Hes a democrat from california and he represents much of Silicon Valley. Our guest report is Emily Birnbaum of protocol. Thank you both for being on the communicators this week. Thank you for having us. Host representative khanna, as the representative of Silicon Valley how would you describe the reputation of some of the Member Companies in your district in washington . Guest on one hand there is a lot of positives. If you look at the polling, the Tech Companies pull above 6070 for their approval. Theres a sense these are companies some of them working on vaccines, the bioTech Companies working on antivirals. They are allowing for zoom for remote work, for remote calls. That they are engaged in allowing us to have communication, allowing us to get our groceries or information. That said, there are other ethical issues. Theres a sense are so essential workers being paid a partly . Are these platforms thing that the combat hate speech and Voter Suppression . Are they doing enough to pay
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Alley were seeing more push and pull this morning in this case the dow and the s p are green. Were getting decent bounces in names related to travel. Of course the covid cases out of florida at 11,000 plus is not good, but it has been off set by the data out of gilead lets talk about where were going in the coming weeks. You have been riding names like facebook and alphabet and is any of that betting tired the nasdaq 100 has bet the s p for ten straight months. At this point i think the s p this year is down 1 and the value index was down we started our careers at the same time. We saw the tech bubble we saw how bifurcated it can get. We saw how they still have value. Other companies doing exceptionally well it is not available compared to what we see in other sectors what is an example of that . Lets take leer if your family owned the business, you would say we made a billion and a half dollars a couple years ago and a few years from now we will again, but the market is offering to bu
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