lower but to put that into context it was at zero in europe this time last year. and in the world s largest economy the us, the cost of borrowing is at 5% to 5.25%. but critics point out rising interest rates is a blunt tool that comes with its own set of dangers that can pose further risks to the economy. so what else can be done? well, central bankers are getting together today in portugal to chew over this challenge. joining me now isjennifer mckeown chief global economist at capital economics. good morning to you, jennifer. so it s a lovely location, portugal, you got christine lagarde there, andrew bailey, jerome powell among others, what do you think they will chew on? of course they re all increasing the cost of borrowering and in some places like the uk, so far it s having little effect. little effect. yeah, you re ri . ht. little effect. yeah, you re right. beautiful little effect. yeah, you re right. beautiful location, | little effect. yeah, you rel right. be
symptoms the president is experiencing are very mild. we ll get an update shortly on the president s condition. complete coverage now, dr. marc siegel standing by. john: jacqui heinrich is live on the north lawn. the white house has sent out the first picture of the president, from some time today? we are to assume it s from today. white house is making an effort to show the president is still carrying out his duties in isolation despite testing positive for covid-19. he tweets, folks, i m doing great. thanks for your concern. just called senator casey, congressman cartwright and a mayor and scranton cousins send my regret for missing our event today, keeping busy, exclamation point. his symptoms began last night with a runny nose, fatigue and dry cough. when he went to bed he felt fine but did not sleep well, woke up this morning and tested positive. the white house physician says he s talking the antiviral drug paxlovid, has f.d.a. emergency use authorization for high r
conversation in november, 2020, in which he claims that you told him that the election was rigged and that he had won arizona. to quote the former president, during the conversation he told me the conversation he told me the election was rigged and i won arizona, quote. did you have such a conversation with the president? i did have a conversation with the president, that certainly isn t it. there are parts of it that are true, but parts that are not, sir. the part that i read you. is that false? anywhere, anyone, any time has said that i said the election is rigged that would not be true. and when the former president in a statement today claimed that you told him that he won arizona, is that also false? that is also false. mr. bowers, i understand that after the election. i don t know if this is a conversation the former president is referring to, but after the election you received a phone call from president trump and rudy giuliani, in which they discussed the
atlantic city casinos, which is a really hard thing to do. failing at casinos his heart. yes, you inherit 300 and $17 million of the you go in the hole by $900 million, when you have to take you to see brothers in harriton s to make yourself hole, you re not a great businessman. because he s a person that renovated the skating rink. you know, i am manu do survivor, but for business. eddie castro in. that if you talk to people who are actually in the first season of the apprentice they ll say your trump tower is not super impressive. they didn t use the real conference room. they needed to build a proper one. donald trump is somebody, all of its artificial. carries here pop analogy, because it s like everything was a hipaa performance. they re saying that they re we x, but there are creator. the persona of him with the private jets. all of that belonged to nbc.
season of the apprentice they ll say your trump tower is not super impressive. they didn t use the real conference room. they needed to build a proper one. donald trump is somebody, all of its artificial. carries here pop analogy, because it s like everything was a hipaa performance. they re saying that they re we x, but there are creator. the persona of him with the private jets. all of that belonged to nbc. he got a paycheck from the same place you get it s the truman. show it was all false. when he won in 2016, it wasn t good enough because he lost the popular vote. then, when he won, it wasn t good enough, because obama got more votes. he needed not just to win but to be better than obama, better than hillary clinton. he is a sociopath. he was raised in a sociopathic environment, and he is exhibiting what he was taught. in terms of what we were looking at, as i mentioned, there s a chance that former president trump was going to be speaking, making remarks before he got bac