have better consumer confidence. in fact u.s. consumer confidence crushing inspections this month soaring to highest level since october of 2000. katie: here to break all of this down, what it means for you and your wallet stuart varney host of varney and company on the fox business network. tell us what this is all about. this is one of the most important economic indicators there is. and it s an absolute blow out number. it s a signal of the spectacular success of the trump growth agenda and another signal that it will actually keep on going. if people are optimistic. if they are confident about their future. they will spend some money. they may maybe change their jobs. they maybe get a better house. they will spend. steve: where is the optimism coming from? the trump growth agenda. you have a record low unemployment. would you got 4% growth for the overall economy. maybe more than that in this current quarter and wages are rising. especially for people with a
economy is rolling full and steam ahead. the nasdaq and the s&p 500 both setting record highs on wall street. the new measure is a good news for small business owners. the consumer confidence index just hit its highest number since october of 2,000, it s an 18 year high. we got together a panel of small business owners from different industries to see what they are feeling in terms of the effects of the consumer boom. thank you very much all of you for making some time for us. frank, let me start with you. your business, you are at the salina well spot here. how do you see it? i see a lot of people with a lot of confidence. i see people coming and more frequently but more interestingly, i ve been watching people, to be honest with you, spend more on larger ticket items. your extension s, that great color and those highlights. the volley is, the bigger ticket
that works, we are going to build the government coffers, we just have to stop them from spending money that they don t have to spend. sandra: for all of our stock watchers, two big names hitting all-time highs, apple and amazon. big news. that is huge. consumer confidence before i came on, the highest level since october of 2000. we are on fire, firing on all cylinders in this country. sandra: the wall street journal didn t like this deal. we will see where all this ends up in what happens with china and canada. eric: good to see you. and we switched to a fox news alert because there are no details emerging on that suspect from sunday s horrible mass shooting at the florida jacksonville video game tournament. if we are learning that that suspect david katz had previously been treated for psychological and emotional problems, police say katz did kill two of the gamers were playing the games, competitors there and he wounded at least ten others when he opened fire
carry a letter proposing a series of measures back then that could have led to denuclearization. clinton, in turn, sent madeleine albright, secretary of state, to pyongyang. it never happened. they just never seemed to want to give the north korean leader the kind of pedestal standing next to an american president. ironically, if october of 2000, the same month, the south korean president won a nobel peace prize for his efforts to seal the rift between north and south korea. so this is 18 years ago. this has never happened in all the administrations since then. it s really hard to see how this is going to happen effectively now without the fact of there being some kind of quid pro quo we may not want to live with. i want to talk about the significant, julian, of the president of the united states inviting in the second most powerful man in north korea to the oval office, spending more than 90 minutes with him, sort of being there for the photo op
the dmrk. a strong, connected, secure and prosperous north korea that maintains its cultural heritage but integrated into the community of nations. amid the optimism, there is a fair amount of skepticism in some corners of the administration as you can well imagine. keep in mind the north has previously made grand plans and proclamations about its nuclear program only to go back on its word. this picture from october of 2000 there with then-president bill clinton. as you also pointed out when chol makes his way here we look for read out from the president. for now, back to you. everyone wanting to know what s in that letter. bill: something to watch there. breaking overnight. samantha bee apologizing for the vulgar comment about ivanka