Hi everyone, Joe for jazzy's case breaks.com coming at you with 2021 Bowman draft baseball jumbo edition 8 box jumbo Pick your team number six, which if you're watching live filled before five So pick your team five still available. That's most likely for Mannyana I Promise that if someone bought the last two teams, which were the Marlins and the Cleveland Indians I'd randomize those two names and Then give away the Cubs So the Cubs are still still empty right there, and it was Anthony who bought the Marlins and Stephen Kay who bought Cleveland? So let's randomize those names name on top after 10 gets the extra team Well, that's you joke. You're being negative two three four five six seven eight nine and 10th and final time after 10 Anthony there you go Anthony. Thanks for grabbing What was the Marlins and now you've got a bonus team right here in the Cubs, which might mean a bonus entry You may have blocked someone. All right, so let's box these up and Let's print and rip. It's kind of a long break. So kick back and relax settle in Now after this break is done We probably will have about a an hour or so left in the show Which is definitely a chance for another break or two before we call it right? So there's the final print out right there.  You should I think the boss man's been to one or two of those events And I've said that they were a lot of fun. There's usually some catered food there There's usually some catered food there. I think like one like main guest usually Popular baseball player and a couple other surprise guests meet and greets a lot of swag that you can get and all that sort of stuff. I I Respectfully disagree Joe. I think the invite is one of the biggest draws for people buying transcendent otherwise, it's no different from like a Slightly supercharged dynasty or something like that. No, I think the invite is a big draw at least from the feedback that we get Do you think it's more of the cut autos? but it's not though and The years that we've been doing this Joe P Definitely the invite is a big draw Also, by the way paper doesn't ship except for these three players right there No, the in the invites are one of the main draws and there's Colton Couser nice Orioles EA with the O's is one of the bigger names in the set here CJ Abrams to 150 blue paper I'm bum Joe that Joe P. We didn't get a cut auto in the case that we did so Hopefully we'll be able to get another another case so we can find a cut out of There are fewer and far between we got Brandon Bocier for Chris and the Nationals Yeah, cut autos are not in every case There's Dustin signs to 99 green chrome for the Nats. Yeah, they made 97 or 95 cases and I think there's only 25 27 cut autos whatever the checklist has it as so I guess I guess that probably makes the cut autos just that much more valuable Right. Yeah, we got the patch auto Which is fine. It was it would look really cool as Andrew cut chin, but sort of have my heart set on a Cut auto was Ronnie Maurizio and Mason Miller refractor autograph 380 out of 499 for EA and the A's Steelers with a touchdown It's gonna that's gonna seal the game Henry Davis papers, of course, we'll go to mark mark the set We got Alex, do we get a fourth autograph? Yeah It's usually only three autographs There's Alex, but Nellis For the Brewers Robert with that one Pete. I'm not saying I'm not saying that That's just a industry expert Joe P You say who's saying the sky is falling That fanatics will be will be bad for the hobby. All right, so we got a nice bonus auto out of one of these boxes Next box, that's weird Maybe that's why we got that extra auto one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven there's only eleven packs in this box Happens, and I will do a autograph recap at the end of this as well If you're having to watch the replay of this and you're like, oh, I don't feel like watching an hour and a half video I wouldn't either you can fast forward to the end And there should be an autograph recap maybe just after Just after I do the break credit randomizer Nick Gonzalez To 149 and Jackson Job 76 out of 99 green chrome Autograph That's for Karen and Detroit and got Kai Bush 84 out of 150 blue chrome autograph for the halos Jerry Shortel with that one JJ Bladet Purple chrome to 250 and an autograph for the Reds Ruben Ibarra That's Mark Bissette and the Cincinnati Red Legs It's our third auto of the box. I've got the manning cast on the background Like a Pittsburgh beating the Cleveland Browns 26 to 14 What might be big Ben's last? Home game. We got a green sparkle Alexander Mohica 42 out of 99 This Henry Davis paper of course both of those will go to Mark and the Pirates They made it to Peyton and Eli Manning made it sound like Made it sound like they were gonna be doing some manning cast for the playoffs Which will be pretty fun and big Ben doing a little Calibri, Jr. Type lap around the stadium some high-fives with the first row. It's awesome Deonta Williams or Dante Williams to 250 209 out of 250 Kevin Fusco, what's going on saying congrats to Chris Butler on winning the fantasy football league There you go shout out to Chris Butler who actually got a hit with the Nationals too. So it's all a Chris is just just a champion today got a hit in the break won the fantasy football I won my fantasy football or one of the two that I have Almost won both. There's Chris Butler. Congrats, man Money League, I hope Put some put some dollars into your pocket Do I believe that Antonio Brown should get another shot? He didn't do that much wrong. Oh, no I think the individual action wasn't wrong, but I think I Think the culmination of actions that I Think the culmination of actions that have led up to that and the fact that he quit on his team in the middle of the game I mean, I think he's done. Yeah, I agree with all right I think I think Antonio Brown has had enough shots to be honest with you He got a shot You know, he got a shot after Pittsburgh He's got a shot after his stint with the Oakland Raiders He got a shot in New England He got a shot into how much how many shots you want to give this guy? No, I think he's done.  