Good Evening,
It's Thursday, September 3rd.
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Stocks Fall
U.S. stocks fell sharply today, driven by a broad decline in many of the technology firms that have led the market higher in recent months. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 811 points, or 2.8 percent, to 28,290 as of the 4 p.m. close of trading in New York, suggesting that investors may be taking a breather following a rally that sent the Dow industrials above 29,000 for the first time since February a day earlier, as the WSJ reports. |
Merkel Pressured
German Chancellor Angela Merkel faced growing pressure today to take a harder line with Moscow following confirmation that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent. Members of Merkel’s own party insisted that the chancellor should respond by canceling the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project, as the NYT reports. |
Lebanese Army Finds More Explosive Chemicals outside Beirut Port
Lebanon’s army said today it had found 4.35 tons of ammonium nitrate near the entrance to Beirut port, the site of a huge blast last month caused by a large stockpile of the same highly explosive chemical, as Reuters reports. |
CSIS Executive Education
Join CSIS’s Trade Guys for their next crash course on trade policy. This two-day program breaks down the fundamentals of how U.S. trade policy is formulated, the legalities of trade in an international arena, and the impact of Covid-19 on supply chains. Register here. |
Video Shorts
Check out CSIS’s new series of video shorts: “Testify,” "What's Happening,"
"Preview," and “High Resolution.” And don’t forget to subscribe to the CSIS YouTube Channel!
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In That Number
833,000
Last week, 833,000 workers filed new claims for state unemployment benefits, while 759,000 new claims were filed by freelancers, part-time workers, and others under a federal program called Pandemic Unemployment Assistance. Both figures, which are not seasonally adjusted, were increases from the previous week.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor |
Critical Quote
“I wish it was only me who tested positive, but it wasn’t, it was my entire family, so this one was a real kick in the gut.”
— Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson on his family contracting Covid-19 |
iDeas Lab
The Aerospace Security Project has released a new analysis comparing costs of space launch vehicles by type, country, and spaceport.
The Andreas C. Dracopoulos iDeas Lab at CSIS enhances our research with the latest in cutting-edge web technologies, design, and multimedia. |
Optics
(Photo credit: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images/Getty Images.) Jared Kushner arrives at the the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office today. |
Recommended Reading
“The WTO Leadership Race,” a new backgrounder by CSIS. |
This Town Tomorrow
Tomorrow, at 8:30 a.m., join the U.S.-India Strategic Partnership Forum for a discussion on the economic and strategic partnership between the United States and India.
And then at 10:00 a.m., the Elliott School of International Affairs will host a webcast exploring the impact of the U.S. Black Lives Matter movement in Eurasia.
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Video
The newest episode of PreView highlights a recent collaborative report between CSIS and the Center for New American Security on the geopolitical shifts that threaten nuclear nonproliferation efforts. |
Podcasts
In this episode of The Truth of the Matter, CSIS's Seth Jones is back to further analyze the increase of violence that has occurred across the United States in the last couple of weeks. He draws on more data from his CSIS brief on domestic terrorism to discuss extremist groups and their use of social media, what violence might occur after this November's presidential election, and the transnational spread of white supremacy.
Listen on Spotify, Google Podcasts, & Apple Podcasts. |
Smiles
Tomorrow, the Rolling Stones will release “Goats Head Soup 2020,” an updated version of their 1973 album featuring an all-new stereo mix, three unheard tracks, plus demos, outtakes, live performances & more. “Goats Head Soup” wasn’t one of the Stones most important records by any stretch. Critics didn’t like it; fans tolerated it. With time, it sounds better though. Of course it did contain one Stones classic, “Angie,” the Keith Richards-penned track that put the Stones back at number 1 on the charts beside Elton John.
Perhaps the best thing that came out of Goats Head Soup was that the Stones recorded much of the album in Jamaica, and because of that, the musical island became Keith Richards’ second home—a place he would draw inspiration from in decades to come through present day.
The best track I’ve heard so far from “Goats Head Soup 2020” is one of the previously unreleased numbers, “Scarlet,” a song that features both Richards and Jimmy Page on guitar. Take a listen, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl0COtEG-TM. |
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