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The price of 93 octane at the Quik Trip station in North Dallas has gone up 75 cents from $3.15 to $3.90 in a week. The Shell and Exxon stations are probably even higher.
Their comments on the economy and jobs starts at the 8 minute mark.
Amna Nawaz:
I do want to turn to the jobs numbers, because it is the number one issue for American voters.
And, Jonathan, I will start with you, because all of the uncertainty overseas is resonating back here. Now, it's been a really choppy week for the markets. We just reported a net loss of 92,000 jobs in February and downward revisions for previous months.
The president says this is all part of the plan, the agenda is working, the turmoil is going to be short-lived. What do you see here?
Jonathan Capehart:
He's been saying that since he was running for president and then got inaugurated.
This is bad. And when we were talking about this in an earlier call, because I'd been flying, I asked, was there a revision of the January jobs numbers? Because that -- those numbers...
Amna Nawaz:
Were unexpectedly high.
Jonathan Capehart:
Unexpectedly high. And because of Heather Long, my former colleague at The Washington Post, now Navy Federal Credit Union, I have been paying attention to that, because she long ago wrote about the fact that if you took out health care and potentially hospitality, there's been no job creation in the United States since April of last year.
She's calling it a hiring recession. And so the fact that the January numbers have been revised downward, the February numbers are already down, it's just more validity to the argument that she's been making, and also more evidence to the American people that, whatever the president is doing, he thinks he's doing to improve the economy, it's not working.
Amna Nawaz:
David, the argument that this is the process, it'll just take time, do you buy that?
David Brooks:
Well, it's been a year. And there's been no job growth. And there's been everything done to maximize the uncertainty of the American people, whether it's tariffs or Iraq or anything else Donald Trump wakes up and does that day.
And so people have lost faith in the future. And that's why they're not quitting. That's not why they're not hiring. That's not why they're investing. And it's this rabid uncertainty that's out there that -- the economy is not terrible. Wages were up 3.8 percent year over year, which is pretty good.
But nobody's doing anything. Nobody's moving. It's not yet A.I. A.I. is not the thing here. That could be the thing next month. But it's just the rabid uncertainty.
Amna Nawaz:
Could be the thing next month or next week. We will see.
David Brooks, Jonathan Capehart, thank you both so much.
It's too bad that most of MAGA is so limited in their news sources that they do not know David Brooks. He is staunchly Conservative. But if they know him at all, they likely associate him with the NYT or NPR. So they ignore him. Their loss.
Iran War Path to Higher Inflation, Dollar Dying Strength in Gold
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The price of 93 octane at the Quik Trip station in North Dallas has gone up 75 cents from $3.15 to $3.90 in a week. The Shell and Exxon stations are probably even higher.
An increase of 23.80% in a week.
Gas for regular unleaded around me went from roughly $2.49 to $2.99 in about 10 days since the Globalists launched their war on Iran. An increase of 20.08%. If the war persists past the first week of April expect the worst for the economy.
What say all you maggies? You've not liked it when I said I would support gas at $5 a gallon.
The rise in the price of petrol is squarely on you Fat Bloated Melange Idiot. And we all know maggies are sheeple and will blindly follow what daddy donny does.
So, all you maggies please post how pleasant it is that gas is going up. I like what it means for the Great State of Texas.
You'll have no choice but to support gas at $5 a gallon. You shouldn't like that Texans will have to pay more to support Trump's war with Iran while Billion dollar oil companies line their pockets with even more cash. Big Oil loves Trump's war with Iran because they get richer. The US Dollar is going further down the toilet, gold will go to the moon, this is not good for residents of Texas or America.
