Sectors, however, employment was steady to rising in most other sectors. And throughout the nation, labor markets are set to remain tight. And widespread labor shortages were actually reported wage growth, however, something that weve talked about for a long time was modest to moderate home sales front, moderate variation. Now, prices rose at a moderate pace however, some businesses were indeed passing along tariff increases to consumers and i want to take you through a few of the regional comments which we got which in many cases represent an aboutface from the prior beige book in new york, sectors plan to raise their sale prices in 2020. And it rose significantly and they anticipate higher prices among manufacturers. One last thing here, in cleveland, retailers said tariffs put upward pressures on costs. So we have these districts around the country reporting that these tariffs are still working their way through the economy. It could potentially put some upward pressure on inflation
Educe the national debt. As always, well take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. It is 7 00 eastern time here in washington. The start of a holiday week. Congress returning in two weeks. President trump spending christmas with his family in florida. It is monday, december 23. We begin our first hour with Foreign Policy. The leaders of china, south korea and japan meeting today in beijing it. Comes as the pentagon and u. S. Officials are on, quote, high alert, after new threats over the weekend by north korea. In the past President Trump has said that he and president kim jong un fell in love. But since that comment back in february, talks have broken down. We want to get your reaction to these developments in north korea, what it means for the u. S. And for the region. 2027488001, thats our line for republicans. 2027488922 for democrats. 2027488002 if oure democrats. Or on twit or facebook. Good m
Live, unfiltered coverage on cspan. Listen on the radio app. We want to welcome back terry jeffrey. Morning thank you for being with us. This from the editorial page this morning. The Bipartisan Spending Party. Congress has left town for the year. Anotherbefore Bipartisan Spending Party that has typified the trump residency. The numbers deserve noticed because they are likely to have long term impact. Exceeding 1ebt trillion. Guest they are exactly right. On theartisan agreement hill is an old one. It has been going on for decades. They are allowing the government to get out of control. You have the baby boom generation continuing to retire. Increasing the amount of money spent on those programs. Social security costs more than a trillion dollars last year. As the wall street journal points out, you have massive Discretionary Spending. Both parties in congress are doing nothing to try to roll that back. This number courtesy of the debt clock. The nations debt is 23 trillion. How much m
The trump presidency. The numbers are likely to have more longterm impact than impeachment. A Discretionary Spending bill, and this years debt exceeding 1 trillion. Guest crazy. That editorial is exactly right. You have a bipartisan agreement on the hill, and it is not a new one, where they are allowing the government to grow out of control. And it has a lot of federal spending that is driven by Social Security and medicare, and you have the baby boom generation retiring, increasing the amount of money spent on those. Social security passed more than 1 trillion last year. That is spent by the department of health and human services. In addition, you have massive and bothnary spending, parties in congress are doing absolutely nothing to try and roll that back. Host in the number we have been referring to, courtesy of debt clock, the nations debt, 23 trillion. How much money is that . And dont just say a lot. Guest i tell you, put it this 2019, the debt increased about 1. 2 trillion. Mil
The Halftime Report started right now. Welcome. Good to have you this thursday jim lav leventhal, the brothers najarian, we have a big show first we want to get to Steve Liesman who has just sat down at the table with what the fed may do in the weeks ahead. Yeah, scott i think the story has to do with that a pause is coming and the question becomes when its coming i think theres an oddson bet that the fed is likely to cut in october. But its a massive cut and if they cut in october, is the market thinking about that the fact that there would be some kind of pause and powell has signaled this several times publicly hes talked about the 1998 cutting regime three times this will be the third time. I will tell you, the comment yesterday from charlie evans, a guy who has been massively in favor of rate cuts, he said i dont push any cuts the rest of the year match that from tweets of others, too. And kaplan said said im agnostic about additional rate cuts and there was a speech by powell, ev