Arabia to slash numbers on the pilgrimage and to bar muslims from outside. Too dominant and too powerful thats whats being leveled against 4 of americas Largest Tech Companies at a congressional hearing in washington d. C. The chief executives of Facebook Google amazon and apple have all been defending their Business Practices theyre accused of stifling competition and monopolizing the industry free from regular action its the culmination of a yearlong investigation by the u. S. Congress detailing how the Companies Avoid liability on the current laws well our correspondent alan fischer joins us now from capitol hill for more on that hearing allan i believe its just all wrapped up after more than 5 hours talk us through what weve had today. Well the Tech Companies are essentially saying that theyre very american and that their end of it if theyre smart and they make big profits and they say that theyve had to be innovative and theyve had to include people because if they didnt they woul
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Continues to spread in the u. S. , these hotspots, all of it being pressured by the bloomberg dollar index. Does not feel like a huge haven bid, but the fact that you do have the dollar higher can create a sense of risk off for the risk assets. That is what we are seeing. A little bit of a catch up to reality. Investors not climbing that wall of worry at falling off it to some degree. David and of course we have the numbers out of florida, which were alarming. There was really an uptick. Then we had new york and new jersey and connecticut say if youre coming from a virus hotspot, you have to going to quarantine. That has to be raising questions about this recovery, how fast we will come back. If it is not the dollar, are there other safe havens . Rashad we are seeing a bit abigail we are seeing a bit of a bid for bonds. Earlier not quite so much. Now at the lows a decent bid for bonds. The yen not being bid up. Gold is being bid up. Psychologically it does not help. It has felt to many
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Senior posts on the National Security council and in the department of commerce. Rom 19999, he was serving as the c. E. O. And president of two publicly traded software companies, free markets incorporated and prior to that, was a consultant. He is a graduate of the United States military academy of west int and has a p hmp d from Princeton University and former army officer and is a soldier and statesman and interviewer and a scholar and entrepreneur and it is a real pleasure. We asked david to join us. And slept paper on economic might, National Security and the future of the paper he coauthored. And it has a very important. Deas that we have to discuss and associated economic crisis stronger and even more competitive. And david, you had a unique advantage on the u. S. Economy over the past two decades especially from the 2008 financial crisis when you served as under secretary of treasury and c. E. O. At bridgewater, what motivated you to write this paper to sustain this . Mr. Mccor