silly goose stepper. breaking, joe biden makes a big statement in his house. nope, nope, nope, down, down. there he is! this president is going to try to steal this election. this is a guy who said that all mail-in ballots are fraudulent. by golly, he s lost his marbles. he s your friendly neighborhood conspiracy theorists. leave it to democrats to go out there and level these conspiracy theories. that s joe biden right now with this conspiracy theory. we ll con-spear-a-see about that. he says you ll steal the election. joe s not there, we all know it. certainly, if i don t win, i don t win. i ll move on and do other things. yes, other things. we ll walk down to the capitol. you ll never take back our country with weakness. freedom! dumb is right! this has been this week in covid history. what an exhausting week! what an exhausting time! what an exhausting year. what an exhausting five years! wow, willie. a lot packed into that week, a year ago. th
maduro has ignored the chorus of venezuelcountry s economic and humanitarian crisis and want him out. who despite international ff stt . you re not worried on who is going to be president here because in your view, maduro is just maduro. reporter: jefferson gonzalez is part of a so-called colectivo. parts of pro-maduro citizens who police entire neighborhoods. the name they ve chosen for this neighborhood, beehive, he says, is also a warning. you re worker bees, but also we ll sting you if you attack. reporter: the more humanitarian aid that arrives at venezuela s borders the bigger the test for the country s military which remains loyal to maduro would could incur the wrath of those who need the help if they enforce his blockade. manuel tonight, thank you. for the first time ever, consumer debt in this country has topped trillion. today s report by the fed says student loans make up the largest portion of that 1.6 trillion. this is consumer debt. next is auto loa
a lot of pressure coming from italy that is having an impact on euro. this is on the back of a fresh downturn. to an italian lawmaker also coming up on the program, and he was insinuating that there was some concern with the euro and that was really freaking out the markets. coming up on bloomberg surveillance, definitely a busy show this morning. shortly, we are at the conservative party conference, where we will talk brexit, with foreign secretary jeremy hunt. we are at the paris motor show, where we are joined by the president of the renault -mitsubishi alliance. let s get straight to the bloomberg first word news with taylor riggs. taylor: u.s. supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh is facing new questions about drunken behavior after claims from a former fellow yale student. he told bloomberg about a 1985 bar fight involving kavanaugh, who he says was frequently belligerent and aggressive after drinking. he also said kavanaugh like to lawmakers about his alcohol use. th
a strong asia filtering through the european stoxx 600. markets putting fears to one side of the trade tension will escalate but we still have time for them to deescalate. pound all has to do with salzburg and brexit. you can see the dollar index a little bit down. it s important on some days like today to look at dollar. danske bank shares down as the bank deals with a money-laundering scandal. the chief executive also bows down. dansk a down by 5%. coming up, beth comstock joins us at 11:30 a.m. u.k. time. let s get first to a bloomberg first word news. the u.s. china trade war deepened as beijing announced retaliatory tariffs on $60 billion of american goods. that came in response to donald trump levying 10% tariffs on about $200 billion in chinese goods starting next week an increase that rate in january to refuses toing concede. in retaliation, beijing announced plans to hit u.s. good hikes to 10% tariffs. bank to thee piggy world. we have been ripped off by china, we ha
by uber lefty reed hastings that s struggling the streaming service netflix today reported a loss of two hundred thousand subscribers in the first quarter of the year.re0,00 it is the first time in a decade that netflix has reported a loss of subscribers and it said the company s stock plunging by twenty five percent in after hours trading. and for cnn plus it s now cnn negative three hundred million dollars. they got 10,000 subscribers th. imagine the hubris of thinking that something people don t want for free that you re going to charge money. it now turns out not enough to pay extra cash to watch the same people they don t want to watch on a regularar cable shocker t. and now twitter. it s an elon musk fans. to can you believe it now he literally had to come up with forty four billion dollarss to make a stand for free speech. so i don t know his philosophy seems pretty straightforward about a public art form that is maximally trusted and t and broadly inclusive is extreme