Ron klain was the evil Ebola Response cornu during the obama administration. He joint Health Policy experts for discussion on the use response to the coronavirus at the center for American Progress in washington, d. C. Good morning, everyone. My name is neera tanden and im pleased to welcome you to the center for American Progress. I am so glad you could join us for this critically important conversation. The death toll from the coronavirus now exceeds 3200 with more than 200 cases confirmed inside the United States. As Health Officials warn the coronavirus will ultimately become widespread in the United States, serious questions have emerged about have the federal government is responding. Around the world countries are beginning to take significant measures including restricting travel, closing schools, postponing religious pilgrimages and imposing quarantines. Critics say the Trump Administration has been slow to address this impending crisis. The present editing have said to downpl
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Slowing in the Housing Market might have constrained the rise in household leverage, as mortgage debt growth would have been slower. But the job losses and higher Interest Payments associated with higher Interest Rates would have directly weakened households ability to repay previous debts, suggesting that a sizable tightening may have mitigated vulnerabilities in household Balance Sheets only modestly. Similar mixed results would have been likely with regard to the effects of tighter Monetary Policy on leverage and reliance on shortterm financing within the Financial Sector. In particular, the evidence that low Interest Rates contribute to increased leverage and reliance on shortterm funding points toward some ability of higher Interest Rates to lessen these vulnerabilities, but that evidence is typically consistent with a sizable range of quantitative effects or alternative views regarding the causal channels at work. 4furthermore, vulnerabilities from excessive leverage and reliance
Instructions that are given to them by local and state officials responsible for issuing evacuation orders and things of that kind. Repairing for the storm in vance and listening to preparing for the storm in advance and listening to a Weather Report and following the instructions of state and local officials is what is most important. In terms of the broader impact, we also want to make sure that fema is doing everything they can to support state and local efforts, and that when it comes time to recover and if necessary, build again from the storm, that we can do so quickly and efficiently. I think that fema has a remarkably strong track record when it comes to assisting state in rebuilding after natural disasters. That is what we are working on right now. In terms of a longer economic consequences of a storm like this come i would hate to make any projections. Either meteorological or financial, as far as the impacts of the storm. But we will be watching very carefully. Youve heard t