Fox and friends. Behind me is my new friend ken. How long can ken stay on the bull . He volunteered. Come on, ken. End of the show, i will try to beat his time. Speed that up a little bit. Oh, boy, ken, hang on, ken. Ken can do it. Oh. Come here, ken. How did that feel . Great. What is the key . Just hang on. There we go. Hang on. Well done. He was 28 seconds. Did this on new years, too. I have to beat 28 seconds at the end of the show. If i do, you win a prize. I dont know what the prize is, maybe that tshirt. Great to be here. How we doing . Love it. Beautiful spot. So guys im sorry you are stuck in new york. We dont have the problems you are experiencing in new york in nashville. Toss it back to you. Enjoy. Hes got a bull, awesome cheering crowd, fried chicken, live music. Thanks a lot. I would say it is great laboring with you today, im not counting pete, it doesnt feel like were laboring. Griff absolutely, we has those things and we have Wall Street Journal poll. We have been show
but yes, wage power is up there. pricing power in terms of what you can command for your services. but having said that, we re still about 3 million jobs shy of where we were in february of 2020 and there is an x factor. i don t understand what people are using to tide themselves over. if you re using the child tax credit or what s left of extraordinary unemployment benefits, that s lapsed for several months now. even if you re having a great rethink and great reconsideration of everything, you still have to pay the bills. and overwhelmingly, millions of people are still holding out. there are a lot of women specifically out there, i think a couple of million women who can t go back into the labor force because they can t find childcare or they can t find affordable childcare, so that s an issue. i was reading today there s a pretty large number of people who are starting their own businesses, and that s not being taken into account as rapidly in these jobs numbers from the labor d
another much larger, crisis, with roaring inflation? well, i would say this. i would say republicans stoke fears of inflation before mid-terms and elections. right now americans are confidents in the growth in the economy. they are confident in their personal finances. those numbers are growing in the poll as well. most economists say this inflation is transitory which means it will expire, which means that the pent-up demand of the pandemic and some of the international issues are temporary. we re going to see dads barbecu ing on labor day, grill ing some ribs, and they are going to be glad that their wages have risen because the economic power and the wage power of workers has increased for the first time in a long time. i think the corporate ceos are a little bit afraid that they have to continue to pay those working americans whose wages were far too low for far too long, and let them unable to afford things like rent so i think ultimately, we re going to see this pass, and the e