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Thermometer but the correlation to equities bonds is really rich. The team leave for me on a monday morning is i see japanese yen just creeping ever so slight. It is just a bit of a weakness. Jonathan 149. 74 at the moment. We averted a shut down and we will get payrolls friday. Ultimately we will do this again. Lisa i cant wait until november when we can do it all again. What i find interesting is the threat of higher rates and the lack of economic weakness on the heels of a Government Shutdown is what is spurring the concern in markets today. All of the sudden people are taken the bond who seriously. Jonathan energy prices, rates, apparently this is the quarter when this consumer frame begins to crack. Tom is the basic theory and then you talk to optimists and there are a number of them and they say no, you saw that in september. I had a great conversation with neil by the neal dudda. He said is not about 4 growth it is tuition to issue two ish. Jonathan jane fraser at city talking a
Maria good friday morning, everybody. Thanks very much for joining us this friday. Hope youre having a good morning. Im maria bartiromo. It is friday, september 29. 7 00 a. M. On the east coast. Time for the hot topic of the hour. Gop president ial candidate nikki haley called out the Biden Administration for making the United States more dependent on china, she said so during the second primary debate wednesday. Watch this. You have a company, u. S. Antibiotics that produces a pox amoxicillin and theres a company in bristol, tennessee that produces that yet our federal government only gets it from china. We need to focus on companies that produce in america and supporting those companies that produce in america. Not companies that are helping china. Maria so the u. S. Importing nearly 7 billion worth of drugs from china in 2022. That number is up from 820 million just a year earlier, 2021. The surge reportedly being driven by chemotherapy drugs and cardiovascular drugs as well as infe
Person with an obvious disability and people talk about that people with disabilities dont bike, she said, yes, she did and shes had a kid and since then she and her kid bicycle, so even then we got an education of our own, against our own bias. And further the east band of the bay bridge is named after a senior who is a longtime bicycle advocate and that happened after he was 75 and hes still doing it after 80. So im trying to say that there are real people from our joint constituencies who do bicycle. But to get back to the 17th Street Project its a protected bicycle lane and that is one of the problems. San francisco is atypical for its Bike Coalition advocacy and the problems start at the top. Theres a booklet on this and they show pictures that clearly theres a lack of accessibility in what they tout as model bike protected bike lanes. Cal train stuck its head in the sand on this though theres been professional comments saying, dont do this, dont follow it and cal train will say t
Efforts that ill highlight that you may be familiar with, and so the image on the left is something that the city of San Francisco put out and i want to say like in 2014, and as the guidelines for accessible Building Blocks for bicycle facilities and it was to be this document that was dynamic i think, that when it came to bike infrastructure and our street design would set th guidelines whether policies or dimensions or policies to make sure that the new bike infrastructure that came in would actually be accessible for all users regardless of people including for people with disabilities. Sorry. And then on the right is something that actually just came out quite recently, just earlier this year at the city of vancouver called their triple a guidelines. All ages and abilities of cycling groups is similar to the Building Blocks but the problem i see with a lot of these is that when were talking about biking the way that we talk about accessibility doesnt often either include people wit