Partnership with the new england journal of massachusetts. Here we are days away from the close of 2020 and we are at an inflection point. While the news around vaccines are promising the daytoday headlines are as grim as they have ever been. An american is dying of covid19 every 90 seconds and we have recorded 4 million new covid19 cases in november and more than 1 million cases in december just nine days into this month. Covid19 has just passed Heart Disease as the number one killer of americans. As of this morning more than 286,000 americans have died due to covid19 and in just one day, just one day yesterday, we lost 2600 of our fellow americans to covid19. To put those numbers into context we are experiencing a tragedy on the scale of pearl harbor every single day, right here at home. From an Economic Security standpoint we are facing the greatest threat to Value Creation since world war ii. If there were ever any doubt about the seriousness of this virus these facts should cast t
Im becky quick along with joe kerr de kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. After two days of optimism, the get out there again trade was on turned around a little bit yesterday. We did see people rushing back to the stayathome stocks as covid cases and momentization hs continue to climb. And some states are imposing restrictions and the nasdaq ended up 2 after being down monday and tuesday. Yesterday the dow ended flat, right now indicated down by about 115. Never made to the record, still waiting circumstanling around tt s p 500 down by 2. 5 and nasdaq indicated up another 51 points this morning these were the stay at home stocks, amazon up, apple up 3 , zoom which had gotten hammered, yesterday up by almost 10 took c docusign 5. 2 and netflix 2. 2 and treasury yields, yesterday it was closed for veterans day this morning it is open and you can see the ten year still around the very heightened levels, again, not historically, but based on what weve seen in recent history within range of 1 a
Hope to see you again soon. When disaster strikes strong leadership to rebalance. And control are our leaders and how do they become that last one of the worlds most prolific thinkers on the psychology of leadership. Manfredi gets to free is a professor of Leadership Development organizational changes said in seattle Business School its really great to have you with us wow what amazing times to talk about leaderships but im going to start actually from a little behind so we like to think of idea leaders as being modest little selfless accommodating emotionally intelligent compassionate instead. In reality though ask just about anyone about their boss from hell right and the story goes that you will hear plenty about self centeredness that their rough their insensitive as leaders. Is it realistic to think that this gap between the ideal and the real realistic can be actually bridged i hope so otherwise not why they do what they do or something host martin i mean they may youre right. Yo
Emergencies the small country of belgium has one of the highest infection rates in europe the government is worried that the pandemic my to get out of control the country also has the highest numbers of deaths per capita on the continent. But 19 has significantly impacted our day to day lives from contact bans to social distancing to face masks but the virus has also changed lives those who have loved ones who have gotten sick or even died know all too well what this means like the 10 year old lorenzos he lives in a region in belgium that was among the 1st to be declared a corona hotspots back in march and his story tells more about the horrors of the pandemic than mere facts and figures can. Before corona didnt know loneliness now he does every day here. And its just not right with the 10 year old misses his his grandfather luke they were inseparable grandpa was the best you know pretty happy yeah i was happy lorenzo lived with his grandparents for years and they took him everywhere l
Talking about Foreign Affairs is so good about Foreign Affairs and i think that the. Very biased version her parents are very biased. From comments perhaps setting the tone for his final sparring match with his challenger. Oh right all eyes on tennessee this evening i lets go to our washing corresponds all over south who will be following that debate for you now at the candidates biden and trump facing off squaring off for the last time on the same stage before the elections what can we expect. Its certainly going to be the last big clash of the 2 and as you know President Trump is trailing behind in polls some see him behind and more than 2 digits to an extent where even allies are distancing themselves from them fearing that theyre going to be dragged down by President Trump and of course he knows something has to happen this might be his last chance he received it he got a big hit by the 1st debate so we can expect him tonight to go into attack mode he will probably target joe biden