Nation. Just coming in, images of the sunset you and i observed last night. Imagineom, you cannot the change across this america. Forget about economics, finance, and investment. It looks like man delorean out there, lisa. Lisa really depressing to watch that orange sky over in the west and seeing the smoke come toward us. It is a political smoke, as well. Everything becomes that much more political in this year of 2020 as we head toward november. Tom jon, you nailed it on the United Kingdom earlier in the fictitious nature of our Unemployment Rate and the fed meeting tomorrow. I am going to summarize the backdrop, double digit unemployment. Jonathan unemployment and the u. K. Just north of 4 officially. It Means Nothing to anybody me living in the u. K. Right now. There is a Furlough Program tying a lot of people to the government, and that expires at the end of next month. A huge conversation on whether it. Xtend if it does not get extended, unemployment will go much higher very quic
With me is erik wasson for bloomberg news, Speaker Pelosi said the house will be taken up legislation for lower Prescription Drug prices and has been marked up by three house committees, how does the bill reduce drug cost and warehouse Democratic Leaders one of the top ten priorities for the congress. This is a signature part for the People Agenda and something that President Trump campaigned on with coming to the meeting of mine and throughout most of this year they were negotiating on this bill and the end of the day they had to, against it and democrats were forcing a bipartisan vote. The 250 most expensive drugs and also pressure Drug Companies to apply the new lower prices to private insurance to a series of taxes. And unfairly limits competition could reduce up to 100 drugs that were produced by pharmaceutical companies and they are not going anywhere in the nearterm and Chuck Grassley the finance chairman have come up with alternative bill to rebate and force manufacturers to re
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