Of grafton furniture. Your grandfather was here. Now your father is here. And if you dont get the quality right, this business wont be here for you. Miami is my hometown, and its also home to over a million cubanamericans. Since the castro revolution, cuban families have come here to build their homes and their businesses. They bring their culture while embracing something that is distinctly american the American Dream. Grafton furniture is a shining example. Started in 1964 by esteban grafton, the Custom Manufacturing Company Makes everything from sofas, chairs, to tables. Steve this ones 154 by 96. Lemonis his son steve now runs the business and designs most of the furniture and is 50 50 partners with his wife, mary. Their son, also steve, is there to learn the business and keep it going for another generation. But when the economy turned in 2009, so did the companys fortunes. Steve the market was soft. Finances were really bad. Lemonis when business slowed, the company and the famil
Treatment for covid19. He removed his mask before giving a thumbs up to the cameras. Global stocks see modest gains. His return comes as the cdc says coronavirus can spread indoors, in the air, beyond six feet. 34 u. S. States see more virus cases than a month ago. And the chicago feds Charlie Evans tells bloomberg he would welcome 2. 5 inflation. Jay powell and Christine Lagarde speak today. Annmarie good morning. Just gone 6 00 a. M. In the city of london. There is a lot to really digest with what happened overnight in d. C. The president of the United States spent 72 hours at walter reed hospital. He returned to the white house, a quite dramatic return. He walked up to the balcony of the white house, removed his mask, flashed a thumbs up, and saluting to the cameras. It showed a defiance of the virus, to Public Health measures. He is eager, you sell what he said at the top of the hour, to project strength in the face of the virus, but it has killed more than 200,000 americans. Be th
Economists are desperate to get clarity on the labor economy. We will ramp up coverage until jobs day later in the week. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika president is denouncing a blockbuster report on his taxes as fake news. According to the New York Times, the present page 750 on u. S. Income taxes in 2016 and 2017. The paper says he reportedly lost millions of dollars from his golf courses, and is hundreds of millions of debt and is in hundreds of millions of debt this coming june. Democrats are previewing the to oppose the confirmation to Supreme Court nominee amy coney barrett. By zeroing in on the risk to Americans Health care coverage. The Supreme Court will hear a case in november that could lead to obamacare being ended. Regardless, that confirmation seems assured because republicans have a majority in the senate. The Trump Administration has suffered a setback in its showdown with tiktok. A federal judge has temporarily bloc
Difficulties that the city is having and im hoping that wed be able to try this out and we can review this as we go along to see if this is not the appropriate hypothesis so follow. Thank you vex. Thank you very much. Any other questions . Id like to note that dr. Hammer who several times weve called out to noted in the chat she is listening to the call, but shes away from the office for a while. Im not sure if shes on vacation or leave, but extends her apologies for not being able to respond, but is listening. We wish her well with what is going on. We can move on to the next item. Other business. Im going to put myself into any comments or questions, commissioners . If there is no other business, we can entertain a motion for adjournment. So moved. Second. All right. I will do roll call. Commissioner bernal . Yes. Commissioner chow . Yes. Commissioner christian . Yes. Commissioner green . Yes. Commissioner chung . Yes. Commissioner guillermo . Yes. And i would like to congratulate co
Your grandfather was here. Now your father is here. And if you dont get the quality right, this business wont be here for you. Miami is my hometown, and its also home to over a million cubanamericans. Since the castro revolution, cuban families have come here to build their homes and their businesses. They bring their culture while embracing something that is distinctly american the American Dream. Grafton furniture is a shining example. Started in 1964 by esteban grafton, the Custom Manufacturing Company Makes everything from sofas, chairs, to tables. Steve this ones 154 by 96. Lemonis his son steve now runs the business and designs most of the furniture and is 50 50 partners with his wife, mary. Their son, also steve, is there to learn the business and keep it going for another generation. But when the economy turned in 2009, so did the companys fortunes. Steve the market was soft. Finances were really bad. Lemonis when business slowed, the company and the family began piling up debt