Okay, okay, we can go whenever you're all ready if I'm ready, but he wants to okay

And look at that Jake made it happen

Hey, everyone. I'm Kimberly Adams. Welcome back to make me smart where we make today make sense

And I'm Samantha Fields in for Kai Rizdal. Thank you for joining us on this Thursday, October 19th

Yes, and because it's Thursday

We are going to listen back to some of the big stories from the week with little audio clips and we've got a couple of them already lined up

Let's start with the first

We are attentive to recent data showing the resilience of economic growth and demand for labor

Additional evidence of persistently above trend growth or that tightness in the labor market is no longer easing

Could put further progress on inflation at risk and could warrant further tightening of policy

Feel the emphasis on that could

Could very important there from Jerome Powell. I'm giving a speech earlier today at the Economic Club of New York

And he was saying that you know, we've got strong economic data that could

warrant higher rates now most people who watch this stuff carefully walked away from that

Convert that speech and said that you know the Fed is unlikely to raise interest rates this next meeting

But they could potentially raise rates in the next meeting now

So they can do whatever they want but of course as always they were saying

Jerome Powell was saying that it's all going to be data dependent because

Despite everything despite higher interest rates and despite ever you know the world falling apart as it usually does

You know consumers are still being consumers spending money

Companies are still some in many sectors struggling to hire and fill open positions

and so even though they have

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