well, first of all, it s a great relief for the families to bring home people that have been held in prison for false claims against the government. these are phony charges. these people have no right to be in prison like they have but i think i as many of us look at this and we question the method here. and why is that? because iran what they re doing here is running a hostage extortion business that has been quite lucrative for them, $6 billion, if that s actually what takes place here, that s going to help them get flush with a lot of money and what do they really do with that? there s supposed to be some control over this. i don t buy that. that money will eventually be executed to represents their own people and to extend the approximate i wars and influence that they re doing throughout the region and we ve seen it. i mean, iran has stepped up their aggression in the region stopping fuel tankers the united
Percent. food prices higherpy 4.9 percent. basics popping, white bread 10.7 percent higher than last year, cereal bakery products up 7 percent, apples up 7.5 percent. even this slow down we have seen inflation from nine to three is of no benefit to the consumer. that just means the price of everything they re buying has gone up slightly slower than it was before. they re still really being squeezed hard and we are seeing that in so many areas. areas like credit card spending, debt just topped one trillion dollars for the first time on record and americans are pulling money out of 401 (k) accounts on hardship withdrawals. 15,950 second quarter. a 12 percent increase over the
Unserious people. wish we had more time. thank you very much. folks that will do it for today. thank you very much for watching remember can you catch me every weekday on fox business making money. inflation has been a big pocket and so has your portfolio. i ll do better for you tomorrow. right now the five starts. hello oil jesse watters and this is the five. heartbreaking devastation in hawaii at least 36 lives lost after hurricane force winds whipped up wildfires that raged across the island reducing towns to rubble. one resident watching as the
Think he s going to come under more fire charles: what about the central topic what about the central market question here? the inflation question. the administration efforts this is charles: that many say backfired. that 1.9 trillion was unnegligence and now we re paying a serious price for it with this wage price spiral that is devastating most americans. there s been so many politicians that have spent and spent without a plan to actually grow the amount of money that we re spending from. is that has happened time and time again. here s a guy that should have unique incite on how we change the situation on inflation. he s literally opened up our american consumers to buying direct from chinese companies through amazon. he should have a unique vantage point on the supply chain issues we re dealing with. it s fair for the administration to call him out on what he s
Weaken the court in this institution. trying to intimidate any court particularly the supreme court is very scary. john great work, congratulations. that ll do it for me folks make sure you cost me on fox business making money particularly in this market environment things are pretty topsy-turvy but i got your back. in the meantime here comes the five. dana: it s 5:00 in new york city and this is the five. dana: president joe biden to batten down the hatches because is it about to get rough. the president is getting rocked by more brutal poll numbers. try to get into campaign mode and try to avoid making the midterms about his job performance but time to be running out because his approval