I mean but but for him to Yeah, for him to just quit on his team like that Gavin Williams four out of 50 for Cleveland Stephen K on the board with gold auto. I Think I mean, that's the I mean, I'm not obviously not a doctor and I don't want to speculate on But we will not this medical condition But that's what a lot of the talking heads seem to be saying that maybe there's maybe maybe there's some Some some CTE issues that are that that's the reason for this behavior. I mean, he was pretty I Mean he was pretty low-key in the early years with Pittsburgh, but there is a Correlation between his concussion issues and sort of his more erratic behavior. I don't know. Maybe that was already latent inside him, but You know No, definitely not a doctor Pete yeah, so I mean, it's obviously all speculation But he is a great player to watch but But I mean what what team is realistically going to give him a shot After all the shots even he's been given already and how disruptive he's been to each of the teams that he's he's been on the last two or three years I think the reality of it is that he is That he's done Which is unfortunate because it's because on his day he is a joy to watch There's a manual Rodriguez for the twins to 150 this Tanner Allen purple paper to 250 Yeah, I mean even taking all of the Does the the medical speculation aside even just taking all of that away, you know, just his behavior is not professional Has not been professional and I don't know how many teams are gonna really give him a shot Not not contending teams. I don't know if any contending team would give him a shot There's Ryan Cusick Purple Chrome to 250 and chase petty is your autograph Minnesota twins John who the twins Late first round pick there. There's Willemann Diaz to 499 For the Dodgers that'll be for Chris Butler I Oliver Oliver the Steelers fan, what a Where do the Steelers go from here? I mean, I know they still have a shot at the playoffs But it's pretty clear that That big Ben's not gonna be around next season. There's Dominic Hamill for the Mets. That's gonna go to Ryan Lin What's what's next for the Steelers we've got Errol Vera Aqua to 199. I wonder what you do if you're the Steelers There's some speculation or I guess maybe just people trying to connect dots not really even Any real speculation? Does Mike Tomlin move on? I can't really see him leaving picks Pittsburgh What kind of? Do you do some kind of rebuild? Maybe The redemption is gonna be Jordan Lawler Arizona Diamondbacks, that's gonna be for Mark Bissette and the snakes And that's another four autograph box right here Pretty sure He's only supposed to be three like piece of the card got got crimped and cut there next box All right next box let's keep going And we got a Dodger we got Ben Kisperius 31 out of 250 purple chrome auto for Chris Butler And my Dodgers a little Dodger Joe mojo coming at you. I'm too familiar with this dude. He's a fifth rounder Number 141 prospect for Baseball America second team all big east Delivered second highest single season strikeout total And in Yukon Keeps hit hitters guessing with effective three pitch blend dots low to mid 90s fastball the edges of the plate Exceptional change up with depth hard low 80s slider Someone to look out for Carson Williams to 199 for the raise it's gonna be for anthony Um Thank you Thank you Got JJ bliday to 499 And we've got that insert flipped around. What's that all about? Oh means his number 37 out of 50 genesis insert Gavin Williams And that'll be for the tribe. That's going to be for cven k in the cleveland guardians. There's ryan spikes Tampa bay anthony with the rays third round pick All these marcello mires will go to matthew Sharah and the uh boston redsox. Let's see if we can find some ink for him Oh nice henry davis green autograph 32 out of 99 That is awesome. That goes to mark beset 32 out of 99 your number one overall pick Nice undrafted out of high school has two sisters interested in coaching enjoys traveling Sites the pursuit of happiness as his favorite movie rocket arm backstop with excellent footwork and throwing accuracy Sharp eyed hitter who recognizes spin and control zone produces plus pull side power for position Number one number four prospect in the 2021 mlb draft. That's pretty awesome Plays defense anken hit. All right, so that's a nice hit stack right here Denzel clark To 99 a little color match there for ea and the a's And a colton calder purple paper 48 out of 250 For ea and the os Fifth overall pick purple chrome to 250 70 out of 250 elmer rodriguez cruz for boston Matthew all right. We are halfway through this full case break about about another 35 40 minutes to go Good luck everyone. We just finished watching the cleveland pittsburgh game and big benz last home game sealers defeated the browns. I think the browns were already eliminated from playoff contention going into it, but What's the what's the post mortem on the cleveland browns? I feel like uh, maybe you know everyone's dealing with injuries, but I feel like I think they mentioned this in the broadcast too that baker mayfield's Torn labor. I think it's his non throwing arm, but that that throws off the mechanics and everything just Has not done and done him any favors this year I just I feel like last couple years on paper. It just seems like that's a That's a really solid team, but I don't know definitely maybe maybe next year. Maybe another round of Another draft another round of free agency And maybe some luck with some health We'll get them into a good spot bangles though. I've definitely been surprising Bangles defense, I think has improved significantly. That's a big help and then of course that opens the door for Joe burrow and jamar chase to go To go nuts Let's say which they have An old college chemistry connection works out, huh? Seems like it All right next box And another henry davis autograph nice 345 out of 499 refractor autograph Going to mark the set and the pittsburgh pirates Your number one overall pick the sports center Jay allen bowman first green paper 65 out of 99 Jay allen going to the reds. That'll be for mark and we've got a uh frank mozicato 110 out of 250 purple chrome for