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200 deaths total. the situation in new york coupled with neighboring new jersey and connecticut led the cdc to issue a travel advisory asking residents of those states to refrain from nonessential travel for 14 days effective immediately. it does not apply to people who work for, quote, critical infrastructure industries including trucking, medical professionals, and food supply. this came less than a week after president trump told the american people he wanted to reopen the country by easter, two weeks from today, and weeks after he insisted covid-19 was a, quote, hoax that had been locked down. one month ago trump said the coronavirus will simply go away t. came after trump abruptly announced he was interesting a federal, quote, enforcement quarantine for the new york/new jersey/connecticut tri-state area. >> i am now considering -- we'll make a decision very quickly, very shortly, a quarantine,
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because it's such a hot area of new york, new jersey, and connecticut. we'll be announcing that one way or the other fairly soon. >> now the legality and constitutionality of such an order is questionable and perhaps, even worse, new york governor andrew cuomo said he hadn't talked to the president and said it would be civil war type of discussion amounting to a declaration of war on states. joining me now a former assistant watergate special prosecutor and former general counsel of the army and is also an msnbc contributor. sheila behr is the chair of the systemic risk council and was the chair of the fdic during the great recession, the author of "bull by the horns." welcome to both of you. jill, it appears the president has backed off his discussion of a quarantine, but i know you were in a discussion about this yesterday with some of us. it's not clear how he would have
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imposed that. if the governors of these states are looking to try and restrict flow of traffic, they can use the national guard to do that. but for the president to do so is a much more complicated issue. >> much more complicated. it's not probably within any law that allows him to do that. he does not have the power to do it. the governors can control and protect their states under declarations of emergency, which new york, new jersey and connecticut are in. so that would have been something the governors could do but for the president to have carelessly mentioned it and started a panic about it and to are said that he talked to governor cuomo -- he did talk to governor cuomo. he just didn't talk to him about this, according to governor cuomo. it was very counterproductive to have said something he did not have the constitutional or legal authority to enact. people can be stopped at the border on an individual basis,
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based on a public health outcry but not as a group, you cannot say the entire state cannot leave the state. >> i want to show, put up for our viewers a map of the country. you're in chicago, which is a hot spot for coronavirus. we've been talking about the new york/new jersey/connecticut area. i'm going to ask if my control room has the latest map and case count, and that's coming in a second, because what you'll see is a major, major set of circles around new york, new jersey, connecticut. you'll see obviously seattle. you'll see los angeles. you'll see florida. you'll see new orleans. and then in the middle of the country you'll start to see a few concentrations including in chicago and detroit. i think that should be coming any second now. jill, i think what the president is trying to deal with is this, the idea this is a major suburban centers, generally how
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diseases spread, and how to figure out how not to get them to other areas. >> that makes a lot of sense and the way to do that would be to talk to the governors and to have a coordinated national response. in the same way the federal government should not be competing with the states to purchase essential equipment. the personal protective equipment or the ventilators. that should be a nationally coordinated effort. and, unfortunately, we have a leadership failure at the federal level so what we have is the price of ventilators skyrocketing because of the competition. and that is not helping. we need to have the equipment. chicago just had the first known death of an infant from covid-19. it is very sad. it does show how risky this disease is and how random it is and that it can affect everyone. this child was under 1 year of
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age. it's not just the elderly. it's not just the middle aged and it looks like we're wrong in terms of how many people are dying from it that the statistics are showing people under the age of 50 are dying in great numbers. we have to do something and i don't disagree that we need a national stay at home shelter in place. the statistics have shown that does have an impact and everyone should be home. chicago's lakefront, which we're famous for. it's a beautiful area. has now had to be closed down because people were ignoring the shelter in place and we're coming in close contact with each other along the beach trails and parks along the lake. and so, unfortunately, now it's being enforced through police to close down those areas. it's for everyone's own protection. it's important to stay at home and it's important to observe all the other safety precautions if you have to go out for food
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or if you have to be an essential worker. we need to protect those workers by getting the equipment and by everybody being home when they don't have to be out. >> in about an hour we'll speak to chicago mayor lori lightfoot about the new developments in her city. sheila, let's talk about the other contagion going on and that is the effect of people staying home, about a quarter of the country now under a stay at home order with this disease spreading across the country, those shut down, shelter in place orders will start spreading across the country and fewer people on the streets, fewer people using public transit around me, all the small businesses closed, almost every last one of them has been shut down. tell me how you think this plan that was passed by congress on friday is going to have material effect on our economy which will take a massive hit from this, is
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taking it now, in fact. >> i think it should help a lot. the sticker price has been $2.2 trillion, that's the budget cost. it could be up to more like $6 trillion because included in the provision is $500 billion that the treasury can use to leverage $4 trillion in lending. it should have a good impact. now is the competence of government to execute these programs and get the money out the door. i'm also a founding director of the volcker alliance to enhance and improve the training and professionalism of government. and now i think this is underscoring we need good people, conscientiously fulfilling their roles to implement these programs and get the money out the door especially to small businesses suffering a lot from this. >> sheila, we have seen
