Reporters at length, at great length while Kamala Harris, well, if you ran to the fridge, you miss it had. Vice president stunned the media and clinical world picking the largely obscure Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate. There was a striking and unmistakable pattern to the coverage. Gouramieses and congressmen satyrs Like Walz talked about persona, Life Story and hes the epitome of rural america. Tim walz the proud and resilient and hard working patriotic country. Hes impressed everybody with his appearances over the last several weeks or so. He built them as the time and. Its very impressive, his bog fio. He screams Mac And Cheese with a trip to the hardware store. The media people that dont Like Walz are focused on policy with the liberal record of the blue state of minnesota. Remember, if theyre happy and theyre ecstatic that walz is the choice, you should grab your children and watch your wall and the if they end up in power, youve need to do a lot more to protect bo
And welcome to the national Press Club, the place where news happens. My name is lisa nicole matthews, and i am the 114th president of the national Press Club, and Assignment Manager for u. S. Video at the associated press. Thank you for joining us today for our Headliners Event with Air Force Chief of staff, general charles q. Brown jr. , or as he refers to himself, cq Brown Jr. We will get started in a moment but just a reminder that we are happy to accept your questions, and i will ask as many as time permits. To submit a question, please email headliners press. Org. Air Force Chief of staff general charles q. Brown jr. Is the first and only black Service Chief in u. S. History, and he hasnt been shy about calling out the military for its failure to diversify the leadership ranks and the racism that still exists within it. General brown has said that the death of George Floyd and the black Lives Matter Movement made the Air Force take a hard look at itself. [clears throat] excuse me
not a surprise if you look to see what s happening with the shutdown of the economy, the forced shutdown because of coronavirus. taking a look at the ten-year this morning, it looks like that is yielding about 0.735% at least on the last time i looked at the boards it was. and then wti is the other big story today. joe also mentioned opec plus deal it was an historic one opec and other nations agreeing to cut global oil production by one-tenth. we ll talk about this in a few minutes. wti is up by 1.5% to $23.11 a barrel. we have a huge lineup of squawk newsmakers including mohamed el erian, richard preston and dr. scott gottlieb starting in a few minutes. andrew thanks, becky hope everybody had a great weekend. let s bring everybody an update on the pandemic. of course, the number of confirmed cases in the united states now more than 557,000 and the death toll is more than 22,000 there are 190,000 cases in new york state with more than 9300 deaths that means new york alon
wrote about the 1930 s. he called them the turbulent years. the years of militancy and organizing we saw. these years were equally important to shaping 20th century working america, but in a different way. they were not years of upheaval, organization, and progress, so much as a big turnabout. a way in which the working american class took a turn to a different stage in its existence. we could say that from the 1930 s to the 1970 s was an experience of unbroken promise and expanding rights for workers. in the years between 1968 and 1988, a lot of that turned around. so, turnabout years. i want to start with three stories that help locate what is going on in this period, and talk about what s going on with the economy. talking about public-sector workers in the period, what they faced, and then conclude with some barometers of what s happening to working-class america by the end of this period. to begin, let me start with three stories. i am going to locate these in 1977.
closely. the treasury yields are probably the more important story we re watching this morning. let s take a look at that. you ll see the ten-year is yielding 1.067%. mike santoli point - the two-year at 0.73 right now. it s been cut in half since valentine s day. i think a lot of the push and pull of futures from when they opened last evening, are we going to get a surprise rate cut? we ve had central banks around the world comment on that. it s been stunning considering bond yields were already very, very compressed coming into this weekend and now we ve just stretched the new lows. at one point 0.69%, that still stuns me for the ten-year. we ve been continuing to watch these numbers drop rapidly this is the story people will watch closely. we should point out, stocks in shanghai surged overnight on speculation that authorities will stimulate the economy soon. as mike mentioned, there s talk of potential coordinated central bank move. that s something our guest host tal