You can follow this conversation on social media using the hashtag politico election countdown, and share your questions by tweeting at politico live. Jake what an election it has been so far, and what a next month it will be. The contours of this contest between the President Donald Trump and joe biden continues to be upended almost every day. As we sit here less than 30 days before the election, President Trump and a growing number of his inner circle, practically his entire inner circle, have been diagnosed with covid19. Biden, who has largely been off the campaign trail, is now on the stump. He was in miami yesterday, and he is going to gettysburg, pennsylvania today. There are increasing concerns about absentee voting and access to the polls. We are going to talk about all of these things and a few quick news of the day questions at the top, so lets get started. Anna congressman clyburn, we have got a lot to talk about to the election and voting, but with regard to the election an
8 up. A bit of a conundrum, it weaker than anticipated growth number when weve got Industrial Production and retail sales beating what was going on. Graphically, there you go. Retail sales, 3. 3 to the upside and that is what has been going on in aggregate. A mixed bag, a miss on the headline gdp but certainly a beat for Industrial Production and retail sales. Yeah, the topline picture is that China Remains the only major economy that is recovering at a pace like this but nonetheless, yeartodate, growth around 0. 7 . Year, beginning of the officials had hoped to get around 6 growth for 2020. Nonetheless, the fact retail sales came in well above the estimates will for economists who say we should see a broader economic recovery in china fueled by infrastructure. Straight cap to the pandemic, there would be focus on whether or not the consumer would step up and the numbers suggest that is happening. Ubss headore from of asia economics and achieve china economist. Always great to get your
Dont know what is your call. Based in taiwan so Worlds Largest economic. Manufacturer with factories in several countries making products like i phones which means i bet if they wanted to they could make an i phone that still has a problem jack rather than bacon may pay for the. Adapter i bet they have i bet they have all the earphone jack you can imagine just bags of them as far as the eyes and theyre not even using them theyre just the workers just just giggle and just giggle and. You know im right anyway fox conns largest factories are in china where they employ a 1000000 people and they pay them so little and work them so hard that in 2010 if they put of suicide nets to try to stop so many workers from killing themselves off the tops of the buildings anyway foxconn made a big grand announcement back in 2016 you might remember that they were building a massive new all American Factory they could be seen from space or some so even allianz would see what we are and they were going to
Emergencies the small country of belgium has one of the highest infection rates in europe the government is worried that the pandemic my to get out of control the country also has the highest numbers of deaths per capita on the continent. But 19 has significantly impacted our day to day lives from contact bans to social distancing to face masks but the virus has also changed lives those who have loved ones who have gotten sick or even died know all too well what this means like the 10 year old lorenzos he lives in a region in belgium that was among the 1st to be declared a corona hotspots back in march and his story tells more about the horrors of the pandemic than mere facts and figures can. Before corona didnt know loneliness now he does every day here. And its just not right with the 10 year old misses his his grandfather luke they were inseparable grandpa was the best you know pretty happy yeah i was happy lorenzo lived with his grandparents for years and they took him everywhere l
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