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actually don't. know as to. which your thirst for action. this is the one business show you can't afford to miss i'm french born washington coming up markets are slipping on fears of a 2nd coronavirus wave and we're here to break down the falling stocks in the future of the u.s. economy plus as protests have swept the nation causing much of policy debate corporate america has moved in and hopped aboard the movement we'll discuss and later we take a look at the state of big coin amid the growing global unrest and whether we could
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see an upcoming surge with a packed show today so let's dive in. and we lead the program with the u.s. equity markets in turmoil the dow and s. and p. 500 are both on track for their worst week in more than 12 weeks the news comes as investors react to several issues facing the economy including the federal reserve's economic outlook which estimates u.s. g.d.p. will fall by 6.5 percent in 2020 despite expected growth in 2021 in 2022 now there is also data regarding the new weekly weekly jobless claims released thursday by the u.s. labor department new unemployment claims were just over 1500000 for the week ending june 5th and it should be noted that these numbers come in under the 1600000 new claims expected by economists polled by dow jones the number was better than the 1900000 new claims the week prior and then there's the fear of a 2nd coronavirus wave as some areas of the united. variants are seeing
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a spike in new cases are key corresponded tribute chobits has been following the story filed this report. as most of the country is reopening businesses and stay at home waters are slowly lifting there is growing concern for a potential 2nd wave of the deadly coronavirus the number of infections nationwide now topping 2000000 with at least 21 states reporting an uptick of infections while 9 states have seen an increase of hospitalizations in other parts of the united states who they were they worried about it i think that there's more of a return to like our previous normal and we are seeing increases there some experts say the surge of new cases is linked to memorial day festivities when hundreds of people packed rush pools beaches and parks during the holiday weekend while texas has reported 3 consecutive days of record breaking code in 1000 hospitalizations 9 california counties are reporting a spike in new coronavirus cases as well relax the lock down restrictions also coinciding with racial injustice and police brutality protests are out there as
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tens of thousands of people take to the streets side by side every day for more than 2 weeks many not wearing face coverings the growing fear of a 2nd wave being felt on wall street the dow plunging more than 900 points at the open over 3 percent as the s. and p. 500 slid 2 and a half percent while the nasdaq dropped 2 point one percent airline and retail sectors hit especially hard shares of united airlines delta american and southwest all dropping more than 10 percent in premarket trading while carnival corp in a region cruise line shares fell more than 11 percent gap and kohl's shares also fell more than 8 percent each the federal reserve warning the economic devastation will be felt for years to come officials indicating they expect the unemployment rate to end 2020 at 9.3 percent and remain elevated for years while output is expected to be at 6 and a half percent lower. at the end of the year than it was the final quarter of 21000
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so far the coronavirus and use recession has forced more than 44000000 people to seek employment aid in just 12 weeks this is the highest number of unemployment in 19 years reporting in new york attorney each of us r.t. . for more on the state of the u.s. markets and the economy we are joined by boom bust co-host christine christie thanks for being here and the dow is looking at its biggest one day loss since march and it dropped over 6 percent at 1.6.8.6.82 percent just on thursday alone why the sudden shift in sentiment when we when we talked earlier this week we didn't seem to think that volatility was back. looks like bad luck brenton's here all over again when the dow got me about $100.00 once a day and this is on export 1st 3 day losing streak and about a month which is basically led by airlines cruise lines and retail all of which fell more than 10 percent today so it looks like instead of the reopening being the
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bullish narrative taking center stage we now have mounting concerns of a growing 2nd wave across the virus texas has just reported 3 consecutive days of record breaking hospitalized patients and california is also reporting spikes in confirmed cases so in light of all this and musters are concerned that the recent protests will fuel a new wave of infections and result in persistently. economic as the country can't fully reopen and recover so a lot of those leg down now is from investors taking profits both the s. and p. and the dow are still still you went today up more than 40 percent from the coronavirus lows and so investors are cautiously taking gains as they continue to monitor the situation day by day so now the rotation is back and to shelter in place names and those are kind back such as zoom such as netflix and investors are dumping the reopening pieces and such as airlines in favor of for the more safety assets as well such as bonds and gold so we're still in the early and names of the sell off we can certainly see this to test the 200 day moving average again as
