Under siege. But front line er doctors still manage to send a message of hope plus, weve got a live one shark tanks mr. Wonderful kevin oleary in the news tank, talking Small Business survival. Live from cnbc global headquarters, the facts, the truth, the news with Shepard Smith. Good evening. The United States just topped more than 13 million covid cases, according to johns hopkins. Los angeles has just issued a new stayathome order it starts on monday. A full report coming and all of this as the virus has disrupted another american tradition. Black friday, normally one of the busiest shopping days of the year not in covids 2020 in many parts of our nation, thinner lines at stores. Smaller crowds at malls. Many people opting to shop from home instead its a trend accelerated by covid. Shoppers projected to spend as much as 10. 6 billion today. Thats according to the data firm Adobe Analytics and thanksgiving day spending rose by more than 21 compared to the same day last year. Total sp
How to get through this. Its been an extraordinary outcome. One i could have never perceived could happen in march when we were scrambling for ppp loans, the majority of my companies were cash flow negative we shut down retail, until we went through this extraordinary transformation we would have never shut down our headquarters we would have never assumed that we could make a pivot and start selling direct to our customers instead of through retail. Thats exactly what happened and when you sell something direct to a customer, you make almost 100 cents on the dollar versus 0. 50 when you sell through retail thats the reason that theres a massive digital pivot going on, and theres major cost savings also occurring i could have never foreseen this, 15 of my staff including the areas of accounting, logistics and compliance never want to come back to the office. Wow. Theyre raising kids at home in the suburbs, taking care of elderly parents. Another major savings. This is happening to ever
Next hour right now though it is the kaiser report stay with us. Hi there im max kaiser this is the kaiser report you know the stock market as a subset of the economy has undergone a transformation and become the plaything for speculators fueled by incredibly egregious money printing by a rogue central bank and this is causing all manner of dislocations mal investments in societal changes for more lets turn to Stacy Herbert hey well you know what something that you predicted would happen is happening and its coming true billionaires lining up to take their companies private so what will robin her dish trade when everything has been l b. Right so as weve been saying on the show for a number of years all this money printing in the strategy of Companies Taking themselves private or buying back their own shares with the 0 percent Interest Rate would end up with a economy and a stock market that doesnt exist anymore because its all been taken private remember during the 1980 s. Michael milk
Losing and this is the problem now with this economy in the u. S. The game of the u. S. Is now over because there is no path out there is no escape from the toxic debt there is no recovery at this point theres only how to manage the loss its going to be economic collapse with honor if Richard Nixon were in charge and this were to be the ms ation of the economy how do we honorably fail of course on this debt the deficit gets added to the National Debt every year like you know i remember when it 1st hit a trillion dollars and we were like wow and then it hit 10 trillion dollars somewhere and then now its like 2530. 00 china is just like escalating so rapidly and who knows like the whole time when i 1st had a trillion people were shocked and scared and then when it hit 10 trillion people like oh my god this cant last and then they hit 20 trillion and at 25 trillion and you know. And i get to a quadrillion and the world continue as it is but if feels like you know if youre comparing it to
Simulation goes away lets find out from Stacy Herbert well max you know there was some art a few years ago when we used to be able to meet in person at that little art festival i think it was in miami we had some banana on the wall well you might say our Balance Sheet is looking like that banana meat republic budget deficit hits record 3 trillion dollars as us spends 100 percent more than it earns unfortunately due to helicopter money it is not unlikely that the exploding deficit will ever shrink again until the Monetary System is overhauled so year to date and that we have only one month left in fiscal 2020 the us a spent 6. 00 trillion and collected just 3. 00 trillion which means that its outlays are 100 percent more than its receipts many are asking why dont we do we even collect this 3 charlie and taxes why dont we just like print money for everybody right it brings up a lot of questions you know one thing is that the deficit is to new jersey and its more than 100 percent of g. D.