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About with joe, andrew and becky and the degree to which walmart can post a 74 increase in ecommerce it looks like the big guys won. You basically had them cordoned off as essential services. So many other companies, little companies, medium, small, just couldnt compete this is what happens when you have a survival of the fittest economy. This is darrwin playing out. These numbers are astounding if the stock had not run up every day, i wouldnt know what to do. Add back 60 cents for home depot and before you start selling it thats the costs they said home depot had to keep traffic back they had to hold back traffic because they were trying to do it safely. Walmart had these big stores, they were set, ready, and their dotcom, ever since they bought jet. Com has been amazing they also can do a lot of food these are Great American companies that are on fire the move in walmart is stunning ever since he decided doug mcmillan, who is on squawk tomorrow, decided to creator the earnings in ord
Massive local tax increases. Anyone of those alone threatens to make this economic crisis even worse and the combination of all three is almost unthinkable. The bureau of labor statistics just reported that state and local governments laid off nearly one million workers in april. That is almost one million firefighters, police officers, teachers, Emergency Personnel that should be on the front lines of the Public Health crisis but are sidelined instead. Chairman powell, let me start by asking, do you agree that our economy will get worse if state and local governments are forced to lay off even more firefighters, teachers, any and Emergency Personnel . Let me say what we are doing. We have a liquidity facility that is there to address the shortterm liquidity needs that these entities have because of their loss of revenue due to the effects of the pandemic. That is really the tool that we have. I appreciate that. That is not my question. States,ion is if counties, and municipalities con
To this virtual hearing the honorable steven mnuchin, secretary of the department of treasury and the honorable jerome powell, chairman of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve system. We will receive testimony from the secretary of the treasury and the chairman of the Federal Reserve as required under title iv of the cares act. Congress has appropriated 3 trillion to protect and support americans to fight the pandemic and also to stabilize the infrastructure of our economic system. A large portion of this funding is authorized under title iv of the cares act which provides resources for loans, guarantees, and other investments from treasury and the Federal Reserve 13. 3 emergency Lending Facility and programs in support of eligible businesses, states, municipalities, and tribes. Title iv of the cares act provided 454 billion as an infusion into the Exchange Stabilization fund to support the Federal Reserves emergency lending facilities that facilitate liquidity in the marketpl
Let me first say want to thank the chairwoman and ranked member mchenry and my colleagues and Ranking Members of the subcommittee and all my other colleagues for their participation in todays discussion on the update for prudential regulators that this is a timely amid the health care and economic devastation of the covid19 pandemic. In queens and other parts of new york city theyve been very hard hit. Plaintiffs suffered more cases more death than most states in the country. When amid the health care crises millions have lost their jobs and lost income compound in the Economic Impact but thanks to the doddfrank wall street reform and their implementation in the decades that followed the financial crisis the Banking Sector has emerged in a bright spot to buffer the initial impact of the crises and restructured mortgages and loans. I have had serious concerns about the implementation of the program in the road some of the banks in privatizing small distances and minority come into that