The most important issue. The blur of information we are getting, the effect on the markets, the effect on the nations politics, it doesnt matter. The pandemic statistics, the cases, the hospitalizations, and yes, rising death rates are front and center. Jonathan couldnt agree more. The conversation is so familiar to everyone sitting in london, in europe watching this play out. You start at 10 00 p. M. Curfew you start to limit dining. Then what . That is the concern for a lot of people this morning. Tom im going to use the hands up. That has proven so effective on radio worldwide. Think of it like three hockey bucks of death in europe. Inis only one hockey puck the United States. Europe is way out front of this, and i am frightened by the idea we will begin to see the deaths expand. The other thing i am frightened by, lisa takes a day off, and rumor has it she left day bear, and i think shes returned a bull. [laughter] jonathan lets see how long this one last. I reckon we can get to a
Abramowicz. Tom bloomberg radio, bloomberg television. Good morning. Bloomberg surveillance. Jon took me off the ledge over tonight. Tsarsenal for and then sunday evening, a bombshell from the New York Times. Jonathan i never thought we would start an hour with english football, but we seem to do that now. I dont want this to be the story, but lets talk about whether it is real or not. I understand it is an important story. I understand it is sensitive for many people in america. But far too often, there has been a highlight reel of news anchors sitting there saying the word bombshell, and it has done nothing for the polling of the president of the United States. Are you convinced this will . Tom not at all, and Kevin Cirilli making clear it wouldnt have an effect on the very few, if any, undecided. The comment from the New York Times that there would be comments to come. In the markets, up, up. If we keep talking, we will be up 50 points on spx. Right now we are up 44 points. Jonathan
From new york and across this nation today, any number of themes, but there are two front and center. The Vice President will speak in scranton, pennsylvania before ending the hour and jobless claims well over one million widely expected. All of that devolving into the layoffs here, the layoffs presumed to come and it sets us off for an American Labor economy that must be addressed. With that, the Market Reaction, as well. Jon ferro, the news flow has really been on recently and crescendos this morning into these announcements of job cuts at too Many Companies. Arethan by any standard we in a labor market crisis. There is a ton of work still to come. What we have seen from the Big Companies is they are starting to right size the business. We talked about this we talked about this week ago on the program. Companies are turning around after the shutdown and saying, we have to cut into this new world because we are not returning to normal anytime soon. You highlighted this yesterday, that