48 after the event. Let me say a few words about our speaker. now in his second tm of te u. S. Civil rights commissions book the moral foundation of economic behavior was nominated for the highest book prize in his latest book which is the subject of our talk today is on why culture matters most. This is an extremely important book given the political and cultural crisis that we now find ourselves in here in america. Think about it, the institutions that are supposed to hand down the great cultural inheritance of western civilization, the civilization upon which the United States faced are failing miserably at the respective tasks in education, media, the arts, business, politics. Its hard to think of an Important Institution in America Today that takes seriously the virtues and the ideals that make it possible it requires a trust, high trust society. Many would argue that this is the one type of society we do not now have. We seem to be educating the next generation intellectually, mo
Loathe last nights debate, you know who loved it . The stock market which is why the dow surged 329 points today and nasdaq advanced 4. 7 what did the candidates say that got wall street so excited honestly, its more about what they didnt say, a lot of investors were worried trump and biden would try to score points. These companies if you dont plan to do anything about them not this time. When the candidates lay off the health care sector, the stocks roar one of my favs runs government sponsored health plan and does it better than anybody guess what happened . Stocks zoomed 4 . Anthem, cigna, united health, even cvs managed to rally. My trust owns it follow along by joining the actionalertsplus. Com club. Its been awful. Own your mistakes. We just bought more. 3. 4 yield i have parsed every word of that debate that was hard if you read the transcripts, it was bad. Chris wallace often picked on who told the president quote you in the course of these four years have never come up with a
Important question, the cdc tracks flu every year all i am so pleased to moderate this important session. We are a nonprofit, nonpartisan Public Health policy research and Advocacy Organization based in washington, d. C. The covid19 pandemic is an immense challenge. Envision a nation that values the health and wellbeing of all. Since the spring of this year, we have held a series of webinars focused on the impact protecting older adults from the arm of social isolation. How the pandemic is concentrated in many gaps. We also cohosted a congressional briefing on advancing Racial Equity. It should go without saying that this is an unprecedented pandemic. The likes of which has not been seen in this country. Seenve certainly disparities in past Public Health emergencies. The pandemic has greatly exposed trust for Americas Health has been advocating. Calling for data disaggregation. We are also focusing on other issues. Calling for investment in Public Health infrastructure. This includes i
Up pressure. A big thing the marked is watching into the weekend, stimulus negotiations in washington they appear to be stalled with no breakthrough yet. But that could change. We have 59 minutes left of trade. We do sara, as i know you were equally with me on this, we also happy birthday wishes to closing bell and power legend bill grijive who shargri griffith who shares our birthday and mrs. Carl quintanilla. It goes on and on this great seventh of august. Popular day great day it is because of them, not us. Coming up on todays show, tensions ramp up between the u. S. And china, well speak with i ian bremmer and why a worldwide depression is coming plus, the weeks storm driven Power Outages have been a major headache for people working at home. But they gave a boost to a generator company. Well speak with the companys ceo in a few minutes lets focus on the big stories that were walking mike santoli is tracking a volatile market session. We have the latest developments on the stimulus
Investigation is underway into what is killing hundreds in the country. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program the u. S. Has reported a Record Number of new corona virus infections there were 55000 new kovac 1000 cases on thursday that is as the country gears up for a Holiday Weekend the 4th of july is usually an occasion for parties and fireworks but with many u. S. States very imposing restrictions among a steep rise in cases this Year Celebrations may be more muted lets have a look at the data showing the daily new cases from the beginning of the outbreak because in the u. S. After rising steadily to begin with you can see here the curve flattens and cases level off they even drop from the end of april to mid june but with the widening easing of lockdown restrictions check this out new infections have skyrocketed again and you can very clearly see that in that curve. Well amid the pandemic events have been scaled back officials are urging caution and both public and private gathering