premiums all up. the cost of food consumed at home rose nearly 12%, food away from home, 7.4%. the gasoline index has increased 48.7%. the average national price of a gallon of gas this week, is at $5, highest in california at $6.42. trying to stem inflation, the fed said it will raise interest rates by three quarters of a percentage point, the biggest hike since 1994. new projections show interest rates may hit 3.4% by the end of the year, but because inflation is rising far faster than any of those rates, any money in savings is still being eroded. there s also a spade of layoffs adding to investor fears. cnn reports two u.s. real estate companies that had flourished in the pandemic announced layoffs of 8 and 10%. coin base laid off 18% of its staff. spotify plans to reduce hiring by 25%. elon musk, who already said he wants to lay off 10% of the tesla staff, is now intimating that if he acquires twitter, job cuts could follow. meanwhile, meanwhile, you ve got the january 6
dishonest enablers of trump surrounding them. some of them are lawyers. rudy giuliani used to be the united states attorney in the southern eastern of new york. john eastman is a former supreme court clerk, went to the university of chicago law school. you have these people lawyers giving him all sorts of advice. i imagine the defense from donald trump is i was listening to these well credentialed lawyers. i believe them over these other lawyers and i was entitled to do so. bad judgment maybe but not a crime. and if you saw trump out on the trail so to speak just yesterday, he continues to quadruple down on the theft idea. i guess maybe because he believes it but also renado, it s probably a smart legal strategy that he not give an inch in that regard. well, absolutely. if he says, look, i knew all along, if trump admitted i knew all along that this was false i