no money for food and a growing mental health crisis stuck in isolation students in france turn in vast numbers to aid groups offering free or subsidized meal. u.k. back to nation centers fight surging numbers of fraudsters and jumpers as britain braces for ajab drought. we're wasting slots that could be used by those opponents of the vaccine in just slows down the vaccine program. and do as i say not as i do that's washington's principle as it tries to stymie russian energy sales to europe yet it makes the country its 3rd biggest oil importer. that's what's in the headlines at this hour the big picture is on the way.

the last 2 times a democrat won the white house conditions they inherited forced bold moves to reverse economic crises president obama attacked the great recession with stimulus his critics say failed to stimulate it stopped the bleeding but the president was also concerned with the budget deficit and congressional republicans were at least talking fiscal restraint and expansion was gradual it was slow lesson learned for then vice president biden and congressional democrats i signed into law the american rescue plan. and historic piece of legislation delivers immediate relief to millions of people includes $1400.00 in direct rescue checks payments. that means a typical family of 4 about $110000.00 would get checks for

a $5600.00 deposit if they have direct deposit or in a check a treasury check it extends unemployment benefits it helps small businesses lowers health care premiums for many it provides food and nutrition keeps families in their homes and it will cut child poverty in this country in half cordin to the experts 2 weeks later is the american rescue plan sprouting green shoots let's ask hillary ford which president of straw and mark business development consultants in washington hillary with millions still suffering day to day cash crunch it seems unlikely to me that these dollars are going to end up buying mutual funds but we've seen a recent survey data that say retail investors on average plan to put 37 percent of their payments into stocks those aged $25.00 to $34.00 close to half the census

data says 15 percent are putting some into savings and investments and retail stock traders percent of total trading doubled 10 percent prepared them back to about 20 percent now in your view hilary how are those dollars landing and bouncing on main street usa. well pleasure to be back with you holland and i would actually defer to a survey by the federal reserve bank of new york which that stated that in 2020 and we can use that as an example as to going forward how people spend their money right so back in 2020 the stimulus checks were used by about 29 percent of the people to buy things that would be the retail you're referring to paying bills is about 35 percent and then for future needs was 36 percent which shows that people weren't confident about where this nation was going obviously in the middle of the pandemic so we could use those numbers by the federal reserve to project where

those stimulus checks are going to be spent now so retail sales overall let me set it up there are up by about 10 percent interesting though and that's what's been called the whiplash effect and that's because manufacturers shut down conserve cash did very well at the beginning of the pandemic but i'll quote the c.e.o. of malibu boat jack spring ah he actually says that manufacturers have been flat footed in getting back to business malibu boats is just going through the roof in terms of their sales their sales of was a speeding boats for jet skis and water boards etc i think you should look for the price of used cars to keep climbing not necessarily new but new used cars by about 10 to 15 percent and then another interesting sale that retail that 29 percent is going to is all of these sales so again malibu boats boats and all of these sales why outdoorsy sort of things are the sales actually a projected to go through the roof 84 percent of jen's ias and millennial zx say

they're planning on taking an r.v. trip in the next 5 years i think you're going to see ownership of things like winnebago and top thor industries and those stocks are up and i think you're going to see a lot of purchases here in the ocean state one yacht broker close to a year ago said that he only have 3 or 4 boats left because like r v's. people perceive it to be a safe way to get away from it all something else and it's then in the headlines lately is a bit coin it's been such a roller coaster ride that many myself included are curious and wondering is it too late to get in so we asked our t. boone bus co-host christi iowa for a cryptocurrency one o one lesson and if you miss that recent show you can find it where you'll find all our shows at youtube dot com slash the big picture artie also prominent in biz buzz lately are spack s p a c special purpose acquisition companies also referred to as blank check

company's hillary explain how specs work how are they different than i.p.o.'s and why as an investor what i want to write anyone a blank check. well 1st of all let me just explain as of exactly what they are they're really essentially shell companies that raise money from investors through stock market listing so in other words sort of anybody can get into them so the shell companies have no active business of themselves so it's not like you mind into an actual company like you're not buying into winnebago for example that we just mentioned their operations are basically listed on major exchanges where investors can buy their shares and then they use those funds raised by their sponsors and investors to acquire other companies so actually that nothing new and they've been around for years but they're just really on a roll now as you mentioned holland actually last year there were 90 it was $90000000000.00 raised by these facts which is

