I want to start by thanking our speaker David Marwell and David Goldman for agreeing to switch to this new medium. Its the medium of livestream and we are presenting that tonight in partnership with their very good friends at the princeton public library. I think we are all gripped by the precarious and frightening reality of this moment but there are so many of us in this is one of those antidotes. We are sharing the next hour tonight. Briefly before i introduce our speakers i just want to say quickly that David Marwells book mengele unmasking the angel of death available at labyrinth or your nearest and dearest local bookstore. All of us in the independent bookselling world are trying to find a way to find your support if you want to buy this book at labyrinth that will be shipped for free. If you place your order over the phone we have phone numbers in the chat box and also on our web site. That is the easiest way for you to get a book. And the logistics i want to make sure that you
Against midway, against the japanese in world war ii the s p jumping 6. 24 . The nasdaq gaining 5. 60 in spite of the hideous jobless claims number in history this is the best day since 1931. So far covid19 has run the table against us we were not prepared and this virus has had us on our heels the whole way. Attacking the very basis of our civilization, life, liberty and especially the pursuit of happiness which in this case means the right to watch march madness, grab a beer, see Cirque Du Soleil in vegas at least until today were up against an insanely bullish last few minutes of trading. Astonishing return for large caps bully. Weve seen big run in all things tech it wasnt coordinated. Like our initial attempts to homeland the line in world war ii we were overcome by a prettier prepared enemy, virus its killing people directly and killing the economy. Like the greedy win at midway, google, watch the movie, even the terrible remake. I am beginning to think we can hold off one of the
Racing in this unique time. Changednow, life has over the past weeks in our state. Across our country and across the world. Home,ildren are now at many georgians are working remotely. Public gatherings are few and far between. That is for a very good reason. Some Health Care Facilities are ramping up capacity as they see more and more patients and providing critical treatments to those in need. Level are the local working hard to make the right calls at the right time to keep our citizens safe. There are no easy answers. The guidance continues to change as we fight to stop the spread of covid19. We must remain dynamic in response. We have to stay united in the fight and georgians deserve to have the facts to make the right decisions. They need as much information as possible to keep loved ones safe. Yesterday there were 197 cases of covid19. Three confirmed deaths. Today there are 287 cases of covid19 spending 36 counties. Lawrence,des glenn, and other places that had no cases. We are
Exchange. Were watching ecb president mario draghi here on Worldwide Exchange. Lets listen back in. The final figure was actually lower. And this certainly contributed to restoring confidence in the markets. At that point, when the confidence was just returning, the ecb was of the view that he would have been highly disru disruptive to have 4 billion after it had already before. It would have been highly disruptive. In other words, the cost would not offset the benefits. This was the view. And later on in 2011, this view was confirmed and the foreseeable was about 2 billion. Also because they wanted to exempt to irish banks. So it was small to begin with. With the potential high cost in terms of confidence in the irish program. You also one also should remember that it was restoring Market Access, which, by the way, is the key to programs, really. So the main okay apologetic tif at that time was to achieve Market Access and this was thanks to the compliance with the program. Thanks to