GOOD EVENING: The show begins in the markets watching the new worry about jobs -- stepping around the previous worry about inflation... and speculating re the Fed put...
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 4 September 2024
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GOOD EVENING: The show begins in the markets watching the new worry about jobs -- stepping around the previous worry about inflation... and speculating re the Fed put...
1920 NYC The Globe Theater
CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR
9:00-9:15 #Markets: Jobs over the cost of money. Liz Peek, The Hill, Fox News and Fox Business
9:15-9:30 #Markets: A Fed cut in the last weeks of the campaign. Liz Peek, The Hill, Fox News and Fox Business
9:30-9:45 #BERLIN: Alternative for Deutschland and East Germany. Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, in Berlin
9:45-10:00 #EU: Does the EU have a foreign policy? Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, in Berlin
SECOND HOUR
10:00-10:15 #LondonCalling: East Germany votes against the status quo. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
10:15-10:30 #LondonCalling: Sir Keir Starmer appears to follow the anti-Israel voices in the Commons. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
10:30-10:45 #GAZA: The Philadelphi Corridor and Israeli national security. Jonathan Schanzer, FDD
10:45-11:00 #UK: The Starmer Government turns its back on Israel. Jonathan Schanzer, FDD
THIRD HOUR
11:00-11:15 #AUKUS: Phase 1 begins at the Stone Frigate. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
11:15-11:30 #OCEANIA: PRC fails to dislodge Taiwan from the Pacific Island Forums on Tonga. Expect more provocations in the SCS. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
11:30-11:45 #UKRAINE: Disfavor from Berlin to Washington. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
11:45-12:00 #KingCharlesReport: THE KING AT THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ABERDEEN. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
FOURTH HOUR
12:00-12:15 #StateThinking: China bullies San Francisco and pays no cost. @MaryKissel, Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State, Executive VP Stephens Inc.
12:15-12:30 #StateThinking: Dissent deepens in Europe. @MaryKissel, Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State, Executive VP Stephens Inc.
12:30-12:45 #AFGHANISTAN: CIA claims the Taliban "combats" Al Qaeda. Bill Roggio, FDD
12:45-1:00 am #AFGHANISTAN: Who lost Afghanistan? When? Bill Roggio, FDD
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. The show begins in the markets with Liz Peek talking about the cost of money, |
| 0:08.0 | that's the Federal Reserve rate for borrowing money for the best customers, the ordinary citizen trying to |
| 0:17.2 | get a mortgage pays much higher. |
| 0:19.6 | The cost of money and the new anxiety at the Federal Reserve and in Washington about jobs and layoffs. |
| 0:27.4 | There was more of a slowdown than anticipated, and the market went south. It's September. A Fed cut is expected in the next weeks. |
| 0:36.6 | Now there'll be speculation about how much of a Fed cut. One quarter point, one half point, |
| 0:41.9 | another quarter point here, another quarter point there. |
| 0:45.0 | It's the life of the party. |
| 0:47.0 | Berlin, alternative for Dauchland, did very well in former East Germany. Turinjia, Saxony, and expected to do well in Brandenburg |
| 0:57.1 | which borders the capital, Berlin. |
| 1:00.7 | Saxony is the home of Dresden you will recall. |
| 1:03.8 | Turinjia is a rural states. But influential in that the headlines command a |
| 1:11.1 | change of weather in Germany, matching the change of weather in France and Italy and Britain and Netherlands and Spain. |
| 1:19.0 | Europe is going to the right, good for Europe, but at the same time no stomach for adventureism in Ukraine, |
| 1:26.6 | no interest in projecting power against Russia, none whatsoever. |
| 1:30.8 | Back to business. Says the European descent. |
| 1:36.0 | Does the European Union have a foreign policy? |
| 1:38.0 | I asked to the Demse of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. |
| 1:42.0 | It is not clear it has a foreign minister, however, |
| 1:44.8 | Cayacales, former Estonian Prime Minister, a Hawk, very clear speaking. |
| 1:50.8 | To Joe Sternberg in London, the East German boat. speaking. of Schulz's nobody's idea of a leader. We also discuss Sir Kerr-Stormer, the new Prime |
| 2:08.6 | Minister leading an overwhelming labor majority, but there and of languages against the rioters earlier, the word choice painful decisions ahead in a speech |
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