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businesses shut and shutter because of this. have we seen the worst of that? we have not seen while people are hoarding toilet paper and disinfectant, they haven't been hoarding money just yet. we haven't had a run on a bank. >> right. right. well, it's a good question. a lot of these small businesses are tapping into their savings or using all available to stay operational, try to keep their people employed but that will run out at some point which is why the assistance needs to get back to the door. i don't think we've seen any runs on banks yet. i think people have a lot of confidence in the fdic. my former agency. there is some authority for the fdic to provide insurance coverage above the $250,000 insured deposit limit if necessary and they may need to do that. so far we're not seeing it. people maintaining confidence in
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the banks and that's important. the money you keep in the bank can be money lent out to the small businesses and others pursuant to the programs in the stimulus bill. this is a strong incentive to lend that money out am people need to leave their money in the banks for that to happen. jill is a former assistant watergate special prosecutor. sheila bair the former chair of the federal deposit insurance corporation. as bad as things were in the recession, nobody lost an insured deposit in an american bank and that's when banks were shutting down. there are no banks shutting down so far. a pandemic of this magnitude doesn't treat every american equally. how bad for those who have no choice how they live their lives and who is speaking up for them? you're watching "velshi." you're watching "velshi. s disea. s disea. until i realized something was missing...
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the coronavirus continues to hit the northeastern part of the united states the hardest, new york and new jersey have the highest number of covid cases in the region. we have new numbers from pennsylvania which show a jum in cases with 34 reported deaths and nearly 3,000 people infected. let's go to philadelphia where at least four people have died. i know you're from pennsylvania. there are now covid-19 cases in every county in pennsylvania. >> reporter: yeah, ali, outside citizens bank park, home to our phillies, but no game being played. instead there's a drive-through mobile testing site for folks who might be concerned they have coronavirus this is one of two mass sites in the region. it's intended for health care workers or over the age of 50 who are showing symptoms of coronavirus and i wanted to point out from the numbers we got from the department of the
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health yesterday there's an interesting stat that shows how much coronavirus is affecting young people here in pennsylvania. half of all reported cases are from people on the younger side, 11% are from age 19 to 24 and 39% 25 to 49. earlier reports as we started talking about the spread of covid-19 pointed the virus affecting elderly but that's clearly not the case as we're seeing this spread throughout the state of california and governors are receiving praise for early and hard work tackling the virus. governor tom wolf has done the same. we learned they opened their operations center here in pennsylvania in early february, though, there weren't any positive cases tested until march 6th. he took immediate action declaring a state of disaster declaration to allow for additional funding. a week after that all public schools were closed. a week after that most counties here in pennsylvania are under
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stay at home orders. while the cdc travel advisory, the pennsylvania governor advising anyone here in pennsylvania who has been in the new york area to self-quarantine for 14 days. we'll we see an uptick, about 500 cases a day, ali, we're nowhere near the peak. pennsylvania's peak is predicted to not be closer until mid may, unfortunately. >> wow. northern new jersey, part of the tri-state area is a new york suburb. even that tri-state limitation is going to have an influence on philadelphia. good to see you. maura barrett in philadelphia. overnight u.s. officials confirmed the death of an inmate in louisiana, the first federal
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prisoner to die. it heightens the ferp of an outbreak in jails and prisons. house democrats proposed $1.9 billion in covid-19 assistance for state and local governments that drastically reduce the number of inmates who have a higher risk of contracting the disease. there are more than 20,000 inmates in the federal prison system in their mid-50s or older. as we look ahead to the next round of emergency relief aid how do we better protect our most vulnerable populations? holly harris, president and executive director of the u.s. justice network and a fellow at the brookings institution, know your price. welcome to both of you. let's talk about this. some years ago when we were worried about drugs and crack, we came down hard on a lot of young men, put them into prison. some are still in prison and are not only of the age of people getting coronavirus, they live
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in a circumstance they can't social distance themselves, don't have the ability to make choices about how they live. there are a lot of attorneys general who wrote a letter to the president saying let some of these people out of jail now. >> yes, absolutely. we have a catastrophic situation happening in our jails and prisons across this country. we've been screaming from the rooftops about overcrowding for quite some time now and now we're seeing that these facilities are ground zero for the spread of the coronavirus. we have people stacked on top of each other like sardines and it's scary. we are seeing jails and state prisons safely reducing incarceration across this country. for some odd reason the federal side is lagging behind. we're hoping the members of congress will see what's happening in their own back yards and will start right now to reduce the federal prison
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population. we got an email from a woman in lockdown in a federal facility. there's over 300 women in her unit. four individuals per every 6x12 cell. that's a death sentence for those individuals, incredibly reckless for the corrections officers in those facilities. >> and that's an important point that holly harris just made there and that is that if you know there's a communicable disease, if you don't do the right things, you are imposing a death sentence on people who might not be in prison for anything that would nearly be deserving of a death sentence. we have more prisoners in america than anywhere else in the world for a whole lot of things they shouldn't be in prison for. this might be a good opportunity. it happened in russia with the tb outbreak where they considered whether they have too many people this prison. we do.
