this election. this number is a bad number. the foreclosure number we had, that one in five people are facing foreclosure, then gallup had a number out that underemployment, these are people who stopped looking for jobs, about 18.8%. that s almost one in five who don t have a job. so those are numbers that translate to tough, tough times for democrats this election season. steve: no kidding. gretchen: let s talk a little about these stimulus checks that also went out because apparently 72,000 of them went to people who were no longer even with us, to dead people. 17,000 of them went to inmates. the silver lining is that half of the people sent them back. what about the other half? it s amazing. the stimulus still continues to generate these stories that this far out that are still causing problems. and that s a lot of money. $22 million, i think out the
if she gets the nomination, we could only get so lucky. bring it on. they ll wind up with unlucky news today probably according to all the experts when this unemployment number comes out later today. did you see gallup had information yesterday where they say the actual unemployment in this country right now is currently at 10.1%. then you also look at the fact that the federal spending is up 9% over the last year, and gallup also says that underemployment, people who don t have enough to do, underemployment in the united states of america right now is at 18.8%. 1 in every 5 people underemployed, those are numbers that the party in power right now, democrats can t like. let s talk a little bit about health care now because in nevada, it s kind of family member against family member. harry reid, of course, in november will hope to keep his seat in nevada and you have rory reid his son running to become the governor in nevada.
welcome to you both. thank you very much. thank you. bret: we look at the numbers. the federal reserve in a statement about the economy this past week said this the pace of recovery and output in employment slowed in recent months. while it still expects the economy to grow the improvement will be more modest in the near term than had been anticipated. and then we had june s trade deficit numbers shot up 18.8% to $49.9 billion. much higher than expected. the highest since october of 2008. and because of that and other indicators now we are hearing the commerce department could revise its growth projection, the gdp from 2.4% to some where below 2%. with that preamble set up, is this economy positioned potentially to go into a double dip recession? mark? it is the odds are rising. i would say they are uncomfortably high, but i don t think we will experience a double dip. if i had to put odds on it at this point, i would say one in four, perhaps as high as one in three.
welcome to you both. thank you very much. thank you. bret: we look at the numbers. the federal reserve in a statement about the economy this past week said this the pace of recovery and output in employment slowed in recent months. while it still expects the economy to grow the improvement will be more modest in the near term than had been anticipated. and then we had june s trade deficit numbers shot up 18.8% to $49.9 billion. much higher than expected. the highest since october of 2008. and because of that and other indicators now we are hearing the commerce department could revise its growth projection, the gdp from 2.4% to some where below 2%. with that preamble set up, is this economy positioned potentially to go into a double dip recession? mark? it is the odds are rising. i would say they are uncomfortably high, but i don t think we will experience a double dip. if i had to put odds on it at this point, i would say one in four, perhaps as high as one in
welcome to you both. thank you very much. thank you. bret: we look at the numbers. the federal reserve in a statement about the economy this past week said this the pace of recovery and output in employment slowed in recent months. while it still expects the economy to grow the improvement will be more modest in the near term than had been anticipated. and then we had june s trade deficit numbers shot up 18.8% to $49.9 billion. much higher than expected. the highest since october of 2008. and because of that and other indicators now we are hearing the commerce department could revise its growth projection, the gdp from 2.4% to some where below 2%. with that preamble set up, is this economy positioned potentially to go into a double dip recession? mark? it is the odds are rising. i would say they are uncomfortably high, but i don t think we will experience a double dip. if i had to put odds on it at this point, i would say one in four, perhaps as high as one in