This is america reports. Those arrests made public days after another Assassination Attempt on former President Trump. It is putting extreme rhetoric and political violence in the spotlight, weeks before election day. Lets get straight to david at the Justice Department with what we are learning. David . Sandra, more than 450 messages allegedly sent via an online portal to 6 unnamed Supreme Court justices using homophobic language, and racist language and other threatening language. This is something that the Justice Department revealed in an indictment today, and it comes as public officials are seeing their safety at an all time threat. This is allegedly coming from a 76yearold man in alaska. His name is ponos anastasio. He threatened justices and their Family Members. This was picked up after July 1st of this year when the supreme Court Majority ruled in favour of President Trump in the federal immunity case. There are 22 counts in this indictment. According to the indictment there
let s talk to steve more about this. steve, the problem is inflation is at decades high. recession around the corner. it s a heck of a one-two punch. you better believe it. the good news is that the inflation rate has come down a little bit the last two or three months, charles. that s good news. we went from almost 9% inflation this past summer to now we re down to about 7.1%. as you just said, that is still the highest inflation rate we ve had in 35, 40 years. so americans are feeling the punch. their wages and salaries have only gone up by 5 or 6%. that s one of the reasons that you reported that credit card debt is going up. people are trying to maintain their standard of living but paychecks are not keeping pace. i m nervous. i think inflation will come down in 2023 from the high rates of 2022. but i also think that the economy shows real signs of slowing down. i pray we don t crash into a recession. but we sure could. charles: steve, that s what i m concerned about.
that that diploma is offering. i know when i hire folks and i can speak to a lot of other folks in the tech industry who are not interested in looking at gpas and not interested in seeing the name or the brand, the logo at the top of any resume, the university that you might have attended. in a way, there might be this opportunity for higher education to be put in its place naturally by a lot of other customers, just not attending. what are we doing with that trillion dollar debt is the real question here. charles: in about another month, auto debt will be more than student loan debt. credit card debt is back over a trillion dollars. there s a lot of debt out there and a lot of people that won t make three or four million in a lifetime. the notion to ask them to fork over their taxpayer money for those that will live a better life and their children will
cancellations, laura, at least at this point. that s a really important point, because you don t have the idea that people initially were able to get on thinking about approval were able to benefit, and then the rest of the people waiting in line. if you are go to website right now and try to reply, this is what you would see. they are alerting you to the fact that there is this outstanding litigation, in front of the supreme court. mark, what does this mean for people who are trying to plan? people have to order their lives and their finances and student loan debt is very significant for millions and millions of americans? how can people plan? what is the course correction? this is very tough. the simple answer is, even more uncertainty. one thing, laura, about reporting the story, always learn something new, including the fact that student debt is greater then credit card debt, auto debt, that s according to the new york federal reserve. but it obviously, despite the
people have to order their lives and finances and student loan debt is very significant for millions and millions of americans. how can people plan? what is the course correction? this is very tough and the simple answer is just even more uncertainty. the one thing about reporting the story, i always learn something new, including the fact that student debt is greater, that credit card debt, auto debt according to the new york federal reserve, but it obviously despite the politics whatever you feel about the policy, i mean it is a financial stress in people s lives. in fact, the national association of realtors did some research over the last few years and it shows that this type of debt gets in the way of home buying and other financial decisions. it is a burden that can haunt students well into adulthood. absolutely. turning to the panel here in