Trillions from washington, more printing by the fed, that is a shot in the arm for stocks. Look at this, the dow industrial is going up maybe 300 points plus at the opening bill. The s p up 33, nasdaq up close to 100 points. Investors are really shrugging off the new round of stay at home and lockdown orders. And restrictions, were new ones in new jersey, ohio and california. And, yes, another case of lawmaker hypocrisy. L. A. County supervisor sheila are cool voted to ban Outdoor Dining at restaurants and then promptly went out for an outdoor meal at her favorite restaurant in santa monica. Youd think theyd learn, wouldnt you . Weve got a big show for you. Were going to introuse you to monetary introduce you to monetary theory. You dont pay for anything. Youll meet the man who declared an autonomous zone around his bar. Now, that is defiance. And youll meet the california guy who is flipping burgers on the sidewalk because they shut his restaurant down. And today, yes, we have got a T
Good morning. The committee has come to order. One thing, i want to thank the witnesses for your testimony. Those appearing in person, traveling to d. C. To give it orally, and, also, answer our questions. The title of this hearing now is, i guess, examining the u. S. Approach to early covid19 treatments. I thought it was i originally set out a title of early treatments for covid, a essential component of a covid solution. It was inevitable that the coronavirus pandemic to be politicized into the tragedy it was. From the start, i knew it was impossible to have a perfect response. We were facing a new virus. No one wanted to underreact, and as a result i feared the tendency would be overreact. The challenges facing us were daunting. Our National Strategic stockpile had been reduced during the h1n 1 pandemic. It took time to develop a test. The fact that a large percentage of people that become infected exhibit no symptoms made the coronavirus even more difficult to detect and contain. I
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New gold rush is underway and gonna thousands of ill equipped workers are flocking to the gold fields, hoping to strike it rich years ago. As they owe by the children are torn between gold was very poor. I thought i was doing my best to get back to school, which side will have the strongest appeal hello and welcome to cross top where all things are considered on peter limbo. The results of the u. S. Election cycle have surprised many. There was no blue wave, and the g. O. P. Witnessed gains all across the board. Both parties have deep internal divisions, and the court is in both parties based populist challenges. Is this the perfect recipe for a political realignment to discuss this and more, im joined by my guest, kevin chatters in washington, and he is an attorney and democratic strategist, and minneapolis we have and tom lazaro, he is founder of big 10 republicans. And in austin, we cross the west. Benedict is a former executive director of the Libertarian Party, originally, rules i
Leventhal. We are basically at the highs of the day, call it a 500point gain, the s p 500 good for 1. 5 . Nasdaq which was negative very early today is back above 12,000, thats a gain of 1 . The small caps have had a tremendous run of their own. The russell 2000 is up by better than 2 . Josh brown, if i told up that the dow on march 23rd hit a low of 18,213 and we have had a 12,000point rally since then, you would say what i would say this is why people who are not only invested for long term by continually adding to their investments, 401 k s or automated advisers, et cetera, have done themselves a huge favor people on the other side of that debate who think their job is to wake up every morning and make in our out decisions have not done themselves a favor. Im 43 years old im pretty sure ill see dow 100,000 someday. Is he you have to orient your mentality in order to get to days like today. If your mentality is oriented toward trying to outsmart everybody all the time, you dont get t