the one business show you can't afford to miss friendship or in washington coming up the federal reserve has revised its outlook on the u.s. economic growth and the vaccination process has ramped up in the nation we have former fed insider on hand to discuss what the u.s. is slap sanctions on several chinese officials in the lead up to a key meeting between the 2 nations we have a packed show today so let's dive right in. and we lead the program with the u.s. federal reserve the federal open market committee has been meeting for the last 2 days a year after lowering interest rates to near 0 all eyes are on the central banks monetary policy with inflation continuing to be in focus while equities sit near record highs fed chair jerome powell spoke following the meeting saying the central bank will keep rates at current levels today the f o m c kept interest rates near 0 and maintained our sizeable asset purchases overall inflation remains below our 2 percent longer on objective over the next few

months 12 months measures of inflation will move up as the very low readings from march and april of last year fall out of the calculation. however these one time increases in prices are likely to have only transient effects on inflation. the median inflation projection of inform c participants is 2.4 percent this year and declines to 2 percent next year before moving back up by the end of 2023 the committee also said it expects g.d.p. in the u.s. to expand by 6.5 percent this year with growth of 3.3 and 2.2 percent for the next 2 years so for more on all of this and what it means let's bring in bill but also christiane and former fed insider and c.e.o. of cool intelligence danielle de martino both thank you both for being here danielle i want to start with you what was the takeaway from the fed wednesday and did this mac check spectator or not. it exactly matched my expectations

i think he had to be very careful to not use the word patient patient patient which had been one of the words that we've gotten used to drone powell saying instead it was funny people on twitter thought i was actually starting a drinking game i said let's count how many times he uses the word transience it with reference to inflation and that really was the message he wanted to convey he wants to get the unemployment rate down to where it is full true full employment inclusive full employment i mean we want to get. black the black unemployment rate down the hispanic unemployment rate now he wants to see a full healing of the labor market before he views inflation as being a threat to the economy. kristie how are markets actually reacting to these latest comments from general powell. the u.s. equities dip early wednesday morning especially way down by tech shares as of mustered out nervous about any signals on the future of interest rates on bond purchases so the queues fell about 1.2 percent in the morning session while the doubt adjudged up

a little bit about point 3 percent and for the past couple of weeks investors have trimmed bets on these tech names that sort of. shares that were a con economically leveraged companies that should do well as the vaccine rollout progresses and more fiscal stimulus of just the natural system so right now and my mantle sectors that are leading us of supply it's value as the economy picks up there's a lot more leverage and earnings growth for cyclical companies however following comments equi search of the dow gained about $200.00 points and a few nasty higher wiping out all the loss for the day reassured by the fact that basically. you see no reason for interest rate hikes to 21 and. you know we talked about bond buying they're going to continue to buy bonds for the foreseeable future what kind of economic debt are they looking at to stop those bond purchases at this point. well you know powell was asked this question directly when he was at the podium and he basically said i don't want to see forecast i want to see hard data

that backs up the fact that it is appropriate for us to begin discussing tapering the bond purchases and by the way we will broadcast it widely you will be the 1st ones to know market participants investors. f o m c watchers you'll be the 1st ones to know because we will tell you well in advance when we have intentions to begin to reduce these large scale asset purchases so i will say that the drone panel today really did stick tight to his script but it also in a sense felt so scripted so we'll have to wait and see because right now the attitude at the fed is that they can control everything and that really is not the way the world works i want to i want to talk a little bit about the broader economy and what we're looking at here in the united states this latest round of stimulus checks actually been going out a recent survey shows that 2 out of 5 recipients plan to actually invest part of it into stocks and cryptocurrency is including because it is that actually going to

help the recovery when you put it into the market or is going to contribute to the ongoing bubble that we've been seeing with equities. it is absolutely going to be an accelerant and it's going to inflate the the bubble that we are to you know exist further door to bank did a separate survey that found that a majority of those aged 25 to 34 were planning on putting all their stimulus into the stock market into some of these go go high flying stocks that we've seen and as far as for the macro economy the real economy what this does is a whole lot of nothing because it fuels speculation and it ends up pushing people and keeping people through their $41.00 k.'s extremely exposed to a stock market that continues to become more and more overvalued as a factor of time so you can see the stimulus checks we heard $242000000000.00 already hit accounts via direct deposit you could also you could characterize much of these stimulus payments as being counterproductive economically and for so many