The royals that's going to go to karen And obviously all of those numbered cards will be sleeve top loaded before they're sorted and shipped out to you These uh slightly thicker and victor cards or have you noticed are probably are one per box Some of them I have seen numbered so Let's keep an eye out for that You got hunter goodman 315 out of 499 for the rocks It's gonna be for derrick Out there That leover piguero who's flipped around that might might be a variation Uh We got jake fox a fox in the box 11 out of 50 gold chrome For cleveland's even k the autograph Is for cincinetti matthew nelson It's for mark and the red legs 35th overall Looks like a maybe a compensatory pick or something like that We've got marco luciano 56 out of 250 purple paper from my rivals the giants big boys 007 For this giants the redemption is It's andro painter mark beset with the fillies Three boxes to go Going back to football really quick. I feel like there's a number of teams that could be looking for quarterbacks in the off season I know pittsburgh season's still alive, but they could be looking for a quarterback rounds I mean they're worse. I think they're gonna they're gonna hang on to To bake or may feel but there has been a little sports talk radio speculation about it. The browns would make a change Bronco is definitely looking for a quarterback No, texas looking for a quarterback or if they're taking a Keep rolling with davis mills who's been looking good the last few weeks. That's a possibility Packers barron rodgers leaves They'll be looking for another quarter of them. I mean, I guess I'll run with Go with gordon love but Aaron rodgers could end up on on a team erin rodgers on the stealers could be really interesting You know are the saints saints have to look for a quarterback or the vikings going to look for another quarterback Or about the falcons matt ryan is he he done Watching the football team probably needs a quarterback Russell wilson leaves Seattle will be looking for a quarterback carolina is looking for a quarterback That could be that could make the offseason For the teams that are most of these teams are eliminated from the playoffs. I'll make the offseason for these teams really interesting All right, good luck. I like these parallels mason black. That's an aqua lava refractor 13 out of 199 That's david big boys 007 with the giants Luis rodriguez could be a variations flipped around that'll go to the go to chris and the Dodgers another lava or Elvis martinez 52 out of 199 to sharp looking parallel for john and toronto Brady house to 199 chris and the nationals It just Shalen polanco He was a big prospect name for the pirates joined them last season If we all be playing center, um, it's just everybody stepped up tonight and um, it just means it means the world to me There's paedra panada in victor to 25 10 out of 25. It's a cool looking insert for ea and the a's Special Eric panion purple paper to 250 for kc it's going to go to karen history We got chain panzini 182 out of 499 That's for karen in kansas city fourth round pig I There's steven hujar 60 out of 99 for minnesota and calvin zeigler for ryan and the metz Third autograph here In this box Do I own the shop? No, I am the first hire here From about seven seven eight. Is it eight years now eight years old? A long time second to last box Yeah, I was the first hire here. Yeah, I do. Okay. I've I've actually known the family Uh, that runs that owns this place. I've known them for You know for many years before I actually started working for them. So So yeah, it's it's a pretty It's a pretty strong, uh, sort of family environment that we have here It's kade povich John with the twins But they're only the future of the franchise Scott. There's a way now of the franchise and that with the business Where it's going to be extremely excited about you. Give it. It's really beautifully from Moses to a dead cockroach I mean that's to me like that. When enemies get handed out like to me. That's gotta be considered man I mean you start today early and you still got this type of energy And I've seen lately and that's way power So CJ Abrams green speckled a 99 Padres that's going to go to John K Playing hurt We've got a Genesis Carson Williams 14 out of 250 Tampa Bay insert numbered insert going to anthony There's kade povich 97 out of 150. Who do you speak to about regarding investing in the business? We're not accepting investors at the moment a couple twins going to john Santiago opening everything from your website tonight. Sure except for the except for the ones that say we can't break it until wednesday, which is draft super jumbo and Draft super jumbo and bowman's best. Otherwise. Yes, everything else We can break tonight I think by the time this break is done, we should have another Hour or so left in the show So whatever we can fill up then got benny montgomery purple paper to 250 And there's another ben casper a casperias casperias That's for my daughter's chris butler with the boys in blue And we've got a gold paper 35 out of 50 brooks gospel For drew the white socks Fourth round pig. All right final box coming up Yeah, there's a lot of cards in these packs Santiago. Why are there so many guys? Just That's the way this product was designed and bowman bowman draft bowman products tend to have a lot of A lot of cards this 12 packs per box 32 cards per pack These are lower grade cards. I wouldn't quite say that This is this is some excellent prospect hunting here And these are still It's all kind of pricey per box too So this is an excellent prospecting product a lot of future value in these cards Any of these guys in the next however many years? Do you know it turns out to be a superstar? Possible pull value for best single cards a million dollars santiago Maybe two million dollars All we gotta do is find the next mic trout out of here These are all new draft fees so find the next mic trout That card grades out at a at a 10 You know then Could be millions final box. Good luck CJ Abrams to 199 purple chrome to 250 russell smith Brewers robert I Got a jason demingas paper To 499 312 out of 499 for the yankees. Justin