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a weakness versus chris christie how much of this is actually a delayed reaction from what happened with the federal reserve yesterday. well we could certainly interpret that letter like you said yesterday the market was looking for clarity on what else that it will do to step in if the situation got any worse and yesterday we really didn't get that message and it took the market a little time to digest that it struck a double tone yes but we never got any real clarity on how long the treasury purchases will last whether or not they would continue to taper off so yesterday the f o m c meeting it was somewhat of a placeholder until more meaningful choices are made in the next few meetings so keeping rates at $8000.00 expected are a that's a known it. but now as a mean opening it's not going as planned the market was looking for more actionable items for the fed to execute on it order to help that stain and support the market come the 2nd wave and this really partly is a 2nd wave of the us never really got it under control of course it's just one day
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decided hey we're over it and started reopening so the fed really reminded investors yesterday that there is a huge gap between the economic reality and the market reality so that reminder is basically what's are in a lot of traders to take profits today and a lot of we can't bought into the market as we reported numerous times in the previous week this was the least bought rally meaning that primarily retail traders traded this won't make money institutional guys they were going on the sidelines so we can't are the 1st to come and the 1st to go out and this rally really didn't have much substance left its stand it no kristie before we go here the latest stimulus plans are actually set to expire very soon how is the average american household fairing in this new environment and especially as we look at concerns of of what you call actually continued wave but what people are calling the 2nd wave of about 45 seconds. well right now i mean continuous is going to be very difficult for american households because right now they're already having trouble making
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rent payments given the high amount of unemployment and the rising cost of living so right now with the latest numbers and the 17 percent of american households didn't pay their latest monthly rent and bloomberg reported that the squeeze on household is getting worse 31 percent of households said they had little or no confidence about paying rent next month so the average consumer is in a very rush a boom bust co-host christiane because we have more to talk about a little later in the show. and as protests continue throughout the united states following the killing of george floyd in police custody corporate america has weighed in in various ways of course companies took to social media to share a positive message we've seen statements are well produced video supporting the black lives matter movement from the likes of amazon nordstrom ben and jerrys mcdonald's and even nike almost every mainstream streaming service posted as well including netflix hulu h.b.o. max and prime video netflix has even added black lives matter as a content john or
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a corporate america is even putting their money where their mouth is to support the fight against an injustice and inequality bank of america has pledged 1000000000 dollars over 4 years and a commitment to support economic opportunity and initiatives michael jordan and jordan brand pledged $100000000.00 over 10 years to organizations fighting for racial equality social justice and access to education wal-mart will commit $100000000.00 for the next 5 years to create a new center for racial equity and the list goes on and on with sony music group google facebook g.m. and many more promising tens of millions to the cause but we come to the question why now that didn't simulate that this is an important cause but racial equality has been a huge problem this country throughout history and recently we've witnessed civil unrest in ferguson missouri in 2014 and baltimore maryland in 2015 again not to mention other protests regarding this issue over the past decade to talk about this
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let's bring in host of the news with rick sanchez rick sanchez himself i mean rick what do you make of corporate america getting involved making these statements making these huge donations is this just lip service or is this an actual attempt to make change or is it really just for the press i'm not sure i think it's somewhere between lip service and bull crap. one of those i think i haven't decided yet which were appropriate. but look. you can't change america's problem of racial inequality or any of the fundamental social problems that exist in this country from the top down it just doesn't work that way in fact i would argue you can't throw money at any problem and fix it it has to come from here it has to come from that thing that we all have inside of us that makes us realize what it is that we have to do. to understand somebody whose opinion maybe we don't
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share a little bit better something we're not good at doing right now in this country perhaps worse than we've ever been in the history of our country with the possible exception of the civil war but let me tell you what these countries these companies that you just mentioned them for all throwing these big dollars at all these things you know what they're doing what are they doing cover. they're buying cover that's what they're doing when let me give an example so i've worked at big giant media companies right you probably know all of them or thought that there's a big media company in this country are probably worth here's what they do you're ready so they don't want to be criticized by african-americans or they don't want to be criticized by asian americans or they don't to be criticized by hispanic americans so they write a giant shock when they think they've done something wrong to the asian american journalist association the hispanic journalists association the african american association of journalists and they write them a check for $100000.00 now they've essentially bought that organization which is
