S8 Ep211: CALIFORNIA JOB LOSSES AND CHINA'S ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN AMID RETAIL SEASON Colleague Chris Riegel. California's new wage mandates have triggered significant job losses in the fast-food sector, forcing operators to move to lower-tax states. Internationally, wh
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 18 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | My place in tech changes every day, but I don't fear the future, |
| 0:05.0 | because I'm with the leader, Pluralsight. |
| 0:08.0 | Their online learning platform has the hands-on, expert-led courses I need |
| 0:13.0 | to master new tech skills and create bigger impact, |
| 0:17.0 | so I can learn quickly and stay ahead. |
| 0:20.0 | With Pluralsight, I don't quickly and stay ahead. |
| 0:23.3 | With Pluralsight, I don't fear what's next. |
| 0:24.9 | I embrace it. |
| 0:28.3 | Tap in at Pluralsight.com and see for yourself. |
| 0:37.0 | This is CBS On the World. |
| 0:38.2 | I'm John Batchel. |
| 0:39.4 | It is Christmas time. |
| 0:46.1 | And what that means for retail is that we watch Black Friday, Cyber Monday, the Christmas moving, and measure the economy because the American consumer is the economy. |
| 0:51.7 | I welcome my good colleague, Chris Regal, the CEO of Scholar.com. |
| 0:55.9 | This is a scholar report with business on all the occupied continents. The anticipation of |
| 1:01.5 | Thursday, the Thanksgiving Day, to Christmas and then the new year, is everything for setting |
| 1:09.9 | up expectation of the new year. |
| 1:12.2 | The ordering for this season was done last summer. |
| 1:15.1 | So we're not talking about anything outside of how did the store sales go. |
| 1:20.6 | Part of that is to ask how the economy is doing. |
| 1:23.6 | And right now we have a leaning towards a positive report of a diminution in inflation, |
| 1:30.0 | moving towards the 2% that the Federal Reserve Board says is our ambition. All that is good news. |
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