we'll dig into the allegations and what it means as the copen 1000 pandemic continues its tear and later the global economy continues to feel the pain as the coronavirus has led to massive layoffs and struggling businesses what's the plan for recovery we have expert analysis on hand to break it all down we have a packed show today so let's go and dive right in. and there are big questions surrounding badly needed medical supplies and facemask that are currently sitting in warehouses in china the u.s. state department claims that u.s. bound facemask test kits and other medical equipment urgently needed to fight the coronavirus is not leaving china thanks to new chinese export restrictions those supplies are supposed to either already be here in the united states or at least should be on their way and yet they are not according to the wall street journal health care equipment maker perkin elmer egg based in massachusetts is unable to ship 1400000 test kits for co but 19 the disease caused by the new corona virus

from their sous out factory because it lacks certification required by the new rules and then there is 3 m. corporation based in minnesota which says that it's and $95.00 respirator masks are stuck in shanghai the claim from 3 m. is that a shanghai vice mayor has told the company that lifting restrictions on distribution of companies mass would require instructions from beijing directly to joining us now to break this all down of boom bust co-host an investigative journalist ben swan so ben explain what these new restrictions are that are creating such a backlog of supplies yeah and brand is actually a couple of things that are happening 1st of all china's national medical products association and administration sees me as telling essentially companies that they cannot sin products medical products to the united states without to go through a certain level of checks and then double checks by that administration and essentially they're saying you know everything has to be halted until it can be checked and then on friday something. china added another hurdle and what they did

was he subjected certain kinds of medical equipment like protective gear and equipment like that and that by the way includes ventilators and it includes masks to have extra checks done on them before they can be shipped now you know china's doing this in part because they're stuck between a rock and a hard place because there's a lot of criticism right now about the products coming from china but at the same time it is severely limiting the number of products in the kind of products that are getting back to the u.s. at a moment when the u.s. needs them so badly and it's interesting because these are held up by actual companies who are ordering them from factories there so it's different than just you know humanitarian aid that's coming from china now ben without question some in the media and in politics are going to say that china is flexing here or even punishing the u.s. maybe because of the trade war do we know if any of that is true and why isn't china cutting through this red tape to move products as quickly as possible to get them here right well as i mentioned you know china's kind of in a tough position here because they have been getting a lot of criticism over products and whether or not they're going to be safe and

properly distributed now part of it could be that china is getting angry about all the talk that they are responsible for the coronavirus as well as having not released information in a timely manner there's a lot of criticism as you know coming from parts of the u.s. government from politicians so they might be responding to some of that as well but consider this and i think there's a bigger issue here which is that this is an issue of the u.s. being so dependent on china for these kinds of products that we're really stuck in a terrible position here about 40 percent of all the products in the world for medical supplies that are needed right now are coming from china which means without china the rest of the world is kind of stuck without this stuff and so when you create such dependency on another nation it really leaves you in a bad position when this kind of thing happens when to add to your point exactly we're seeing you know as they tried to retool auto manufacturing plants to make ventilators and things like that you can see exactly that our dependence on trying to we didn't make any of that here in the united states when we so importantly needed it. time now i want to go over a little bit of a data here

a new set of analysis by public citizens global trade watch shows that during january and february of this year the u.s. shipped a huge numbers of facemask and medical supplies to china rather than keeping them here why is that a problem in your eyes well i think it's a huge problem for a couple of reasons and we'll get to more that in a 2nd but can we take a look at the numbers i know that we have a graph over there and essentially what public citizen is saying is this is that in 2019 if you look at the numbers between january and february the u.s. export it to china about $947000.00 and that's worth a ventilators and masks medical equipment that was sent to china about $947000.00 a year later in 2020 january to february kind of at the height of this covert 19 pandemic specifically for china u.s. companies export that doesn't mean this was a dissent from the united states these are u.s. companies selling to china about 13 and a half $1000000.00 worth of items that is

a year to year increase of about 1315 percent 1315 percent increase year over year and again this is not 8 being sent to the from the u.s. government these are private companies so it raises a huge question why in the world if china is the country that makes everything would we be selling items in the united states to china because when it hits here all of a sudden we don't have the ability to make any of the stuff ourselves or i mean. that the whole point here in part because the united states cannot make or get the critical goods people need what do we know about this analysis that we're seeing here quickly yeah very quickly i mean that's essentially what it shows is it shows us that the u.s. was left vulnerable that in a moment and by the way the u.s. government encourage companies to do this that in a moment when we saw this thing coming we knew it was hitting china and other countries and we also know that we don't have the ability to create any of these things on our own we can't make going to letters on our own we can't make masks on our own it's all made in china. we sold these items to china so those companies