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>> the coronavirus simply expose the what advocates have been saying for years that the complex is an inhumane system. and it sets up people for not only immediate threats of death but it sets up people for long-term economic downward mobility in the process. we know william barr sent out a letter to his colleagues essentially asking for people to be released but, again, what that has shown is many people should not be in prison in the first place. in addition, it's unclear how to support inmates or returning citizens once they go back into the population because the feds are using tax returns to determine how much money people should receive it's unclear
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those who have not filled out tax returns how they will be supported in the long run. ultimately, yes, this epidemic is exposing what we know that the system is inhumane but we have a responsibility of making sure we set up people who are released in the short term and long-term future. >> andre, let's broaden this out to sort of a larger group of people who don't really have political voice. i think prisoners generally count in that category, but so do the homeless, so do the working poor. these are people who were not at the table when the discussions were being made how that $2.2 trillion bill came to pass. some of them will benefit from some of the provisions. what's your sense of whether we come out of this recession more or less unequal than we were when it comes to some of the most voiceless in our society, the most powerless, the homeless, as we said, the
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working poor, the nonworking poor. >> i live in d.c. and i go running to catch a break from my seclusion here and i can tell you when you're running the streets you see the homeless, you see the infrastructure programs in our country. you see poverty right in front of you. folks looking for food that people aren't consumption because folks are not shopping. they're the vulnerable population in the u.s. that's not counted, not considered in these bills, certainly there are some provisions in there for organizations supporting the homeless. that's a good thing. because people are homeless it is very hard to make sure people have what they need to determine what they need.
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physicians are going out and testing homeless folks when they can. and we know that because many homeless folks have underlying conditions, they are very susceptible to the disease. but, again, this is another situation where corona is simply exposing the large infrastructure problems we have in this country and that is around health. >> holly, housing is a problem directly related to incars racial. many of the homeless in our cities are people previously incarcerated because they're not coming out with the skills or with the money to be able to get themselves set up. if we did the right thing and released a number of prisoners who shouldn't have been incarcerated in the first place and are not a risk to society and are in the target group suffering from coronavirus, bhar we doing with them so they don't
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end up being poor people on the street with no money and no skills? >> i want to be really clear about this because i don't want this to be a red herring at the federal level. when we're talking about transferring individuals to home confinement, we're talking about individuals that have a place to go. otherwise they wouldn't be eligible and the bureau of prisons wouldn't be transferring them to home confinement. there are individuals serving time many over the age of 55 which is a drop in the likelihood of recidivism. they could move safely to home confinement and no threat to public safety. my colleague is in washington, d.c. i'm in the commonwealth of kentucky, mitch mcconnell's backyard, the toughest of the tough on prosecutors, rob
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sanders just texted me he has now worked with his local law enforcement officials to reduce the population at the kenton county detention center to 438. hundreds of individuals coming out, doing this in a safe, responsible and common sense way. it's baffling the federal side can't see what's happening in states across this country including deep red states like kentucky. >> thank you to both of you. we appreciate you helping us understand it better. holly harris and andre perry, the author of the upcoming back "know your price." from bogus masks to fake charities, scammers are trying to make a buck off this pandemic. up next the former head of the consumer financial protection bureau tells us what to look out for. it slow turkey. along with support,
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while this outbreak has brought out the best in a lot of people, it's bringing out the worst if others. scammers. while fraud is not a new concept here in america scammers are taking advantage of the pandemic and the new fears americans possess. some reports they are being, quote, demanded to provide pay pal, bank account or other information to get a stimulus check. one woman lost $13,000 after a man claiming to be her nephew said he had coronavirus and was suffering from a car accident, so as con artists are finding opportunities to capitalize on the world's fear, how do we protect ourselves. let me bring in the former director of the consumer financial protection bureau, the author of "watchdog: how protecting consumers can save our families, our economy and our democracy." consumer financial protection
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bureau was born out of the last financial crisis because of the vulnerabilities of consumers. richard, good to see you again. thank you for being with us. there seems to be different categories of scams. there are people who bought the supplies people would need and went to resell them. i talked to new york attorney general james yesterday who said they're clamping down on that, have cease and desist letters. and then websites you go to that are entirely fraudulent, claim to have something to do with coronavirus but they don't. >> that's exactly right, ali. i talk about it in my book. in any crisis the low lives come out with their scams and frauds and try to cheat people out of their money when they need it the most. anytime somebody initiates contact with you it's unsolicited whether it's over the internet or over the phone or through the mail, you can't be sure who you're dealing with and should be very suspicious.
