quarters of a percent for the third consecutive time sending people flocking to the dollar and there you see what s happening to the exchange rate. it s noticeable enough that anybody who is traveling to the uk from the u.s. is going to they ll notice they re getting more for their dollar, but for all the reasons a little scary. thank you so much. nice to see you, claire. back here in the u.s., buying a car, one of life s big expenses, ranking after closing on a house and paying for college education, in some ways it has never been tougher to buy a car. interest rates are just one reason. a five-year loan on a $35,000 suv zero down will cost you 669 a month today. back in january, it was 642 a month. that s another 27 bucks a month and another $1,500 in interest over the life of the loan. let s bring in pat ryan the ceo of the personal finance app co-pilot. good morning, pat. thanks for getting up rearly fo us. good morning. is it as hard as it seems to be buying a used car?
foundation, today, i m ecstatic. the audience that i have and that you have are some of the greatest people in this country. they are ordinary people that do extraordinary things. we are well past 100,000 t-shirts. we are announcing a donation of 1 1/2 million dollars to tunnels 2 towers. pete: unbelievable. steve, with a $27 item. that is a $27 gross item. expenses, cost of the product. to put this in perspective, super bowl champ t-shirt every year, sells the 50,000 in three months. 100,000, we re still going. there is no end to this. people are still ordering. we ll fulfill the orders all the way through september. it is greatest thing. it is one of the most uplifting things that i have been involved in, this is the american people. this isn t me making a donation. this isn t you or anybody else. the american people, 27 bucks at a time, generating enough
wow. that s about 10 people in the room here at the most. what it is that stops people well, we know that the unemployment rate dropped about two points in that county since trump came in. i don t know if he had anything to do with it, but the economy has helped. we know you make an extra buck an hour there, about 28 bucks as opposed to 27 bucks an hour. some modest improvement in people s salaries, very modest, 4%. but only 10 people said improvement in their lives. well, from the tax cut, right. and i think you can t necessarily connect lowered unemployment rate to the tax cut. you think they re just talking about the refund they got? i think people see they got very little. then they read about the stock buybacks, they read about the massive amounts that people in donald trump s tax bracket got. and also i think there is a lot of research you said stocks idealogicall. so they might not know what stock buybacks are, but they definitely understand that wall street made
bernie sanders raised 6 million bucks in one day. katie: i m wondering if elizabeth warren is going to stop taking phone calls from herself because she is worth millions and millions of dollars. how do you prove you re not taking money from rich people? she should give up her millions and redistribute her own wealth of she s going to hold a result of this campaign promise. she s trying to distinguish herself from the other democrats in a very crowded field. bernie sanders got 250,000 plus donations. he has the grassroots cred when it comes to middle class, working class, the poor donating to his campaign. she keeps trying to find things that haven t really been her forte in the past. she is trying to distinguish herself. juan: i think bernie said he got the average donation was 27 bucks. i think we should wait for greg on bernie flying around. greg: his defense for his private air jet use, it s the
first day fundraising bragging right, bernie sanders 2020 feels a lot like bernie sanders 2016. his new campaign announced today that they raised nearly $6 million in the first 24 hours since he launched, and it wasn t, you know, a few tens of thousands of donors this time. it wasn t 35,000 supporters giving that money. it was 223,000 donors giving that money. now a couple of things that are interesting about that enormous first day fundraising number. number one, it implies that some things are carrying over from his 2016 race. he built a huge base there. they re still responding to him. also, the average donation size in this first fundraising haul is the exact same size of the donation to bernie sanders in the 2016 cycle. people were giving an average of 27 bucks in 2016. yesterday they gave an average of 27 bucks. that means he can go back to them again and again and again and again. but also, in announcing the