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Herschel Walker joins me at the top of the next hour. That's right. The candidate from Georgia

will be with me. He debates Raphael Warnock tomorrow night in Savannah. He joins me.

For those of you listening in delay, it's the second

hour. For those of you listening live, 106 p.m. Eastern Time. Walker will join me. Now, the big story

of the day is not even in Georgia. Thank goodness. It's not Georgia. The amount of hate I get from

people say, all you do is talk about Georgia. It's kind of the center of the political universe right now. I kind of have to.

The big story of the day is the economy and it's bad. I'm just going to play you a series of audio bits here.

Just so you kind of see, this is what happened around 8.30 this morning. First, we go to

Christine Romans. This is CNN. You know, and that is the big question. The Fed has been raising

interest rates now for months, and these numbers are still near 40-year highs. And when you dig

inside these numbers, and this is what everyone's really paying close attention to this morning, Biana, when you strip out food and energy, that core inflation, annual core inflation, 6.6%. That is the highest since 1982. So that is a fresh 40-year high for core inflation. And month-over-month core inflation, 0.6%. That matches what we saw in August.

Overall inflation, you can see on a line chart how it's off the worst levels that we've seen

earlier this year, maybe showing signs of turning or peaking, and that's what everybody wants

to know, but what you are feeling year over year, gasoline prices up more than 18% from last year, food prices still up 11% and shelter.

You know, shelter prices have been rising, and this is the part of the economy that you can't quickly change.

You can go to different store brands, or you can shop differently and switch out your cuts of meat, right?

If you're a shopper for your grocery bill, much more difficult when you're talking about your housing costs.

Now, these rising prices have been so punishing for so long.

The cost of living adjustment for social security recipients last year, next year we just found out, will be 8.7%.

So the 70 million people who receive a social

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