Remarks and then i will ask questions. You can submit questions as well. But first your opening remarks. Welcome. Thank you for the introduction but i want to welcome aei for inviting me to be here today earlier this month i have reflections on the last 50 years of the epa and laid out our plan for its future at the Nixon Library. Today i would like to explain based on what we have accomplished over the past four years how we will get to this future. It is incontrovertible today the environment is in better shape under President Trump and we found it. Since 2017 air pollution in this country has fallen 7 percent. Last year superfund sites the most in a single year since 2001 and b will list another 27 this year the epa is trying to finance more than 40 billion of clean Water Infrastructure supporting 7100 projects and 27000 jobs during President Trumps first term and they have recovered more criminal and civil appointees them the Obama Biden Administration did and their first term. The
Interview program for guest hosts interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work. All after words programs are also available as podcasts. Host we are going to get into the blood of the book for the conversation but lets start with why for a moment. What motivated you to write this, who is the intended audience and what instrumental purpose do you wish red november to serve . Guest i became interested in the leftward drift of the Democratic Party because it seems to me to be quite radical not just for the Democratic Party but for the country. I had been a democrat in my College Years and shortly thereafter and i became more conservative over time before becoming a republican joining breitbart and so forth. But even then, i maintained an empathy for kind of utopian thinking as they left guide. Im not a utopian myself, but i do think that Many Democrats with whom i disagree on policy issues and ideological issues are coming from a very good place. They want to make the world
To the likes of boeing. 3 . Asdaq is down microsoft down half a percent. Several stocks rallying big, mgm resorts up 13 after the onlinestake for gaming portion. Twitter is up as well. They are in the mix to buy tiktoks u. S. Operations. Action overump took the weekend to extend economic aid, diverting disaster money to boost unemployment and payroll taxes for some workers. Executiven what to orders mean for the markets and the population, we are joined by wealthwise financial ceo loreen gilbert. What thoughts come into your head when you see these executive orders that may or may not even go into effect . For investors, it gives us a level of comfort that they will be ongoing support for our economy. We know we are not out of the woods yet. For those millions of people who are unemployed, having that extended unemployment benefit will keep consumers being able to spend. That is positive for the economy. While congress is trying to fight it out on what that stimulus package will look l
Test test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 as i described in my testimony, we know that Nursing Homes with a higher proportion of black and latin residents have higher death rates, however theres not universal reporting of the race and ethnicity of those individuals within Nursing Homes who have been affected by covid. That presents for us a significant challenge when it comes to targeting resources in order to prevent the transmission of covid. Because, you know, when covid19 enters a nursing home its because someone has brought it in and what its telling us that if those Nursing Homes are following the same safety procedures of restricts visitors, ensuge that providers have clean ppe every time theyre coming in, then we shouldnt see these disparities. However we do. And the likelihood these disparities in rates of covid infections within Nursing Homes are going to occur are going to be even higher in communities with a higher burden of covid19. And so what were
Yesterday, were up the inflation rate as well. They saw exports came in at 13. 3 contraction. The headline number, 16 point 60 contraction. 16 contraction. Tom the question is whether on the fiscal side they will need to do more. The markets. N with a mixed picture in terms of sentiment from investors. You have got some significant southgs in japan and korea. The asiapacific almost back to the prepandemic levels. 169 is what you are looking at. Over on the mainland we have got red on the screen. The shanghai composite is down. Mike pompeo talking about attempts to really divide the internet and the tech space between the u. S. And china. The foreign minister saying he wants to avoid a cold war with the u. S. Got earnings now, looking at those shortly. Seeing gains of. 3 . Looking ahead to jobless claims. The private numbers were a big mess. Jobless numbers later in the u. S. And then the perils friday. Atcan move it on and look the individual stocks. It is earnings season. We have had