vehicle prices, especially used vehicle prices, energy, food costs, those were the big things that everyone was looking at but there are still a lot of incidentals, things like auto insurance, up 14.5% year over year we saw big jump in airfares over the last months, just 6.5%, up in february, 26.5% up year over year so still a whole lot of things, stuff getting worked through the economy and still posing a big quandary for policymakers, for the economy, still hearing a lot of recession talk and inflation is still very much a problem. what might this mean when the fed gets together and they decide what to do about interest rates? the market has been all over the place and a lot of cross currents in the past several days jerome powell got up in front of congress last week and made some very hawkish remarks that the market interpreted as himsayin we could be looking at a half point interest rate hike when the fed meets again next week.
his own what he was going to do as it was in my case. rachel: okay. so now tell me what happened in your case. how did you survive an abortion? absolutely. my birth mother was an immigrant from honduras and came to america as a teenager and got pregnant with me she had seven children at home. she was referred to a chief physician known as [inaudible] and he was infamous in new orleans for being a doctor for minorities and delivered me in an induction abortion at 26.5 weeks and advised my mother to let me die on the table because i wasn t breathing and said i d be a mental vegetable incapable of having a normal life. rachel: lie, lies lies and you re here and beautiful and alive and well. melissa, what happened to you? my story started 45 years ago, my birth mother as a 19-year-old college student was forced to have a saline-infused
including shoplifting and organized retail gangs costing companies like target, walmart, cvs and others billions in profits. retail theft in 2021 was up 26.5% from 2020. we re still waiting on 2022 numbers but commonsense is expecting another significant jump. and it won t include unreported theft. remember, retailers often don t report crimes because police won t show up. police won t show up because d.a. s won t prosecute and because d.a. s won t prosecute, criminals get to keep on stealing. i say criminals except blue states would rather we say misunderstood victims, although it seems to me these thieves sorry, victims understand very much how they could get stolen goods on the internet and sell them and the prosecutors and politicians who are against putting these misunderstood people behind bars are the same ones who keep telling us crime is not getting worse. it just seems worse, they say.
retailers are beefing up security this holiday shopping season as crime soars. the national retail federation says there s been 26.5% jump in re retail. and a couple weeks ago, target reported their earnings and they lost $400 million, on pace to lose $600 million from theft and what was amazing to me about it, target is known for having the best shoplifting laboratory in all of retail. they could stop it. no other retailer could do better than them.
there s concern about balancing the books by soaking the rich. lawmakers shouldn t be targeting small groups. they should learn from other countries that have benefit programs like what they re wanting to set up and fund them with broader taxes that don t negatively impact. utah senator mitt romney says taxing the wealthy could discourage investment. i m happy to pay my fair share. let s not create a system that jeopardizes our commission engine. steny hoyer says there s just not the votes to raise it 26.5%. martha: thanks. let s bring in marc thiessen and austan goolsbee from the university of chicago and president obama s former chief economist. great to have you with us.