a new record and i think it's going to go even higher this year on a couple of cautions though stacey cunningham from the president of the new york stock exchange she said absolutely there's a boom as you mentioned the sort of replacing i.p.o.'s but the f.c.c. has been launching some investigations they do say that if you buy into them and they're asking these companies to voluntarily right now provide sort of open books that's a request because there's been a lot of controversy about what they're actually spending money on and which sort of companies the shells of buying they've actually been headed by a number of celebrities lots of sports celebrities and l.b. all-star alex rodriguez former n.f.l. football player colin kaepernick has also announced his plans to start want and i think it's n.b.a. hall of fame. shaquille o'neal and the music mogul jay z. they also have spac connections interestingly you will see that don't trump has

been purported to be starting want eritrean was asked about this but he said that he wasn't involved so i can't give you an answer on that but that's the speculation that i can see the appeal of i hang out with him. no wall street but given the trump's track record i'm not so sure hey i thought of you hilary recently when i read that golf has thrived during the pandemic and this is something you predicted on this show one year ago and now we read the 2020 rounds played were up almost 14 percent over 2019 and equipment sales are up to the golf industry seems to have overbuilt back when tiger woods 1st popped and then a contract why is golf on the rise again hillary. i will hold those let me address what you just mentioned about the got the contraction in the gulf industry prior to

the pandemic to go forces were closing basically every single year in every state so you had basically over well over $114110.00 golf courses closing every year however the trend demick literally of course it's because it's an outdoor sport as you mentioned earlier why are these and boats are being sold well because that huge is being safe in a new era of pathogens but i will mention a couple of other things with regard to golf 98 percent of golf courses a currently open to play and we know that there's a lot of other things on open so part of it is the accessibility also one of the things i've always said a lot of people have sort of tried to trade gold has you know the whole middle aged lily white man's sport i could go the great equalizer you know i'm a woman i raise my kids to play go people i mean on the golf course every religion every race every age every gender you know what sport can i play against somebody else who's you know maybe he could be a 6 foot person of color and i could going to go paul and i could just as well so

it's a great equalizer and i think the more people that get out there seen it's in 200-1441 1000000 rounds of golf played this year hole and you're right it's projected to be well over 500000000 rounds and it's the safety it's the passages and i think when people get out there they see it's the great equalizer. and i think cabin fever has had to be a big contributor to this we will look at you on the lakes hillary ford which a strong our business development consultants in washington thank you as always for stepping into the big picture. spraying has sprung and here come summer and what could be a lifelong bomber if the a bump and this little bugger as we are increasingly out and about now deer ticks transmit the law. i'm dizzy use which untreated could cause long term problems with their nervous system your joints even your heart they're so small you could see

them but not feel them and if spot one here's dr joe alton. even though having it take on your skin isn't the best news you could possibly get by being observant you've just reduced your chances of getting lyme disease exponentially now here's how to remove that sick use of find tip tweezers like what i have here and grab the tick as close as you possibly can to your skin your goal is to get the entire tick including the head and the mouth parts then what you do is you raise it up in a straight even motion and get the entire tick out of the skin if you jerk or you twist what happens is you break off the mouth part of the mouth stays in the actual skin which in cause more inflammation afterwards of course what you want to do is you want to clean the area with soap and water and you want to. course if you want

to wash your hands now of course of symptoms do happen they'll usually occur probably about 3 days to a month even a month after the actual bite and what you'll see is a spreading rash that oftentimes looks like a bull's eye and this is followed afterwards by fever and chills by muscle aches joint a and certainly the t. and other you almost feel like you have the flu. that is dr joe walton from the survival medicine website doom and gloom dot net and joe says most cases can be treated successfully with the antibiotics but to dodge these ticks in the 1st place c.d.c. recommends avoiding woody and brushy areas especially if you're wearing shorts high grass leaf litter and when you're hiking walk in the center of the trail coming up when seconds matter the police are just minutes away if you're thinking about

buying a gun we're about to give us some really useful advice this is the big picture on our team america. when we watch movies i think they typically make us worry about the wrong thing they make us worry about robots turning evil but the real threat of the fast artificial intelligence is not that it turns evil but just that it turns very competent but has goals that are not aligned with our goals.

