The $2000 Check Debate with Senator Toomey & The $1B+ Club: Unqork
Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) shares why he remains against upping the American stimulus checks from $600 to $2000 amid the pandemic. CNBC’s Senior Economics Reporter Steve Liesman breaks down the economic arguments on both sides of the stimulus debate. The United Kingdom has approved the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine for emergency use, and the shot will join the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine distribution already underway there. Dan Loeb’s activist hedge fund Third Point is pushing chipmaker Intel to explore a strategic deal, and the news has already directly impacted Intel’s stock price. Plus, it’s a new age for enterprise according to Unqork, the three-year-old no-code software platform that hit a $2B valuation in 2020. CEO Gary Hoberman and CapitalG General Partner Laela Sturdy discuss how software infrastructure is evolving, and which enterprise giants are taking part.