vision in 1998 was to turn the maker of mercedes cars into a global automobile company so he merged bence with u.s. car maker chrysler celebrating it as a match made in heaven. but the 2 company's culture and philosophy were completely incompatible the project failed alternately at a cost of around $40000000000.00 euros the vision to be an expensive illusion. and consumers believe their diesels were environmentally friendly intil it turned out that emissions test said been manipulated and the vehicles polluted bunch more than was claimed i'm a loser driven by fraud. and how about the rest of us honestly we love illusions at least at 1st nothing pulls us in like a well made illusion. advertising consumption financial markets a large part of the economy is based on illusions. and today we sit in our cage or at least in front of our screens voluntarily but before our illusions shatter we'd better leave the cave and seek out reality. well sometimes we want to escape reality and what industry helps those do that better than the movie business it's rise on the lucian's and today digital technol

desired social distance from a colleague so joining us to discuss co-host and investigative journalist bence one so ben how does this social distancing detector actually work. yeah sounds like a terrible way to work doesn't the way this works is one side you have a live feed essentially of people going about their work working inside of a factory or work inside an office on the other side of a monitor you have essentially a different screen that is monitoring how close those people are from each other in a soon as somebody comes within 6 feet of another person the screen goes from green a little square around them from green to red and it shows you that they're too close to each other and this is already being deployed by the way in certain warehouses in a certain factories including foxconn you know the big developer of i phones the ones that actually manufacture and make i phones in china they are now instituting this as well as companies like amazon which have their own version of it where they are monitoring employees to figure out whether or not employees are in their words violating so

from 3 to 6 months like you said does that mean that you can't get it again we don't know or co-host bence want thank you for that there are things. chairman automaker evokes wagon is settling hundreds of thousands of lawsuits brought by car owner for bringing diesel emission tests the company must now pay millions more over the cheating scandal which broke 5 years ago and continues to impact other carmakers around the world here now with more is legal journalist molly barrow there with america's lawyer who has been following the story molly thank you for being with us today how many claims were brought in this class action lawsuit. hi sara well in this particular settlement it's about 260000 claims in this settlement covers 200000 of them about 3 quarters other cases are still under review those owners to get payouts of somewhere around between $1500.00 a car or almost $7000.00 a car depending on the age in model of the vehicle the company has paid almost $700000000.00 serach to settle this particular lawsuit incensed a scandal broke it's cost the company 30000000000 to address it also wi

an eye and do what we can to help and recover from from all this as we have been so when west coast bence one thank you for your time with us. so. that's it for this time you can catch boom bust on demand on the brand new portable t.v. up available on smartphones through google play and the apple app store by searching portable t.v. or 3 must buy your t.v. by downloading the portable t.v.'s on apple t.v. and online at www dot t.v. as always check us out on you tube dot com slash boom bust our teeth will see you next time. something a man has used to put on the chain on the. same. time with nothing to do in the desire to not. just to me. she still lives. with. you but it's not just. on one level so that was to. tell you. that once you got infected then you'd get a nice we're going to need response and so that. protects you against reinfection. and with this new coronavirus is sad it's a very cold case to trace you know many patients disease. or use. people are really remarking that 2020 is a mirror image of 2008 it's the exact same problem banks over leverage blew themselves up and are now

more for small businesses so earlier i was joined by the best co-host and investigative journalist bence want to discuss this here's what he had to say. so essentially senate majority leader mitch mcconnell wanted to bring this to the floor today get a quick vote on it and just put more money into the program the problem is it with nowhere this whole thing stalled out because essentially mcconnell said i'm just asking you guys to change that 300000000000 to 600000000000 essentially it's just basically a race in the 3 and replace it with the 6 but democratic leaders said no that they wanted to have more oversight over the program and add some additional changes to how the program is being run so far and because of that the 2 sides came to a stalemate and nothing got done so that's very bad news and that update coming in just a few minutes ago i got another one for you too speaking of money being pumped in the federal reserve so that says that they're going to probably another 2.3 trillion with a t. $2.00 trillion dollars worth of loans that are going to be made to businesses and corporati