The San Francisco county Transportation Commission for our meeting, september 15, 2020. Our clerk is ms. Brittany. Can you please call the roll. Yes. Commissioner fewer. Present. Commission haney. Present. Commissioner mandelman. Present. [roll call] ronen absent. Safai absent. We have corium. Thank you madam clerk. Do you have any announcements . Gentlemyes, i would like to announcement about Public Comment. Please proceed. Public comment will be available for each item via telephone by calling 8882045987 and the access code is on the screen. Dial 10 to speak. Each call will be allowed 2 minutes. Calls will be taken in the order which they are received. Best practices are to speak slowly, clearly, and turn down the volume of anything around you. That completes my announcement. Thank you, could use please read the next item. Sorry, this is commissioner ronen. I can sort of hear you. Did you hear me when i said i was here. Now we can hear you, see you, and you are counted present. Good
Item. Comments will be made in the order that they are received. When the moderator announces that Public Comment is being made, press starthree to enter the queue. When prompted, callers will have the standard three minutes to provide comment. Ensure you are in a quiet location, speak clearly, and turnoff any t. V. S or radios around you. Clerk item 1, roll call. [roll call] clerk general Public Comment. Members of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes on any item within the commissions jurisdiction that does not appear to the agenda. Speakers may address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or personnel. Commissioners are not to engage in conversation or debate with a speaker. Lack of response does not necessarily indicate agreement with Public Comment. Commissioner covington thank you, madam speaker. Are there any public speakers that would like to comment at this time . Clerk there operator there are no Public Commen
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Agenda on the postelection economy, we are joined i larry kudlow, who is very kind to join us from his vacation time. We are thankful for that. He is President Trumps chief economic advisor. Larry, thank you so much for joining us. Mr. Kudlow thank you for having me, ben. Prof. Peterson i will also have a separate ben i will also have a separate conversation with pat mchenry. You can follow along with the h tag rncpolitico. I want to ask you about what President Trump said in 2016 and even before that when he was running for president. He called the stock market a big fat bubble blown up by the fed that was set to explode. I wonder why it is not the same thing now, given the fed is pumping huge amounts of money into the economy. Why is the stock market not a big factor like you said it was in 2016 . Mr. Kudlow it is a completely different situation today than it was in 2016, dealing with the pandemic. And the resulting Economic Contraction permitted getting the pandemic. Premitigating
To november. U. S. Jobless claims. Below a million First Time Since the lockdown started. Blowing away optimistic expectations from housing, manufacturing, employment. The s p with alltime high. It would be monumental. I have two of the best Money Managers who will share your thoughts as well. Why are cities deliberately regressing into more dangerous havens of fear and hopelessness . The Economic Impact on people will last for a generation. Well have the latest. I will talk about this with gianno caldwell. I have my take. Well get his as well. All that and more on making money. Charles all right the economy continues to show strong signs of coming back with more evidence coming today. A huge drop in jobless names. Rise in Home Mortgage applications. Here is the breaking news for you, folks. Initial jobless claims are down 228,000. Continuing claims down 604,000. Pandemic assistance down 167,000. This is delayed. As of two weeks ago we had three million fewer people on total unemployme