poor people america have no representation. that's that's the problem there's nobody in government that represents people who are not part of the multimillionaire lobbying class who work for banks who print money for themselves because they can tell them that in this year printing money for yourself and getting from they can tell the fact you have nobody in government representing in america not a single congressperson not a single senator nobody in the white house represents you you are on your own. i

knew you would buy big plan for 10 years like we've been saying and you 2 would have $101520000000.00 even if you started with 5 or $6000.00 a. firearm sales are brisk lately as they tend to be when a democrat is in the white house and after year of civil unrest what to consider if your in the market let's ask the co-author along with his renowned dad of whether be the man the gun the legend for 27 years tom gresham's has been talking firearms self defense gun rights training and safety on the gun talk show on several 100 radio stations across the usa and it's on i heart and stitcher and wherever else

you get your podcast tom and spent too long welcome good to talk with you holland. hey arkan saw it really became recently became the 28th state to enact a so-called stand your ground law explain what the that law means. well you got stand your ground you got castle doctrine too little things are similar to stand your ground simply means that before they passed it you had a duty to retreat you could actually be prosecuted for not running away when you're attacked if you stood there and defended yourself when you had a way to get out people were being prosecuted so what they do is i say ok we're going to make it where you can actually protect yourself or your family you can protect your kid you don't have to gather my up and run away you won't be prosecuted so that's really all stand your ground means even in your own home though under the old doctrine you had to retreat from your threshold. that's

correct and you know it doesn't make any sense the whole idea of your castle or your home is your castle you shouldn't have to leave your home when somebody breaks and you should be able to protect yourself in your own home and that's been recognized by all the states in the past the stand your ground laws what is your advice for someone who does not yet own a firearm but is thinking about having one just to feel safer at home it's a complicated subject and frankly buying a firearm for self protection is not for everyone if you're not going to make a commitment to safety and to ongoing training i would encourage you to perhaps reconsider but for those who want to get a gun my suggestion is to go get a class 1st get a little training because you don't really know what you need and you don't know what you're going to like until you had a chance to shoot a lot of ranges were allow you to rip guns and try them what i suggest is that you

call range arrange for an instructor get some one on one time with instructor and say look could you bring 3 or 4 guns or could i rent some guns from you and then figure out what works for you unfortunate temperately a lot of women want to get a small gun something to feel good in our hands. but the physics of a dictate the small guns recoil more they kick a lot and they're uncomfortable and they're harder to shoot and they might may find that something that just a little bit larger actually works better for them interesting we're talking with tom gresham of gun talk dot com tom on a recent show you surprised me when you said handguns just don't work that well for self-defense please explain. the reality is handguns are compromised the reason we use handguns is because they are small enough to carry they don't really have a lot of power and unlike movies and the problem is much of what people know about

guns come from movies and t.v. where you shoot someone with a handgun and they go flying through the air just doesn't happen that way. a cop friend of mine says look hand gun bullets are like medicine sometimes it takes them a while to work it's a compromise if you knew you were going to get into a gunfight if you ask a cop what would you take they're going to take a shotgun or rifle not a handgun. all that being said that's why we go get training and people say well why did the police officer shoot this guy several times it's because that's how many times it took for him to stop being an aggressor or to get him to stop attacking and so it's not unusual for to take 234567 we just saw a video out of maryland where a sheriff's deputy had to shoot a guy 12 times almost at point blank range while this guy was attacking him before the guy stopped attacking him wow i know the rules vary from state to state in

several states anyone can open carry without a permit and a dozen some states allow concealed carry without a permit tom background checks merely greenlight purchase any new requirement is going to be controversial but what would be the downside to requiring everybody who's walking around armed to at least have had training the basic downside is this is a constitutional right. we don't require you to get training to vote or to exercise free speech and the problem is and we've seen this is not theoretical is that if they say we're going to require our training in a year they say we're going to require a day of training and the next year we're going to require a week of training and it gets to the point where if you have an administration whether it's local city state or federal who just doesn't like the idea of people having guns or carrying guns they can say well we're going to require 500 hours of

training i realize that sounds a little ridiculous but we've seen this escalation in requirements as a way of blocking people from exercising their constitutional rights as opposed to providing training now don't get me wrong i think everybody ought to get training it's a good thing and most people do but the reality is in the statistics show us that even in states that don't require training they don't have any were accidents they don't have any more accidental or unintentional shootings than states that do require training time you and i are old enough to remember when the national rifle association was advocating for a background checks it was all about gun safety where did it go off the rails for the n.r.a. . the n.r.a. is a total mess right now unfortunate the leadership there. they look they lost their way. and it's a shame because the n.r.a. is the leading organization in firearm safety training there are $50000.00

