They say that created an unknown factor. Other climates talk about the tax cuts for a sugar rush. They say its not clear if people will spend in the if youture as they did during the Second Quarter. President trump addressed the issue of sustainability. He predicted growth of 3 or better. Emphasis on better. Here is the president. In the Second Quarter of this year the United States economy grew at the amazing rate of 4. 1 . Ill say this right now and ill say it strongly. As the trade deals come in one by one well go higher than these numbers. So, neil, most economist if you look at on average what they expect they expect 2. 5 through the end of 2019. That eye higher than the 2 they have been tracking. These are the same economist. Yes, indeed. All right, thank you very much. Now to the remark the president made to sean. He thinks if you think this is off the charts how about eight or nine percent. He said he could do that by have the Trade Deficit that will have a benefit to the couns
this, but if there ever were, this is it. what do you think of that? it s a horrible time for agriculture to do this, neil. we ve seen farm income drop from a high of over $120 billion five years ago to usda projected level of 60 billion dollars this year. the farm income has been cut in half and now, neil, since the trade war started we ve seen the combined value of the big six commodities drop $20 billion. so the timing wasn t good for agriculture and you know, i d say that s why we re pretty adamant from the beginning that there s a better way to go about this, mr. president. neil: brian, you know, we talk to average consumers and they ve seen the price of a lot of items they buy at the grocery store go down, whether it s bacon or sausage, some cereals, breads and they say, well, what s brian complaining about? we re doing okay, all of this stuff is getting cheaper. [laughter] yeah, well, pork loin is a bargain right now i would say