together with its partners if necessary. these key metals are important research for automotive parts and pay a role in future autonomous cars. these two metals are also crucial to make semiconductors. taiwan s tsmc, the world s largest contract chip maker says it doesn t expect any direct impact on its production. despite the statement, the shares plunged almost 3% in trading in taiwan, over concerns of growing tensions, and the us secretary s visit to beijing. a top chinese trade adviser says that this is just the start, sending a not so subtle message to the americans just before the counterparts are sat down face to face in beijing for the first time since the covid pandemic. the visit by secretary yellen also comes at a time when the chinese economy looks to revitalise. that experience supposed covid rebound in the first quarter of the year the latest data has shown signs of stephen mcdonald reports. street food seen in china appears to show an economy rebounding strongl
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On cspan2. The reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program. Femas perspective. All members will have five days for extraneous materials to the chair for inclusion in the record. I recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. Thank you for appearing today for the second hearing for the housing subcommittee for the 118th congress. Fema plays a vital road through the Disaster Recovery efforts and today well explore the National Flood Insurance Program which existed over 50 years and until recently has operated in the same manner and relied on the same outdated tools since its creation and i just applaud the progress that youre making as flooding in the United States is a significant and costly problem for coastal and inland residents. Unfortunately, theres only one provider for nearly all Flood Insurance and the governmentbacked program which sells in a 93 to 95 of all rest tension Flood Insurance in the country. Thats not just a bad idea from the perspective of
let s speak to james smith, developed markets economist at ing. people are talking of a mild recession. what does that mean? quite often when we talk about recessions and the gdp numbers we think of two courses of negative growth being a technical recession. but that doesn t always feel like a recession to people. when we see a recession to people. when we see a recession we associate it with widespread job losses, people spending less money, people trying to save more, because they re uncertain about what is to come. we are not necessarily seeing that now. the fall in gdp we saw in the third quarter was small, we might see another slight fall in the fourth quarter. but it is not comparable to recessions in the past such as 2008 and the covid recession. so it is worth putting that in context. fix, worth putting that in context. a recession is two sets of three months where growth has been negative. in terms of what it means for people, what will this mean? the uk economy is
a mild recession . earlier i spoke to james smith. so we talk about recessions and the gdp numbers. us economists, we often think of two quarters of negative growth has been what we might call a technical recession. but i think it s worth remembering that doesn t always feel like a recession to people. often when we see a recession, we associate that with maybe widespread job losses, people spending a lot less money, people, you know, trying to save more because they re uncertain about what s to come. we re not necessarily seeing all of that right now. and of course, the fall in gdp we saw in the third quarter was very small, 0.i. we might see another slight fall in the fourth quarter, but it s not comparable to, you know, some of the famous recessions we ve seen in the past, 2008, of course, the covid recession as well. so it s worth putting that in context. just to let people know what recession is, it s two sets of three months. we ve seen growth negative in terms of wha