Thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. So lets start with the idea of your book 1 billion americans try to get more people in here . 670 Million People. And then sometimes have a Bad Reputation and how clean it was good. And then to be provocative and i thought to thought experiment like chinas competition we just cannot grow as fast. But we can have more people we spend money to keep them out and we dont have as many children as they say we want to have. We occurred provide childcare so why not . When i do it . Limited to say thats too many people like is hong kong to be crammed in like sardines. Is that true . With one americans the population would be about half. Yeah america is empty with a lot of amber waves of grain. [laughter] is just really big and stuff is historically odd 330 million in canada they are 25 million we make policy choices mature. Our career to get a lot of people to. It is very deliberate you look at the George Washington administration, there is a l
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Activity in the Second Quarter of 2020 we are going to see eyepopping forecasts in the third quarter. We cannot lose sight of what that means for people who are struggling, businesses who are struggling, in the fact we still have a deep hole. Recovery,led k shaped and those who do not have options to work from home, is already fading away. We see a hollowed out downtown. [indiscernible] what does that mean for city revenue . In high rent districts employment is still at that 45 of precovid levels. Colleagues and i have a clause looking at what this means for cities and how it depends on revenue structure, industry, and exposure to covid as well as federal and state policy response. If i could get the next slide, please . Go. E we going into this there were a lot of things we thought we knew about city economies and finances. Much of that has been upended by covid. You are thought to be a Success Story if you are a service economy, and now they are under threat. We used to think cities
And activists who try to steal african art from the museum and paris has been fined but he says he was only taking back what rightfully belongs to. Us thanks for joining us European Countries have begun imposing new restrictions on public and private life as they struggle to cope with steep rises in toronto virus infections the u. K. Which has europes highest pandemic death toll has unveiled a new 3 tier system closing pubs gyms and betting shops in the highest risk areas and the Regional Government in Northern Ireland has just imposed europes hosh 2nd wave lockdown restrictions the Czech Republic already imposed a state of emergency today new restrictions come into place closing all school. Bars restaurants and clubs and the netherlands is also returning to partial lockdown closing Restaurants Hotels and cafes for 2 weeks well those are just some of the latest curbs other measures are already in place in several European Countries spain for example has a state of emergency in the madr
Across europe growing infection rates fresh lockdown measures and the inevitable health and Economic Hardship to follow as they head for which there are no easy fixes. From prague in the Czech Republic im now joined by viral of. Me he is from the Czech University of Alive Sciences that the Czech Republic was one of the countries managing actually quite well to keep the pandemic on the controls so whats gone wrong now ok the rest of her all starts to quickly and people i think that in march of 0 the virus during the summer they. Slow the virus came back and now we are under the 2nd wave we chase much stronger than the 1st one but tell us more about the new restrictions and how much public support is there for them. Ok so were going to the new restrictions old school so and pops and james should be close to them today including the school saw from small gates to primary schools and they can do gotten and also the pops and so long people are according to my opinion very tired about this b