Justin martin with that. Let's make some orange paper coming up Yeah, shaylin polanco orange paper. That's 13 out of 25 One of the big up-and-coming prospects for the pirates mark For the buckos Jackson job is your invicta card Got a yankees auto brendan beck So along with that jason mingas paper. Justin martin will also get this brendan beck auto second round Got an adley rushman adley rushman super fracter one of one For ea sports. It's in the game nice a one of one of the former Number one overall draft pick That's pretty nice. There you go, eric All aboard the big hit express It's not autoed, but still very nice It should be should be getting some regular playing time this season And we got a blaze jordan behind him 42 out of 99 for boston. Matthew red socks up-and-coming prospects Nice finish in this final box Looking for more low numbered cards And a third and final autograph Yeah, i'm not sure how much that would go for It's not his bowman first obviously That was a number of years ago, but It is a one of one of a number one overall pick and I don't know it's I'd be something that I would you know, I don't know how ea is going to play it, but I'd be something I would kind of hold on to You know because right now the value it's sort of the off-season off-season the value values of baseball cards not super strong in the off-season People's minds really aren't on baseball right now. There's quarry morissette for anthony and the marlins Second round to pick my guess is that you would just kind of hold on to that Until the next season starts There's yoelki sespedis To 199 because He starts off the season strong if he if he's looking like a If he's looking like a number one overall pick he hits the ball well Especially early on in the season I could really set a nice market for for him Maybe he's in that rookie of the year conversation Yeah, we sure do You should visit our shop in uh You should visit our shop in hermosa beach And there you go. That's the break ladies and gentlemen Let's give away a little money and then let's do a recap All right, so let's go back to the product page here If you go back to the product page, it'll say that if you bought at least two teams That gets you one entry four teams two entries so on and so forth For a chance at some break credit top five get a hundred bucks each So let's go back to the list Make that a little bit larger and let's alphabetize by your first names So anthony you ended up with four teams. So that's two entries Chris with two teams. That's an entry EA with two teams. That's an entry John a with two teams. That's an entry Justin two teams one entry Karen with two teams one entry mark with four teams two entries And ryan lind with two teams and an entry. Let's just kind of spot check this again Got anthony chris Justin here. Oh martin. I forgot you martin. See this is why I do this check here So martin bought two teams. That's an entry And ryan with two teams at the entry. Thank you chat. Yeah almost for Sorry martin. I almost forgot you. It's not good. All right, there we go So 11 names on the or 11 spots on the list top five gets a hundred dollars of break credit each. It's pretty nice after Three and a one four times Top five after four One good luck two three and four After four times we got mark karen chris martin and ryan. There you go top five hundred dollars of break credit each Check your emails for those break credit codes. It should arrive to you as a gift card code They don't expire check your span folder if you don't see him And here's a quick recap Pretty nice break a lot of nice color Couple redemptions some henry davis's Those are pretty nice He's pretty good number one overall pick got some good color there and We got our first Superfractor not auto but a nice player in adley rushman I went to ea and the orioles. There you go gang. I'm joe for jasby's case breaks.com Thanks for watching. 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Caster Semenya arrested. Speed might be two-time Olympic 800m champion Caster Semenya's ally on the track but, it appears, not so on the road. Semenya appeared in the Pretoria Magistrates Court on Thursday last week, to answer charges related to speeding. Luka Mohanjana, who speaks for the National Prosecuting Authority, and PA, in Chuanay, on Tuesday confirmed as much to the citizen. Semenya was reportedly nabbed on the N-14 highway, in Centurion, a day earlier but Mahajane said she was not held in custody. Instead, as is common practice in cases involving more minor offenses, she was granted bail of R-500 at the Wade Abrog police station and summoned to appear in court. Indeed she appeared at Pretoria Magistrates Court on the May 6, 2021 for speeding, Mahajane said. Adding the matter was postponed so a report from the South African National Institute for Crime Prevention and the reintegration of offenders, NECRO, could be compiled. C-menya's attorney, Greg Knott, yesterday declined to comment on the case but NECRO works to facilitate alternatives to prison for some child and first-time offenders, including diversion programs. If found guilty by a court of law, C-menya would end up with a criminal record. Because of the nature of the offense, she would likely be able to get it expunged eventually. But in terms of the laws around expungement, she would only be eligible to lodge an application after ten years had elapsed. And until then, a record could throw a spanner in the works of any plans she had to, for example, travel overseas to compete. Were she instead to be enrolled in a diversion program, though, she could escape without a criminal record. The case is due back in court in August. In the meantime, C-menya is still busy fighting World Athletics rules for women with differences of SE Sewell development, DST, barring them from competing at certain distances, including C-menya's Forte, the 800M, unless they take medication to lower their testosterone levels. In 2019, the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld the rules and last year, so did the Swiss Federal Supreme Court. Now, though, C-menya has approached the European Court of Human Rights.


