thank you so much, judy dempsey, carnegie senior fellow. nonetheless, you've got record stocks again in european equities. the stoxx 600 is headed for its seventh weekly gain. we will get more on that with max kettner, hsbc multi-asset strategist, next. this is bloomberg. ♪ alix: live from new york, i'm alix steel. this is the european close on "bloomberg markets." euro stoxx 600 headed for its seventh best weekly gain. he did have a helping hand from china overnight. bloomberg's emma chandra is breaking it down. emma: really a beast of a data dump out of china this morning, certainly when we look at the size of the numbers that came out of china. gdp coming in at 18.3%. of course, that helped buy that big drop we saw last year as the global pandemic took hold. still a serious number in terms of growth, and what it indicates about what is happening in china. also, we got retail sales numbers out of china, too, coming in at a positive 34%. all of this portending to a huge rebound happening in china. this has helped lift stocks. you mentioned

basically means they just postponing the problem to next year and students keep on accumulating even more dempsey especially those who already have such a huge amount of historical dept will even have more next year and then the whole debate will have to start once again for now it seems several players jump in to solve the problem too to help with these debts student association for example like we've seen in the case of early say hulu in our report the student who was supported by her student association but also some university said ok for now you do not have to pay that's about $22.00 of the $26.00 public universities in the country but we also understand that the government also put in some money although they have not confirmed that and we do not know how much. so as you were saying. this essentially is the proverbial can being kicked down the road the bigger issue hasn't been solved university education remains inaccessible to the majority of black south africans and observers have say that this is further excessive facing inequality in the country. right i mean look at the end of the day

basically means they just postponing the problem to next year and students keep on accumulating even more dempsey especially those who already have such a huge amount of historical dept will even have more next year and then the whole debate will have to start once again for now it seems several players jump in to solve the problem too to help with these debts student association for example like we've seen in the case of hulu in our report the student who was supported by her student association but also some university said ok for now you do not have to pay that's about $22.00 of the $26.00 public universities in the country but we also understand that the government also put in some money although they have not confirmed that and we do not know how much. so as you were saying. this essentially is the proverbial can being kicked down the road the bigger issue hasn't been solved university education remains inaccessible to the majority of black south africans and observe as have say that this is for the excessive basing inequality in the country. right i mean look at the end of the day you have

basically means they just postponing the problem to next year and students keep on accumulating even more dempsey especially those who already have such a huge amount of historical dept will even have more next year and then the whole debate will have to start once again for now it seems several players jump in to solve the problem too to help with these debts student association for example like we've seen in the case of early say hulu in our report the student who was supported by her student association but also some university said ok for now you do not have to pay that's about $22.00 of the $26.00 public universities in the country but we also understand that the government also put in some money although they have not confirmed that and we do not know how much. so as he was saying. this essentially is the proverbial can being kicked down the road the bigger issue hasn't been solved university education remains inaccessible to the majority of black south africans and observe as have said that this is for the excessive facing inequality in the country. right i mean look at the end of the day

but dempsey wagner has s using her special day to raise funds to keep iowans safe. dempsey, who lost two relatives to drowning in 2017, is using her birthday to help raise money for a rescue boat, the rescue boat and a trained dive team have the capability to save many lives on the mississippi and des moines river and surrounding lee county lakes. last year dempsey used his 5th birthday to raise $3,000 for the crime stoppers police puppies. but this year dempsey has used her 6th birthday and more than doubled her record, raising over $13,610 for the lee county rescue boat. mrs. miller-meeks: my husband and i were proud to contribute to this worthy cause. it's iowa nice stories like this that make me more proud to represent iowa and the second district. keep up the good work, dempsey. and thank you for making both lee county and iowa safer. i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> i seek unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro te

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change for a guy who still thinks a nickel will buy you a meatloaf sandwich and a ticket to the jack dempsey fight. the president wants to pay for all that with increased taxes on the wealthiest earners. yes, he's taking from the rich and giving to the poor, which has lead a lot of people to compare him to robin hood. and he's opposed by his arch enemy, the sheriff of rotting ham. and america loved it. according to a new cbs/yougov/ arby's crispy curls poll, biden's speech had an approval rating of 85%. pretty good but that is a sampling of that's all americans. republicans enjoyed the speech a little less. take texas senator and divorced porky pig, ted cruz. now, you might say it's not right for me to make fun of him twice in the same show, so i'll make fun of him three times. and by him, i mean, former presidential candidate and fidel gastro, ted cruz. cruz went viral last night, when during the speech, he fell asleep. i can relate to ted cruz. now that joe biden's president, i find it much easier to sleep. cruz was roundly mocked online, and bernie sanders drew a penis on his forehead. so

you're talking about jackson dempsey. >> stephen: there you go. >> saved his baby sister from chokingp as a substitute trying to do first aid. so i'm glad that, because he mentioned me, the media picked it up, but i think the important thing to focus on is that this kid, in a critical time of crisis, when it's been studied that when bad things happen, usually it's very tough for us to take action, this young man took action and saved his sister's life, and i think that's really important. >> stephen: did he heimlich her? chest or back-- >> i think he hit her on the back, from what i understand, and that dislodged the food she was choking on. she pretty much would have suffocated and died. i already sent him a thank you, and i really appreciate hearing stories like that. not that i'm attached to it, i just like to hear people in times of crisis taking action. i think that's really cool. >> stephen: i'm glad he used that move and not this. >> that would not have been the right move. >> stephen: would have been funny but ultimately tragic. >> ultimately not so funny, yeah. >> stephen: yo

basically means they just postponing the problem to next year and students keep on accumulating even more dempsey especially those who already have such a huge amount of historical dept will even have more next year and then the whole debate will have to start once again for now it seems several players jump in to solve the problem too to help with these debts student association for example like we've seen in the case of early say hulu in our report the student who was supported by her student association but also some university said ok for now you do not have to pay that's about $22.00 of the $26.00 public universities in the country but we also understand that the government also put in some money although they have not confirmed that and we do not know how much. so as you were saying. this essentially is the proverbial can being kicked down the road the bigger issue hasn't been solved university education remains inaccessible to the majority of black south africans and observers have say that this is for the excessive facing inequality in the country. right i mean look at the end of the day

some of which was was bet on a first-round knockout and so dempsey was doing his best. there's a questionable bell at the end of the first round that nobody heard and so willard was able to make it to the second round and continue getting a beating one of the most interesting things about the fight is jimmy breslin once wrote that the roaring twenties were born in toledo, ohio on july 4th 19 at this fight. the people that came to this fight the list is incredible to who's who of the roaring twenties toledo at that time was really centrally located with within all the railroad systems. so it was very easy for people to get here and plenty of hotels you have an 80,000 seed arena. it was the perfect venue for biggest fight of the century. first thing to notice here is miller is just barely up. you can watch this and other programs on the history of communities across the country at c-span.org cities tour. this is american history tv only on c-span 3. bill maudlin served in the 45th infantry division during world war ii and gained fame and the pulitzer prize up next model a