thank you for being on the show. good afternoon. thanks for having me, hallie. we re pleased to do this. tell me what your staff is seeing on the ground. so, we have about 2,000 staff working in nine provinces. and we re now supporting about 100 health centers around the country and what we re seeing is the consequences not just of the natural disasters you mentioned, but the economic squeeze put on the country since the end of military operations in august which was followed by the end of economic support for afghan economy. and malnutrition rates sky rocketing and a million kids of the 9 million at the brink of level four, level five is famine. enormous numbers of people who don t have enough food. over 90% of the population don t know where their next meal is coming from. the private sector is not able to function so the humanitarian aid system is struggling to keep up. what is going to help? what is the most important thing
high and i think there s going to be a real sense of psychological uplift that the economy is moving strongly and that we are exiting the most challenging two years of my lifetime in this country. and i think there s a real sense of uplift around the corner. president biden can give a speech at the two-year anniversary ofcovid in march or april and say this has been absolutely horrible for death and economic loss and an american comeback under way. i don t know if anyone to give a comeback speech better than joseph biden. there is one out there for him. i think people s senses and their psychology and their feeling about themselves and this country could be very, very different in a couple months than it is right now. senator tim kaine, i appreciate you being on on an important day and an important week. thanks, sir. coming up, the good and bad news from today s inflation report and what it means beyond paying more at the store. plus, later the reporters behind two big scoops are
that you need that your staff needs? what is the unlock to this? right to make sure that people there get what they need which is right now food. it s food. but the problem is not that there isn t food in the country, it s that people can t afford to buy it. they can t afford to buy it because they can t get cash out of their banks. they can t get cash out of their banks because no liquidity in the banking system and no liquidity in the banking system because international support for the economy has been frozen since the middle of august. we warned in august that military withdrawal must not be followed by economic and political withdrawal if we were to avoid an absolutely failed state in south asia. that s what we re seeing at the moment. so it s returning economic life to the country that is absolutely key if the humanitarian aid system is able to do its work. we need teachers, doctors, nurses to be paid. we need our own staff to be able to cash their salary checks in banks. we ne
except to adhere to one s discipline and put the money away. until you really see something that is overtly aggressive by the fed, you don t have to worry too much. you have to speed up the process of a closing on a house because those rates are likely to go up, as well. do it sooner rather than later and contending with a hot housing market in some of the places d.c., new york, et cetera. bottom line, do you think, i wonder if you feel like these inflation numbers make the economy look worse than it actually is. i think for people you go to the grocery store and your chicken breasts are more expensive. that hurts. you feel that in your week-to-week or month-to-month budget. a as we ve seen the economy is growing and unemployment getting back to where they were before the pandemic. and wages are going up about 6%. so, the real loss of purchasing power is close to 1% rather than the 7% inflation number that everybody talks about. wages have gone up, economy is strong, employment is