Now, the treasury secretary speaks on the state at the u. S. Economy in front of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Labor Union in las vegas. During her remarks, the secretary outlined the economies transition in the wake of the covid19 pandemic, and highlighted the clean Energy Aspects of the Inflation Reduction Act. This is nearly 30 minutes. What youre doing in vegas and across the country demonstrates everyday that skill workers are literally building our economic future. I could not be more thrilled to join you. Just a year ago, i delivered a speech in michigan which laid out the case for our administrations economic plan. At the time we had just witnessed an historic economic recovery from the depths of the pandemic downturn. The unprecedented pace of job creation had brought the u. S. Labor market back in that time. Yet we were still in the early stages of executing President Bidens longterm economic agenda. We had just completed the enactment of our trifecta of
Suicide. And the investor immortalizing The Big Short for predicting the Housing Bubble would burst is back at it again. Why hes betting 1. 6 billion that the stock market will crash. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. We begin in hawaii with the growing questions about the role downed power lines may have played in those deadly wildfires. Nbcs dana griffin is live from maui. Some hawaiian residents are suing the Utility Company as videos emerge of what happened to the power lines during the high winds. Dana, what can you tell us . Reporter well, chris, i can tell you, we have seen a lot of videos on social media, one in particular that purports to show downed power lines and smoke, and that could have been the reignition of that fire after it was contained. Nbc news has not independently verified those videos yet. Were hearing reports from several people including one guy who says that fire started behind his home, and now there are concerns that that
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Three days but we begin today with what we are our energy jobs. Say jobs. We are here because we are mindful of the challenges we face as a nation and as a globe. Those are challenges with respect to whether you refer to it as Climate Change or Global Warming adjustments in weather patterns, there is no doubt something is occurring. It is impacting our quality of life. If you have ever traveled through union station, the Wonderful Union station, the ine entrance. Maybe you have or maybe youve not. Look looked at that inscription looked at that inscription. In the history ofthat technologs the invention or the creation of fire. Fire as an enabler changed the trajectory of human beings. Gay people a different way to prepare food, different way to keep warm a invention of fire also aated the growth of human beings. The next great invention was the invention of electricity. The ability to capture impact the way people lived. We who have grown up in the 20th and 21st have been great benefic
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