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and for some reason they thought biden was the man for the job. president biden s made it clear he wants to heal our country, bring us together. he wants to, you know, heal and unite the country. this is what joe biden wanted to do. he wanted to bring the country together. happy day for our country, because joe biden is a unifier. sean: they took him at his word. despite his history of saying things like this. he said in the first hundred days he s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules. unchain wall street. they re going to put y all back in chains. sean: but that was years ago. he must be a changed man by now, right? lower the temperature. work with republicans. show conservative voters respect. or he could say something like this. i don t respect these maga republicans. the maga republicans don t just threaten our personal rights and economic security, they re a threat to our very democracy. they refuse to accept the will of the people.
global markets are eagerly waiting for the latest us inflation numbers and whether they will give any indication the rate has peaked. last week there was unexpectedly strong us jobs data which added to expectations the world s biggest economy is able to withstand a sharp interest rate rise by the federal reserve. but if inflation continues to soar it could change the likelihood of an aggressive big hike by the central bank. here s our north america business correspondent michelle fleury. after yea rs of no after years of no or at least hardly any inflation in the us, the past 12 months have seen consumer prices bugging sharply. the annual headline rate was 9.1%, the highest level for a0 years. economies expect the rate to call slightly to 8.7%. if that is the case that was ignored some welcome relief for us consumers and there are signs that americans do not expect inflation to continue at these levels for long. in addition, congress is about to pass the inflation reduction a
office has an amber extreme heat warning in floors and temperatures could reach 37 in some of the south. in force. in sport, the beginning of the end for serena williams as the 23 time grand slam champion says the us open this month could be her last tournamnet. a force of nature strong and kind olivia newton john remembered. we ll speak to close friend and singer delta goodrem. it s wednesday, the 10th of august. our main story. households owe more money to their energy supplier than ever before, with bills set to rise even further in october. a survey by the comparison site uswitch has found the overall debt is already three times higher than it was a year ago. nina s here to talk us through the details. the timing is interesting when normally people would save up cash in the warmer summer months. ideally, and a lot happening in terms of budgeting and taking into account household bills. comparison site uswitch say that households owe £1.3 billion to their energy su
rather have, they want the plant back with everything it had or what you re going to have. i will be dumbfounded if you find anybody other than for pure sentimental reasons saying i d rather have the coal plants. i ll end by telling you another quick story. when we moved from scranton, when coal died in scranton, everything died in scranton. my dad was a coal miner and my grand grandfather was a mining engineer. my dad was in sales. there was no work. we left to go to delaware where the oil plants were. but i remember driving home when you take the trolly in scranton going out north washington and adams avenue. within 15 blocks we didn t live in the neighborhood. the most prestigious neighborhood in the region in the town where the scrantons and other good decent people live. there was you d go by a wall that my recollection is was somewhere between 15 and 18 feet tall. it went from essentially a city block. you can see the coal piled up to the very top of the wall from i