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the organization that speaks for african-american journalists so now let's suppose let's just say c.n.n. not that i may have worked there but let's post c.n.n. fired an african-american journalist under horrible conditions and now they're getting heat from the african-american community for what they did or they criticized somebody or they did something you know which everybody's going to make a mistake right. what they were essentially done is they've gotten cover they bought it from the african-americans association of journalists now they're less apt when somebody when a reporter goes to them and says what do you think of the way c.n.n. or n.b.c. or fox are treated that that issue or treated that person they're going to say well you know what we're going to reserve judgment because you know for the most part c.n.n. has done a good job why because c.n.n. just want to check for $100000.00 that money's not there so they can help improve racial you know integration in america it's there so they don't get criticized there by cover that's what they're doing and it's interesting that you mention that because in 2011 bank of america who we mentioned is giving
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a $1000000000.00 to charity spread out over 4 years they are they settled for 330 $5000000.00 for basically treating people on racial lines and equally when it comes to loans they were hired charging higher interest rates to write so of course they couldn't only give $100000000.00 either because they've already settled for 335 so 1000000000 looks much better now let's talk about the boardroom let's talk about the c.e.o.'s office a little bit i have some more numbers for you i mean number 1500 companies only 4 black c.e.o.'s nor are there and when the african-american population makes up 13 percent of the workforce there are only 3.2 percent of them serve in executive positions similar in hispanic communities 17 percent of the workforce 4 percent of executives you know you're not going to hear now that we're going i mean is there something here to where you could put your money where your mouth is by hiring people putting them in charge of your company no i'm going to disagree ok meritocracy a business is there to make money it's not
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a charity i'm not here to hire somebody who is green because they're green and we need to have more green people even if that green person is not necessarily as good as the orange person i'm not here to hire an orange person because i want to help the orange persons of society so here's how it works in business right if you sit on a board of america a company you hire the person who is most qualified. that's a meritocracy and that's the way business supposed to work here's the exception now i'm going to i'm going to argue with rick sanchez is going to have an argument there are chances here's what we should do in business we should find ways to understand culturally how those people who are not hiring may be a good fit but we just don't know it because we only a greener see people who agree with us i only have a tendency as a as the as the c.f.o. of a company to want to hire people who i agree with who look like me who sound like me who went to schools like me so what happens when you do that you have
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a tendency to hire people who don't look like people you don't agree with even though they may be brilliant that's what we have to do we have to culturally challenge ourselves to find people who are different than us but not go out there and say well today i'm going to go and hire a green person or yellow person or where this person or that person that doesn't work well right so what you're saying is there should not be a requirement to do this but you can make the cultural change within your business within your company to open it up to her and it's not x.'s and o's it's cultural it's you look inside yourself and you say why is it last year that i didn't hire anybody from that group it's because i don't know anybody from that group i'm not looking in that group so you have to force yourself to look at that group and that because you want to go out and say ok let's go get a black person and a hispanic person major problem that doesn't work and i think the investment in education obviously you're saying you can't do it from top down right i think if they invest in the education then you could bring it from the bottom up then you could find more people of different races who do end up having those same benefits
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that you might have had an ivy league education careful because that's the government's job that's not a business is a job and if you're going to do with that you then you're basically becoming a socialist country host of the news with rick sanchez rick sanchez thank you for debating yourself here on boom but. time now for a quick break but hang here because when we return we take a look at the state of big coin amid the growing global unrest and whether we could see an upcoming surge. as we go to break here the numbers at the close. loop.
