good morning. it is saturday may 14th. according to the latest survey, americans view inflation as the top problem facing the country right now. this is no surprise as the price of everything is rising. there s a lot more going on behind the scenes. i want to get in to it with gas prices. it rose averaging $4.42 a gallon, according to the automobile association. a top $4 per gallon in every state, well above $5 a gallon in california and hawaii. this leads us to the discussion of crude oil prices. the biggest factor that affects how much you pay at the pump. over the past 20 years, it s important to look at it overtime. the price of crude has had peaks and values. you can see the rise starting in 2002, then the fall after the 2008 recession, then another sharp fall in 2014, and then another in 2020, the beginning of the corona pandemic. oil falls when people use less than the world produces. now let s go to socks. i prefer to focus on the s&p 500. it is a better representatio
general of michigan, we appreciate your time. moments, ago i was telling you about a senate delegation that arrived in kyiv, we have video of that. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy posted this video on telegram showing republican senators led by mitch mcconnell also there. susan collins of maine, john barrasso of wyoming, and john cornyn of texas. on telegram, he called it a powerful symbol of the two party support of ukraine by the united states congress as well as the american people. a few weeks, ago margaret atwood, the author and creator of the fictional dystopian land joined the book club. i remarked that sometimes life imitates, arts and days later, the nation found out that the supreme court was set to deal away with abortion rights. i invented the supreme court is making a real. urt is making real