24 hours, we have seen a lot of attacks, a lot of focus has been on kyiv, the capital city and just to give you some perspective, a big picture perspective. you know, ukraine is slightly smaller than the state of texas. he have, however at 3.5 million people, that is basically if you are stating in texas houston and dallas together, population wise. the russians have had a lot of attacks over here in kharkiv and have kind of shored up some of the smaller towns along the coast. but the main focus has been coming down this core door towards the capital city. and that is where this focus is of this convoy that we ve been talking about. and on satellite miles and miles long. one of the satellite companies estimated 40 miles long. that is a lot of armored vehicles. and they are coming down from the north this way to kyiv.
august consumer confidence was a six-month low. we had already seen the economy slowing a little bit, the stock market probably has a little more to come in to kind of line up with expectations for growth going forward. josh, consumers are feeling the pinch when it comes to inflation, we talk about it every day, prices are up, shortages are real, but when you look at retail sales numbers, people paid up higher prices and didn t flinch. what do you make of this in terms of how the consumer is doing? the consumer is doing great, household balance sheets are better than i can remember in my lifetime, people s 401(k)s were at record highs. the news isn t all bad from a big picture perspective, but to dan s point, the economic data i wouldn t say i wouldn t say getting bad, i would see decelerating. like the pace of the gains for the economy have slowed and consumer confidence according to the surveys is definitely not what it was earlier this summer. i m not sure that it s
this, i have a hard time on television because i m a history guy and you have to dig into history. the history of the united states of america is the idea of white male patriarchy unchecked. and even we have gotten to such a toxic place that even, hey, wear a mask or register your gun is some type of incursion on the freedom for white men to do what they want to do without being ever held accountable or held to have to think or take responsibility for their actions on other people. now, of course, men are highly infected with this, too. the history of our country is male egos run rampant and we, unfortunately, should not be surprised that it manifests itself in anti-masking or anti-vaxing because that s where we are. thank you for that big picture perspective. i appreciate that, don. david, let s look specifically at your state, florida, over 21,000 new cases of covid were recorded just yesterday, and the shocking thing is, it is the highest daily number since the
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like they want to be part of where we re headed. i do think it s a concern. for example, when i talk to union members who are really frustrated by the proposal, that they should be happy with being kicked off plans that they negotiated for. that being said, i agree with you from a bigger picture perspective. there s a lot more we have in common than divides us, and there s a lot of focus on the disagreement about how coverage should work. obviously i think my approach is better and i ll go out there and make the case for it. but we also need to be talking about costs, prescription drugs, mental health and addiction and how to get at the same visibility and the same resources that go into physical medical issues. a whole range of issues, health equity, racial disparities in health outcomes, rural health, so many things that deserve to be looked at in addition to this area where we ve got this tug of war going on, which is how should coverage work in the future. are you at all concerne