Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. Wish you were here. Follow the price of Paradise Now wherever

you listen to podcasts. This is a series

a series of the world. I'm John Bachelor.

Welcoming my dear colleague Jean Marks, the Rogue Warrior,

the small business columnist for the Guardian newspaper,

UK and US Edition, as well as our hometown newspaper, the Philadelphia Inquire.

Gene's been on the road looking at America in this period where we don't know is this a

recovery is this a soft landing the Federal Reserve promised us but gee a very good

evening to you.

I find that in the time that you've been away,

the doubts have come from the Federal Reserve,

from the Biden administration, from Congress. Doubts that very much pick up on things you heard

anecdotally all the time you were traveling this year so far.

So I'm going to propose that what we're about to hear from you is a foretelling of where we're going.

We're going to start with your trip to Bristol, Connecticut, the Connecticut Manufacturing Association.

I sit here in Connecticut and I'm most curious about their confidence.

Good evening to you, Gene.

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