Test. Test. Test. As you see over there on the left, the salon versus the church, the way the two parties were arguing which areas should get close first or reopened first, saloons, gambling houses versus churches. In some communities that mapped on to ljous sentiment or antisemitism or anticatholicism. Because remember this is an era of rising prohibition coming out of this. So it mapped on to different areas of politics to different regions related to what got privileged to the virus but not reaction to the virus itself. We will talk about that too. And a suf rujette handing out bonbons. And Warren Harding ran on the platform of world war i pushing the return to normalcy and return to society as we know it. As we take a step back, we saw pushback, protest and reemergence in that era. You may have heard about the antimask league. It was an organized league in San Francisco in early 1990s that pushed back against mask requirements that were mandatory. Antimask league is the only really
Historical precedent . 1918 is the one that comes to mind. And we have nobody better to tell us about 1918 than my good friend christopher nichols. He is a professor of history at oregon state. Hes also director there. Oregon state center for the humanities and founder of their citizenship and crisis initiative. He also studied at harvard, waysleyan and at the university of virginia. Chris is an expert on, i would say, earliest parts of the 20th century. Of course, is he expanding out. He and i, before we came on, were just chatting about new work we have coming out on ideologies on u. S. Foreign policy. That book itself, that term, that title, was a seminole book in the field in 1987. Im really glad someone has decided to go in and update it, shall we say. Theres no better person to do it than chris. Will he talk to us about the 1918 pandemic. I would encourage you, as you look at your zoom screen, on the bottom youll see a q a button. Please, hit that button and submit your questions
Headwinds remain. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am Annmarie Hordern, in for Francine Lacqua in london. Fall to 46. 2, the forecast was for 46. 7. Manufacturing pmi 54. 4, forecasted 53. This,e were expecting given what happened last month, and france and london, and they were just talking to anna about this. The risk to the Service Sector employmentek, 75 of in the eurozone, so the services are where things will be much softer. A bit of a friday feeling on the euro stoxx index, especially for banks and autos. We are poised for a weekly decline, the worst in a month. S p 500 futures have been drifting between negative and positive territories the entire morning. Eurodollar 118, a little bit from euro versus the dollar. That is your market check. Now lets get around the world with first word news in london with leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leighann good morning, annmarie. A second wave of Coronavirus Infections gains momentum. Told 46 Million People to stay home after 9 00 p. M
Extraordinary august. We had such important conversations. Lets get to the data quickly. And3, dow futures up 132, we are all casual. Chairman powell was casual yesterday. Im sure mr. Kaplan will be casual for Michael Mckee in a moment. Thein the time of within tumult, everyone is being casual. Lisa are we going to keep the bowtie . This is going to be the question as the fed shifts their inflation their inflation policy. Lisa this is an important conversation, as he spoke to James Bullard yesterday, as we spoke to William Dudley moments ago. Michael mckee advances the discussion with mr. Kaplan of dallas. Michael thank you, tom. Good morning. Thank you very much for joining us today on Bloomberg Radio and television worldwide, and thank you for not wearing a tie and not making, adhere. [laughter] not making tom look bad here. Robert i try. Michael there are those who safety framework review changes all well and good, but what makes you think you can even get to 2 inflation, let alone
Includes a long serving cabinet secretary. Critics say that abe failed to deliver on promises. And one of chinas is conglomerates says it is optimistic about recovery. We hear exclusively from them later this hour. Arey lets look how we shaping up in the asian sect session. A muted outlook when it comes to asia. Sophie that is to be expected this morning. Malaysia and the philippines offline, those markets closed. S p addingfutures, 1 10 of 1 . A muted start for asian stocks. Havee earnings sprint, we withnames reporting along Cooper Energy and australia. Lets focus on new zealand. Efforts being made for trading to resume as normal on monday. We saw them close to record high on friday. Operators saying it is working with Security Partners to implement additional measures. Arrangements are in place to allow trading if the website goes down. Japanese politics front and center with several names in the running to replace shinzo abe. Japanese stock volatility picked upfriday, the yen firmi