Welcome to Bright Bart Bart News Daily.

Today's show was fantastic because it was mostly callers,

but that's just not going to translate into a podcast here. Sorry, because we had like two hours of calls

and they were great. And it was about this rebate, this rebate idea that's been thrown out there.

So I'll ask you, should we with the tariff money, with the tariff money that's coming, $150 billion just last month, should we use that to pay down the debt? Or should we use it for a $600 rebate check to every American? So that was the question. And we're all over. I'll give you the results of the 10 listener poll right now. It was, well, no, I'll give it at the end of the segment.

I'll give it at the end of the segment.

So you can think about it a little longer.

Here's our opening segment of the show,

which led into that question.

I know, Some different economic news.

First, the reports yesterday of GDP growth, 3% in the second quarter of this year.

Bloomberg surveys a bunch of expert economists and three quarters of them got it wrong.

I thought it would be much lower than that.

So that's great.

So 3% GDP growth.

Now let me quote this, the personal consumption expenditures price index. The Fed's preferred measure of inflation rose by just 2.1% down by down from 3.7% last quarter. So that's good. Inflation lower. The most important thing about this GDP growth

is that this growth is not caused by government spending. It is very easy to make GDP go up if you just have the government spend more money.

But that's not the point.

That doesn't, that's not what we're trying to do here.

What's what we're trying to, it's what the government tries to do.

It's what Democrats try to do they'll spend

trillions of more dollars and then say oh look the GDP one we're like yeah but that that's not a

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