A virus lockdown winner has emerged. Its walmart. They have had the advantage of remaining open and they finetuned their delivery and pickup services. They have done very well. Look at this. Same store sales, up 10 . Huge. Sams club sales up 12 , even bigger. Ecommerce, now, this is a big one, up 74 , online sales. That is remarkable. The stock, we are quoting premarket now, the stock is up nearly five bucks, 3. 8 . Okay. This is going to be a live action day. Two top money guys head to capitol hill. Speaker mnuchin, jay powell, they will be discussing what they think still needs to be done for the economy. You want my opinion, please give us Liability Protection. The president addresses the nations farmers. What do they need and whats with the Food Supply Chain. We will carry his speech live. Thats in our 11 00 hour this morning. Then theres the market. After yesterdays 900point gain. That rally followed encouraging news on a vaccine from moderna and the rapid reopening of the economy
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The trauma we saw during the depression. Unlike the 1930s, of course, we have good reason to believe this economic collapse is going to be shortlived, though how many of the jobs lost and how much of the lost income for so Many Americans will ever be recovered, at this point we just dont know. Frustrated by the scale of the economic damage, more and more americans are demanding a restart, and this was the first full week that most states is have reopened many businesses closed by the lockdown. So far at least we havent seen a big increase in coronavirus cases. But as more people return to the work force, the virus will presumably start to spread again. Some new models suggested this week that deaths from the disease could jump significantly as Society Moves towards more normalcy. That there will be further spread of the virus certain, but should that really stop us from conducting any form of Economic Activity . When the lockdowns were first proposed, the idea, remember, was they would
The trauma we saw during the depression. Unlike the 1930s, of course, we have good reason to believe this economic collapse is going to be shortlived, though how many of the jobs lost and how much of the lost income for so Many Americans will ever be recovered, at this point we just dont know. Frustrated by the scale of the economic damage, more and more americans are demanding a restart, and this was the first full week that most states is have reopened many businesses closed by the lockdown. So far at least we havent seen a big increase in coronavirus cases. But as more people return to the work force, the virus will presumably start to spread again. Some new models suggested this week that deaths from the disease could jump significantly as Society Moves towards more normalcy. That there will be further spread of the virus certain, but should that really stop us from conducting any form of Economic Activity . When the lockdowns were first proposed, the idea, remember, was they would
The trauma we saw during the depression. Unlike the 1930s, of course, we have good reason to believe this economic collapse is going to be shortlived, though how many of the jobs lost and how much of the lost income for so Many Americans will ever be recovered, at this point we just dont know. Frustrated by the scale of the economic damage, more and more americans are demanding a restart, and this was the first full week that most states is have reopened many businesses closed by the lockdown. So far at least we havent seen a big increase in coronavirus cases. But as more people return to the work force, the virus will presumably start to spread again. Some new models suggested this week that deaths from the disease could jump significantly as Society Moves towards more normalcy. That there will be further spread of the virus certain, but should that really stop us from conducting any form of Economic Activity . When the lockdowns were first proposed, the idea, remember, was they would