Christmas and New Year Traffic in Spain As of 3:00 p.m. on Friday, December 23, the General Directorate of Traffic starts up the special device for regulation, management, and surveillance of the forecast 18.2 million road trips for the Christmas holidays, a campaign that will end on Sunday, January 8, 2023. As usual, different phases
18.2, 18 usc section 1512 a. also 1512, what is this? statutes that were passed in 2002. do you know what they are called? the enron statutes. to fill a gap that was that they felt needed to be applied because they didn t have what was necessary to charge certain executives with obstructing justice. this has nothing to do with what took place on january 6th or before january 6th or after january 6th. this matter that they have used against protesters on january 6th is extremely controversial and the supreme court hadn t decided it yet but cases are going to the supreme court on these counts. how dare this prosecutor use these statutes against a former president of the united states. then we have count 1, 18 usc 371, cheating the government, interfering with legitimate
correspondent mark lobel. this has come as a surprise to us here in the uk, the bank of england was expecting inflation to hit 9.9%, to drop to that figure, and in fact it s gone up to 10.11. markets were surprised. this does indicate the bank of england is going to raise interest rates on thursday but let s start with why the cost of living is going up. as you say, higher prices and cafe in restaurants, driven by higher food and cafe in restaurants, driven by higherfood prices, holding it s gone up competently for kids and mums in nassau despite fuel prices coming down. if we look at food inflation, it s gone up the year to february up 18.2%, so that s why some of those cost increases were passed onto consumers by restaurants, but also, rememberthe shortages in the uk on the shelves of tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers caused by that harvest with extreme weather in spain and north africa, but also high energy prices that are factored into those on supply chain issues, so all of that was
earlier i spoke to our business correspondent mark lobel about the acceleration of inflation. this has come as a surprise to us here in the uk, the bank of england was expecting inflation to hit 9.9%, to drop to that figure, and in fact it s gone up to 10.4. markets were surprised. this does indicate the bank of england is going to raise interest rates on thursday but let s start with why the cost of living is going up. as you say, higher prices in cafes and restaurants, driven by higherfood prices, clothing gone up for kids and mums and despite fuel prices coming down. if we look at food inflation, it s gone up the year to february up 18.2%, so that s why some of those cost increases were passed onto consumers by restaurants, but also, remember the shortages in the uk on the shelves of tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers caused by that harvest with extreme weather in spain and north africa,
will be under more pressure to raise uk interest rates when it meets tomorrow. that s after new figures showing food prices rising faster than any time in the last 45 years, contributing to a surprise surge in the cost of living. analysts had widely predicted it would continue falling. inflation, which measures the pace at which prices are rising, jumped to 10.4% in the year to february. that s up from 10.1 the month before. shortages of salad and vegetables helped push food inflation to 18.2%, the highest since 1978. the increase was also driven by higher prices in cafes, pubs and restaurants. so called core inflation which strips out items such as food, energy, alcohol and tobacco also unexpectedly rose, to 6.2% up from 5.8%. this chart, going back ten years, gives you an idea ofjust how far the headline rate is above the bank of england s inflation target of 2%. here s simon french, chief economist at panmure gordon.