choppiness and clunkiness. it hasn t been looking great. white boarding with julie foudy is my actual dream. of course. to that point, there s an assumption because of what you guys have built, what you and your teammates and the alums of the program have built, that you can flip a switch, right? at some point they re just going to flip the switch and it will turn on. that didn t happen today. didn t happen in the second half. what was most striking is carli lloyd, obviously a world renown former w cup champion also of the u.s. team, afr e game said today was just simply uninspiring, disappointing. they don t look t. playing as individuals. it s okay to be confident, but you never want to cross that line of being arrogant. this is exactly what can come and bite you. look, carli lloyd is not a shrinking violet. she has never been subtle about her opinions. but that was harsh. do you think that there s something to that? yeah, i do. i do think there s something to it. i don t a
inventing broader run on banks as people got concerned about their deposits being available. we saw a little bit of choppiness in the markets in the days and weeks after the. largely what we have seen is that deposit outflows have stabilized. people feel confident in the banking system and they should. what we might see some ups and downs in the stock market in the months to come, fundamentally the banking system is in really strong shape. and it actually continued to provide access to credit for small businesses and for potential homeowners at a level that is higher than a lot of people anticipated. final question for you, adjacent to economics. over theory i m curious what you think. pulling on the economy tends to be not great, a lot of wrong track numbers. if you look at the bottom 40% of wage earners they are doing well and they are doing better and seeing more tangible returns, passed inflation wage gains. folks in my line of work, in the media industry for instance, things are
cooldown? well, it s much of the same. investor concern over the path forward for interest rates and the path that interest rate hikes will have on growth as well as persistent inflation concerns so it really was the same story. we did see all three majors end the session lower. real estate led the losses. that sector dropped about 2.4%. communications services meanwhile gained on the day. energy, closed at its highest level since 2014. and oil prices rose further yesterday. and now this morning we re seeing a little bit of a pullback in the price of oil, u.s. futures meanwhile are pointing to a positive start to today s trading session. the choppiness looks like it is going to continue, focus initially turning to the jobs data we re expecting and earnings from neo, docusign. and fuel prices, for many here in the united states front of mind. but the european central bank is expected to confirm its intention to raise interest rates next month. policy makers are meeting in amsterdam
they did, the deeper the trouble for america. let s start with our fragile state of our economy all self-inflicted. it s largely driven by inflation. rising prices americans are facing. i think you will see some choppiness into the first quarter of next year. said it was transitory, that appears to not be the case now but they can fix this problem without abandoning their poor policy agenda so rising prices will be with us for the foreseeable future. alicia: today, the federal reserve had a survey that showed expectations had a record high last month, the tenth consecutive month that inflation predictions have risen. and smart economists say there s a good chance when they release the latest consumer price index numbers tomorrow, the picture will look pretty ugly, they say. but back to the ditch. the democrats answer to this
being exposed as a serial and longtime abuser of women. of something that they knew and hated. today, nbc news president went off behind was grilled by employees, one employee during an internal phone call. one staffer called his behavior an absolute disgrace. he still has his job. mark steyn is back with us tonight, so, mark, i m familiar with television operation tonight. i see this one in action over it nbc and basically they re trying to make the story all about matt lauer. matt lauer did this, that s, clearly did something didn t do other things, whatever. it s not really the story. the story is that andy and noah and others at nbc news protected harvey weinstein for whatever reason. really, until the story about harvey weinstein, it seems to be getting lost. actually, the details of it the choppiness , the acceptance the