I want to thank everyone for their adherence to the guidelines as we continue to do our work while protecting the health and safety of our staff, families and communities. Thank you for joining us today. In pursuant to notice, todays hearing is taking place in our ways and Means Committee hearing room, with members permitted to attend remotely in compliance with the regulations for Remote Committee proceedings, pursuant to House Resolution 965. We currently have 33 members logged in and participating via the webex platform. For those members who arent here in washington and plan to participate in person, we have a limited number of available seats to ensure that we adhere to social distancing guidelines. I encourage members to watch from their office and only come to the hearing room when it is your turn for questioning. Before we turn to todays topic, i want to remind members of a few procedures as we navigate this hybrid hearing setting. First, consistent with regulations, the commit
Good morning and welcome. Consistent with the guidelines released last night by the ho e attending physician and the speaker all present today in the hearing room are required to wear face coverings. Brief removal of the masks for the purposes of speaking on the record is permitted. I want to thank everyone for their adherence to these guidelines as we continue to do our work protecting the health and safety of our staff families and communities. So thank you for joining us today. Pursuant to todays instance n our hearing is taking place in the ways and Means Committee room with members able to attend remotely with compliance with proceedings pursuant to House Resolution 965. We currently have 33 members logged in and participating via the platform. For those members here in washington and plan to participate in person we have a limited number of available seats at the dias to ensure we adhereby to social distancing guidelines. I encourage members to watch from their office and only co
U. S. Trade representative Robert Lighthizer is making his second appearance on capitol hill today. This morning, he was before a House Committee and was answering questions from the Senate Finance committee on President Trumps trade policy. Ourselves in future crisis, but we have to find a Smart Solution that accepts the realities that trade is fundamental to our survival and prosperity. In the long term, trade is a key part of the solution because it promotes freedom. It provides customers for our best in the class Agricultural Products. It promotes entrepreneurship and independence. And particularly trade empowers Small Businesses that are the backbone of our communities. In fact, 97 of the u. S. Exporters are Small Businesses. A good start to empowering people and fixing our economy is making sure as many people as possible have the option of being their own boss. We owe it to them and their communities to press for even more opportunities. This is especially true because our tradi
I want to thank everyone for their adherence to the guidelines as we continue to do our work while protecting the health and safety of our staff, families and communities. Thank you for joining us today. In pursuant to notice, todays hearing is taking place in our ways and Means Committee hearing room, with members permitted to attend remotely in compliance with the regulations for Remote Committee proceedings, pursuant to House Resolution 965. We currently have 33 members logged in and participating via the webex platform. For those members who arent here in washington and plan to participate in person, we have a limited number of available seats to ensure that we adhere to social distancing guidelines. I encourage members to watch from their office and only come to the hearing room when it is your turn for questioning. Before we turn to todays topic, i want to remind members of a few procedures as we navigate this hybrid hearing setting. First, consistent with regulations, the commit
Risk rioting from is just something the market is ignoring right now, which is absolutely amazing. Cominge the headline through, mayor de blasio talking about the curfew for the rest of the week. Alix yeah and today is starts at 8 00 p. M. So in a businesses that are open to provide food, that is now off the table. It also may delay recovery in some states, all of this having an impact on the overall economy. We saw as a noble laureate spoke on the ship of recovery. The pattern we are going to see and are already seeing because the economies in various ways are going through this, is a very sharp drop on then it kind of bottom flat. Where thee period virus is brought back under control. It starts to look like a u. It difficult to argue that we will have a vshaped recovery. The closest anybody has come to it is china and it does not look like a v to me. Alix mark mobius, Mobius Capital Partners cofounder joins us. What are you make of what he said, as well as the pictures of the riots,