lunch time when this topic of long covert is clearly of great interest to many of our viewers and i m glad to see in the next few weeks we will be having a show dedicated specifically to that topic but night over to alex chris in conversation with professor richard murphy professor richard murphy welcome to the show. current good to be with you richard murphy you have been to be known as a vigorous commentator on the political and economic scene your background is a counter to the so how did a accountant get into the split called the bay i mean did you want your way through economics to the excitement of political economy are or is a softer or a career of the code to say your thought it was time for the walk in the wild side i actually think that to a fundamentally related alex i mean i didn t undergraduate degree in economics and so please that s where that interest started and i was always interested in the relationship between accountancy and if you like the macro economy
commentators providing an alternative viewpoint to conventional wisdom much more from professor murphy later on in the show but 1st to your tweets messages and emails in a sponsor russia last week on corporate 19 and whether it will be ever with us of course we heard from the wonderful professor hugh much coming you had lots and lots of comments 1st of all from lindy he says excellent interview with professor montgomery and betty equality addressing poverty and dealing with public health promptly should form the basis for scotland s route map i should have called for it and she says professor montgomery absolutely superior on the issue speaks so well and communicates complex science issues so clearly i m sufficiently and i was on the frontline of intensive care he should come on the highest respect from all of us i may need to listen to ski messages thank you ira says believe in program alex instinct says that covert was in scotland at the latter end of 21000 maybe that s a q
in a forum talking about the economic impact of the coronavirus on small businesses. this event is hosted by x euros. good afternoon and welcome to this axial s virtual event. it s one of the biggest topics facing our nation which is small business in the path to recovery. we like to think into it for making these conversations possible and think the event team which is on the second half of today s doubleheader so thank you for these virtual events. we love for you to follow along at # axios events. can follow us on twitter at at@axios. our first guest today started a small business, sophia dickens, will be with us for my home state, orange county, california. sophia created eq entertainment and she founded that in the brand to wander and this is a curriculum, among other things that helps people learn at home which suddenly has been in more demand. sophia dickens, thank you for joining axios. thank you for having me, mike. how is california? i wish i were there. cal
we with the for you to follow events andxios follow on twitter @axios. our first guest, sophia dickens, started a small business. she will be joining us from orange county, california. she created eq entertainment. and the brand q wonder, a curriculum that helps people learn at home, which suddenly is in a lot more demand. thank you for joining axios. thank you for having me, mike. mike: how is california? i wish i was there. it is stunning, but it is outside the window, so not quite enjoying it like i used to. mike: sophia, you got the idea goteq entertainment, you this idea from a college class, which i think small businesses start with, just a germ of an idea. tell us about it. i remember being blown away as a student at harvard by 40 ands of data, that social emotional learning, not academics, was at the core of success. there wasn t anything out there that made it fun and easy for parent teachers and kids, so i took that 40 years of data and translated it and built
phone about the moment of paper they re dealing with. it s coming up. i had an intuition that would be there. when you see stacks of paper compared to national monuments, and you at home are going to get treated to that in just a few seconds. thank you, my friend. you bet. thank you all for joining us this hour. we have breaking news tonight as i just mentioned. if your calender was marked for this coming monday when president trump was set to hold a press conference he was promised would exonerate him from the allegations laid out in that fulton county indictment, if that was a date reserved on your ical, i m sorry to inform you it has been called off. trump says tonight his legal team is instead putting the overwhelming evidence in formal legal filings. he adds, therefore the news conference is no longer necessary. that news comes right after trump s legal team in another case finally gave its answer as to when they believe the former president should go to trial.