voices or with weapons. harris: the protests are going. last night after a day of it yesterday and shut down a major new york city bridge for more than 20 minutes as the protestors marched to the courthouse. others gathered in the subway station with the 34-year-old jordan neely died on monday. some demanding a criminal prosecution now for the former u.s. marine who put neely in a choke hold after neely reportedly started yelling and threatening passengers. progressive congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez getting into the mix early quoting neely s death was a public execution. before that she called it a murder. the death, however, was ruled a homicide by the coroner s office simply meaning the cause was another person. mayor eric adams called alexandria ocasio-cortez s claims irresponsible. those will criticize no matter what s done. i have a responsibility for this entire city. and i have faith in the criminal justice system and i am going to let the process take its
was 1,128. you buy the same house today and it is 2,100. did i get more windows? what did i get? you got a better price probably in the overall price. because mortgage rates have gone up so spectacularly much from the way they were 2 or 3 years ago it is the extra rate hike that is costing you money. cost you a lot of money. by the way, it is not only costing you the home buyer more but the government more to pay its debts because their interest rates are going up and that increases the overall debt which puts inflation in even sharper focus. harris: real quickly, the information that came out this week is really disturbing that more than 50% of americans could not absorb and emergency that would cost $4 hundred. they just don t have that. they would have to borrow money to come up with $4 hundred. those numbers seem very antiquated to me. old school. recession school. it is even worse.
average duration of a post-war expansion, it s about 5 1/2 years. we re getting near the point in the business cycle where you might naturally expect a recession. the same time, we re seeing very strong numbers and because we re coming out of a hole so deep, there s so hope that we could actually see things really, really take off. well, i m not in the takeoff school, but i m also not in the recession school. huh. people say this are just being sloppy. recessions are either brought about by the fed raising interest rates to quell inflation. they would be nuts to do that. janet yellen is the not nuts. we won t see that. the other way we get recessions is you get a bubble that bursts. we don t have a bubble. you know, chris, i saw the last one you re not shy about pointing out bubbles. yeah. i m not going to miss one. so i don t think we re going to see recession, but i m also not confident we re going to see the robust growth, sustained, you know, 288,000 jobs we saw last mo
the same time, we re seeing very strong numbers and because we re coming out of a hole so deep, there s some hope that we could actually see things really, really take off. well, i m not in the takeoff school, but i m also not in the recession school. huh. people say this are just being sloppy. recessions are either brought about by the fed raising interest rates to quell inflation. they would be nuts to do that. janet yellen is the not nuts. we won t see that. the other way we get recessions is you get a bubble that bursts. we don t have a bubble. you know, chris, i saw the last one you re not shy about pointing out bubbles. yeah. i m not going to miss one. so i don t think we re going to see recession, but i m also not confident we re going to see the robust growth, sustained, you know, 288,000 jobs we saw last month. i m afraid i don t think that will happen. i hope you re wrong, dean baker. i hope so, too. take care. you, too. all right. prosecutor hellbent on
really take off. well, i m not in the takeoff school, but i m also not in the recession school. huh. people say this are just being sloppy. recessions are either brought about by the fed raising interest rates to quell inflation. they would be nuts to do that. janet yellen is the not nuts. we won t see that. the other way we get recessions is you get a bubble that bursts. we don t have a bubble. you know, chris, i saw the last one you re not shy about pointing out bubbles. yeah. i m not going to miss one. so i don t think we re going to see recession, but i m also not confident we re going to see the robust growth, sustained, you know, 288,000 jobs we saw last month. i m afraid i don t think that will happen. i hope you re wrong, dean baker. i hope so, too. take care. you, too. all right. prosecutor hellbent on getting a teenager to drop his pants for justice s sake. not making it up. that s next. card with a new volkswagen turbo. so why are we so obsessed with tu