david barron is a labor and employment attorney. david, you are in texas. i'm in california. there may be some slight differences state by state but we can talk in generalties this morning. let's start with employers. say my boss says i want you back at work in the office but i want you to sign something that holds us harmless. the first question for you this morning is do i have to sign it and would it hold up in court? >> the simple answer is no. and most businesses that i have talked to have thought about those types of documents but decided against it. worker's comp in most states would make those unenforceable. employees have a right to receive worker's comp benefits. to downside of doing anything like that outweigh any benefit that would come to an employer. >> what if i'm the customer? i know the senate talked about extending liability production to small businesses. it didn't get done. i'm guessing the law already has some kind of protection to small businesses if they take reasonable precautions, right, if they do masks and gloves and that kind of thing. >> the law a

. >> david and i have been talking about kodak, and quick, mike, you did share a piece you wrote for barrons about kodak years ago that was bullish do you think the action is indicative of anything other than the mania we're seeing? >> this was good for a couple months before it was clearly a value chapter. obviously there's been this current of speculative activity that's kind of inexplicable that seems to be detached from economic reality and they have become fad stocks overnight, but i think the fact that we can name almost all of those tells you it's not a pervasive mania. it's just kind of a little bit of a side show that's been getting a little crazy and is going on for a while was probably on a net basis, nobody is going to come out looking great on it. but it's something that to reflect on the fact that you had the massive account openings and all the rest of it on the online broker side. it's manifesting itself in fringes of the market. >> mike will be with us for the hour we mentioned the plunge in gdp the first reaction from the white house, a familiar face, chief economist at the