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robert grey near. charles r. schwab, the david foundation, inc. the fair weather foundation. craig newmark philanthropies. and by corporate funding is provided by stephens, inc. maya macguineas, welcome to firing line. secretary reich, welcome back to firing line. thank you. thanks so much. robert reich, you served in three presidential administrations, including as labor secretary for president bill clinton. and maya, you are the president of the nonpartisan committee for a responsible federal budget. i d like to start first with a television advertisement from e 1980s warning in very stark terms about the consequences of the national debt. take a look. morning. shall we get down to business? now that you ve joined us, you ll enjoy numerous rights and privileges, but you will share certain problems, as well. specifically, you owe the united states government, in round numbers, $50,000. when that advertisement aired in 1984, the national debt was just un ....
force which means maybe inflation pressures will ease a little bit. and i ll point this out, joe, and mika, the idea here, interest rates didn t move on this and neither did the expectations in the futures market for where interest rates will be by the end of the year. so, again, kind of like that goldilocks scenario. i mean, at least for this month, of course this is a month by month thing, but at least for this month, you look at everything from new jobs added, job participation rate, the wages going up, but not so high that it adds inflationary pressures on the economy. a lot of really good news in this report. and legendary tweeter duke st. journal said, i think this may be a few minutes ago, i think this may be what a soft landing looks like. if we were of course to continue to move into this direction, dom, i guess this would be what a soft landing that the fed is desperately trying to achieve would look like, right? this would be. and the reason why you have ....
injuring more than 100. this video from moments after the attack. this video is difficult to watch. we are told the driver jumped the curb and swerved from side to side, plowing into anyone who didn t have time to jump out of the way. the pavement soaked in blood. victims screaming or unconscious or crippled from broken bones. witnesses describing a scene of chaos, confusion and suffering. they were screaming and everybody started to run. they run forward and. when didn t know. we just saw a massive amount of people trying to recover from something. we weren t sure if it was shots or some type of thing. but we didn t know at the moment. they advised us we didn t know if it was a bomb or what. kennedy: police locking down the city as they search for the suspect or suspects. two men reportedly under arrest and cops say neither was the driver. investigators across europe are searching for whomever was behind the wheel. isis claiming responsibility but it s unclear if ....
more on tonight s pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: carnegie corporation of new york. supporting innovations in education, democratic engagement, and the advancement of international peace and security. at carnegie.org. and with the ongoing support of these institutions: and individuals. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. sreenivasan: 13 dead, scores more hurt, two arrests: grim results of today s attack in barcelona, where a speeding vehicle vaulted a sidewalk and drove down its victims. it follows similar attacks across europe, and last weekend, in charlottesville, virginia. for more, we turn to max gayler, reporting for reuters in barcelona, and lorenzo vidino, who leads the program on extremism at george washington university. spain hasn t been the site of this attacks. we ve seen a lot of focus on london a ....
major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: carnegie corporation of new york. supporting innovations in education, democratic engagement, and the advancement of international peace and security. at carnegie.org. and with the ongoing support of these institutions: and individuals. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. sreenivasan: 13 dead, scores more hurt, two arrests: grim results of today s attack in barcelona, where a speeding vehicle vaulted a sidewalk and drove down its victims. it follows similar attacks across europe, and last weekend, in charlottesville, virginia. for more, we turn to max gayler, reporting for reuters in barcelona, and lorenzo vidino, who leads the program on extremism at george washington university. spain hasn t been the site of this attacks. we ve seen a lot of focus on london and france. yeah, the last time ....