embarq went public via a spac. it has self-driving trucks.nd ceo alex, congratulations and thank you for joining us. talk to us about where the trucks are now. what can you do and what is the vision to mark alex: it is a super exciting time in the world of self-driving trucks. embarq has a leak of truck -- a league of trucks making deliveries. you see trucks on the road, making deliveries. going from the edge of one city to the edge of another autonomously. the next step is to bring in the funding to allow us to take that from a small scale and put it into tens of thousands in trucks in america's biggest cities. emily: alright has partnered with -- aurora has partnered wiedex, what kind of wood to stick partnerships do you have at this point? alex: embarq has the leading partnerships on the logistics side. the largest company in the united states, or in dhl, and in our partners the reservations. emily: how do you make money? alex: that is one of the things that differentiates embark. we have a software and service business model. we license s

why i am urging the administration to tap that reserve, get the prices down, and then we have to embarqa full-time campaign -- to embark on a full-time campaign to get us away from fossil fuels altogether. jonathan: senator chuck schumer on the oil situation in america. your equity market up 17, a list of 0.4% on the s&p. yields in a basis point at 1.5494%. crude negative a little more than 1%. keep an eye on the twitter account of larry summers this morning, just out with a nice, long thread. "because spending is offset by revenue increases and because it includes measure says as childcare, build back better will have only a negligible impact on inflation." we have heard this report from larry summers before for this particular program. he also talks about the federal reserve, the fed and the fed appointments the administration needs to make in the coming weeks. the choices need to remark that the major challenge for the central bank is containing inflation. larry summers with a series of tweets this morning just moments ago. tom: former president of harvard college and secretary of tr

she spoke with embarq analyst rebecca. >> one of the scenes -- she spoke with our bloomberg analyst,. >> one of the reasons we built our positions in china in 2020 is we saw china's response to the coronavirus crisis was much more responsible for me fiscal policy and monetary policy point of view than many countries around the world. without thought maybe china will become the new germany or switzerland, known for its monetary and fiscal discipline. but what happened in november of that year was somewhat startling. the episode with jack ma, and watching how he and many other executives who had created incredibly rapidly growing and exciting companies, they basically were told, and maybe there was some reason for it, that you are not welcome there anymore. go off and do some charitable work or whatever the message was . so that is what they are doing. we began -- we became concerned about that. well that kind of rhetoric and activity is taking place. you are right, we pulled almost entirely out of our flagship, but not out of our specialist portfolios, because, autonomous technology,

embarq has learned the company will use it for expansion amid a boom in the logistic services.users can read more all about this in our newsletter on your bloomberg terminal. we're talking about food inflation, no better way to illustrate what is happening then by looking at the cost when you're putting together a thanksgiving dinner. the average meal is 14% more expensive compared to 2020. the turkey itself up 24%. cranberries, 11% more. rising prices are affecting your meals. inflation is going to remain fairly high in the coming months , you have supply chain companies -- this exclusive interview with our tom mackenzie. have a look. >> neutral alcohol is plateauing today but we've seen price increases earlier than this. i think it's going to last for the coming year for sure. david: if you're having one right now, have another one, that is if you are not driving. annabelle is here. >> chipmakers macron and united electronics have several -- settled a lawsuit over intellectual property. an undisclosed amount to settle all claims between the companies globally. one was accused