donald trump is fundamentally an antiestablishment candidate. he has a populist candidate, he runs against elites, he runs against immigration and he has the slogan mate make america great again . it is a call to return to tradition, to an america of the past. and that really resonates here in iowa. this is a state which in a lot of respects looks like the america of the past. 0ur population looks like that. it is also a state where rural communities are struggling, weather has been a lot ofjob loss and so i think those core messages from him really resonate. you don t hear people talking about particular issues as much as sort of those core themes we hear from trump again and again. themes we hear from trump again and aain. ., , ., and again. personality and identity certainly. - and again. personality and identity certainly. brad, i identity certainly. brad, coming back to you. given the whole donald trump has on this race in iowa, in all of the races at this point, where does th
the america of the past. our population looks like that. it is also a state where rural communities are struggling, where there has been a lot ofjob loss and so i think those core messages from him really resonate. you don t hear people talking about particular issues as much as sort of those core themes that we hear from trump again and again. personality and identity certainly. brad, coming back to you. given that hold that donald trump has on this race in iowa, in all of the races at this point, where does that leave nikki haley and ron desantis? what would success look like for them coming out of iowa? i think the trump campaignfirst off has always felt that iowa was perhaps the place where they were the most vulnerable. it is a very conservative state, and donald trump is not uniformly conservative. he has more populist tendencies and certainly populism and conservatism are fusing but he is not an ideologue. ron desantis has run to his right as a more conservative candidate. as yo
surely counts as good news. here s ben. a spike in unemployment in the developed world brought on by aggressive but necessary hikes in interest rates by central banks to control inflation. is this the bullet we dodged in 2023? here s what various financial indicators were signalling would happen to us unemployment, hitting around 5.5% at the start of this year. and here s what has actually happened. it s remained at around 3.5%. that means around 3 million fewer americans unemployed than expected. the thought was that it would upend all the progress we ve seen in the tremendous amount ofjob gains since the pandemic period. and that was really, that dire projection was hinged on the fact that generally when the fed starts raising rates, as they did and as they did so quickly over the course of the year, it really puts the brakes on the economy and really circumvents hiring.
important for the government to understand, for the nigeriens to see that we are going to make sure that our mission has the right kinds of people in it. if they are going to have a discussion and then you need somebody with experience to help be that conduit. one of the first things they do is present their credentials to the president, the president in this case is obviously under house arrest and the most recent us delegation there was denied access to him, what is the sort ofjob that lies ahead, what does that look like for kathleen fitzgibbon? i think the first thing ambassador fitzgibbon will have to do is really meet with our embassy. we have americans that are in niger, we have our own local staff. and i think the first thing is the people that are directly working for you. she will have to make sure that our staff understands what the us government position is, what she s going to doing there as a leader, and how much we know that this situation is very straining on all of the