Okay, very good morning. It is Wednesday 23rd of December and it is the final briefing that I'll be doing for 2020. So first of all, I really honestly do hope that everyone has weathered this kind of pandemic situation as best as possible, both physically and mentally. I know it's been incredibly challenging for a lot of people in a lot of different ways. So absolutely take care over the Christmas period. Do put the consideration of others on top of your decisions of what you're going to do over that period is all I'm going to say. But secondly, thank you so much for following us on the channel. I hope you really enjoyed the content. Hopefully found some value from it and we've got a lot more in store for 2021 to kind of up our game on that side. So yeah, just thank you from myself and the rest of the Amphi trading team. But look, let's get straight into this final briefing and talk about some of the new stories in focus then, going into the run into Christmas. And at the moment, both Santa and the Fed doing a pretty good job at just ensuring equity markets are staying supported. This irrespective of the fact that actually we had a bit of a downward move seen in the overnight session, which I'll get to in a moment, which came after some comments out of Donald Trump throwing a little bit of confusion, but in regard to getting sign off, which was seen usually as more of a formality after Congress has passed a particular piece of legislation that the president signs it off. But not Donald Trump, but I'll get to that in a moment. So a little of a dip overnight in the Asia session, however, it has recovered already. And as far as stock futures are concerned, the Dow has eradicated any losses back to unchanged as is the S&P, the NASDAQ just pushing on, if anything, a little bit of outperformance. And perhaps that could continue as a theme for the rest of today, because as I'll discuss the COVID situation globally at the moment, is definitely more in favor of some of those pandemic plays, as what we've been seeing over the last couple of days, given the spread now of this new strain of the virus has gone beyond the shores of just the UK is what's being reported in the US as well, still things looking particularly severe for the time being. So I wouldn't be too surprised to see the NASDAQ continue to outperform today. And those associated names probably to be the best of the performing single stocks and sectors. Otherwise, elsewhere in the currency market, the dollar actually backing off a fairly considerable amount with down about three tenths of 1% now just dipping below the Asian range in the Dixie and breaking out to the downside. And that has consequently just lifted up these major currency pairs that touch your dollar as they speak, just having a press on the pivot, which was the restriction of the overnight Asia range. Any break above here be looking out for a push back up to around 122, 37, 38, which would bring in around the low of the activity of supporting yesterday morning's price movement. And in cable, we'll talk a little bit about Brexit as well in the briefing, but I would say the price overall, irrespective of just looking at this from a trade perspective, I think the price really shows a lot about what people think about the prospects of a deal or a rollover beyond them, the removal of such a disastrous cliff edge deck 31st deadline. And as such, then, I think there's a degree of comfort taken out of that, which is why the pound hasn't really fallen any further at least at this point in time, but definitely there's a few updates I can run you through and things to look out for. Otherwise, crude oil still remaining a little bit more depressed, perhaps in some of the other assets, but I think that's fair given the state of the COVID situation I just described. That certainly is going to have some impact on demand expectations. And so just given as well, just how elevated we have been in the price of oil over the previous period. I mean, we've come back down to settle in this rectangle here at a previous significant area of resistance and support going back through late November, early December. So I think this is a good area of support. And I think it is a fair area as well in terms of the pullback that we see, you know, say $3 or so from those initial highs that we had just a short while ago actually, back on the 18th. And then gold pretty steady in the overnight session, trading basically flat up one buck at 1871 for the time being. All right, well, let's get stuck into some headlines. First of all, we're going to talk about the UK lockdown. And ministers are now considering whether to apply the strictest tier four restrictions, forcing nonessential shops and leisure facilities to close, broadening out from the southeast of England to cover more areas of the country. Those that is according to people familiar with the matter. We spoke about this last week. We spoke about it this morning. Well, I said yesterday morning, I really don't see any other choice at this point. The case numbers have tested positive yesterday of coronavirus in the UK was 36,804. Now that number is the highest on record, but obviously the massive undercounting that was seen during the spring where most thinking is that that number at that time was north of 100,000, given that we didn't have any form of really counteracting it or acting upon the spread of transmission at the time. So hence the reason it got so high. So given all the things that are in play now and that number standing where it is, and also the fact that I still see Christmas irrespective of the move on the southeast that happened last week on restrictions, I still see it as a super spreader event irrespective of that. And so I think the government does need to act. So to support timing of that, the Sun newspaper said last night that an announcement on a new tier designations could come as soon as today and could take effect then as a boxing day. And again, to me, that makes a lot of sense. I think that talking to someone, they were telling me about the statistics of any government in Britain that's ever taken any type of political action or around in and around the Christmas period. It has disastrous effects for the favorability of that government. So although we're talking about obviously a health crisis with human casualties, governments are trying to manage a number of different things here from their political perception to the economy to the medical side of a humanitarian crisis. So I don't think that they're going to cancel Christmas. But as they have done, I think they're just going to move to ensure that they're containing this as best as they possibly can in that way. So I would expect that announcement probably to come later today. I guess the question then is, do I think that that's going to move the market? No, I think most people would probably anticipate that that is going to happen. So that's the end of that for the moment. On the COVID side of things, there's a couple of things. As I said, the new strain is sort of emerged now in the US, Germany, France and Switzerland, according to officials from those countries. New Jersey and Arizona in the US have reported now their highest number of deaths, not cases, deaths, from COVID-19 since the Sun Belt outbreak that we saw in the summer. So it's going back to June, July. Deaths in New York City also are up at the moment. On a slightly more positive note, perhaps AstraZeneca's spokesperson has said last night that even with these recent mutations, they believe the vaccine should still be effective. Studies though, however, are underway to fully investigate the impact of the mutation. We had a similar type of comment out of BioNTech, which is the part of the firm with Pfizer, which was one particularly in focus, given that it's already being rolled out at the moment. I kind of see these comments, I mean that BioNTech CEO made that comment, and this is the Astra company spokesperson. They're making these comments without actually having done any real thorough testing as yet. So I can understand why they're doing it. It might well be on the balance that they have