and giano caldwell, but first this. john: to kick off america reports, life expectancy in america dropping to the lowest level in more than two decades, according to the cdc. deaths from drug overdoses and covid fueling the decline. john roberts in washington. sandra, good wednesday to you. sandra: i m sandra smith in new york city. plunged to an average of 76.1 years in 2021. fentanyl poisoning driving that number with more than 72,000 deaths by the end of last year. john: president biden s border crisis making it worse. officials are trying to stop the flow of fentanyl from creeping into the u.s., but despite efforts, parents are feeling the consequences of drugs in their family. fentanyl has changed the game. no longer can we say just be careful or it s not going to happen to my family. it took half of what he thought was a percocet. you have to talk about these pills and other forms that unfortunately they are now taking other than just pills. no mother want
to rise to 5% in q1 next year, and the chief economist of england is saying the interest rate conversation now is really accelerating at the bank and they ve got a monetary policy in november, and he s hinting that there might be and he s hinting that there might be a rise, we don t know, nobody knows. but certainly a consensus amongst most economists was until this point, it would happen at some point in q1 next year. even if it goes up to .5 .7 %, the point she s making is important costs are rising, people broadly across the spectrum, both on fuel, it ll have to be looked at in april next year by the regulator, so we will have to see. thank you both very much, great to speak to you, thanks for poking with
badgering him to cut interest rates or keep interest rates low. it s going to be interesting to see which democrats come to jay powell s support and how this all plays, takes place in the context of this inflation debate, which i suspect will be with us for the next couple of weeks. kasie? hans, what s your sense of kind of the decisions at hand for powell in terms of trying to look at inflation? i mean, is this just an interest rate conversation, or is there something else going on here, too? asset purchases. i hate to use the term taper this early on this network, but there s a question of how quickly they re going to start talking about tapering, right? and what we saw in the last fed meeting is they re going to start talking about it. left lane they re not talking about it. they re just talking about talking about it. so they re essentially pumping all kinds of pumping $20 billion into the markets. and when they start winding that back, that s the key decision. interest rat
he s also on see atle s cairo fm radio station. i feel like the student debt argument first of all, it was just one of the issues where it was nowhere and then we re all talking about student debt, which i think is a testament to a number of things. it s an issue that a lot of people have purchased. a lot of people watching have student loans semm also, the power yvette president to be able to put something forward. pam, you ve been organizing on this issue. when you look at those numbers, what do you see as the fundamental issue. why do we have this much debt? why is college as expensive as it is? what, to you, is the fundamental issue? i think it s important to realize that this interest rate conversation is incredibly small. we re talk ling about something