years we could talk about when we get stimulus payments they're supposed to stimulate the economy you're supposed to go out and spend that but what happens what are we seeing here the people who have been able to maintain a job they are going to throw it into the stock market those who have been struggling they're going to pay bills with it so it's really not going to main street as they say kristie before we go i do have one last point about stimulus china is actually not very comfortable now with these massive stimulus payment that we've seen from the by the administration how are they reacting to this. it's funny in beijing us freaking out a little bit with the p.t.o. see stepping up it's the quitting support for domestic businesses and increasing its monitoring of cross border capital flows so basically that's too much hot money that's rushing to china and the last thing that beijing wants to do is to import u.s. inflation on to mainland maging war and that's one point actually it could cause massive couples as i could exacerbate domestic financial risk some already high debt levels and so to offset massive capital inflows into domestic financial markets home to

a higher returns the government is considering allowing chinese citizens to invest overseas including ally mainland investors by hong kong listed and this would be very ironic if that in the biden stimulus which is meant to restore equality between u.s. citizens then goes to unleash a new wave of chinese buying up the u.s. real estate making the entire housing market extremely unavoidable to americans boom bust co-host christiane former fed insider daniel de martino both thank you so much for the expert analysis today thank you. another day another round of sanctions from the u.s. this time against china in fact this marks the 1st sanctions imposed by the by the new administration against chinese officials in this case the by the administration added new sanctions against 2 dozen officials it says have undermined hong kong's partial autonomy from beijing. were. wonder.

if. on wednesday a spokesperson for the chinese ministry of foreign affairs weighed in on this new round of sanctions. you don't want to deliberately mislead public opinion and exert pressure he china will not succeed china has always been resolute. and national development and suddenly we urge the u.s. side to adhere to the be. international relational get it when you do not as you think that endangered her interests. and this latest escalation in tensions comes ahead of bilateral meetings between washington and beijing for more on all this let's bring in professor richard walter host of economic update and author of the sickness is the system when capitalism fails to save us from pandemics or itself which is available on e-book now and to bust co-host investigative journalist ben swan bet i want to start with you on this give us

a rundown of what these sanctions include yeah so these sanctions are actually an extension if you will of sanctions that are already been imposed by the trumpet ministrations so previously all $24.00 of these officials which includes senior chinese officials as well as hong kong security officials all 24 of them had previously been sanctioned by the trumpet ministration again for claiming crackdown on the autonomy of hong kong in this case what it does it kind of extends those extensions me those sanctions and makes them a little more severe in this case what it does is it says that foreign financial institutions that knowingly conduct significant transactions with these individuals will now be subject to u.s. ancient so they are just sanctioning the individuals that are threatening the same any financial institution foreign financial institution that may happen to work with these individuals so essentially saying these folks cannot be banked or cannot work with financial situations anywhere in the world that's the goal of professor

of what kind of impact will this move have on bilateral talks between the u.s. and china that are upcoming. well obviously they'll make them more acrimonious they'll make them more difficult they'll make them more likely to fail to do such a thing literally hours or days beforehand is a very provocative way of functioning biden and ministration has followed mr trump in not raising the minimum wage now is falling mr trump in sanctioning frankly as an american i'm embarrassed by all of this the idea as mr blanken said that there are punishing china for how it runs hong kong hong kong is part of china it was by force taken by england for a century which gave it back no one in their right mind to questions that this is an internal matter of the chinese it says if the chinese decided to sanction

americans because of how we treated prior to recall and since mr blanton mentions north korea you're trying to wonder are we going to be held accountable because mexico is not treating it's a win then properly provoking demonstrations every day in mexico city and what kind of behavior no other country in the world practices this kind of moral lecturing of other people who do things that may indeed be bad but what can the world would we lived in if every country that disapproves of other country's internal behavior behaves in this way it will not have a big economic effect this is very symbolic those individuals can work out their arrangements on the wilds and lastly it's sort of bizarre having grown up in america without a country telling me that the government should leave the economy along on private