fairly high conviction that indeed it will still remain effective. However, for me, there's such massive risk tied to if the vaccines have proven redundant, because this would basically be like pressing the reset button then going back to the drawing board. And although now there's a lot of academic teams, infrastructure, things are in place, and we wouldn't have to take so long to get off the ground, so to speak, to start again. But that's not what markets have priced at this point. And so it would come with a very adverse negative effect, if that were to be the case. So one thing I think over Christmas, I'll be looking out for is there will be really crunching the numbers as fast as they possibly can. And with the acceleration of this new strain of the virus, I'm sure that will provide them with enough data set in order to get some kind of definitive and more conclusive answer. But that is something which I'll be watching out for very carefully. The other thing then that I was going to talk about was this overnight. As I mentioned, there was a bit of a dip in stock futures and Asia PAC region and local equities, but has recovered after Trump caused a bit of confusion about the outlook for the relief package that's just been signed off by Congress literally in the last 24 hours. And he's demanded changes to that bipartisan legislation to be rewritten. In particular, he demanded that lawmakers increase stimulus checks that go out to Americans to $2,000 from what he called the ridiculously low amount of 600 bucks. What do I think of this? Well, I think trying to be as objective as possible. So by no means am I trying to criticise Trump, looking at it from a tactical point of view, I think it's quite expected from what he has done throughout the last few years. I think the move is completely in self-interest with him looking to frame the situation, to channel the optics that would basically create this idea that he would have done more to help the American people. If I had my way, if it wasn't for the politicians, I would have given you $2,000, not 600 bucks. So for me, it's all part of that kind of strategy. Ultimately, I think by just tabling a figure like that, being so much significantly higher and absolutely unachievable as far as Congress would be concerned, he's kind of done his job because he will now just say that he could have got $2,000 over the line and that's what he wanted is other people restricting him. So this is very kind of Trump 101. You have the initial dip overnight. I think that's because people are very sensitive to the stimulus. The stimulus is much needed. I'd say a lot of Americans are quite desperate for it and that's a reflection of the increasingly stringent restrictions that are happening or resulting and what's going to be probably in the short-term period ahead, more higher rates of unemployment, so increasing jobless claims and things of this nature. So I do think he'll sign it in the end. His job is done. I think he's put it out there now and that's all he wanted to do. So I don't think it really creates an obstacle in that sense. So markets have recovered and I think that really justifies that kind of thinking. Another thing, Biden, we still have in early January, of course, to see how the final Senate sees play out in Georgia and the situation there, whether do we have a bit of a complication with a split Congress or do actually we get a blue wave and although most people are expecting it to be split, which kind of has had this then knock-on effect of shackling somewhat the blue wave mentality of ultra-stimulus, if that were to go blue, well, I mean one thing is irrespective of that, but even more so if it were to materialize and turn democratic, Biden is already calling on Congress just hours after completion of this latest round of stimulus for more relief stimulus to come in the new year. So there's something to just bear in mind. The other thing then is Brexit. What is the latest? As I said, the pound is up 76 pips at the moment. I mean it has come by way of a weaker dollar this morning to get things underway, so most dollar-based currency pairs are higher, Aussie's up 30, Euro's up same amount. But you could say it's a little bit about performance actually in the sterling currency, in the FX market. So Barnier told ambassadors yesterday evening that the latest UK offer and phishing rights are still the main sticking point that they've been trying to resolve this week. It was unacceptable. He stressed negotiations were continuing with many other issues already solved and close to being settled, according to people familiar with the closed-door briefings. Barnier has said his team is prepared to keep negotiating after the UK's post-Brexit transition period expires on the 31st of December, if that is what's required to close a deal. Timing-wise, RTE's Connolly, who's been particularly good on Twitter, if you don't follow him, I would suggest you do, that he said that there's a basic Brexit deadline of Christmas Eve to get a deal so that it can be ratified in time for the 1st of January. Officials, he said, would need four days at a minimum to draft a letter seeking provisional application of the treaty. So yeah, quite a few informed political journalists who tend to have the ear of the right people have kind of moved around that date now, centered in on it, about a deal coming perhaps around between the next 48 hours to give them enough time. Whether that materializes or not, I don't think it's that important. I don't think you're going to get a downside reaction if we don't see a deal before this side of Christmas, because they've still got time. And as long as there's time, that's still time to negotiate. And at this point, it still looks like either deal or roll. I think the no-deal thing has dropped in my mind quite a bit over the course of the last few days as they started to kind of make noises about possible flexibility over the actual deadline in itself. So definitely, the pound will still be subjected to potential volatility kind of blips in the day trading environment. The one thing I would say, because if something big does break, and if we do go down to the wire, I will of course do a video over the Christmas period. And I'll put it out to everyone. So don't worry about that. And that goes through if there's anything important that does happen. I'll still add content as and when. But at the moment, there still could be rumors, tweets, things like that. And if you're going to trade over that week of the 28th, 29th game to New Year, just be mindful of the market conditions. Things do get awfully thin. And if there still is a lot of he said, she said, rumor, mill type of activity, then the price could be all over the place as far as cable is concerned if you're in a day trading environment. So could be better served just staying out of it to put yourself out of harm's way and then just wait for the definitive conclusion either way and what happens towards the end of the year. The other thing is just going to have a look at the oil inventory numbers.  So a little bit, a little bit bearish on price. But I would say these things are kind of digested fairly comfortably by the market. I'd say the whole COVID demand stuff is really what's more impactful right now here and now in that respect. So DOEs coming later, definitely this will be our reference point for what to expect for those numbers. As far as the actual day is concerned, it's pretty quiet in terms of UK, European data, we then get into the afternoon. We've got PCE price index in the States, weekly jobless claims, of course, which will probably be watched quite closely. University of Michigan, but this is the final reading. Then we've got the DOE numbers at 3.30 and that's about it. So with that, I'll conclude the briefing, the technical kind of look around the charts will be given by Sam, our head of trade development on our Discord channel on Amplify Live and then Tim will be on the live stream as well later on this morning. All right, thank you very much guys. If I don't speak to you before, have a lovely Christmas, take care and yeah, I'll see you in the new year.