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when they're making offers too good to be true you should be careful about giving them any financial information. >> for people like my parents who are watching this, the money that is going in -- coming to you from the government will be based on your tax returns. there's not someone else calling you about the rebate you're getting. if you're dealing with unemployment insurance it will only be through your state department of labor. >> that's right. again, you should initiate the contact. you cannot count on scammers and fraudsters. they will say you have to deal with them if you want to get your money faster or get all your money. that is not true. unless you're dealing with a government website and know who you're dealing with, you should be very careful, very suspicious. at the same time, ali, government officials need to be nimble right now. these scammers and fraudsters
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move very quickly so people need to be manning their complaint lines, keeping up with shifting frauds and they need to go after these people and prosecute them harshly, make examples of them that this kind of conduct will not pay. >> the other thing very appealing is when they get emails or phone calls and they do prey on older people. emails that suggest there's a test kit, there is a coronavirus test can you pay at home, pay us this money and we'll test you for coronavirus, people even offering cures out there. it does seem some of the domain registrars, like go daddy, are disallowing people to use the word coronavirus in websites that aren't actually tied to it. they can only do so much. inboxes are inundated with we have a solution for you, we have a cure for you, we have a disinfectant you can't otherwise
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get. how do you deal with those things? if you get emails like that what are you supposed to do? >> again, the fraudsters -- any two bit fraudster can come up with a website and make it seem very legit. i remember websites that had all the federal government covered with flags and bald eagles and other patriotic garb. that's what these things will look like. unless you initiated the contact you can't be sure who you're dealing with. i agree the platforms that these people use to reach people have to be more vigilant themselves. they bare some responsibility for making sure they know that these are legitimate up and up businesses they're dealing with and if not they should not be dealing with them and can bear some culpability, too. >> the justice department filed an enforcement action against something called coronavirus
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medical kit.com. the justice department said they were engaging in wire fraud seeking to profit from the widespread fear. the one thing we've all learned if a link shows up in your in box that says click on this because of a cure or because of a medical kit, don't click on the link. find somebody, phone them. find out whether they're actually there. richard, is it your sense when the dust settles we will have learned something about these types of scams? are we going to get better at dealing with them because scams around medical scares are, i think, the biggest kind that exist. they succeed in separating people from their money. >> i can't guarantee we're going to get better. people are gullible and want to believe things that are too good to be true. these scam remembemers are ruth. they'll take the money and run
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and that's what they do. they will try to keep ahead of the curve. they will try to find something new that you're desperate about whether it's testing to begin with or whether it's treatment or medicine down the road. as soon as the government starts sending out the checks they'll try to assert themselves and say you have to deal with them and if you give them your bank account information, you'll get your money faster. none of that is true. people need to be kfl and suspicious of the people coming to them with these offers that are too good to be true. >> richard, thanks for joining us. former director of the consumer financial protection bureau, the author of a book called "watchdog: how protecting consume kearse save our families, our economy and our democracy." in just a few weeks the coronavirus has overwhelmed even the strongest health systems across the world. poorer countries will make what we're going through look like a walk in the park. parkr here?
