Income taxes in 2016 and 2017 trump on monday tweeted that the Fake News Media is bringing up taxes and all sorts of other nonsense with illegally obtained information and only bad intent. He claims he paid many millions of dollars in taxes but was entitled like everyone else to depreciation and tax bidens campaign posted a video claiming Elementary School teachers and firefighterss paid more income tax than trump did. Trumps tax records could become one of the leading issues of the election. In the previous race four years ago trumps appeal to Blue Collar Workers was considered a factor behind his victory. The coronavirus pandemic is nearing a staggering milestone, 1 million lives lost. Sincnce first cononfirmed in ch in j january thehe virirus has overer 999,000 deathths across globe. In recent weeks around 5,000 deaths were reported every day. The United States has the worlds biggest outbreak with more than 205,000 lives lost. Inin brazil, cases began mounti early this summer with d
I think it is a mistake that because we helped the wealthy we shouldnt do it. The reason they did it is because of that. If you dont lift up the economy, the people who suffer the most are the poor. The fed is thinking about how do we lift up the economy they shouldnt hurt a wealthy person to make them feel good. They are doing the right thing now which is to let them get through this there are going to be serious situations thats kind of a secretary dairy problem right now. We should get through this and kind of unwind some of this stuff wisely there are huge incomes you could have negative imcome tax, fix education there are a lot of things we should be doing to help the poor federal policy is not the thing they should focus on letting the economy grow they dont focus on Growth Strategies they have policies that dont help growth. If you had 1 growth in the United States over 10year period, that would be 4 trillion gdp thats like 10,000 a person extra. That pays for a lot of social sa
Skyrocketing a heart thumping 50 its not all rainbows and butterflies. Ibm was caught in a bad romance. The separation sending shares up 6 today more on the big blue breakout. Ibm has seen a little love from investors over the past decade so it is splitting itself in two and saying it will list its it services as a separate company next year. Investors initially cheering that move sending shares up about 6 but the ceo reminded inversers that it i ddivested in the 90s they didnt play into the value. Shares have under performed through the broader if he can sectors to broader names like or cal. But two years ago ibm was about watson and tech. It is said watson is barely mentioned on earning calls ibm was late to the game and still far behind amazon and google back to you. Lets trade this. Question, guy. I will start with you. When you start with a question, it always confuses me. Does this spinoff actually further ibms turn around plan or is this just Financial Engineering . The latter.
And subcommittee on Global Competitiveness will come to order. I know this seems a little strac strange with an empty room except for three witnesses live in front of me and many of our colleagues are going to be joining us virtually. But i want to welcome all of you nonetheless to this important hearing. This subcommittee continues to do its work in exploring the unfair trade practices of foreign governments, especially china and russia. The topic of censorship in china is a common one because it is growing effect on business in the United States as well as culture. Last fall, for example, the National Basketball association had the Market Access blocked in china because an individual american citizen using a media platform not allowed in china expressed a political opinion. Now the topics have become more manufactu important. The timely information about the spread of covid19 due to chinese censorship has contributed to the havoc wreaked on our economy and health and indeed the pande
Bad reaction. Astrazeneca slams the brakes on a phase 3 vaccine trial after one test patient contracted an unexplained illness. Watch the vaccinemakers at the open tomorrow. The rout resumes. Asian equities post losses after more devastation for u. S. Tech investors. Slumps ses 7 but tesla by a stock record 21 in yesterdays u. S. Session. England prepares to reimpose coronavirus restrictions on the public. Starting next monday, gatherings of more than six people will be banned. Youve been warned. Just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Lets look at the futures picture right now after, you know, the major u. S. Equity benchmarks dropped more than 2 . The nasdaq more than 4 . Now were seeing red arrows once again for european futures. Yesterday was a down day for european stocks as well. Take a look at u. S. Future this is morning after the big drops that we experienced yesterday. Remember yesterday was the first day of trading for u. S. Stocks. They were