could make a whole lot of profit and then turned around and said oh no we're stuck and now the state department complains and says what china will send us our stuff but it's in china instead of being here absolutely boom bust co-host investigative journalist friends one thank you so much for your time today this. and some of the world's economies are now looking at reopening as the coronavirus curve is wild japan just recently declared a nationwide state of emergency due to the virus so let's take another global look at the spread of the corona virus with r.t. correspondent sorry to have it or so i what's happening today so brand globally rich surprise to a 1000000 infections with over 145000 people dead and now the u.s. accounts 467-0000 of those infections and over $35000.00 of those that's the highest in the world then over to europe that's going on over to europe right now we have over

a 1000000 confirmed cases with over 91000 that's and then over to asia and the middle east where the numbers are just climbing we're up almost 345000 deaths or 12000 and then we go to south america which is also increasing like the rest of the world would over $67000.00 cases and $3000.00 that's and we've had lots of recovery there were $25000.00 recovered and then finally over to our effort where the numbers are not that high which is very good for for african continent now president trump is suggesting new data shows that the u.s. has actually passed a peak a new infections and said he would announce new guidelines for reopening the economy but take a look at this chart which actually does not appear that it's that it's flooding it actually the peak has not been reached because as you see it's just going up and

because you know just in the last 24 hours we've had 21000 infections so in no way does this trend actually show that it's widening and instead as you see is just going higher and higher brant. can you break down for us which industries are being hurt most globes. when it comes to the quote of so here are the in this tree suffering the biggest job losses so amongst our heart is hit of the economy is the service industry right there is payrolls and declining by 459000 jobs so those are who tells the lodging businesses bars restaurants all called jobs and then which is followed by health care and social assistance so think of daycare or think of family services dentists private physicians all have over 61000 jobs over to professional and business services so now we have our consultants our engineers our lawyers and now over to

a trade which is obviously called jobs because you know with so much unemployment obviously nobody is shopping and all the stores are closed so of course that would cause a lot of jobs would over $46000.00 jobs then over to construction followed by manufacturing and then to mining transportation and finally financial activities so this is really explains why millions of americans have lost their jobs and thousands of businesses forced to close their doors and right now roughly 22000000 americans are seeking some sort of unemployment benefit and this figure is actually a lot higher because many people actually apply for unemployment up turned down and don't actually haven't received any checks plus in most states the self-employed and freelance workers aren't even yet able to file for application of unemployment under the new rules and acted by the federal government's $2.00 trillion economic

relief package so even though right now one in 7 workers have lost their job but that figure is in fact a lot higher and some economists are actually saying that unemployment could reach as high as 20 percent by the end of april which would be the highest rate since the depression and by comparison unemployment never topped 10 percent even during the great recession brunt correspondents are temperature thank you for that excellent report. and a reminder you can always find the latest news and information regarding the coronavirus on portable t.v.'s kroto virus tracker and equity markets here in the u.s. closed after a mixed day and just squeaked it out at the end there so let's dig into what's going on with boom bust co-host christine christy thank you so much for joining us today what's going on with the market here on thursday. so we're getting more data points such as manufacturing numbers we kill sales and earnings and looks like right now the reality is worse than expectations the market struggled all day and

trade down for most of the session on the s. and p. endowed with an aspect managed to eke out some gains and let the market into the green in the final hour of trading after amazon and netflix reached record levels wal-mart also rose to new all time high thursday as the retailer continued to benefit from the hoarding of consumer staples now the labor department also amount to over 5200000 americans filed for unemployment benefits last week which is worse than expectations a $5000000.00 now bring the total number of job losses to $22000000.00 americans unemployment going to be a huge factor that can quickly rage out of control as this brings in less income in discretionary spending now less income and less spending and consumption means that businesses face lower demand and less profit which then leads to more layoffs and that is a vicious cycle and in the u.s. consumer spending accounts for more than 2 thirds of the total u.s. economic activity and that's really what drove the s. and p. rally last year during the holiday season when everything was up on the back of strong u.s. consumer spend we don't have that anymore that's gone and now kristie the tech

