From australia if you look at all but us to do with calls for a full probe into the origins of the pandemic. By the very good afternoon this is international. Where we will begin as is traditional now with an update on the latest coronavirus figures around the globe 1st of all the total number of infections that has risen to just over 4400000. 00 more than 298000 people have lost their lives and more than 1600000 people have recovered. With the summer fast approaching the here opinion is starting to emerge from the spring nightmare of the coronavirus with countries taking their 1st steps towards normality some including germany have already begun the process of reopening their borders with direct neighbors but it might all prove too little for the vital Tourism Sector which has been brought to its knees by the pandemic peter oliver has more. Even in the midst of the corona pandemic many europeans are thinking about Summer Holidays but the word from brussels is that those wanting a geta
But essentially, monopolies and Financial Institutions that facilitate that monopolization across the country and thats what we are focused on. We have special concerns about the power of Big Technology platforms but in general we think that a lot of the economic and social problems that we are experiencing in this country today can trace back or be exact exacerbated by the dramatic outsized levels of Corporate Power that exists in our economy today. Host how did you come to that view . Guest we looked around at the world essentially. If you look at markets. If you look at Market Structure you will find that whether it is large markets like media, telecom, healthcare, online retail, amazon for example, or even small markets like Peanut Butter and cheerleading and watch components and software you have seen that over and over a handful of businesses and handful of corporations have rolled up those markets and essentially act as governing agents for other actors in that market. Host isnt
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As a public service. Brought to you today by your television provider. Now on the communicators we want to introduce you to sarah miller. She is the executive director of a group called the American Economic liberties project. Which is what . Sarah we are an organization based here in washington that is focused on what we see is a crisis, a concentrated economic power in the country. Essentially monopolies and Financial Institutions that facilitate that monopolization across the economy. That is what we are focused on. We have concerns about the power of Big Technology platforms. In general, we think a lot of the economic and social problems that we are experiencing today can trace back or be exacerbated by these a outside levels of corporate power. Host how did you come to that view . Sarah we looked around at the world, essentially. If you look at market structure, you will find whether it is large markets like media, telecom, health care, online , watch components, software, you hav
A coronavirus has so far wiped 7 trillion dollars off wild stock since their record highs mid february the outbreak began in china which still has by far the most cases chinese factories dont just churn out cheap plastic exports anymore though they supply vital components to the tech sector Automobile Industry at pharmaceutical companies and the chinese a leader is in Artificial Intelligence and robotics so the partial shutdown of the chinese economy there was introduced to stem the virus is having a knock on effect for a colonies around the world. Its unprecedented i cant recall anything like it on our planet. When the color of your seats if the coronavirus gathers b. And cripples more and more countries and in the worst case we could be facing a Global Economic situation like we had in 2008 and 9. Years into the oppose it here were very optimistic we think it will be over in one or 2 months. Before by. Management consultant fun fun is currently pursuing Crisis Management she and her