. Weve got a great response in a sharp period of time and our second. On the Affordable Care act on the Oversight Committee. Thank you, everyone, for joining us today. In compliance with regulations, with committee proceedings, the First Official virtual oversight subcommittee hearing in the ways and Means Committee. Before we turn to todays important topic i want to remain remind you about procedures to navigate this platfor
Wall street expects some kind of stimulus. We have another monday morning rally with plenty of green and the dow jones is closing about a gain of 150, but nasdaq up over 100 points. Big tech up this morning i think pretty much across the board, yes. Its all green. Even though three top executives will be hauled before Congress Next week, both sides of the aisle angry over big tex wealth, power, influence and serious discontent about censoring conservative opinions as some senators subpoenaed jack dorsey concerning twitters suppression of conservative voice service. On the campaign trail absolutely no change. The president continues his rallies hammering his message home in the battleground states and joe biden will hunker down. He appears to have put a lid on the week staying home preparing for thursdays debate. That debate is controversial with the moderator who is supposed to be neutral anything but. Her family has donated tens of thousands of dollars to democratic campaigns and in t
It appears what is called the case shaped recovery is permanently dividing the country and to haves and have nots and this seems to be acceptable for those who are the house. To discuss this and more im joined by my guest Michael Hudson in new york is a professor of economics at the university of missouri kansas city and author of through give them their debts and in bangkok were joined by steve keen hes a crowdfunding professor of economics on a tree on as well as a distinguished Research Fellow of the institute for strategy resilience and security of University College london gentlemen crossed up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok let me go to michael in new york you know this just term the new normal. Bandied about and what really worries me is the people that use the new normal where its a normal that is beneficial to them ok and theyre not particularly concerned about it ok because i hear more and more talk read more and more
It ok because i hear more and more top read more and more about a cave recovery and that is that in michigan a defeat in my in my opinion because it means the if you have the k. Its the the leg of the k. Youve given up on ok because the other part. Of the economy its true because its that in their benefit here i really worry when people talk about new normals and when they talk about the economy youre my friend well who has become normal since 2008 has been completely different from the old normal people have the normal youre go back to a balance but really the economy hasnt grown at all since the 2008 crisis all of the growth in g. D. P. All of the growth in wealth has accrued to the Financial Sector to the real estate sector to the one percent for the 99 percent oh theyve gone down and down and down so the new normal is you cant get rich again by hanging out. And joining the middle class like you goes through the new normal has all of the year increase in wages in service in rents an