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
So little perspective on this moment, its quite impossible to say. I think the perception that many people in the United States and of course also around the world have that this is an extraordinary unusual time something we are the time out of time, will be curiosity in the future people will look back and wonder about that very wonderment i think its an interesting phenomenon. When you think about today do you compare it to any period in history . Jill lepore as a historian im interested in analogies we have a cognitive tendency to enjoy analogies to find d one thing to be like another all the time. Just in the same way and the kind of person that sees likenesses and family members, and look at a new baby and say, that looks just like great grandma someone so. Have the same time, even as they say i recognize a lot of that is minded perception, my need for familiarity. I think there has been for most of my career as a historian the question to ask historians is what time is this like.
Funny you were there you witnessed this violence what happened. At 1st everything was actually quite peaceful just like 2 in the past 2 weeks here in this neighborhood very close to a studio you will see people listening to music chanting of course and to Police Brutality something that they were asking for for the past weeks not just this time around the 4 years back and so yes that was just a very normal beginning but then the dynamics started to change my cameraman and me witnessed people gunmen on bikes and said this site and they just all to to shoot people. Lucky enough to find one way to to to hide or to hunker down a nearby parking lot from where we could witness what is going on at the demonstration site unfortunately couldnt exit this place with a demonstration to place and the scene was rather chaotic people be a praying around us others are singing the National Anthem saying im ready to die for my nation and then also we witnessed people injured 20 carried to this area wher
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Eye on their progress. A massive effort to clean up one of san joses biggest Illegal Dumping sites. Crews are tackling the trash at the notorious Monterey High School highway dumping ground. Things are starting to look a lot different. Reporter you know come this problem is so big and there is so much junk here that the work crews that started today say that it will probably take them a week to clean this up. The view from chopper five shows pile upon pile of trash in narrow, Illegal Dumping ground that goes on for a quarter of a mile on the southern tip of san jose. On the ground, work crews used heavy equipment to begin cleaning it up as well as hard labor. Its horrible, it is terrible. Reporter she lives in a homeless camp nearby, she said people began dropping off a few items at the beginning of the pandemic, supposedly as donations for homeless people. Then it just grew. They just show up in cars, trucks, and whatever and they do it fast, too, they pull up and they just dump right