Is working on billions of allars of aid to help salve plundering economy. Even elections are being affected. Of of this is in the hope keeping coronavirus from getting worse. Our question for you this morning, what do you think about President Trumps declaration of a National Emergency on covid19 . Late, or soon, too justintime . We are going to open up regional lines this morning. If you are in the eastern or central time zones your telephone number is going to be 202 7488000. If you are in the mountain or pacific time zones we want to hear from you at 202 7488001. Thisve a special line open morning. This will be a line for medical professionals. If you are in the medical field we want to know what you are seeing out there. If you are in the medical field we want to hear from you at 202 7488002. Keep in mind you can always text. S at 202 7488003 and we are always reading on social media. This now, late last night the house of representatives passed a billiondollar aid package for figh
Max kaiser this is the kaiser report well you know things are turbulence and weve got a lot to cover so stay see whats happening yes max weve been talking about this preparing you for years for this this financial pandemic its not too much of a shock we are seeing very 929. 00 or 987. 00 sort of like plunges in the stock market and of course those rallies that followed 929 in fact here is the headline from dow jones market watch this plunge looks a lot like the ones that rocked stocks in 1929987200 extension 8 if it keeps tracking a lookout well this is an interesting that theyre making the 929 comparison because it reminds me back in 2008 speech made by ben bernanke who was then running the Federal Reserve he was a successor to Alan Greenspan and he was doing this great lecture about how they cure the crisis of 2008 because they have something that they didnt have back in 1929 they have the Printing Press and this began a continuation of what Alan Greenspan did in the 1987 crash was t
Back into the program the coronavirus pandemic is causing new concern across the world this time about the wider effects the middle rising death toll and new restrictions the concern about the economic fallout and what that may lead to leaders of the g. 7 will begin a Video Conference in the next hour to discuss how to respond to the pandemic the call comes amid another major plunge on the New York Stock Exchange it dropped more than 9 percent in just a few seconds when it opened 30 minutes ago and that forced a 15 minute halt in trading trading has restarted gabriel is under is monitoring whats going on at the New York Stock Exchange what is going on. Well its an absolute collapse quite frankly of the new york citys Stock Exchange and the markets that were seeing here in new york right now now we saw Trading Halted twice last week. Tuesday and thursday and then we saw it again monday morning right as the markets opened at 9 30 am eastern time within nearly 2nd stock markets they have
On and why. Did. The. Budget to harm me its been over a year since the former cricketer turned politician imran khan became pakistans Prime Minister. During his campaign mr cohn promised to turn around the countrys economy but the fight to ease inflation has not been an easy one the pakistani rupee lost 35 percent of its value drink comes 1st year in office and despite some encouraging news from the International Monetary fund many are still struggling as a result of the weak economy pakistans location brings a lot of opportunity as well as challenges a lot of hope has been put on its agreement with china to set up an economic corridor or. But its not clear if the ambitious project will be beneficial to both sides. Relations with the other big name but india have been strained in recent months after new delhi revoked the autonomy of indian administered kashmir. Theres also been tension of indias controversial citizenship law that many say discriminates against muslims and islam about w
Nationwide. It has been hard to keep track of the number of colleges switching to virtual instruction because the changes have come so rapidly over the last week. Theres one crowd source document that a scholar has put together that has identified more than 200 colleges around the country that have posed or a move to virtual instruction. We are seeing it all over the place, all types of colleges. Some of the nations most elite colleges have moved to virtual instruction for the remainder of the semester, places like harvard, princeton, cornell. Also, we see a number of public universities doing this. Collegesee community doing this. In seattle, virtually all of them have moved to virtual instruction. Host what are we losing by these colleges and universities going to online classes . We know online instruction is becoming more and more popular in the higher ed community anyway, but what are we losing by these campuses closing, and specifically, what are students losing by these campuses