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Late january, early february when the virus was raging in china. Investors and traders in the u. S. , and we have spikes in certain parts of the u. S. It is not clear what that will bring for the rest of the country. Traders looking past any negative possibility. However, from across asset class standpoint, that is not the case. The haven yen is a quite a rally over the last two weeks, more than two weeks, the haven yen up more than 3 , quite a run when you have investors seeking safety in that way. It tells you they are treading water where there is an actual hedge for some sort of risk off ahead. Itll be interesting to see whether the broader indexes, the sideways range we have seen of last couple of weeks, whether it breaks to the upside following the nasdaq or the nasdaq follows stocks down. There seems to be overall optimism driven by the fed. Not a lot changing fundamentally accept the virus data and the uncertain the around that. David dont fight the fed. Thank you so much abiga
As dana mentioned, we will speak exclusively to a man with a lot of power in washington, West Virginia democratic senator joe manchin. But first we begin in florida where two fbi agents were killed while serving a warrant. Phil keating is on the scene in sunrise, florida. Good evening, phil. Reporter good evening, bret. It all went down just after 6 a. M. This morning. A brutal, brazen and tragic incident inside that apartment complex behind me. Five fbi agents were shot, two of them fatally. Just minutes ago the fbi called this a very dark day. We are saddened by their loss as we struggle to come to terms with what happened. However, as we grieve their loss, we will continue the mission to protect the American People. Reporter the federal agents showed up to the subjects apartment before dawn for what was planned to be a Surprise Serving of a Search Warrant in an on going child pornography case. Instead of answering his door, the subject grabbed a gun and started shooting. The two age
Bush administration and later jared cohen set the precedent due to the deaths of their predecessors. Enjoy book tv now and over the weekend on cspan2. Starting out on book tv World Affairs Institute Distinguished fellow joshua project discusses the views of socialism. Thanks to jeff and charles for the hospitality. And as alluded to, this is quite an august group including im afraid a number of people who know as much about the subject asi do. Im going to do my best to leave plenty of time for giveandtake around thetable. The book, socialism is in the airright now. The book is first of all a history and im going to quickly set the history and then spend some minutes on whats happening today and then we will have a backandforth or around the table. So the term socialism was coined in the 1820s and 30s by the followers of a small group of thinkers, british and french who were not out to overthrow governments but had ideas of a Better Society of sharing and also had the quite good idea th
To discuss this and more im joined by my guest read like unship in prague hes an american journalist in the Czech Republic where hes been covering the pope in 1000 pandemic in europe along with chinas response previously hes worked as a journalist for telesur and a contributor and message are new and in new zealand we cross to James Bradley he is the New York Times number one bestselling author of the china mirage as well as host of his own pod cast untold pacific hi gentlemen crossed out rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated this talk about the u. S. China relationship during this pandemic and most importantly after it james let me go to you know we we here with donald trump with his threatening words there will be consequences of course that is undefined to this point here and i can understand the traumatization that people are feeling in the United States i would say it was a lack of preparedness and just the nature of the medical syste