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Television across this nation, around the world, particularly those of you from continental europe. Lots to do in this hour. Right now, lisa and i need a primer on how this is not another exercise in kicking the can down the road this weekend in europe. Jonathan its got to get done. We got to see some progress. Theres a pool of money. What will be grants . What will be loans . What are the Strings Attached . That is it. What do we wake up to in the business papers across the whole of europe . Isurope united europe united were divided . Its really is europe united or divided . It is really not funny anymore. Tom how do you boil this down for our american listeners . They are like, weve seen this plenty of times. Jonathan if europe doesnt get a hold of it this time, it will be another 10 years of crawling out of an economic hole in a suboptimal way. We will have crisis after crisis, political episode after political episode, and r ....
I know youre loathe to lay into fiscal policy but given forecast for Unemployment Rates, do you think its important that congress extend the extra unemployment benefits. I think were trying to keep our comments on fiscal policy at a high level ill come to your specific question let me just say this, this is the biggest economic shock in the u. S. And in the world really in living memory we went from the lowest level of unemployment in 50 years to the highest level in close to 90 years and we did it in two months extraordinary. Appropriately the response there fiscal authorities has been large, forceful, and very quick by the standards of these things roughly 3 trillion congress has authorized, and thats benefiting households, laid off workers, small and medium businesses, hospitals, state and local governments, 14 of gdp, its in a class by itself in terms of both the size and the speed of it. Its also pretty innovative. Both th ....
Talking with andrew about what exactly got washed out yesterday. Hard to say a lot when hertz is up 50 premarket. I mean, look, it is kind of a comedy of errors, no insult to the board. Really there is a Bankruptcy Code and maybe hertz management got permission in the old days when you went bankrupt there would be a little bit of a stump of stock so that you could go and sell it and show the irs that you had taken the full loss carl icahn sold a ton of the stock in the 70s, he sold 38 . I think if he had known that there would suddenly be a new stock he would have hit that bid. If i were him id sue. Id sue right now. I would just hire a lawyer and sue because he sold at what the company was advertising as a bankrupt price where the common stock was and he has i think a right to be able to claim 38 of this money and i urge him to do so, to hire a lawyer and get the money because this is just ludicrous. Well see what the court says ....
Use varies from one region to another and some places with lower infection rates some vaden later is may not be in use while other areas are potentially stretched beyond their capacity that database of available ventilators that we are creating wall laois to flex so that we can make sure that available quitman can be shared with those in need we appreciate the leadership of the Health Systems that are here today that has stepped forward and had a mention to a few i dont know if he quite dr Fritz Francoise from n. Y. U. That groan and david dill the c. E. O. Of life point as well we appreciate the work of the administration in helping us find Innovative Solutions to ensure the best care for our patients well continue to work with hospitals and Health Systems a ....
Now projecting anywhere from 100,000 to 240,000 total deaths in the u. S big investors are weighing in. Rosengren says the feed needs to adapt as the crisis proceeds and he expects the Unemployment Rate to rise dramatically weve got a big guest lineup coming for you in just a couple minutes, talking to james gorman from Morgan Stanley. Hell talk about the market volatility and how the banks have fared so far in this crisis lets focus in on the big stories we are watching at this hour, the final hour of trade. Mike santoli watching the market plunge meg tirrell has new details on the state of Virus Testing in america, so important. Micah, first to you on this market were seeing a pretty steep selloff here. A pretty steep selloff sad to say not that unusual after you get one of these crashlike moves, then a rebound. I th ....