jinping and joe biden summit that could possibly take place on the sidelines of the g-20 meeting to take place in italy in october. something to watch for. thank you. to the economy. call it a vote of confidence in america s ability to revamp the pandemic. global investors poured more than $900 million billion into u.s. stocks, bonds, and mutual funds in the first half of the year. that is the most since 1992. that s according to data. this is looking in the rear view mirror and more recently the delta variant has sparked concern it could threaten the pace of the recovery. another surge in coronavirus cases could prevent supply chains from recovering, which would keep the pressure up on prices for shoppers. remember, consumer prices inflation rose 5.4% over the past year, the biggest jump in inflation in 13 years. louisiana gop congressman clay higgens revealing he has coronavirus for the second time. higgens has not said whether he s been vaccinated. he has encouraged other peop
weekend, and there are thorny issues and the infrastructure bill that you re pointing out know the bernie bill and not the reckless spending and taxation that democrats want to do, this is about roads, bridges and highways, and i can we can get it done. neil: when you and fellow republicans dropped the irs $100 million billion to enforcement and there s a way, but is this thing even close to paid for? yeah, it may not be paid for the reason that d cbo scores. for example, a lot of states decided to end the federal unemployment additional payment early. that s about $50 billion that s not being spent. we re going to apply that to this infrastructure package. that s real money that s not being spent teas been allocated
2007, purdue had to plead guilty to felonyth misbranding misrepresenting the drug as not addictive enough and too safe and everything else. $600 million fine. $40 million paid by the top three executives. a week after that, i would have said to you it s over. that s it. doesn t matter if they have mckinsey or whoever else. they are not going to sell big numbers anymore. and boy, i have been wrong. because from 2008 come after they pled guilty, after ter this compliancelt agreement, after te department of justice is supposed to watch them, they have their biggest sales from 2008 on. they bring in mckenzie, theos great firm to say okay, we need the big guys here. we need mckinsey and mckinsey tells them how to turbocharge sales in 2013 when sales are down $100 million. and every year, they are taking out $800 million, 900 million billion. the forbesen make wealthiest families. and forbes called them the oxley clan. it s the one what did mckinsey tell them? mckenzie told them, and
promise that most americans don t want? the reason we ve already gone through. the reason most americans don t want it is because he don t have a problem with people coming into the country, the problem he s trying to solve doesn t exist. they aren t flooding into the country the way he seems to think they are. and president obama actually did a lot to deport people as well. so the idea that immigration is completely out of control, i think most people recognize is not true. second will have oall, i think most people don t want a country that builds a wall and keeps coming out. most people are overstaying their visa, that s the biggest problem. it s a fact, hash tag, alternate fact. david, the cost estimates range from $10 million billion, to 20 or $25 billion. what s the progress here? i think congress is going to
sincere about trying to resolve the nuclear issue peacefully and they considered that a priority. a high enough pri they were willing to cooperate with us on sanctions. if they saw us walking away or more specifically if they saw the u.s. congress effectively vetoing the judgment of 99% of the world community that this is a deal that resolves the iranian weapons program, nuclear weapons program, in a equitable way, the sanction system unravels. and so we could still maintain some of our unilateral sanctions, but it would be far less effective, as it was before we were able to put together these multi-lateral sanctions. so maybe they don t get $100 million billion.