#LANCASTER: "Shady Maple Smorgasbord" mostly empty at 11 AM on a weekday suggesting a sluggish start to the tourist season. And a slowed economy. Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barrons. @MCTagueJ. Author of the "Martin and Twyla Boundary Serie
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🗓️ 23 March 2024
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#LANCASTER: "Shady Maple Smorgasbord" mostly empty at 11 AM on a weekday suggesting a sluggish start to the tourist season. And a slowed economy. Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barrons. @MCTagueJ. Author of the "Martin and Twyla Boundary Series." #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. This is a CBSI and the world I'm John Bachelor to Lancaster County the best county in the Keystone State the |
| 0:25.7 | best state the one that will determine the election but right now we're |
| 0:29.4 | joined by Jim McTague former Washington editor of Barron's Now, and Denison of Lancaster County, he's |
| 0:36.0 | the one in the Red E.V. Tesla, darting around the highway if you're listening to me in Lancaster that's Jim he |
| 0:43.9 | assures me it's the only red Tesla certainly the only red Tesla that Hertz gave to |
| 0:48.6 | him is a bargain however he loves it and he's keen on developing the economy of Lancaster as a way |
| 0:57.1 | of watching the economy of the United States. |
| 1:00.1 | Mr. McTegga, very good evening to you. |
| 1:01.5 | The Federal Reserve needs to know what you know. |
| 1:04.4 | The Federal Reserve is now promising there will be three cuts, but not yet, not yet. |
| 1:10.1 | The economy right now, housing, everything seems paused, hesitant, waiting for the rates |
| 1:19.8 | to be reversed in some fashion from their highest point in 23 years. You have said |
| 1:25.6 | summertime. Have you any reason to revise that now the Fed is promising |
| 1:30.3 | three cuts between now and election day we presume. |
| 1:34.0 | Good evening to you, Jim. |
| 1:35.0 | Good evening, John. |
| 1:36.0 | Yeah, I see air coming out of the economic blimp. |
| 1:40.0 | We have a leak. |
| 1:41.0 | I had been betting that the Fed wouldn't cut until August, going to the strength of inflation. |
| 1:48.0 | But as I look around I Hister County, which has a huge tourist- driven economy, people coming up to see the Amish. |
| 1:58.0 | Something's not quite right so far this tourist season which started March 14th. |
| 2:05.0 | There aren't a lot of tourists so and when I talked to small businessmen at |
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