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The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | At Honda we've been listening out for inspiration and discovered something everyone wants in a car. |
| 0:07.0 | Nothing. |
| 0:08.0 | So, introducing the Honda HRV hybrid. |
| 0:12.0 | The exterior is very nothingy, just beautiful, clean lines |
| 0:17.0 | front to back and you don't need a key or fob so there's nothing to forget or lose. You can do everything with your phone. |
| 0:24.4 | In the back it's all about nothingness with its leg room views and seats that can |
| 0:28.8 | disappear making way for even more nothingness, the HIV hybrid. |
| 0:34.2 | Nothing to it really. |
| 0:36.0 | While I will listening take us next, |
| 0:38.0 | Honda The Power of Dreams. |
| 0:40.2 | Good evening. |
| 0:41.8 | The show starts tonight with jobs and job openings. I speak with Liz Peek. |
| 0:47.0 | The Federal Reserves raising interest rates as quickly as it did from the spring of 22 to the |
| 0:52.4 | summer of 23. |
| 0:55.3 | Move the markets in unpredictable fashion. |
| 0:58.6 | And one of the contraries that we've dealt with for months now is that the jobs numbers are very good. |
| 1:05.0 | Americans are working, fully employed even more than that. |
| 1:10.0 | And yet, the Federal Reserve keeps raising rates expecting people to be laid off. |
| 1:15.0 | That is a sign, an old-fashioned sign, of a slowdown in the economy which is meant to translate into a showdown |
| 1:24.4 | with interest charged for mortgages and for car loans for everything, making |
| 1:31.4 | everything more expensive. It hasn't happened. The jobs numbers continue strong. |
| 1:37.8 | Much attention now to job openings. There are fewer job openings than there were when the Federal Reserve started raising rates. |
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