certified firearms instructor certified by the n.r.a. they're the leading organization that runs competitions and of course they also pay a lot of people that's all they know about them they also are the leading 2nd the memmott group out there. that slack as been taken up by some other groups like the 2nd amendment foundation in the fires policy coalition but the n.r.a. is in flux right now they're actually in the middle of bankruptcy hearings are caught right now they're in court we'll see what happens. i can only hope that they end up becoming the good strong gun safety organization they've been in the past and a good start to protect our of our 2nd member rights deal for see gun control stiffening under the biden administration joe biden has promised to ban the most popular guns in america i mean he makes no bones about it people say oh he did want to ban guns of course he does he promised it before he got elected he just this

week he said i want to ban what he calls assault weapons which is just rifles by the way back to and for everybody more people in the u.s. are killed with fists and feet than they are with a are 15 rifles he put on no that's not from the n.r.a. that's an f.b.i. stat so these are just semiautomatic firearms and joe biden absolutely positively does want to ban those who want to put more restrictions on people and here's the thing we have tried every type of gun control imaginable in the u.s. up to and including confiscation of guns in some jurisdictions at no point and we currently have 20000 gun control laws at no point as any gun control law ever been shown to reduce crime never the term assault rifle is controversial and but most of these mass shootings that we've suffered in recent years where the a r 15 are you sure that that's a safe gun to put into the hands of nonmilitary laymen.

yeah of course it's not an assault rifle assault rifle is a very specific term used by the military or fifteen's do not qualify under that in fact they are fifteen's function exactly exactly the same way as the hunting rifle that president teddy roosevelt used 100 years ago it goes bang one time with each part of the trigger more than 50 years ago i used a symbiotic magic firearm more powerful than an ar 15 you kill my 1st deer at age 11 people use medical rifles all the time for hunting and for competition they are in a ar 15 does not stand for assault rifle it stands for armalite rifle the company that invented it more than 50 years ago it's a safe simple lightweight low powered rifle that's infinitely adjustable so people of all statures can use it and it's really a rifle that's favored by a lot of women tom gresham gun taught dot com appreciate your time come again will

ya. absolutely holland any time this follows up another gun top we have had lately most recently with the veteran washington d.c. metropolitan police officer turned criminal justice professor ronald hampton if you missed that recent show it is on demand or you'll find all our shows at youtube dot com slash the big picture artie and just days ago we dodged a bullet of another sort the asteroid named 2001 f. 032 1st spotted in 2001 was in the neighborhood about a 1000000 and a quarter miles nearby by comparison the moon is just 238000 miles away still nasa called this particular hunk of rock the size of 3 football fields hurdling through space at 77000 miles an hour potentially hazardous poll

showed us director of the center for near earth objects studies calls this the closest predicted approach in 2021 for any moderately large asteroid where moderately large means at least several 100 meters in size this asteroid now continues its journey around the sun and won't be back near earth until 2041 when nasa says it won't be as close to us then as it was several days ago meantime here's another save the date date and you heard it 1st here from astronomer and author bob berman it has happened before and it will happen again it's especially be going to be a close call on friday the 13th of april in 2029 when an asteroid comes as close to us as our own t.v. satellites and of course that will be a friday the 13th so let's get up in the meantime. and that is the big picture

we're back next week with another show same time for want to set your d.v.r. we are a direct t.v. channel 321 and on the dish dish where 2 ages 0 r.t. america streams live and you tube dot com slash r t america all our shows are at youtube dot com slash the big picture our team and all of the above and whole heck of a lot more is on our cool portable t.v. out free in the app store or google play or a portable dot tv holland cook sticken close to home awaiting my 2nd vaccine here in rhode island i hope your stay and safe to get the shot when you can and question more.

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he should go flat he joins me now. that says mark professor of physics at 90 and president of the future of lab in the city thanks for being with us today. so let's just have the rabbit let's start with the fundamentals of our mathematical universe you've put forth an argument that mathematics. whole universe that is basically made a math when we say that our reality is mathematics and mathematics isn't just an explanation of our reality what exactly do you mean we have of numbers it sounds completely crazy you know when you 1st hear this claim that everything is all mathematical because i look around myself in the room you know and. what is there that this mathematical about this that i don't see is for something to be completely mad.