Protests and the fallout from joer george floi, but the market and stocks are focused on Economic Activity, period we just keep getting good news its good news off very lowered expectations whether it be cheesecake getting a lot more people than they thought or the airlines this morning. American saying good things. Whether it be ebay pronouncing right now things are better than expected whether you talk a look at a lot of the companies that, you know, morgan stanley, gm, of course this quarter was the weakest, but maybe next quarter will be the strongest. We have a number of Oil Recommendations saying they have come all the way back. So the street is really bullish. After being very bearish you see a lot of price targets that were cut severely are now going back up. Its a kind of dont fight the trend where the most overbought we have been since 2009, but if you go back to 2009, we were up 11 on the s p. We had great period after. People are fighting the tape if theyre selling. How abo
Scott cooper, what does a Venture Capitalist do . Basically what we do we provide money to companies that are trying to grow and hopefully become very Big Companies like a facebook or google or an apple someday and every doing our jobs correctly, were helping them grow the company so we dont obviously work in the businesses but we can provide and navigate new challenges as they go through the business, we like making ourselves as a money provider and a supporter as a business growth. Why can a company such as the one you described go to a bank and go through traditional avenues . A good question, the problem is most of the business we invest are very risky businesses that lose money for a long period of time as they invest in the business and banks unfortunately are not in the business of doing that or taking risk of losing the capital, we are willing to take that risk and about half of what we invested we will ultimately lose all her money and any bank to your promos will not be too e
So, scott cooper, what does a Venture Capitalist do . Basically what we do is we provide money to companies that are trying to grow and hopefully arbecome very Big Companies like facebook or google or apple someday and then if we are doing our jobs correctly we are also helping them grow the company so we dont work in the businesses but hopefully we can provide introductions to them and help them navigate new challenges as they go through the business so we like to think of ourselves as a money provider and hopefully a supporter as the business grows. Why cant a company such as a the one you describe go through a bank and do traditional avenues. Good question. The problem is most of the businesses we reinvest in our ricky businesses and lose money for a long period of time as they invest in banks are just not in the business of doing that or taking risk of losing their capitals so we are willing to take that risk and in fact half of what we invest in will lose our money and any bank wh
Have done has truly made a difference. We must figure out a path forward, but we must always be aware that this virus is still with us. Good morning and welcome to Washington Post live. I am bob costa, National Political reporter at the post. This morning, we continue our leadership during crises series with two governors who have been dealing with the pandemic for days and weeks on end. We begin with virginias democratic governor ralph northam, then we will hear from arkansas republican governor, asa hutchinson. First, Governor Northam is a medical doctor and has recently announced plans to reopen virginias economy. Governor, welcome. Governor northam good morning to you and all your viewers, thank you so much for doing this. So important that americans, and in my case, virginians, have access to up did it information so i appreciate the opportunity to be with you today. Mr. Costa thank you. Many of our readers live in virginia and they heard your News Conference where you are not par
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