would be classified as the 9th richest in the world i put a few questions to economists edward hall jeffrey turkor on the 2 trillion dollar valuation. does it seem as if something felt quite right when millions are losing their jobs or close to it on a tiny number getting insanely rich. that is exactly right and i have to correct language you say because of the pandemic it's because of the lockdowns all across the world and especially the us governments have it been bankrupting small and b medium size businesses and forced closures and stay home orders and closing schools closing borders stopping travel it's been an outrage and of course who benefits it's the big companies especially the tech giants and the rich meanwhile in this country the the poor and the middle class are suffering and medium small businesses are going under because of the lockdowns not because of the pandemic obviously there's an end plenty of encouragement for companies like apple which have received public funding. from their very get go and we really need to see far more diversity at the grassroots of the economy to to ch