And well talk about the life and legacy of Breonna Taylor. So lets do this, people. Welcome to the daily social distancing show. From trevors couch in new york city to your couch somewhere in the world, this is the daily social distancing show with trevor noah. Trevor lets kick things off with the bad news. Or as it is known these days, the news. America surpasses 150,000 deaths. The staggering toll with florida, california and texas breaking single day death records. The u. S. Economy shrank at a 32. 9 annual rate in the april, june quarter, the worst quarterly plunge ever. The Labor Department says 1. 43 million americans filed jobless claims last week. Its the second straight week new unemployment claims have risen. Lawmakers are still at odds over another stimulus bill with added Unemployment Benefits expiring tomorrow. Talks are actually going backwards, not forwards, two months after democrats agreed on their plan, republicans still cant seem to agree on what they want. Trevor gu
Breaking single day death records. The u. S. Economy shrank at a 32. 9 annual rate in the april, june quarter, the worst quarterly plunge ever. The Labor Department says 1. 43 million americans filed jobless claims last week. Its the second straight week new unemployment claims have risen. Lawmakers are still at odds over another stimulus bill with added Unemployment Benefits expiring tomorrow. Talks are actually going backwards, not forwards, two months after democrats agreed on their plan, republicans still cant seem to agree on what they want. Trevor guys, i dont want to overreact but im starting to worry that trump is not going to make America Great again and i think i could see what the problem is here, guys. See, the economy is cratesserring. But the covid deaths are rising. So clearly what America Needs to do here is just switch the titles on these two charts. See . Now the economy is up, and covid is down. Everything is fine. You know one of the most de pressing aspects of this
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But as you know, im a big fan of yours. Is a huge fan of your first book on google. An audi come back at this particular moment talk about facebook on the inside story couldnt be more timely. And just going to start off. We have lots of places to go with his been going to start off with something timely. Literally this morning as we came to the show you heard about the hacking of twitter. The fact that truth is now going to facebook to get his message out. And facebook is a lot of criticism for a lot of things for the years. I actually wrote a column recently really questioning why Mark Zuckerberg is not fact checked the president s. Tilt your take on this. What is this relationship between facebook and the white house. Free speech and im just going to throw you a question there to start you off. Thank you for doing this is good to connect with you again in a virtual city. So like a lot of things, you cant just tease out one problem the facebook. From his dna and its origins. In the ca
But we have been inching higher this week. We were almost looking at 3000 for a while. The yuan has been weakening offshore, at 7. 1508. We will see how that progresses next week with the china hong potentialric, and protests, but we will see how that goes. The 10 year yield at 65 basis points, back into its cushion after a dire week of economic data, and crude oil at 32 at 32. 68. It has been pretty whippy today. Most stocks are lower, but you have stocks getting upgrades and so forth. This week has been about what is happening in china and also the vaccine story. The vaccine story has been incredibly whippy for markets, but so has the china story. Those have been the two competing factors. Weve had a few earnings to throw into the mix, but that has been the story. We see some of those start to come through, and a host of other companies being pushed and pulled. Also, the china story front and story this friday, and it is a long weekend in the u. K. And the United States. Do you want