Yeah, we'll check it out. You'll check it out, okay? Yeah. Oh, awesome. Are we supposed to be in here? That's not anymore. There's no relations on all your books. I hope I can do it. I just had a quad on the 12th of last month. I'm still kind of healing up for my first time. I'm picking up my flute since it happened. So, we've got this Elby here. He's going to pray and bless this area here. Put it off some tobacco. Ask the spirits to help. So this song here is dedicated to all of the grandmas. It's a healing song. We got a heal from diabetes and cancelling our families. So that's all I do is play healing songs on my flute now. It's not like John, he plays love songs. Get all of the women out here. That's why I had to quit composing love songs. This one here is Grandma's song. Okay, it's working fine. This is my D.B. D.B., man. Make it out of the strawberry, yeah. And, bud, now it's done. And now it's done. I'm going to walk my D.B. D.B., man. This is my D.B., man. I'm going to go out and play with you. I'm going to go out and play with you. I'm going to go out and play with you. D.B., man. D.B., man. D.B., man. He's just going through. D.B., man.  I'm going to use the big ones. I'm going to go out and play big ones. D.B, man. You know, I can go out and play big ones. D.B., man. I am going to go home and play big songs. D.B., man. All right. When you're doing them off, just call them in guys, if you don't mind.  You need to go, you're squeezing them up, till at the end. When you're doing them off, you're going, but you're doing that kind of thing. Ho! We're good! Ho, ho, ho! He's from, he's from, he's from, uh, Meeve Sheep & Shee Underwater Panther Clan. I'm from the Bear Clan. I have my Bear Clan shirt on. And so today, we're erecting this statue as a beacon of friendship, of hope, of austerity, and of sharing. Northern Minnesota is a place, a friendship, a place of, uh, business for all nations. Boyard Nation, Red Lake Nation, Leedslake Nation, and Babincha Gamak. Where all our friends, that's what he represents, he's the beacon of our hope, the beacon of our friendship. And you go forth today that all those that are here proclaim this day as their reconciliation. When you have good families, strong neighbors, neighbors that share with all the wealth, with all the water, a long time ago we called it ZB, the river, ZB in the canal. That was our river, that was our road, that was our highway too. So, when I say ZB in the canal, you know that's the roadway, the roadway for all of us to travel, long time ago. And he traveled all the way up from Leedslake, the shores of Bemidji, and dwelled here, and dwelled among you. He was hardly thought of, he hardly revered because he was a good man, he was a friendly neighbor, he was a hard-working partner. So, we could do this too today, but all of us proclaim a beacon of friendship, hope, posterity on this day. Miigwech! In Ojibwe there's no word for a final goodbye. So, the phrase, I will see you again another day. So, this farewell song is only until we see each other again. And give a personal thank you to John Romer, Wendy Donwin, Wendy who actually taught John and John taught me for their mesmerizing flute renditions this morning, this afternoon. And also another shame to go to Larry Aiken for offering the type ceremony. And for all of you, for being here, this is a day to celebrate, it's been a long time coming, and it's happening, and it's here, and it's good! Jody Bolio, and I'm Carolyn Jacobs. We so welcome you all to celebrate with us. This day has been on so many of our minds, the committee, and I know so many of your minds.  This is a day that we are just so blessed about. The program as you have the copy of with you is, see I'm starting to get nervous. That's okay. It's honoring and healing through art and truth. Two major concepts about honoring Shayna Wishkang, the Anishinaabe people, and all the people in our communities together. We are all here together, and this is the way it is. This is a very good way. And healing, healing through truth. And you all have copies in your program of the content of the flax that are behind Jody and me. And we know that this is such an important truth to share with you, with everybody, with our families, from whatever background we come from. So we are here today for honoring and healing and just so happy to have you all here. We have learned so much. Our committee has learned so much along the six years that have gone by, you know. I don't know if I want to say quickly or slowly. They have happened. The time has happened and we needed all this time for this to happen for us. And I just want to share just a brief bit that the thing about our committee, which was a group of Native and non-Native people coming together with our common goal, and it was so important for us that we be honest with each other, we be courageous with each other, we respect each other, because the conversations that we had around the table so many, many, many times required us to be forthright. I don't know how many times I started a sentence to Jody. I hope this isn't really stupid for me to ask or I really don't know how to ask this or say this, but and these are the, we all dealt with each other in the best manner possible to allow us all to grow as the time went on. I thank all the committee members really from the bottom of my heart and I would like to recognize the committee members whose names are in the program and just ask you, please, if you will stand for your recognition. If you're on the committee, the next was unveiling the statue, how about that? Talk about another lesson I learned. Things happen, you know?


