GOOD EVENING: The show begins at the Federal Reserve, puzzling over what is to be done with the mixed to negative metrics from the US economy -- and the likelihood of a soft landing. We then move to campuses across the nation where spring festivities and

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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GOOD EVENING: The show begins at the Federal Reserve, puzzling over what is to be done with the mixed to negative metrics from the US economy -- and the likelihood of a soft landing. We then move to campuses across the nation where spring festivities and final exams have been overshadowed by chanting -- sometimes antisemitic, and certainly less than well-informed. From there, we go to Gaza and the Sinai, and then to Lebanon, where the Hezbollah Army provokes the IDF each day. We visit Buenos Aires, Washington D.C., Panama City, Mexico City, and Caracas to discuss upcoming elections. Finally, we explore the situation in Peru and the challenge to China's bullying tactics using its financial influence.

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0:00.0	Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?
0:04.0	Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the
0:09.1	tropics.
0:10.1	But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.
0:13.4	I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,
0:18.0	the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. Wish you were here. Follow the price of Paradise Now wherever
0:26.7	you listen to podcasts. Good evening. The show begins tonight in the Federal Reserve, debating wage pressure, inflation,
0:38.4	soft landing cuts, three cuts in 2024, what is to be done? More data. The decision is more data,
0:48.8	always more data. Then to the Biden administration, regulations about salt and sugar for children's lunches at school,
0:57.0	regulations in all directions, Liz Peek comments on all of these regulations, Why now? What does it mean? To Israel, Jonathan
1:08.6	Schanser of the Financial, of the Foundation for the Defense of democracy comments that the Gaza
1:13.8	operation is on that has been consistent for weeks. There is the suggestion that
1:21.8	tunnels are open to the Sinai have long been open to the Sinai
1:26.4	hence the smuggling and the opportunity to come in and out of Gaza without being
1:31.2	watched. Why are the tunnels open?
1:35.0	One reason would be the explanation that Napoleon always used,
1:40.0	leave them in exit.
1:42.0	So when they break, they'll run. You don't want to
1:46.2	fight people who are trapped. You want to fight people who have an exit. There is also
1:51.0	reporting from Turkey that there is refuge for the Hamas leadership, perhaps others, outside of Istanbul.
1:59.0	Anti-Semitism, campuses have broken down across the country. The news keeps coming in of
2:05.2	takeovers, challenges, confrontation, shouting, it's springtime. The weather's good.
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