two numbers. in 1997 the last time ups wentz on strike, all of the shipper together shipped about 16 million packages a day. today that number is 75 million a day. i ll tell you, this really stretches throughout the economy, the tentacles of this in a way that it has never done before. cross your fingers it doesn t happen. there goes another truck, sir. neil: thank you, jeff. to dave dodson, the knowledgeable professor, the stanford school of business and much more. dave, this could be a big strike to put it mildly, the 300,000 on top of actors and writers striking. there s pilots considering actions like that, flight attendants. this could be the summer of a lot of big strikes. the impact would be swift, i d imagine. oh, yeah, for sure. you may not know this, but i actually had the teamsters working for me at one point. sean o neal was the person on the other side of the table.
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government cash is feeding the beast and actually making college more expensive for everybody. neil? neil: thanks for that. hillary vaughn. dave dodson from the stanford school of business. dave, what is interesting here, looking at whether you get a bang for your buck and certain majors and whether it should be that easy to get loans in those majors, what do you think of that? yeah, it s funny. i got to talk about my employer now, right? the biden plan is a really sloppy response to an underlying market failure. giving free tuition in bernie sanders s plan and making college free will only make the problem worse. neil, we have to go back to why we have this problem. since world war ii, we have said as a culture, we want to help people pay for college, which is fine. base there s not a market mechanism, what the federal government throws money at students to help them pay for college, colleges just increase
from the taxpayers to college endo endowments principally the top 20 schools. i agree. where the market failure needs to be addressed, the federal government is the largest buyer of school tuition. $100 billion in tuition that they pay each year. they re not using that market power to keep tuition rates down. as far as i m concern, if the federal government is going to say i m going to pay about $7,000 per student in aid, i want something in return for the taxpayers, which is a little bit of control in the cost of tuition increases. neil: thanks, dave. stanford school of business. good having you. meantime, in this environment, it will be hard to pay things like baggage fees. they re back and very creative. try $75 for your first bag. yeah, after this.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren led Democrats in a letter Monday to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, warning him against hiking interest rates again Wednesday.