Inflation bringing the syrian pound from 3,000 to a single u. S. Dollar. Small businesses are closing. Imports are plumeting and those living under the poverty line at 80 are increasing in number. An average monthly salary now reportedly buys a large bag of lemons. Government corruption has tweeted weak crisis and some humanitarians are warning of a potential famine this winter. While lebanon remains mired, the rollout of the turkish lyra to a third of the population in the northwest could be the nail in the coffin for what remains of the Syrian Regimes economy. In a podcast released last week, danny mackey focuses on the internal, that igt might represent a more dangerous threat to assad than any military threat seen in recent years. And yet, as its scitizens face dire conditions, the regime has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in recent weeks on new fighter jets from russia and Armored Vehicles and its purposely burned widespreads of land in the country. Fueled by these economic
On the Syrian Government aimed at protecting civilians from further war crimes and preventing any Foreign Investment with president assads regime. Syrian writers and scholars look at the economic and political impact of the sanctions. The sanctions announced last week came into force and came into force and its an unprecedented economic crisis in syria bring the syrian pound to roughly 3000 to a single u. S. Dollar. Small businesses are closing and ports are plummeting of those living under the poverty line already at 85 are increasing in number. An average monthly salary in syria reportedly by a large bag of limits. Corruption has triggered a crisis and humanitarian the potential famine this winter. While lebanon remains my the economic crisis and kelly continues to spread in syria, the decision 600 the rollout of the turkish lira to nearly a third of their income population. The northwest to be the nail in the coffin to what remains. In the podcast released last week are nonresident
Different tone. The tone to me this morning, jon, is fascinating. The crosscurrents in the market, i can honestly say, in a zillion years, i have never seen how odd it is right now with the pandemic news, and of course some of that, china and beijing, wrapped around the reaffirmation of wall street, for some form of vshaped recovery. I was thunderstruck over the weekend, some of the optimism coming out of wall street houses. Jon we will talk about that later in the program. A fresh outbreak in beijing very much the focus this morning, the disappointing data as well. The data does not validate the exuberance we saw in the market as we saw in the month of june. Lisa that is the problem, that demand is not picking up. Even though we are seeing manufacturing pickup and production online, we will see perhaps production the consumer is not buying it. Junell be getting the u. S. Manufacturing press and we will take a look at what else in the day ahead we are also going to be hearing with from
Chief of staff. Now, live coverage of the u. S. Senate. Vice president under the previous order, the senate will consider the following nomination. The clerk nomination, general charles q. Brown, jr. , to be chief of staff and general of the United States air force. The Vice President under the previous order, the question occurs on the nomination. Is there a sufficient second . It appears there is a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote the Vice President are there any senators wishing to vote or to change their vote . If not, on this vote, the yeas are 98, the nays are zero. And the historic nomination of general charles q. Brown, jr. As the United States air force chief of staff is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. Mr. Alexander madam president . The presiding officer the senator from tennessee. Mr. Alexander thank you
The virus. Gov. Cuomo happy sunday. Gov. Cuomo happy sunday. Gov. Cuomo good to see your smiling faces. Some of your not smiling faces. On my right, doctor james, commissioner, to my left, the secretary, to her left, robert, the budget director. Thank you for being here. Let us go through some updates for today. So everyone knows where we are and what we are experiencing. The increase on the trajectory of cases continues to climb. 76, 81. A couple of updates that i would like to make to the local Health Providers. We want to anticipate the situation. We talked yesterday about planning forward, getting ahead of it, that we have been behind on this virus from day one. Rather than be reactive, be proactive, get ahead of it. Local Health Providers should be watching what is going on in different parts of the state and anticipating what is going to happen. This is going to be a phenomenon of a rolling apex. We talk about the rolling apex, the top of the curve. The top of the curve will occu