Because the Senate Just Passed another 500 billion bailout. Bailout, lets say of the last bailout. As we quickly ran out of money thats why the dow surged 457 points s p soared 2. 29 nasdaq 2. 81 house of pleasure Payroll Protection Program was supposed to be for Small Business, right . In the end a ton of that money ended up going too big businesses, Public Companies that was a back rub and sing i feel like a chump. I guess i should be more cynical about politics, just trying to help Small Business. However, if you ask me, that wasnt really the big story of whats going on. See, theres something bubbling underneath right now under the surface. And if anything, it makes me want to be less cynical about corporate america. Thats right corporate america. See, this market is rewarding businesses that have foresight and originality and most importantly, heart i dont want to sound too sappy, i dont know how else to put it. The stocks of good corporate citizens are thriving here mark benioff,
We are going to go through a very tough two weeks and then hopefully as the experts are predicting, as i think a lot of us are predicting after having studied it so hard, we will start seeing real light at the end of the tunnel but this will be a very painful, very very painful two weeks. Stuart the president s top medical advisers project a death toll in america of up to 240,000. Everyone is now paying attention. Now weve got to focus what will likely be the worst Economic News coming at us in generations. Millions of people will not be paying their rent this month. How will that ripple through . Millions of people have just been laid off. New unemployment claims coming out tomorrow will again show millions added to the jobless list. The airlines, they are reporting passenger traffic levels down 88 in two weeks. And Mortgage Applications down 24 from last year. The market, of course, reflects these new uncertainties. The dow dropped over 400 yesterday and this morning, its likely to o
Joe biden has cemented his frontrunner status in the democratic race for the u. S. Presidency hes won the big prize of michigan and the latest primaries build a super tuesday to the home of Vice President also took mississippi and missouri 3 more states are being counted its opposed to biden whos extended his lead of of the month senator Bernie Sanders is only speak to you from philadelphia where we announced turkey in p. At the front we didnt find. All those who have been knocked down all those have been counted lets be sure this is your Campaign Just over a week ago many of the pundits declared that too this can be seized. Now were very much in line. I was on a has more now from detroit michigan black voters here in the state of michigan came out in overwhelming support for joe biden that was very clear he also based on exit polls seem to want a lot of working class white voters in michigan as well which is pretty cool if you add all of that up and thats what you saw with this pretty
[inaudible conversations] this committee will come to order. Without objection the chairs authorized to declare a recess at any time to be entitled Holding Wells Fargo Accountable the bank that broke americas trust i recognize myself for four minutes to give an Opening Statement. Today wells fargo ceo will testify before the committee about how he plans to and wells fargo egregious pattern of consumer abuses. We invited him to testify before this committee the last three and half years. We will note each time a ceo has testified before this committee he has resigned they are soon after. [laughter] you are taking on a massive challenge i certainly wish you luck it is clear to this committee that the bank you inherited is a lawless organization has caused widespread harm to millions of consumers throughout theor nation. Ells fargo has opened three. 5 million fraudulent accounts in their customers names which cause consumers over 6 million charged consumers for automobile insurance polici
Mr. Mchenry you have access of liquidity to get through any crisis you would foresee . Yes, absolutely. Mr. Mchenry in terms of safety and soundness, you are from the harm previous regime, thats positive. In terms of safety and soundness youre management, cleaning up the ship. So our expectations is we should have no problems from you in soundness, ety and is that fair . Mr. Scharf i think its fair work once we finish the we laid out, you should feel that. Mr. Mchenry ok. At employees do you have wells fargo . R. Schaefer i have mr. Scharf 260,000. Mr. Mchenry how many are customer facing . R. Scharf i dont know the answer. It has to be easily 100,000. Mr. Mchenry sure. Do you have plans in order to respond to the current threats covid19, especially in your footprint in california . Absolutely. We are, as i said mr. Mchenry as well as and other state primaries that are seeing an outbreak . Approach on ur covid 19 is we should do the ing we can to ensure safety of our employees as well