The institute of data and democracy and politics which is presenting this event together with the International Committee on this information. Ill be your moderator and your timekeeper and i will continue this conversation with her distinguished panel and guest. If you are journalist, please feel free to put your question into the q a field, make sure that is addressed to everybody so we can see that and i will try to incorporate some of the questions to our panel in a bit. Social media platforms as we know and discussed our allowing actors to sell on illegal and overpriced medical equipment during the pandemic. That is one of many issues that we see across a social media platform. This one is not a new problem, social media platforms continue to allow the dangerous disinformation during the covid19 pandemic and in so doing they expose how dangerous and how irresponsible this kind of behavior can be and the role that they play in continuing to allow it. Rampant conspiracy theories make
Minutes. Welcome to our continuing conversation about the big social media platform in response to the disinformation campaigns around the covid19 pandemic, very serious situation where lives are literally in the balance. Im the director of the George Washington University School of Public Affairs affiliated with the institute of data and democracy and politics which is presenting this event together with the International Committee on this information. Ill be your moderator and your timekeeper and i will continue this conversation with her distinguished panel and guest. If you are journalist, please feel free to put your question into the q a field, make sure that is addressed to everybody so we can see that and i will try to incorporate some of the questions to our panel in a bit. Social media platforms as we know and discussed our allowing actors to sell on illegal and overpriced medical equipment during the pandemic. That is one of many issues that we see across a social media plat
Bring you insider insight on the decision and what lies ahead for the u. S. Central bank clutched at the Federal Reserve has propped up markets in the u. S. It is posed an interesting issue for a major debt holder china and later the race is on for the head of the World Trade Organization and the European Union is weighing in we bring you the latest on the run with a packed show today so lets dive right in. And we leave the program with the latest policy update from the Federal Reserves federal open Market Committee as expected fed chair Jerome Powell announce Interest Rates will hold near 0 through 2022 but the real question has been what action will the fed take moving forward. Since march weve been purchasing sizable quantities of treasury and Agency Mortgage backed securities you know to support the smooth functioning of these markets which are vital to the flow of credit in the economy. And our ongoing purchases have helped to restore the Market Conditions and have fostered more a
We have very weak inflation data. Euro is down versus the dollar. The pound is down versus the dollar. The dollar is strengthening and that will weigh on market sentiment. We had the biggest by germany today in at least six years. Increasing, it will be interesting how the market digests it. It comes back to this argument ultimatelyirus and you have to make a choice on that you position yourself to one of the other when it comes to the bond market. In, you kind of layer there are still trade war is happening whether it is exit or china brexit. Robert lighthizer has been speaking to the house ways and means committee. He addressed the deal between u. S. And china. It is a complicated relationship. It has gotten more complicated because of actions they have taken weaselly. Billionin place 370 worth of tariffs. I think it is a really good agreement for the u. S. And we expect it to be honored. Alix joining us for more is the National Foreign trade Council President and former Deputy Direc
Spread have induced a sharp decline in Economic Activity and a surge in job losses indicators of spending and production plummeted in april and a decline in real g. D. P. In the Current Quarter is likely to be the most severe on record. Even after the unexpectedly positive may employment report youre only 20000000. 00 jobs have been lost on net since february and the Unemployment Rate has risen about 10 Percentage Points to 13. 3 percent. The u. S. Central bank says it expects g. D. P. To contract by 6. 5 percent in 2020 but doesnt this big growth of 5 percent in 2021 and 3. 5 percent in 2022 u. S. Equities had bounced back after the decision but fell quickly with the dow dropping by more than 200 points however the tech heavy nasdaq continued its record run on wednesday above 10000 points for more on all of this lets bring in bill bus cohost christine and c. E. O. Of cool intelligence and former fed insider daniel de martino both then i want to start with you here what are the latest