Weaker byh pound is 9 10 of 1 . Picture withig tina fordham, avonhurst partner and head of Global Political strategies. She joins us from london. States we are 57 days away from the election and still no stimulus insight, even though the senate is back. It does not look like the president and democrats are ao any page that would be considered similao similar. Where do we go from here . Tina i think another round of stimulus should be a foregone conclusion. This haggling we are seeing, Congress Just back from recess, is what you would expect to see. Each side wants to see they are driving a hard bargain. Look at the language used by the two different sides. Republicans say the president wants nothing more then to write checks for american families. Democrats say the stimulus is not just skinny, it is emaciated. But we are going to get there because we have to. Ands a political imperative not just an election year, but with an election coming days nobody wants to pull the plug. Vonnie it
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Announced that he and most of his supporters will boycott that election and he has called on all of the opposition parties to join him in a united front to do that so clearly the response from president model is to make one is to agree to one of the main demands of the opposition and as long been one and that is the release of the Political Prisoners however this is not enough to convince certainly why the law and probably many of the other opposition parties to to actually take part in this election which is incredibly important for president legal last mughal he needs it so that he could it could be recognized as legitimate theres no point in having an election that you win but with no opponents taking part so that is what this is about even even russia and china are pressuring me to hold elections that will at least bring on board some of the internationally recognized mainstream opposition and not just those who are called opponents but who are really under the pay or the control o
And the position that youre going for, whether its a request to me to be a member of a board or a commission, that i have the ability to make appointments for. Or if you decide to run for Public Office. You know, when i decided to run for supervisor, i wanted to be a good supervisor for the people of the district i represent, where i grew up in. And so that entailed making sure i knew how to do policy and legislation and i understand how the process worked and the city worked. And the good news id been on commissions and other places. So i understood it. But i actually went back to school late in life, before i ran, to get my masters in public administration. And i ended up graduating from u. S. F. With honors, because i was committed to making sure that i was the best policymaker for the people that i represented. And im not suggesting that you do that. Its just that whatever role you want to play, you set your sights on that role and you make sure that youre prepared to take it on an
Jackson hole goes virtual. Jerome powell gives an update on the central Bank Framework review. We hear from bank of england governor Andrew Bailey and ecb philip lane. No more lockdowns here. Italy joined france and spain and rolling out another nationwide shutdown. Despite rising cases in all three countries. Global infections past 24 million. The eu trade chief phil hogan quit after growing criticism that he broke my wrist rules by going to a golf dinner. Just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe as hurricane laura makes landfall in cameron, louisiana. See european futures swinging back and forth between gains and losses. Right now, dax futures up about 1 10 of 1 . The futures doing a lot of nothing. A bit of a stall after global stocks really had an alltime high again yesterday. I want to bring you some breaking news on wpp. The second quarter, organic sales at the advertising behemoth down 15. 1 . This sales hit was something that investors were focuse