Gdp to be negative this the First Quarter of 2021. It is friday before a holiday week 59 minutes left in the session down a quarter of a percent on the s p 500. No gobbledy gook coming up for the next two hours here either. Coming up on this show, instead we are going to dive into the latest on the coronavirus and pfizers push to get emergency use authorization for its vaccine with the fda commissioner and pfizer board member dr. Scott gottlieb. Plus, new york city shutting st. Louis down the head of the Teachers Union in new york will be here to weigh in. Lets check on futures mike santoli tracking the margaret as always meg tirrell with the latest on pfizers vaccine and bertha comes has the latest on what President Trump just announced. Mike santoli, lets start with you. Not disturbed so far by the news last night about the treasury pulling the funds from the fed. If you look at the pattern here, it is about a flat week as well. Trading just below the highs we hit on monday. Before t
From tjx to l brands to bjs as they report sales better than feared. Coming up on todays show, the view from the south. We will speak with atlanta fed president Raphael Bostic about how reopening is going in his district plus, Scott Gottlieb has called Antibody Testing a game changer. We will speak with the head of quedel and we will ask how his companys rapid diagnostic measures are up to the traditional tests we talk so often about. As sarah said, lower 0. 6 but off the sessions low Mike Santelli is tracking a volatile day for the market. Joining us to discuss big money being spent in the race for a vaccine are Chris Meekins from Raymond James and meg terrell as always mike, lets start with you. Yes s p 500 pausing right below levels everybody is walking, 3,000 on the upside, right around the 200day average look at a oneyear chart of the s p, we spent most of last summer in this relatively narrow defined range between 2,800 and a little over 3,000. So it is familiar territory. I dont
Richard norton smith, why did you call your book that you wrote 35 years ago uncommon man . Well, its taken actually from the title of a relatively famous hoover speech about the uncommon man. If you remember, Vice President henry wallace, who was the second of fdrs Vice President s, gave a famous speech in 1942, i believe, maybe 43, about the censure of the common man. And wallace from a leftofcenter perspective was projecting, in effect, the goals and ambitions of the generation that was fighting world war ii. And it wasnt enough simply to defeat the nazis, but to create at home a true democracy, a place where the common man would finally come into his own. And hoover approached this from a different place in the political spectrum. He was in effect making the case for what we might call meritocracy. But some think i shouldnt paraphrase it. But you know, when you get sick, you want an uncommonly skillful doctor. When we go to war, we want an uncommonly able general. You get the pictu
This week on q a, president ial historian Richard Norton smith. He discusses his book an uncommon man the triumph of Herbert Hoover. Richard norton smith, why did you call your book that you wrote 35 years ago uncommon man . Its taken actually from the title of a relatively famous hoover speech about the uncommon man. If you remember Vice President Henry Wallace who was the second of the fdrs game a speech about the common man and wallace from the leftist Center Perspective was projecting in effect the goals and ambitions of the generation that was fighting world war ii, and it wasnt simply to defeat the nazis but to create at home a true democracy a place where the common man would finally come into his own, and hoover approached this from a different place in the political spectrum, and he was in effect making the case for what we might call amerit ameritaucracy. When you get sick you want a doctor, when you go to war you want an able general. You get the picture. The advances in soc
Welcome to the weekly here on R T International where we bring you the top stories from the past week. Russias Investigative Committee has released the identity of the gunmen who opened fire outside the headquarters of the federal Security Service building in central moscow on thursday evening the shooter was 39 year old if you get it man youre of who lived in the Moscow Region he killed an f. S. B. Officer before being shot dead himself another officer later died in the hospital 5 other people including one civilian were injured in the attack the investigation into possible motives is still ongoing meanwhile we spoke to the suspects neighbor and father. But lately he became very secretive and also got some kind of strange eastern accent he used to tell me that he liked shooting and even wanted to get a sports rank and become a more stores where he worked he replied in the Emirates Embassy as a Security Guard but i do not know why it isnt true he was a very calm guy and then somehow th