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October 2, 2020 Welcome to this edition of The Reader, a weekly roundup of Fortune stories and insights.
If you haven't heard:President Trump has tested positive for COVID-19. The news sank global markets this morning, with equities, oil contracts and U.S. futures plummeting. The second presidential debate is likely cancelled, but that may not make a difference. Meanwhile, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Trump’s COVID diagnosis has improved the odds for another stimulus package.
Tomorrow marks one month until the U.S. presidential election. We've published a special report examining what’s at stake in November for a wide range of industries and workers—Wall Street, Silicon Valley, working parents, the unbanked, the unemployed, and more.
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MUST READ What Trump’s COVID-positive presidential campaign could look like
Campaign staff, analysts, and operatives must scramble to figure out what a presidential campaign looks when one candidate is incapacitated, or at the very least, quarantined.
BY NICOLE GOODKIND OCTOBER 2, 2020
STOCKS
Stocks, oil futures bomb after Trump tests positive for COVID-19
BY BERNHARD WARNER OCTOBER 2, 2020
TRADE
‘The art of the steal’: Is Biden right to criticize the U.S. trade deficit with China under Trump?
Biden’s claim that Trump has overseen a higher trade deficit is partially true. BY GRADY MCGREGOR SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
LABOR
What low-wage workers need from the 2020 election
BY MARIA ASPAN SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
MUST WATCH What to know about President Trump, First Lady Melania's positive COVID tests
They are now quarantined in the White House.
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From the archives
““It’s very possible that I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it,” Trump said, adding that “there’s no way a good businessman” would have blown the kind of money Steve Forbes had. I wondered whether Trump was proposing his own special version of campaign finance reform here. I also wondered where he was planning to come up with the $100 million he was promising to spend if nominated, considering that his cash flow seemed much more precarious than he claimed.” —What does Donald Trump really want? by Jerry Useem, April 2000 . This email was sent to newsletter@newslettercollector.com Unsubscribe | Edit your newsletter subscriptions
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