initiative there isn't a company of the government weighing in look we should've learned the trumpet ministrations trade war and tarot. it's war of sale year this kind of policy tholen in that regard larry strange to me to understand it and from an economics point of view it is bizarre. on a broader scale what issues are we supposed to be here about and be covered by these talks between the u.s. and china. well that's the thing is these talks are very preliminary i mean the white house has already said that they're not they're not expecting much to come out of this which is already a bad way to start right now or 1st bilateral talks with china under this administration and we'll see what happens we're not really expecting much we can talk about human rights they say where they go talk about tight bet they say they don't talk about hong kong they're going to talk about the national security law that was passed in china but to the point that professor wolf is making and i think this is a pretty significant point this accomplishes nothing it absolutely accomplishes

nothing if the u.s. takes this position and says we're going to punish through sanctions $24.00 individuals do we really believe i mean on the any kind of legitimate level other going to posturing level that those 24 chinese officials are going to say ok that's it because the u.s. essentially us we're going to reverse course of the national position of china now listen there's a whole discussion to be had over human rights abuses over the weaker and what's happening with that we're population in china but same sheening chinese officials will do nothing to resolve that so if you actually want to resolve it you actually have to come up with some kind of plan that can really deal with those issues this is not the way to do it this is almost like we're going to provoke you a little bit before we come in to lecture you but we don't really expect anything to come from it so what is the point of it i think more than anything it's a posturing for the u.s. public to appear like they're being tough on china and professor wolf i want to one last point before we do get out of here today chinese companies targeted by

a sweeping investment ban imposed by former president donald trump are now considering suing the u.s. government after a federal judge on friday suspended a similar blacklisting for beijing based smartphone maker show me does the lawsuit open the door for other companies looking to fight this blacklisting instead of dealing with a diplomatically we can now deal with it legally. absolutely i'm sure that they're busy if they haven't already filing suits they have every incentive to do it it gives them a public platform to explain that they are not being properly charged to use of america's role in the ideology of the less i say here let the government keep its distance from the economy against the interference of the economy it's a chance to barras the united states yeah it just shows you on how messy counterproductive gagnon these maneuvers against china have always been professor

richard wolffe and boom bust co-host ben swan thank you both for your excellent insight today. thank you. and time now for a quick break but when we come back with the rising hope of mass vaccinations global travel is on the verge of eating up we'll bring you up to speed on the potential regulations we could see moving forward as we go to break for the numbers a close. eye. debate is is it fair for transforming our fleets to compete in women's categories

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welcome back as the u.s. continues its race in vaccinating millions new covert strains are also beginning to appear across the country in fact the director of the centers for disease control and prevention told congress the covert 19 strain known as b. 117 1st identified in the u.k. now accounts for 25 to 30 percent of u.s. cases for a complete look at how the u.s. is doing a good r.t. correspondent side haven't you. serv brand in the us right now we're seeing an

average of 54000 cases per day that's a decrease of 16 percent compared to weeks ago while nationally the number of new cases continued decline you know the trend is actually not down for every single states in fact these 14 states cases are op anywhere from 10 to 20 percent compared to last week but the good news is that deaths are down 35 percent while hospitalizations also continue to decline now looking at vaccinations where the u.s. is vaccinating it little over $2550000.00 people a day so right now a little over 15 percent of the adult population are now fully vaccinated and as vaccines continue to ramp up states are racing to stay ahead of the growing number of variants specially the very contagious varian which was 1st detected in the u.k. which has already spread to at least 48 states plus the other 2 strains never 1st

addicted in california they have now been officially label as variants of very high concern but by health officials bug the good news is if providers if they continue to administer the current pace of vaccine doses per day as receiving right now will reach some sort of herd immunity by the end of june plus president biden and now it's that he will be directing the federal government to secure an additional $100000000.00 doses of the drugs and johnson vaccine so with 3 vaccines now in use to us will have enough vaccine doses by the end of may for all available for anybody over the age of 16 now already and number of states started expanding their vaccine eligibility to everyone or over the age of 16 now the latest massachusetts with montana opening vaccines to air. everyone starting april 1st so that's all there good news brand right now so i would take

