To brace for the trickle down effect of that. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom, im dana perino. Good morning again. Bill its been a week, huh . Dana or two in one. Bill im bill hemmer. Good morning. Americans are hurting. Overall inflation increased nearly 20 under bidenharris. Check this out. Food and housing and shelter, energy and electricity, Auto Insurance Way up. Feeding your Dog Or Cat or fish or whatever you have at 23 . There is no doubt it affects the economy. Markets recovering this morning after taking a bit of a Dip Yesterday and now we are down again about 200 points 30 minutes into the day. Dana and even harriss usual supporters say she has no way to defend the state of the current economy. Watch here. The first question she was asked, are the american people better off today than they were four years ago . She didnt definitively say yes. The reason is, its complicated. You just said it. Housing is still expensive, insurance, car insurance, insuring your home h
Listen to kamala harris. Done before, which is to provide a Tax Cut for billionaires and big corporations which will result in 5 Trillion to americas deficit. Donald trump talked up his economic legacy as the debate moved onto the question of tarfiffs. Youll remember Mr Trump has recently been speaking about increasing tariffs on international goods. Lets have a listen. We are doing tariffs on other countries. Other countries after 75 years will pay us back after 75 years will pay us back after all we have done for The World. The tariff will be substantial in some cases. I took in the billions and billions of dollars from china. In fact, then never took the tariff of because it was so much money. We have had a terrible economy because inflation, which is known as a country buster, it breaks up countries, we have inflation like a very few people have ever seen before, public the worst in our nations history. To get both persepectives, Business Today spoke to greg swenson, chairman of Re
That european equities are largely on holiday and think that trend does actually continue. The stoxx 600 is down by 1. 1 today. Theres a big china effect, but in this youre looking at names like hsbc, which has a u. K. Effect as well, but also a chinese effect. Plus some of the miners acting as a little bit of a drag. So stoxx 600 down, maybe moving away from that 460 level. The names that i think are actually interesting today speak kind of against that narrative. The european consumer seems to be alive and well right now. The u. K. Consumer seems to be alive and well right now, which is surprising considering what is being chucked at them. Marks and spencer, the stalwarts of the british high street, has been revamping its stores, refining its strategy. Its beginning to work. Theyve upgraded their numbers. But its interesting, its not just in clothing. Its also in high end groceries as well. This is fascinating. This was unexpected. Marks and spencer responding to it. Look at that sha
Commissioner bridges and commissioner servais is not in attendance today. We do have a quorum right. Thank you. Can i ask you, madam secretary, to turn your volume up a little . Can you do that . Its sort of. Is that better . Better better. Item number two, communications. We welcome the publics participation during Public Comment periods. There will be an opportunity for general Public Comment at this meeting after closed session and there will be an opportunity to comment on each discussion or action item on the agenda. Each item each comment is limited to two minutes. Public comment will be taken both in person and remotely by calling for each item, the board will take Public Comment first. People attending the meeting in person and then from people attending the meeting remotely. Comments or opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available by phone by calling. 56550001. Access. Code 26605203021. Then pound, then pound again when connected you will hear the meet
Before meeting of august 17, 2023. At this time. Hey, just give me one second here. Get me organized. Im doing my survey. All right. Okay welcome, everyone. Thank you for all the participation on the board level and im madam secretary. Do you want to call the roll, please . Thank you, commissioner. Commissioner connor. Present mr. Thomas. Present. Present. Helfen. Present mr. Driscoll. Here mr. Gandhi. Present commissioner bridges and commissioner servais is not in attendance today. We do have a quorum right. Thank you. Can i ask you, madam secretary, to turn your volume up a little . Can you do that . Its sort of. Is that better . Better better. Item number two, communications. We welcome the publics participation during Public Comment periods. There will be an opportunity for general Public Comment at this meeting after closed session and there will be an opportunity to comment on each discussion or action item on the agenda. Each item each comment is limited to two minutes. Public c