I'm John Bachelor. Jim McTague, former Washington editor of Barron's magazine, on the road.

He's now in Indiana. We're going to get him there via B. W.I. and Midway Airfield and everything

in between, because the Federal Reserve has hesitated

one more time to lower interest rates, the highest cost of borrowing money in

more than two decades. However, the expectation is there is a slowdown in some

fashion, a slowdown in inflation, a slowdown in employment, a slowdown in

confidence, that's the assumption expectation.

However, Jim, a very good day to you, you're in Sureville, Indiana.

You got there via B. W.I. at Midway Airfield. What did you see about the spending of Americans it flying from

from Maryland to Illinois and then driving to Indiana.

Good day to you, Jim.

Good day, John.

You know, I see strong spending and an uptick in great thing.

It's funny, I got on the plane, a Southwest plane in BUI, and some of my fellow passengers

were 200 African American members, senior citizens of the Salem Baptist Church from Chicago that they

had been touring Washington DC the sites. They're very typical of the seniors I see in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Hey, we are spending our Social Security money on travel and fun. I talked to one of the travelers Clyde.

He worked in a hospital for 37 years he's been all over the world I mean he's he's

not sitting still so so there's a you know the senior population regardless of your color are doing well when I got

into Chicago I took the shuttle bus to the car rental and the shuttle bus driver was complaining

to me he said the taxes in Chicago are too high and they're

jacking up the cost of everything. He complained about gas in Chicago which is

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