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a new show. you know it doesn't really matter where you've been but batterers is where you're going right we'll see you church generations look back at the establishment media as the lead in the water pipes that drove the romans mad do you find yourself watching t.v. to turn your brain off to relax i want you to watch t.v. to turn your brain on i'm rick sanchez. it's time. to do news again.
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welcome back to the struggle is real when it comes to big oil and breaking through the 10000 dollar mark on news wednesday that the federal reserve would keep interest rates near 0 because i saw a quick jump to right around $10000.00 and then slipped back to around $9600.00 so why can't because break through the $10000.00 resistance joining us now to discuss these bring back boom bust co-host christiane i and we also have boom bust co-host ben swan but i want to actually start with you in this conversation why is a big able to break through that barrier. it's kind of a tough question because i think there's a lot of kind of psychological pressure that prevents big one from getting over that but there are 3 things in particular that seem to affect it one of them is the federal reserve you know that federal open market committee meeting that was held on wednesday and when you get those meetings it seems like every time they come to
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an end there's a little bit of a dip for big point as well as the stock market christine loves to use the term when he talks about buying the rumor and selling the news and i think with big point it seems like as of late we see a lot of selling the news every time there's another announcement we see that that number just dropped just by just a little bit for bit quite so that's part of it and then part of it also is the issue of kind of this continued resilience it goes back to 200-1000 we've seen this issue since 200-1000 where big going gets close 210000 then it falls back then remember it fell back at one point from 10000 all the way to 3500 and then climbed back slowly from there we haven't been able to get over that point and i think part of it is a psychological barrier that says that it's not going to be able to sustain above 10000 because if it gets over 10000 then it as they like to say goes to the moon and now kristie we're seeing a moment for big coin and all coins as a whole seem to be poised to rise how do you see it at this point. well one of the
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biggest factors here is it's going to be institutional money stepping in and as we call it we separate these $2.00 groups into institutional investors and then the retail investors so right now this has been happening for the last 2 years that new institutional money has them orientable all coins and declines alike so a new survey conducted by fidelity of about 800 institutional investors in the u.s. and europe showed very strong crypto currency adoption particularly and that quite 80 percent of institutional said they appealing and 60 percent the way their credit cards have a place in their portfolios however one really interesting point to know is that 25 percent of european investors find the fact that certain digital assets are free from government intervention to be appealing vs only 10 percent of investors in the us feel this way so it's really interesting that the us apparently prefers more oversight and more regulation i consider financial space. especially as we are facing an uncertain future with the possible currency devaluation here in the u.s.
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investors are increasingly trying to quit and respondents in the same survey reported that the top contributing factor in investing into crypto overall was that could go on correlated to any other asset class it's backed by innovative technology and has a really high upside potential which is really really hard to find in this market as we consider the been saying on the shot you have money market on guys trying to squeeze a 2 percent one percent yield on treasuries right now i know sort of return it on asset is going to be very difficult by. now but i want to move a little bit off of that specific point you know because it is struggled to find support in the u.s. government with president donald trump along with treasury secretary steven nugent leading that criticism but now it has been revealed that the u.s. department of defense has war games scenarios involving a generation 0000000000 what is it again a generation's a rebellion that uses big korean to undermine any of a.d.'s stablish mitt. what can you tell us about this i've got to tell you this is the it was the one story of one
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of the talk about all day long it's absolutely mind boggling so get this it's called the 2018 joint land air and sea strategic special program it's a war game set in the year 2025 and it's intended quote to reflect a possible plausible depiction of major transit influences in world regions the bottom line is the concept is that you have something called a ziebell yen which is a rebellion of people who are creating social unrest and protesting in the streets imagine that happening and then as a result of that you get a group of people who are basically fighting against the establishment by using bitcoin they're actually taking money and robbing these people by going into their accounts and then turning it into big quite and then using that bit quite to disperse it among the people as kind of a robin hood scenario here's what's crazy about this idea is why are there there are so many issues why is there a war game scenario set up to say watch out there are people who are feeling like