a look at europe germany is actually seeing an uptick in cases what's happening there now that's exactly right now again if you just look at the numbers you'll see that you know it's no secret that germany is seeing a shopped rise in cases in recent weeks now this is a 3rd wave that we're seeing also comes at a time as germany has suspended the use of the astra zeneca vaccine now the w.h.o. has repeatedly said that using the astra zeneca shot should continue while it carries out a safety review but the bad news for the e.u. is that once it became clear that germany was pausing that vaccine the pressure mounted on other governments to hold off as well i don't fear of seeming and cautious and for the sake of united front e.u. but france and italy they say they are ready to quickly restart astra zeneca vaccine every regulators come from it's still safe to use. r

t correspondent sites haven't they you so much for keeping us up to date. and that as the vaccination drive continues air travel demand neared a one year high now according to data released by the transportation security administration more than 1300000 travelers checked into american airports on the 12th of march now that's the most since march 15th of 2020 just prior to widespread lockdowns across the country should be noted of course the travel numbers in the u.s. are still down 38 percent from where they were preparing demick now amid all of the discussion about travel in the cold air we've heard so much about the idea of covert passports in fact the e.u. has proposed the creation of a digital green certificate which would allow vaccinated in vaccinated citizens to travel throughout the block without the need for a mandatory cord seat certificate would be given to those who could provide proof of vaccination a negative code. 19 tests or proof of recovery if they had previously had the virus

so this raises a lot of questions about covert or vaccine passport use of for travel and do that let's bring in christopher elliott he's a chief advocacy officer with elliot advocacy he's also a columnist and author of the book how to be the world's smartest traveler chris for the 1st a pleasure to have you on the show i want to start with the idea of these covert passports or what the e.u. is now calling a digital green certificate how is all this going to work and is it going to kind of be a pain for consumers to get everything needed to have one of these documents. well right now the most developed all of the digital vaccine passports is for israel and what we're seeing is that if you have a passport like this you can go to the gym you can go to a restaurant or go to a public meeting and you can travel as well so that the speculation is that the passport will work in much the same way in europe when it's adopted the timeline for this is sometime around may they're expecting to have it but as you point out

the verification process is going to be very interesting the e.u. from what i know is going to be using a patchwork of databases so each country has its own vaccine database so it's going to be pulling from them remains to be seen how they will pull how you will be able to verify whether you are not you've had a vaccine or what your status is in terms of recovering from coverage 19 those are all details that still have to be worked out and now there are also reports that as china begins processing visas from travelers from dozens of countries they will not allow foreign visitors who have not had a chinese made vaccine and this raises a question are we going to see this be a problem in other nations with a list of so-called maybe approved vaccines for instance you might have trouble traveling to the u.s. or europe if you had russia sputnik the vaccine or the chinese or what do you make of that are we going to be picking winners and losers when it comes to vaccines for these passports. it's

a little crazy we're just talking about the astra zeneca and vaccine in germany and in europe what if that vaccine for example is not approved and this is this is a can of worms we don't know how it's going to work i think that some countries are going to let anyone in are going to verify anyone for their digital vaccine passport and i think others are going to be more selective like you've seen in china right now and on a broader scale have airlines done a good enough job of ensuring safety of passengers when it comes to traveling amid the pandemic and and how does it look moving forward as demand picks up and we start to see these passports and they really start packing those passengers in airplanes again or where you're like a sardine and fitting as many people as possible unfortunately a lot of the airlines have already started packing their passengers on to planes it's just it's a supply and demand a profit thing i guess they had they're trying to make as much money as they can in these difficult times. but i do think we're going to see is.

much more of a fun. sanitation on the on air train air travel we've already seen that some airlines of course have done a better job than others and it's really comes down to passengers passengers who want to clean experience i think by and large they're getting on right now i saw a survey of epidemiologists that said flying now is about as dangerous as going to the grocery store so we go to the grocery store a lot flying is not much more dangerous than that so i really do believe that you know we're going to see as the summer unfolds more people flying christopher elliott chief advocacy offer officer with elliot advocacy thank you so much for joining the show you're very welcome. and that's it for this time you can catch boom bust on demand on the brand new portable t.v. apple vailable on smartphones and tablets through google play in the apple app store by searching portable t.v. portal to be can also be downloaded on newer models samsung smart t.v.'s as well as

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