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talk about the issue of inflation and how it impacts families, they are beginning to say what is this going to look like? they are very nervous about what the biden economic policies hold for them. jon: a lot of disappointed americans seeing record prices at the gas pump which continued to increase right now. marsha blackburn, senator, thank you. coming up, we are tracking the first tropical depression of the hurricane season in florida, the tropical threat i should say. authorities are trying to pump nearly a foot of rainwater a flooded. we will take you there. plus the hotly contested report in senate primary in pennsylvania. we learn more about the credit company who suffered a stroke last month.
report all around. why aren t wages keeping up with inflation if it s such a hot market for employees right now? well, i think the surge in inflation is due to a number of shocks to the economy. so the pandemic and the effect on global supply chains, you can see that in vehicle prices and lots of other products, and the russian invasion of ukraine, which has caused oil prices to go skyward. we re paying record prices at the gasoline pump. diesel prices are up and that s driving up food costs. you see a surge in inflation due to the shocks in the economy. workers are getting some compensation for that, but not all of it. the thinking is, and i think it s right, as these shocks abate, as the pandemic winds down, as the worst of the fallout from the russian invasion fades behind us, the inflation numbers will fall below the rate of wage growth. so we were talking about real wage growth, the difference between actual wages and inflation, that s neg.
xhod commodity. tr sandra: and doing that at a time of record prices. we ll keep watching it and hope it s a white house that s going to clearly lay out a plan. we ll listen for the president shortly. jackie, thank you very much. john: new at 2:00, president biden penning an op-ed saying the u.s. is better off than any other nation. larry kudlow joins us if americans will buy that. plus, joe borelli on the biggest city being accused of normalizing drug use. and president biden is getting frustrated with his own staff. all that and more in the next hour. cape, leveraging gold, a strategic and sustainable asset.
liverpool and real madrid fans descend on paris to support their teams in the final of european club football s most prestigious prize. now on bbc news, it s time for talking business. hello everybody, welcome to talking business weekly, with me, aaron hislehurst. let s take a look at what is on the show. a call to pick up your pickaxes, yeah, we are going to take a look at the metals mining boom, driven by record prices and the demands of the green energy transition. but are these old solutions to new problems? cutting out russian supplies has rocked the market, but digging up more of the planet may not be the best way to save our environment. i am going to be discussing all of that with these two, the boss of the world s biggest metals trading exchange and the head