His body he thought independently he was monstrously and original he had intellectual courage the world seems much smaller today than before september 2nd david rest in peace yeah he is a intellectual giant i guess you could say of this era and wrote about death its a point of view which i guess would some would say would be anticapitalist in a lot of ways and he explored that vigorously i remember a very long walks with him through the city of london and he would reveal his extraordinary sense of humor hes a very very funny guy as most highly intelligent people are they do are capable of it its not always what david graber would want to show because hes known as a public intellectual so you dont want to show that side of yourself too much but privately. And walking in me and we have great fun you know playing around with words and concepts and things like that and just probing these things in a very funny ways a very funny man was well he was born he was 59 years old born in new york
2020 and things are crazy and some great minds have been exiting the world speaking of minds but also speaking of nassim taleb he wrote a great tweet eulogizing david grouper who was a friend of mine a friend of ours a friend of the show hes been on the show many times hes the author he was the author of debt the 1st 5000 years and i think nassim taleb who is an intellectual himself and a great author and you know thinker who explores ideas and is willing to be challenged just like david graber was wrote David Greenberger he was a real intellectual very real not one fake cell in his brain not one fake bone in his body he thought independently he was monstrously original he had intellectual courage the world seems much smaller today than before september 2nd david rest in peace yeah he is a intellectual giant i guess you could say of this era and wrote about death its a point of view which i guess. Would some would say would be anticapitalist in a lot of ways in explored that vigorously
Any time. Members are reminded to keep their video function on at all times. Members are reminded that theyre responsible for muting and unmuting themselves and to mute themselves after they are finished speaking. Consistent with the regulations accompanying the resolution, staff will mute members when not recognized to avoid inadvertent background noise. All house rules relating to order and decorum apply to this remote hearing. [ inaudible ] economy and i know recognize myself for four minutes to give an opening statement. Chair powell, the law that required the Federal Reserve chair to testify before congress twice each year was established back in 1978. However, no fed chair has ever testified before this committee with the economy in the condition that it is in today. More than 116,000 americans are dead from the coronavirus. And just last week, 21 states recorded an increase in their average daily new cases compared to the prior week. The april jobs report was the worst in Americ
This is bloomberg surveillance. Im Francine Lacqua in london. Lets go straight to the markets. We are seeing a lift to the market somewhat but a bit flattered then what it was earlier on. 0. 4 . Oxx 600, down by the dollar is rising. Treasuries advancing. We had a little bit of momentum. We saw that historic rally. The dollar strengthening for the first day in nine sessions. The Federal Reserve extended its main Street Lending program which means it is allowing more companies to participate. That lessens the burden on banks that create the loans. Plenty more on that throughout the day. Thats get to the first word news in london with dani burger. Dani hi. Lockdowns across the world may have prevented about a half a billion coronavirus infection. That is according to the first peerreviewed analysis of the impact of health policy. It comes as the World Health Organization says people without symptoms passing on the virus is very rare which contradict speculation about the prevalence of so
And across this nation, particularly those of home, alling at different home, all different shades. My major message today is the crosscurrents that we the of where welysis are this middle of june. Of where we are this middle of june. The bar for the good news gets higher. That has been the big debate the big debate we cant choose one or the other. We know a lot more than we did when this first hit. I think the spikes we are going to deal with down the road here, we are going to be better prepared for them. Weve got the population operating in a much more safe fashion than when this first hit. I believe weve got a lot of companies putting a lot of energy into how to operate a business with a pandemic, and i wouldnt underestimate capitalists figuring that out. Weve got scientists working for treatments that can reduce the death rate before a vaccine is discovered. Theall, we kind of nowhere primary death rate is among older and compromised individuals that we can put a big ring around.