In recent months, several national media outlets and public figures have begun pushing the idea that modern capitalism is built on the foundation of slavery. Last month, while linking to a New York Times article on the topic, Bernie Sanders claimed quote, America's rise relied on treating black people as a literal property, unquote. Meanwhile, a recent Vox headline proclaims how slavery became the building block of the American economy. Hello, this is Ryan McMakin and you're listening to Radio Rockbar. Conveniently, this narrative is perfect for doing two things at once. It sets up capitalism as the moral heir to slavery. And at the same time, it pushes the idea that those who lead a relatively comfortable life now under the capitalist system are benefiting from the toil of slaves from long ago. By this thinking, if every modern day business owner, entrepreneur and middle class property owner has benefited from capitalism, then that person, whether or not his ancestors were in any way connected to the slave economy, has also benefited from slavery. If the strategy succeeds, then modern day capitalists can be shown to be in a sense on the same moral plane as the slave masters of old. And of course, capitalism is also shown to be morally repugnant. Fortunately, the evidence doesn't support the theory. The slave economy was never the engine of American economic growth. And capitalist systems never needed slavery to succeed. Modern day anti-capitalists aren't the first to use this tactic. This version of history claiming everyone gets rich off slavery has a lot in common with the propaganda spun by slave owners in the antebellum south. The goal was to attack the idea that non slave holding northerners were morally superior to slave owning Southerners. The message was we are all equally responsible for slavery. One part of the strategy consisted of claiming that some northern abolitionists were hypocrites for participating in the slave trade as owners of shipping firms that served the slave economy. As recounted by Matthew Karp in This Vast Southern Empire, pro-slavery politician and US diplomat in Brazil, Henry A. Wise, chronicled the hypocrisy of northern merchants who claimed to oppose slavery while making money off the slave trade in Brazil. And that's just one example. But while this sort of thing no doubt made some northern merchants look bad, these claims nonetheless failed to make the case that northern farmers, mine owners, and other capitalists in general, were getting rich from slavery. Far more useful in spreading the blame about slavery was the King Cotton argument, which pushed the notion that most of the industrialized world depended on the cotton economy. Karp continues, quote, slaveholders in the 1850s seldom passed up an opportunity to sketch the inexorable syllogism of King Cotton. The American South produced nearly all the world's usable raw cotton. This cotton fueled the industrial development of the North Atlantic. Therefore, the advanced economies of France, the Northern United States, and Great Britain were ruled in effect by southern planters. The conclusion or southern drew from this King Cotton model were no less grandiose than their premises. DeBowes and Cyclopedia declared that cotton was, quote, the most beneficent product that commerce has ever transported for the comfort of the human family, unquote. Without Southern Cotton, it was claimed Northern industry, assumed to be dependent on cotton for textiles, would suffer a crippling blow. Thus, the Northern and European capitalists were thought to be at the mercy of the cotton producers and to owe their success to the slave economy. So widespread was this belief that Southern political theorists believe the South ought to forget about diversifying its economy. George Fitzhugh, for example, insisted the South should focus on putting all its eggs in the cotton basket.  Indeed, the South will command a fatal blunder if in its haste to become nominally independent, it loses its present engines of power and thereby ceases to be really independent. Cotton is king, and rice, sugar, Indian corn, wheat, and tobacco are his chief ministers. We should not jeopardy this great lever of power in the haste to become like Englishmen, shopkeepers, cobblers, and common carriers for the universe. Now, the fact that Fitzhugh thought it was a terrible idea to become shopkeepers reflects Fitzhugh's reflex of anti capitalism. But the general idea here being that basically just growing cotton makes you the most powerful place in the world. Ultimately, so confident were many Southerners that they could use the cotton economy to control the world. Senator James Hammond of South Carolina concluded, quote, you dare not make war on cotton, no power on earth dares to make war upon it, unquote. Needless to say, Hammond and the purveyors of the King Cotton theory were wrong about the extent of global political power generated by cotton. It turned out that the world could survive without Southern cotton. And more importantly, the world did not need cotton produced specifically by slaves. Nor was it true that the world needed the cheap labor of slavery to produce goods and services economically. Northern immigrants disprove this even before the war. The pretensions about the necessity of slave cotton became more abundantly clear after the war. Even in the wake of the Union army's scorched earth campaign against the South, cotton production began to recover within only a few years of the war's end. Cotton production now using non slave labor had returned to peak levels by the 1870s. By the end of the 19th century, cotton production was more than double what it had been during the antebellum years. Moreover, even during the slave labor era, the Northern economy was hardly doomed to failure without Southern cotton. Textiles are not the only thing people needed to meet their basic needs. And slaves are not the only thing merchants could make money shipping. Northern states produced immense amounts of foodstuffs. Northern merchants shipped growing amounts of crops, building materials and other resources unconnected to the cotton economy. Rather than be an engine of the world's economy, it is more likely the slave economy held the Southern economy back. According to Carl Smith at Bloomberg last month, quote, just before independence, the per capita gross domestic product of the South adjusted for inflation was $3,100 per year, compared with just 1832 in New England. Over the next 60 years, Southern per capita GDP actually declined to 2521. British demand for cotton helped it to recover to 4,000 per person in 1860. But by then the comparable figure for New England was 5,337 in terms of per capita GDP. Slave labor was no match for canals, railroads, steel mills and shipyards. Slavery and the parochial rent seeking culture it promoted inhibited the growth of capitalism in the South unquote. The fact that many industries in the US North and in Western Europe benefited from slave producing Southern cotton does not prove that these economies needed slave cotton to thrive or survive. The world's industrial economies have gotten along just fine without it. Nonetheless, certain leftists are now trying to revive the old antebellum theory that the capitalist economy is built on the backs of slaves. The slave drivers of old would no doubt agree. But the theory is just as wrong now as it was then. Thank you for listening to Radio Rothbard. 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