you are the owner of harry and the natives. you have been here over 71 years. you get to talk to the customers every day. what are they telling you right know about the state of the economy. everybody is scared of the economy. everybody doesn t know what is going on and the banking crisis is just unbelievable. we re putting people the social people involved in banking and everything else instead of business people. put business people to run business. business people to run government. we need more business in this country. how is your business, speaking of? we had the worst summer we ever had last summer was our worst summer. really? this is the way it is. and national restaurant news, 52% of the restaurants didn t pay their rent and independent restaurants didn t pay in december. who do you blame for all of this? well, our current president. that s what i would say. what should mr. biden be doing? well, he is not doing anyanything now. pretty successful three years
steve: in less than two hours the stock market is set to reopen as wall street braces for the federal reserve s decision whether or not to raise interest rates and by how much. ainsley: two u.s. banking failures this month alone have americans all on edge little about the health of the financial system. brian: fox business own correspondent ashley webster talking to diners live in hobe sound. steve: hobe sound. ainsley: jupiter area. how are you doing guys, doocy s home stomping ground and i will get to that unpaid bill in a bit. you are absolutely right. so much to consider with the economy right now. a lot of it challenging to say the least. we are waiting for the feds to find out whether they are going to raise rates even more. let me bring in harry mccarter. owner of harry and the natives.
consider a squatter to be a tenant. so then there can be some action taken much sooner. steve: i think that would make everything easier. good luck with that thank you, ma am. thank you. bye. steve: all right. coming up on this wednesday, the feds are set to decide whether to raise interest rates today and that could rock an already easy economy. ashley webster from our fox business network is live in hope sound, florida. it looks like you are at harry and the natives. oh, you know it, steve. and with that kind of economic news, it kind of makes you want to dive into a stack of pancakes which i probably will do in the next 10 minutes or so credit card rates are up. car financing rates are up. whether a is the consumer thing. we are in hobby sound, florida we are going to find out from harry and the natives. by the way steve, you have unpaid bill here but we will get into that later.
affairs and consumers are a key part of the u.s. economy. 70% of this economy in the united states is based on the consumer and when they re not happy, well, that s not good news for the economy. wait and see what the fed does today later on. back to you. steve: that s right. ashley, i know it is still about four hours before lunch. but they have got a really good bloody mary there just saying. [laughter] thank you for that tip, i appreciate it. thank you, steve. steve: thank you, sir. steve: live from harry and the natives in hobe sound. ainsley: as soon as he gets off the air welcome to have that we begin with a frightening confrontation in tampa. an armed man wearing a devil mask is stopped by heroic group of secured out of a strip club. show the staff knocking a loaded gun out of his hands. of the bouncers held the suspect down until police could get there suspect held without bond, facing multiple felony charges including assault with a deadly weapon there is the mugshot