The committee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at the committee at any time. I want to remind members of a few matters including some required by the regulations accompanying the House Resolution line 65 which established the frameworks were removed committee proceedings. I dont know if we have gone through this already but i would ask all members on the platform to keep themselves muted when they are not being recognized. This will minimize disturbances while members are asking questions of the witnesses. Members on the platform are responsible for muting and on muting themselves. The staff has been instructed not to mute members except where a member is being recognized and theres inadvertent background noise members on the platform are reminded that they may only attend one hearing at a time. If you are participating today, please remain with us during the hearing and members should try to avoid coming in and out of the meeting partic
We are watching the hang seng index. Australias market is only higher by 0. 3 . But we had this news that china will allow australias cargo to come ashore. Lets have a look at stocks. Clearing exchanges in focus. The u. S. Approved legislation that could lead to chinese firms getting kicked off american exchanges. Also getting a call from sidney. Tak is down 1. 4 . ,his big surging iron or holding at a record. In recent weeks, weve seen pickup of state owned enterprise default in china that have jolted the credit markets and rattled investors. One company in the spotlight is ever grand, which has accumulated the biggest debt in global real estate. We are joined by Stephen Engle in hong kong. In ournt to bring distinguished guest, the ceo and cofounder of sc lowy in hong kong. A bank and manager that specializes in distressed and highyield debt. Good to see you. You spoke to bloomberg about a month ago and you did talk about ever grand. We know that they have taken steps to increase or
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the cs authorized to declare a recess at the committee at any time. I want to remind members of a few matters including some required by the regulations accompanying the House Resolution line 65 which established the frameworks were removed committee proceedings. I dont know if we have gone through this already but i would ask all members on the platform to keep themselves muted when they are not being recognized. This will minimize disturbances while members are asking questions of the witnesses. Members on the platform are responsible for muting and on muting themselves. The staff has been instructed not to mute members except where a member is being recognized and theres inadvertent background noise members on the platform are reminded that they may only attend one hearing at a time. If you are participating today, please remain with us during the hearing and members should try to avoid coming in and out of the meeting particularly
Back in the late 1990 s. That it would get to 36000. Right. And that was famously a bad call because it crashed down to very far down after that. Well, the metrics that the government used for inflation are very skewed. So in other words, the stock market is reflecting inflation and the u. S. Dollar is experiencing a hyper inflationary collapse against big coins. And what these financial engineers have done like harry cohn and the others on wall street and around the world is they have financially engineer the world so that when they print the money, it doesnt go down the path toward wage growth. All those paths are cut off using Financial Engineering pretty much the wages dont go up and then they look at that and they say, look, theres no inflation, we better print more and then the wages dont go up anyway. Those, those people are still in poverty stricken, but oh, the asset prices of stocks, they keep on going up. We dont know why that is. It seems like an anomaly. We just made anoth
Just on 5 oclock here in moscow you watch the weekly here in r. T. International now peru has decided not to buy doses of a potential corona virus vaccine being developed by the british firm astra zeneca lima cited a lack of data from the company after the death of the trial volunteer reports that a 28 year old male doctor in brazil die died while taking part in advanced stage 3 trials run by astra zeneca and Oxford University its not known though whether he received the actual drug or a placebo meanwhile the u. S. Is now permitted trials to regime after they were temporarily halted in other countries you have also restarted them in recent weeks now has more on the race for a cure. There is always the risk with any vaccine any Clinical Trial that statistical improbability that point not one percent risk that someone dies at someone reportedly was a brazilian doctor he was part of an Oxford University Vaccine Trial Group and is believed to have suffered fatal covert complications but th