Month: August 2020

After another week of protests stemming from a white police officer shooting a black man, today’s "Special Edition Saturday" shares the perspective of someone who knows what it’s like to be both a police sergeant who patrols the streets and a mother who worries for her four black sons.

Retired Sgt. Cheryl Dorsey is an acclaimed author of the autobiography, Black and Blue, and a 20-year veteran of the LAPD.

Today, she shares her experience from within the third largest local law enforcement agency in the country, and she gives her thoughts on  recent calls to defund police.

We know there’s a lot of debate about some of these issues, and this is only one person’s experience and opinion. We hope her perspective, as both a police expert and social justice advocate, will add to that ongoing conversation.

Be sure to tune-in again each weekday (M-F) for our regular episodes to get quick, unbiased news roundups in 10 minutes! 

From COVID-19 relapses to election insecurity, these factors drive defensiveness up and demand down. 

This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io.

Today on the Brief:

• Skepticism around Powell’s inflation prognostications
• The Tesla Stock Split Game
• China’s COVID-19 vaccine maker presses countries for early adoption

Our main discussion: The Anxiety Index

We live in an economy organized around consumption and perpetual growth. In that context, factors that cause consumers to be fearful, reduce spending, increase savings, move less and generally slow down can wreak havoc. 

In this episode, NLW discusses four factors shaping and driving consumer anxiety, including:

• COVID-19 related concerns, both health and economic
• Monetary policy questions 
• U.S.-China tensions 
• Election insecurity 

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