a lot of a near him gave me, i thought, jones industrial average in the u. s. continues to collapse, falling by another 700 points to low is not seen since november 2020. the index dropped below a symbolic level of $30000.00 and is nearly 20 percent. all fits highs reached in november last year, and some happens the mid story. inflation and invest is fearing that a recession is imminent. joe biden, though, seems to be optimistic about the economic prospects. first of all, it s not inevitable. secondly, we re in a stronger position than any nation in the world. joe, overcome this inflation when a while, the u. s. face is storing inflation with this consumer price index spiking and hitting a 40 year high of 8.6 percent in may. in a conversation with an economics report, a bite and said people are feeling down now and he needs to give them confidence. feels he needs to do to lift up a country that he said is feeling really, really down. the president said, the country is still d
members of the legislature, chairman, distinguished guests, fellow nebraskaens, and of course, our first lady, hope she s on this side. suzanne. [applause] she always gets better applause than i do. before begin, i want to recognize your newest member, senator theresa thibedeau from omaha, a small business owner and involved in early childhood education and her background and experience will make a great contribution to this body. welcome, i look forward to working with you. [applause] to all of our senators congratulations on the commencement of the 105th nebraska legislature. working together is in our dna and the hallmark of nebraska s nonpartisan unicalmeral legislature. working together is what helped build this great state. we know this from our history. this year marks the 100th anniversary of the end of world war i. during world war i nebraskans came together to raise private dollars to form a field hospital to take care of wounded soldiers returning from the front.