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the coronavirus have left policy leaders with a task of figuring out how to move forward and the global communities should be concerned over the state of the world's poorest countries, countries rich in resources but poor in cash, emerging economies. one of my next guests is out with his latest piece. the coronavirus is one of the
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biggest emerging market crisis ever. it is made even harder to manage by the fact that financial markets in london and wall street are gyrating either in or just barely escaped free fall. what is the point of strength on which emerging markets should anchor themselves. author of "crashed" and linda is an economist and author of what would the great economists do joining me from london. thanks to both of you. let's just start with you, adam, what are you concerned about in terms of coronavirus get to go part of the country that do not have either a financial or a health care infrastructure that the west has had. >> first it is the spread of the epidemic. the hot spot and the major focus
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of anxiety. people will say it's a young continent. we know this disease picks on the elderly, but it's also a continent where more than 25 million people live with hiv/aids. it's a society and a series of nations that strug to provide basic health care services. that's the priority. on top of that, though, there is the massive financial impact of the collapsing confidence and the implosion of the western economies which deprived africa and countries across asia of export markets and tourism revenue and this triple impact of the health care crisis itself, the financial pullback and the trade implosion is potentially devastating for many emerging market and low-income countries. >> linda, you've had a chance to look at how some of the countries that have had instances of coronavirus have dealt with it. we focused on some countries in
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asia, iran, italy. spain is getting hit hard right now. there are other countries where the reaction has been delayed, the instances of this infection have been delayed but are becoming serious like the united kingdom. germany seems to have handled this better than a number of other countries. is this directly related to how strong the health care system is or is it something else? >> it's certainly related to the strength of the health care system. i think it's related to essentially the kind of social safety net a country has. you mentioned germany. they have a history of short term work. keep your workers and let them pay part time and we'll pay you the difference. so what this health epidemic has really shown are that some countries which are better at
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doing three things, one is do they have the resources to bolster the health systems, policies that could be implemented to keep people in work and then, three, are they keeping viable businesses afloat? that's probably the difference between the recovery of the countries with those things and countries that might find after this pandemic crisis begins to taper off whether or not it has made a lasting damage on their economies and for emerging markets this is particularly important because their health care systems do not seem to be as strong, do not have safety nets and keeping viable businesses afloat requires money. >> you write that even if we can get through the next few months of acute threat remotely intact,
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daunting problems of reconstruction. it depends on how the world economy is put back together again. these economies depend on the west to buy their goods. raw product or finished goods and the west for travel and tourism to their countries. if the west recovers quickly emerging markets can, too, or a real reconstruction project in which the wealthier countries will have to say you'll have to rebuild your health care system, the way you do things? what are we talking about? >> i think both elements. a boost would help. there is the particular quality of a pandemic which means that we in the west have an
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existential interest in poorer countries to suppress this epidemic and keep it under control n. this case this contagion we talk about is not a metaphor, it's a reality. we have a collective interest. then there's a third element which is the longer term. the prosperity of the emerging markets depend on the relationship between china and the united states. they profit, they have developed along that access and the virus seems to be striking precisely at the fault line between the two key elements with the accusations going back and forth. allegations of responsibility papered over by occasional phone calls between trump and xi. that is not a robust framework for the societies most need economic growth. >> linda, the economist writes
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so covid-19 could soon be all over poor countries, their health care systems are in no position to cope. many cannot deal with infectious diseases they know let alone a new and highly contagious one. health spending per head in pakistan is 1/200th the level in america. uganda has more government ministers than it has intensive care beds. if it's in our interests to ensure these poor countries can contain a highly contagious virus, they don't have the wherewithal on the basic level of how much they spend for health care to do so. >> absolutely. this is why the current measures need to come into effect. globally there is a cry for help among especially countries in africa. 18 of them at the moment. their bonds, their debt is trading at distressed levels.
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so, in other words, for them to be able to borrow and spend, it's not really feasible. so the world bank has extended help and what they've asked is that rich countries forego the interest and, in fact, put a moratorium on repayment of debt through richer countries. is that going to help? i think so. probably we'll have to see how much indebtedness emerging economies have taken on over the past decade because the problem with a lot of confidence is, forget about spending and health, they're going to find it difficult, a lot of them, to stay afloat. i'm thinking about angola, zambia, countries like nigeria where because money has flowed into these countries since 2008 if you look at the data now, it's a record amount of outflow from those countries. that's a huge concern for another crisis.
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>> thanks to both of you. it's an important conversation. it doesn't feel like the one we need to have in this minute, but it really does. as this virus moves around it will hit places that can't even cope with it the way we can cope with it, and we're having difficulty coping with it. copen cope with it. "crashed," how a decade of crisis changed the world. thanks to both of you. the virus makes its own timeline. anyone who thinks otherwise is putting the country in danger. ss putting the country in danger. sure, principal is a financial company.
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