Good afternoon. I welcome you all here today to a hearing entitled protecting americans from covid19 scams. The nation continues to fight the unprecedented Public Health crisis brought on by the covid19 pandemic. It is our absolute . It is clear that resources are necessary for extinction missile crisis. However, during this time of National Emergency and needed recovery, there are scam artists who seek to take advantage of consumers, especially the most vulnerable communities, like that of our nation seniors. Sentinelthe Consumer Network reports that consumers across the u. S. Reported over 136,000 Different Cases of covid related scams, totaling approximately 90 million in total losses from january 1 to july 20, 2020. More specifically, at home in kansas over this same period of time, consumers report over 500 related cases, totaling 800,000 in financial losses. Everyone should also bear in mind that these are only the reported cases. It is fair to assume there are a number of scams
For stockholders definitely. For their patients maybe not so much. But that is getting a little bit into the weeds here. Lets focus on the Bigger Picture this is finally out there. There is bickering back and forth the timing of all of this, whether this is obamacare light. You heard all the criticism, protests amassing on capitol hill those say it goes too far, that it will kill americans. Protesters are going that far. To adam shapiro on latest on all of that. Hey, adam. Reporter better care reconciliation act. That is what senate introducing. Go you through a few details. It will continue subsidize in some cases for obamaCare Coverage to stablize insurance markets. No subsidies for could have includes abortion services. Defunds planned parenthood for one year. It will repeal billions of dollars in obamacare taxes. Repeals the individual and employer mandate. It caps medicaid payments. It preserves tax credits for people but theyre less generous. Phased out medicaid funding. This is
Authorizing Prime Minister may. We trade, to where a half hours until the open. Robert shiller Robert Shiller coming out and saying stocks are way overpriced. S p futures off by three points. Over 2. 6 r yield around the highest level since 2014. The dollar is a touch stronger as well as crude. I want to focus on what is happening in the u. K. You have the ftse 500 moving higher despite the fact the pound is getting hit or because the pound is getting hit. Up. 5 and dollar pound can dollar at an eight week low. He have to look at that weather you have to look at that to see i would be remiss if i didnt touch on valiant. This is a twoday chart all what happened yesterday when we heard they were selling out. That stock down 15 in nearing the record lows. How low can it really go . We will dissect to that later. David he doubled down and now it does it did not work out. Alix so much drama for so long and now he does it. David this morning in england, we had surprising news out of the bank
The city of San Francisco sfgov tv meeting of the budget and finance committee occurring wednesdayoctober 26, 2016 will begin shortly. [gavel] good morning everybody and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance Committee Meeting for wednesday, october 26, 2016. My name is mark farrell all be chairing this committee. Im joined by supervisor katie tang and supervisor norman yee. I want to thank the clerk of the committee and sfgov tv for covering the meeting today. Do we have any announcements . Please silence all cell phones. Items acted upon today will appear on the november 2 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated thank you. Mdm. Clerk all item 1 is item 1, 2016 issuance by water Revenue Bonds [reading ordinance] thanks very much for our puc is here to speak good morning supervisors chairssf puc. The item before you this morning is a request for your review and approval of Revenue Bonds for water enterprise. These bonds are meant to fund our Wa
Water Revenue Bonds [reading ordinance] thanks very much for our puc is here to speak good morning supervisors chairssf puc. The item before you this morning is a request for your review and approval of Revenue Bonds for water enterprise. These bonds are meant to fund our Water System Improvement Program were what you may know as the us which is a Multiyear Program to rebuild our Regional Water system. I have some slides to share with you to go through. If we could go to the school slides please . This transaction i will walk through some details on that. Ill talk about the sources and uses of the funds. We plan to use the money. Ill go within the board resolution before you today. I will talk a little bit about the transaction documents which as you know with these sorts of transactions theres a lot of different documents to review. Ill describe those. I will go through some disclosure q a which would we know with our commission which we found helpful and ill share those with you and