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The Fox News Rundown

Jobless Claims Hit Pandemic Low, But Delta Is Shaking Consumers

The Fox News Rundown

FOX News Podcasts

News, Daily News, Politics

3.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The U.S. economy continued to bounce back this month, bringing jobless claims to a low for the pandemic, however, the market and businesses still have a long road to recovery. Inflation continues to rise despite assurance from the Federal Reserve that the inflation would be only transitory, multiple industries are facing labor shortages due to a record number of Americans leaving their jobs and the Delta variant is spreading quickly throughout the country. Associate Editor at The Wall Street Journal John Bussey joins to explain how jobless claims can decrease while American workers are quitting at record rates, the way the Delta variant will impact consumer spending habits, and strong signals from the Fed that the inflation the U.S. is facing is not as temporary as originally expected. Throughout American history, some events have remained unexplained or at least subject to debate. Some famous conspiracy theories that still get attention to this day include D.B. Cooper, President John F. Kennedy’s assassination and Area 51. Best-selling author and FOX Nation host Brad Meltzer joins to talk about his new FOX Nation series, “Greatest Conspiracies OF All Time.” He explains why Americans especially are obsessed with them and if he thinks in a few years from now if we will be doing a deep dive into the coronavirus lab leak in Wuhan, China. Plus, commentary by Guy Benson, host of the Guy Benson Show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Brett Bear. I'm Maria Bartiromo. I'm Brian Kilmeade and this is the Fox News rundown.

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Monday, August 23rd, 2021.

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I'm Alex Hogan. Record numbers of Americans are quitting their jobs but

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jobless claims are down so how did we get here and concerns rise over the delta

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variant of COVID ravaging businesses once again.

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There's a lot of anxiety that's re-emerged in the consumer base and that's causing people

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to pull in their spending again.

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I'm Lisa Brady.

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A lot of us love a good mystery, but our attraction to conspiracy theories might run much

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deeper.

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In this fight and war over the truth that America is having, you know, what you're seeing

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is people's fears because it's much easier to believe that there's a big grand conspiracy out there than it is to believe the truth.

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And I'm Guy Benson.

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