You might say better late than never. Adam that is exactly what i would say. Better late than never but also powell and Richard Clara for the process. There is a reality going back to well before the Global Financial crisis that the phillips curve has been flat. This is a fancy way of saying you can have deviations in inflation deviations in employment to the upside and you do not get that much inflation for it. Then you combine that with the reality we have seen in japan for a long time and in the u. S. And europe for the last 12 to 15 years that when youre too close to zero on your Interest Rate balance, you cannot react as well as you should to policy and adjust policy. Fomc powell and the they unanimously adopted the statement before he spoke what jay powell and the fomc are saying is they are catching up with reality. And jay powell was framing this as we have to be realistic and pragmatic. This is how the economy has changed in our process must reflect the way the economy has cha
In southwestern louisiana, about 30 miles east as a cat 4 a storm surge forecasters say could be 20 feet deep. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning. The rain is steadily coming down here as hurricane laura moves up the coastline or state line from lake charles up to shreveport where i am the rain is coming down steadily for the past several hours this storm has been downgraded to a category 3. Many concerns remain around heavy rain that could lead to flooding and the possibility of high winds that could impact trees and cause trees to fall and lead to downed power lines and outages much like we are seeing in the southern part of the state. Shreveport is one of the places folks were evacuated to from lake charles we are here along the riverside where folks are staying in hotels to get away from the storm but the businesses here are closed casinos here are closed. The cities in the area, the surrounding area, School Districts all closed for the day as they wait out to see what exac
Firmly above 1. 7 . Andrew thank you. We have a crazy big show for you this morning lets just tell you about the lineup among the highlights, we have author ben measurer. Former of ceo of airlines. First Television Interview with the ceo wework in the midst of all of this big questions. Ceo of General Mills and then someone who never holds his tong, venture capitalist and investor coming up in the next three hours. We are going to do it. History in the making today. Central bank will begin buying etfs their Corporate Bond etfs but the First Time Ever. The idea is to be able to direct the money into the credit markets faster than by buying bonds. Reporting that the purchase about 250 billion of the feds 750 billion program inching closer and closer to stock etfs. Probably not a health of a buy on this buy owe tech etf we cant make that leap, right guys when you read this, werent you like, etfs it is not that favre a jump once i read it, instead of this bond, that bond, lets do it i unde
The 10year is yielding 0. 75 . Well continue to monitor that as well. We have a lot of guests today. Including dr. Scott gottlieb who will join us in a couple of minutes. J js cfo, the ceo of moderna, ceo of related companies and the ceo of zoom. All in the next three hours. Andrew an update now on the pandemic in the United States. Now more than 582,000 cases and 23,000 deaths. North has 96,000 cases and 10,000 deaths. New york governor governor cuome numbers appear to have knocked off in new york. It was an accomplishment. A heck of accomplishment those Health Care Workers for the rest of my life, i will say nothing but thank you to them. I was not sure if we could keep the tide from overwhelming our hospital capacity. They did there is going to be no ephany or morning headline that says hallelujah, it is over thats not going to happen. Well hear more from dr. Scott gottlieb about plans to reopen the country and more about Governor Cuomos gathering of states on the east coast to disc
David an awful lot in this bill. 370 billion dollars to replenish the ppp program, 700 50 billion for hospitals, 25 billion for testing. What is not in the bill that you think still needs to be done . Rep. Pelosi first let me say how pleased i am with what is in the bill does weeks ago the secretary of the treasury called me and said he needed a quarter of a trillion dollars in 48 hours. That would mean that by tomorrow two weeks ago the republican leader went to the floor and said it was 250 for the program and that is it, we are not making any other additions. We objected, the Democratic Senators objected. They made a counterproposal which was resound late rejected by the republicans. Refused tok, there negotiate until last thursday. Then they realized they had no chance to do the 250. There was so much more urgency. In the bill we have pushed the 250, that was what we helped put together. We support our Small Businesses, their entrepreneurial spirit, their optimism, their source of