Well, two important aspects of the ongoing pandemic, preventing the spread of the virus and limiting the economic damage continue nobody conflict this afternoon across much of the country, including right here in the bay area. Tom vacar joins us live this afternoon, and this new wave of restrictions threatens the very survivability of the restaurant industry. Well, the whole fact is this cannot go on forever. Some accommodations will have to be made. Covid carnage to patients mirror s the carnage to small businesses, restaurants and their employees. It is a tail of two realities. According to the National Restaurant association, this is their sobering reality. 100,000 restaurants, 1 in 6, closed forever or long term. 40 of the remaining restaurant ours saying theyll be gone in three months without any help. 240 billion in lost sales this year. One Business Owner we spoke with has been able to survive so far. There has to be assistance for businesses and also for individuals. Reporter b
Rising futures open interest and investor flows and decline versus the same. Declining for gold indicate the cryptocurrency gaming an edge for price appreciation and our view, thats mike mcglone, e o of bloom borer. This is really amazing. So whats happening is that the value that goal possesses as a store of value is being diminished by bitcoin because bitcoin is a superior store of value in many, many, many ways, as weve mentioned over the years. And so therefore, gold would be training more for its value as jewelry ornamentation or maybe some electronic is which would imply there are just a gold price of maybe 2 to 300 dollars an ounce, not 18 or 1900. 00 an ounce. And gold is the new aluminum. Wow. Thats like Robert Prechter style prediction, price prediction there that hes been predicting for the last, like 30 years. Well, i mean, if you look at so versus over has no longer been useful as a monetary metal. And the prices been lackluster to say the least. Gold is becoming very leas
It was fourth of july weekend of 2017 and i was six months into my activism of trying to warn america about the threat from internet platforms like facebook. And i realized i needed to find a way to go to washington, d. C. And didnt know anyone. And a friend said you need to meet barry so as it happened, he was in new england for the fourth of july weekend and so was i, so we met at a hotel in boston and at this point, im terrified because i had been watching all the things that happened in 2016 and im beginning to get the sense that facebook and other internet platforms are so big that theres nothing we can do and hes got the hair, the tie, the suit, he sits back and proceeds to explain we will control these guys by bringing back antitrust law. At that point i had spent the better part of four years and antitrust was defunct. He says no you just have to believe in miracles. He said we are going to get back and restore capitalism in america. Im looking at him and i think that he is fro
Our part to reach out beyond our comfort zone, listen to others, lower the temperature, and find some common ground. Next nasa straight oher jim, testifies on changes at the agency due to the coronavirus pandemic. This is an hour and 40 minutes. Ziverbs is it would be helpful if the administrator would highlight how nasa is implements Lessons Learned from commercial crew development. In november of last year this committee passed the nasa authorization act demonstrating strong support. Legislation strongly supported nasas key science priorities, aeronautics research, plan terry exploration, and other initiatives. Today the administrator can provide an update on these missions and describe any major impacts on cost, schedule or operations caused by the pandemic. Nascar plays an Important Role in americas whole of government approach to securing the space do name. Great power competition in space is a reality. Chinas space ambitions are wellknown and the communist party has devoted resou
One is the public purpose of business but i also want to shift the mindset of the Business Executives what they believe to be true and designed the businesses to achieve both of these are in pursuit of Better Business outcomes and rogers brandnew just released today book, thank you for being part of this. His new release is in this domain called when more is not better overcoming americas obsession with economic efficiency. Both alan and roger are known to many of you. Martin is professor and dean of the school of management at the university of toronto where he started the force behind the prosperity institute. The author of any number of books we will put in the chat a biography you can learn more about and finally alan thank you for joining us. The chief content officer at fortune. His ceo column how i start my day every day. We posted the biography is in the chat and alan is going to engage the audience in question and you can pose in the qanda box after we have the opportunity to