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Yeah, we got Taylor Swift tickets today. Oh, and yeah, the global economy too. From American public

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In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Rizdo. It is Thursday, today, the 17th of November. It is always to have

you along. Everybody, we are going to begin today with a little transatlantic. He said, he said,

kind of a bellweather of where the global and American economies are right now as distilled into

two quotations. Over in the UK, the chancellor of the ex-checker, Jeremy Hunt said this morning

that the UK economy is now in recession. That's the quote. It came as Hunt took the wraps off the

new government's new fiscal plan after the, well, I guess you might say adverse market reaction to

former chancellor quasi-quartons plan. That market reaction in case you'd forgotten was,

was very not good actually on a brighter note for the Brits. The pound today costs $1.19 up from

like $1.3 a month or two ago. Quartan number two on this Thursday comes from Jim Bullard. He's the

president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Also, this year, a voting member of the

interest rate setting, Federal Open Market Committee. Bullard said today, and this is a quote again,

I think we're going to want to err on the side of staying higher for longer. Higher, of course,

meaning interest rates and longer, you know, meaning longer fed meats in about a month from now,

middle of December. Okay, completely changing gears. I've got a friend who's got a friend who's

got six, count them six Taylor Swift tickets. I am unaware of the technological alchemy this person

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