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they're getting left out of the system and they might rebel against us by using a coin or by using some kind of all coin and use that to the establishment instead of say what are we as the u.s. government doing to create more equity within the system including embracing digital currencies rather than allowing the fed to do what kristie just mentioned that devaluing the dollar printing inless amounts of money and absolutely wrecking the financial system and then setting up a war game scenario to prevent anyone who doesn't like that idea kristie i got to get your opinion on this story. well it's certainly certainly enough our fashion the fact is that the heart of the government clamps down on it as we've seen over in china where the government actually tried to clamp down very hard on that point and other cut their currencies very early on 7 and got to try to contain this pot contain the population from having access to the markets down and the more people are going to be adoptable to it so that's how privacy coins came about and that
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actually showed the rise of privacy coins as well as a rise a big point of excess and that's something that we also talked a lot about on the show on our our big quinn mixers are they legal or illegal and should they be criminalized or not because that was one of the biggest debates to date right now in terms of a terms of can decline be traced candy should these all points be traceable by the government and should they be allowed. to go ahead and go does that very quickly i was going to say but i think we have them here take a look at what's happening right now in the country in terms of monetary policy like this he was saying earlier the monetary policy we have right now is completely self destructive a group of currencies and will be an answer to that spence one christi i thank you both for that excellent insight. and finally there may be a legal dispute on their highs and for 2 unlikely parties the u.s. government and streaming service netflix the whole thing stems from the trademark for space force now of course space force could refer to the 6 military service
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branch created by president donald trump or the netflix comedy series starring steve crowe which launched in may now according to the hollywood reporter the show has been able to get the trademark rights to space force in multiple places including mexico europe and australia while the air force has a pending application for registration in the united states the report also states netflix applied for a trademark as early as january of this year and may be the 1st to use the term in action a spokesperson for the air force downplayed the situation telling the hollywood reporter at this time we are not aware of any trademark conflicts with the fictional program while it may not seem like a huge deal a trademark conflict could affect merchandise sales and its customers may not be able to tell if they are supporting a comedy program or an interplanetary military bridge and that's it for this time you can find us on portable t.v. at portable t.v. see you next time.
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our destruction of nature is connected to these. that's all there is a lesson. we need even be listening for us we're going to repeat this over and over as you can teach destroy the last wild places on earth and we come to these and he's.
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they can come and blow our brains out at any given time and we can't really do anything actually america is the only country in the world where you can kill people outside of war and legally get away with. all the fire crawls still brilliant all the troubled history failed the point is it's hollow flying to k.k.k. exists because america wants it to exist they are the biggest terrorist group to ever operate in this country and they're dead to me they're worse all than the people who destroyed the world trade centers are those growth why.
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you cannot be global with yet you like. hello and welcome to redacted tonight v.i.p. camp today i talk with journalist photographer filmmaker and creative activist eleanor goldfield she's also the co-host of my podcast commonsense or but she has a new film a new documentary out called hard road of hope about the long term destruction of the land and the people of west virginia it's a beautiful and powerful film but she has also been covering the recent protests
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against police brutality so we'll be getting into that as well later in the show naomi cure vonnie will break down the militarization of our police and i wonder is really will get into the insurrection act of $18007.00 which trump said he wants to use to go to war with protesters but 1st here's my interview with eleanor goldfish eleanor thanks for journeying all the way from our podcast to my show i appreciate it. thanks so much for having i want to get to the new film and a moment but let's start with the nationwide black lives matter protests you've been at some of them as have i but you were pepper sprayed and saw some harsh police action can you talk about that and how journalists have been treated so far in these protests. yeah i think it's an interesting thing that folks kind of erupted in shock folks that aren't already familiar with alternative journalists and and.

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