names as you just mentioned seem to be doing better as they seem to be relatively unaffected business continues to operate as normal for amazon and netflix and in fact netflix now is exceeded disney they have their one business model and they've exceeded business disney which is a brand here in the u.s. that's been around forever almost so we're going to see those fangs stocks rise to dominance again and continue to have that push. well netflix and amazon certainly as netflix has gained more users streaming hours are up as people stay home and amazon is also experiencing a surge in deliveries and new customers signing up now for groceries but the other 2 names facebook and google could have different stories facebook and google are fundamentally giant ad platforms their growth depends on increases in ads that may not how big their user base is grow so with businesses at a standstill are trying to conserve cash and runway marketing and advertising budget is going to be the 1st to get slashed sectors such as travel hotels names

like expedia for instance now they spend over $5000000000.00 a year on advertising the c.e.o. just came on and announced that now they probably won't even spend $1000000000.00 on ads this year and now in the latest survey by interactive advertising bureau nearly a quarter of the $400.00 media planners responded that they have paused all ad spend for the rest of the 1st and 2nd quarters so this could have a devastating impact for tech names who rely on ads names such as facebook google linked in and twitter. post kristie i we're going to talk a little bit about reopening the economy a little bit after the break here so thank you so much just hang around for a few minutes here. and time now for a quick pause but right because we'll be right back in a flash and as we go to break here the numbers at the close.

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welcome back more than 5000000 americans filed for unemployment benefits for the 1st or for the week ending april 10th according to new data from the u.s. the department of labor something we just mentioned there and as we mentioned earlier more than 22000000 americans have filed for benefits over the last 4 weeks since stay at home orders an essential lockdowns were placed throughout the country now the pandemic has essentially brought most sectors of the economy in the u.s. and throughout the world to a complete standstill retail sales for march fell by 8.7 percent from the months earlier according to the commerce department the biggest month over month decline since they even started keeping those records in 1902 the federal reserve is

reporting that industrial production fell by 5.4 percent in march the biggest drop since 1906 and manufacturing output lost 6.3 percent month over month the biggest drop since the end of the 2nd world war and while the hope is reopening economies worldwide will mitigate the economic impact of these lockdowns organizations like the i.m.f. and un and multiple others have said this is the worst economic crisis since the great depression so let's dive in with some expert analysis with tobin smith c.e.o. of transformative reach search and let's bring back to bus co-host christy i want to start with you over the last month you've been on this show sounding the alarm that this economic downturn is not due to the coronavirus is there any way that we can actually restart this economy and it's going to make up for these dismal metrics that i just laid out right there for you on the table. well 1st. let's bear in mind that up until about 8 days ago we were in a freefall and then the fed put the united states on its back and it really put the

world on its back and it basically said the world is too big to fail so there's been a dramatic difference and that dramatic difference is is it's not only just liquidity in the united states but the i.m.f. which we fund primarily is now opening the spigot to asian countries to other parts of the world and that's a big deal now that we've we've released not become a solved problem at this point we were a coronavirus problem certainly which kicked off this waterfall negative economic effect but the fed is it has unlimited ability to make this thing as a bridge loan or not you know business is probably 30 percent of russians are never going to come back 30 percent and they also salon's are not going to come back. but we have enough firepower in the world to add to the $290.00 trillion dollars of debt we have right now and everybody that's what scares central bankers the most

well we wanted to the you know the bowels of 2 out 20082009 we had about you know 90 trillion of world debt we don't have $280.00 trillion of world debt will you have $95.00 trillion dollars of world g.d.p. that is what is scared the heck out of these guys and only one way they can do it is to monetize this debt and keep the will stern in until our self-inflicted closures come back and that's going to be as everyone says that's about test test and test and now chrystia what's your response to this because you know it seems like all central banks have kind of got on board with this will just keep injecting liquidity into the into the economy to make sure nobody fails just hope and just said but is that sustainable that's the question i have is it sustainable. well it's not right it's him because he had this. pumping an essential a 6 trillion dollars into the economy and on top layer you have massive fiscal policy on top of that so you're looking at really the end of free market where the

illusion of what we have the free market now deutsche bank has are kind of branded at the market as you have very high neal economic volatility but actually very low financial volatility so kind of by offering this unlimited i and our the fed is pretty much nationalizing the market so now the only markets that really doesn't have the fed's fingerprints all over it right now is the commodities market which is completely in freefall with the oil taking as it is and that the market which is something that a lot of investors have actually going to go into for stability because the cut the market has now been proven to be the freest market of all in the recent weeks. as christine just much actual follow up on the commodities angle here because you know that market is not being really stimulated by i mean you have some oil production cuts but it's really not helping at all right now but the fact is is if say the worst happens here in these lockdowns continue for maybe a year because we have to test test test it then maybe need a vaccine i mean in the reality are going to see those markets further propped up

