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This is CBS, I on the world. I'm John Bachelor. The Business of America is small business. I welcome my colleague and friend Jean Marks, the Small Business columnist for the Guardian newspaper UK and US Edition, as well as our

hometown newspaper, the Philadelphia Inquirer, looking at the national economy these last days,

looking as the price of money remains the highest in more than two decades.

That's what the interest rate represents, the price of money, making it extremely challenging

when you see a for sale sign turn into sale pending you go,

wow boy they risked everything taking a seven or eight or nine percent interest

rate. However, Jean a very good evening to you. Wholesale prices

rose 0.5 percent in April more than expected. That is not a good direction, Gene,

but you've anticipated this for some time with your national

tours visiting alliances and associations where the two complaints, two observations of

very good business people are we can't find enough good workers and

our resources are too expensive good evening to you Jane yeah hi John is it you know we've you and I have been talking about the PPI, the producer price index for, you know, for years now.

All the focus has been on the consumer price index this past week, which dropped a tiny bit this month, was good news and actually that's what

sparked such a rally on Wall Street you know people are expecting we're hoping for

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