Small business and Community Leaders discuss how the covid19 pandemic impacted their business and organizations during a listening session with the Federal Reserve board of governors. The discussion as part of an initiative called the fed listens which aims to hear from americans about how Monetary Policy impacts them. Why dont we get started . Good afternoon. Welcome. Its a great pleasure to see you all here in person after a long time of virtual events. Its also, this is the first time weve had a full board of governorsa in nine years, so to have the seven of us are its the first time were convening like this in seven years, in nine years. These sessions started just a few years ago in 2019 in what turned out to be a very different time. They were valuable then and we continue to benefit from them as we have navigated the pandemic shutdown to the path of recovery. H we started with listening sessions around the country that brought together people and organizations representing busin
The truth is they are hitting some new highs. A lot of folks i talk still believe financials will be great in 2013. Some of them are really doing well. Liz its a great day at least for some of the handful of companies that are out there today. [closing bell ringing] liz a carpet company, interface, we just had the ceo on in the last hour, they make the square do you see how theyre holding up the pieces of square . Thats carpet. David if you have seen it on the news chances are you have seen it here even before it happens on the news. The bells are ringing. Lets take a look at the indices. Only one index is in the negative, that would be the nasdaq. Apple not managing to find ground again today being pulled down. We thought maybe it had reversed that downward trend yesterday. Not so today. All the other indices, though, in the green. Some particularly spectacular moves im thinking of Morgan Stanley and theres some other stocks we will be talking about this hour. Liz even though we got a
101 near trimble is where we sent edgar our photographer this morning. So far northbound and southbound 101 are all moving at the limit between san jose and santa clara. Lets go to our maps and check the travel times on westbound 580. Again, usually one of our first spots to get a little busy through the Livermore Valley but no delays so far this morning in the green, 16 minutes between the Altamont Pass and the dublin interchange. And bart now has more than 30 trains and fortunately this morning they are all on time. Thats traffic. Back to you. Thank you. Right now, firefighters are trying to prevent a Southern California wildfire from spreading. The fire has already burned 9 square miles in Riverside County near banning. At least a dozen buildings are damaged or destroyed including some homes. About 1500 people have evacuated as flames tear through the San Jacinto Mountains. We have to realize how quickly this fire moved. Within the first three hours we were over 2500 acres. Its a ve
Admission. Well, whats going to test his ability to stay in Public Office today . [ bleep ] he dies or i die. [ bleep ] i will throw his eyes out. I dont know what he was saying, but it clearly looks like out takes from tommy boy. All right, is that where we are going to start this morning . Its how our Staff Meetings go. Give them a peek. That rang, that sort of reminds me of something. I dont know. Good morning, everyone. Its friday, november 8th. Welcome to morning joe. With us on set, please keep your clothes on today. What was that . What did you do that for . Larry helps run the red sox, the ceo, we have a celebration, donny takes off his shirt. Shows his waxed, tanned, chest. Theres no waxing. Come on. Lets put this in context. Oh, i just got sick. Somebody was complimenting you because you did a lap around or you took a shot at me. To which, i got home theres not justification for it. Theres no justification. Spike in the numbers like msnbc has never seen before. Just saying. A