or are we going to let the oil industry fail at this point. big question so commodities are not just oil. so food and you know corn and wheat and so so forth but but they trade in dollars and where they were the 3rd world and 2nd world countries who grow a lot of coffee beans which you know brazil and mexico and thailand and vietnam they're hurting there because remember they were already hurting because of the tariff or wherever that china then business was being exported to them. you know supply chains and they were doing pretty well felt pretty good about themselves and then boom we get this and now it's china locks down you know the supply chain the 2nd the 1st order the 2nd order effect and now we're getting the 3rd order effect where white collar. jobs are being laid off and restaurants can't buy the food let me tell you i bought prime rib for easter at about $7.00

a pound used to be $22.00 a pound so. coffee's foods all that and oh by the way yeah the oil business is crushed not so much by the by the the trade war but they're crushed because the lack of demand now that demand will come back but the that's what the fed is doing it's making a bridge loan so that honestly good companies remember recessions are supposed to get out the weak hands but keeping the good companies the well run companies that through no fault of their all. through no fault of their own. you know have no demand they need those in business because this economy still runs on hydrocarbons and of course now when it comes to ag too you're going to see it's planting season right now so that may be an issue to see where things end up at that point as well so we're going to quickly can you give me a at answer on this the small business loan program and that p.p.p. it's already run out of the $350000000000.00 that we saw injected into those loans

what does that mean and you already just said 30 percent of these businesses are going to make it but what does that mean are we going to see more stimulus from the government or what are we going to see here. yeah we're going to hue and cry has been from small businesses we got a loan for our company and we could do it because we have an accountant an attorney and so on and so forth for the guy who's run in that my favorite bar down the street he barely knows where it's tax returns are his payroll is sort of on and off but behalf of guys who work for cash i have a feeling. this particular democrat in the house are going to come in and say listen you made this too hard to get to we need to put another 300000000000 probably 500000000000 in that and then number 2 it needs to be like an app here's my number here's my employees click send the cash to this account otherwise we're going to lose more than we should and it will damage our economy for a decade and tobin smith and christy i thank you both for that excellent insight appreciate it today. thank you.

and finally a recent nasa discovery is giving some hope that in earth 2 point 0 may actually exist and now it's not even close to mars r.t. correspondent fascist suite takes a look at what researchers are saying about this newly discovered exoplanet. 300 light years from earth a new discovery reveals an exoplanet with stark similarities to our very own globe nasa describing the exoplanets as the most similar to earth insanities and estimated temperature and that's comparing this exoplanet to thousands of others discovered by the now retired kepler space telescope it ran out of fuel and reportedly went to sleep back in 2018 but scientists are still looking through all of its captured surveillance this nasa illustration is what scientists believe the surface of kepler $641.00 c. would potentially look like a location makes it possible for

a liquid water to exist and it's slightly larger than earth receiving 75 percent of the same light we get from our own sun according to nasa this could mean temperatures there might also be similar to what's found here on earth this planet was originally overlooked by a computer algorithm but was found after scientists began reviewing the telescope data published in the astrophysical journal letters this month lead author andrew vandenberg from the university of texas at austin says quote with red drifts almost everywhere around our galaxy and these small potentially habitable rocky planets around them the chance of one of them isn't too different than our own earth looks a bit brighter scientists say kepler 1649 sees atmosphere is still a mystery and that calculations may be off the planet is in orbit around a red door flinches a type of star and according to nasa that is known for stellar flare ups that may make a planet's environment challenging for any potential life so while more research is needed it's certainly promising to see what lies beyond our very own solar so. into

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live from the world headquarters of the r t america in our nation's capital this is the news with rick sanchez ok i will get everybody i'm rick sanchez and we do want to welcome you all over the world who are watching us especially those of you who are you. the portable t.v. app portable t.v. is what the app is called by the way places like india and pakistan and indonesia we welcome you tens of thousands of people tuning in every hour and we're so glad that you're there ok we're going to begin with breaking news as we told you what happened the white house today has in fact unveiled its guidelines for opening the u.s. economy it is going to be a 3 phase plan where one phase.