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Christiane and ben next have a lot to get to so lets get started. Heres a headline that will surprise no one in 2020 the u. S. Economy had its worst performance in 74 years since the end of world war 2 it contracted 3. 5 percent now this was of course because of the coronavirus lockdowns and the impact of the worldwide pandemic so whats in store for 2021 especially in an economy that remains so uncertain joining me now to discuss this and more. On it chrystia i ben lets start with you can you give us a rundown of how the economy did or didnt perform in 2020. Yeah i mean as you said in the beginning here its really no surprise to anybody the economy did not do well contract at 3. 5 percent as you said the worst its done since 1946 so its been a long time since the economys contracted that much in a single year and that came off of the 2. 2 percent growth that we saw the year before in 1900 the bottom line here is this is basically every sector was down because of the coronavirus with th ....
This is a boom bust the one business show you cant afford to miss. In washington coming up u. S. G. D. P. Close out 2020 at its worst rate since 1046. 00 and shrank by 3. 5 percent and the game stop saga continues as robin hood and other Major Trading partners are stressed in trading as the battle between wall street and small investors continues well explain what this means for future trading with the us pros with christiane and ben next have a lot to get to so lets get started. Heres a headline that will surprise no one in 2020 the u. S. Economy had its worst performance in 74 years since the end of world war 2 it contracted 3. 5 percent now this was of course because of the coronavirus lockdowns and the impact of the worldwide pandemic so whats in store for 2021 especially in an economy that remains so uncertain joining me now to discuss this and more. On it chrystia i ben lets start with you can you give us a rundown of how the ....
Authorities in the u. K. Given power to destroy buildings in the fight against we get reaction but of course in this day and age it would be easier to write should be sanitized somewhere around the market down. There youd think thered be something scientific that would help probably even more if youre good and. Whether this is r. T. International thanks for joining us. Russian rescue teams out begun their work in the blast stricken city of beirut as part of joint International Relief efforts a massive explosion in the lebanese capitals docs area claimed the lives of 157 people and injured 5000 others correspond to get reports from the at the center of the tragedy. As russian rescuers are getting down to well what they have been flown in here for i. I want you to just look around and let something sink in about the sheer and ultimate demolition power behind this explosion we are in the very epicenter as close as a 1000000000 ....
Weathered this, i dont think anybody would have predicted what has happened. You guys with the Health Department have done great. So thank you. Gratifying to see your plan is measured. Also, we have the ability to consolidate that. ,e had some concerns before because prior to the pandemic, we put tried to explain to people, [inaudible] and we have to avoid overwhelming the health care system, which has fortunately not happened so we are happy to. Ee a plan we have been engaged in conversation with many members of the task force and the industry. To [inaudible]g good afternoon. [inaudible] taking time to come out here and listen to discussion from the industry. A couple points i would like to all licensed and trained in the state of florida, certified. If you take a look around, these are all protocol steps that are normal on a daily basis for licensed stylists. Opening,ring the great we will all be taking measured steps to reop ....
And trying about 7000 that bubble as in mumbai in just one city alone and i think thats a phenomenal example of you know if theres absolutely no plastic there is you know its really kind of that type he says of the whole food delivery. Phenomenon that we see today that is extremely reasonable and i think its to your point i think go to waste in india is actually really in our d. N. A. Because the bazaars i saw that if we dont have to wait for the weekly Farmers Market that is not your Farmers Market outside your house at any given point. So then a lot of things that we are talking about in the end its just a kidding about going back to how we used to do things because kind of in the air we had westerns i post 3 stories that were getting your predicted amount of package fruit and so thats why i kind of advocating for the kind of going back to europe to see how we used to do it ....