TONIGHT:The show begins in NYC with an update on the migrant shelter chaos, then moves quickly to the paradoxical economy of growth and worry. From Princeton and Penn and Harvard to Haifa; from Pittsburgh to Beijing; from Boca Chica to Jezero Crater on M
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:28.9 | excused in terms. Good evening. This is John Bashar. The show tonight begins in the southern |
| 0:34.0 | border of the United States. The migrants continue to pour across the border and |
| 0:39.2 | many of them heading for New York. I speak with Harry Siegel of the city, |
| 0:43.3 | asking if the city updated its planning. And the answer is no. 30 days for a sum to get out of |
| 0:50.8 | the shelter, 60 days for other, and what happens when you get out of the shelter? You're told to go |
| 0:55.3 | to another shelter entirely in the Bronx or in Brooklyn out in Long Island on a former airfield. |
| 1:02.2 | Harry says there's no plan. They're hoping that the migrants will find their way to another place |
| 1:07.8 | and not stay in Manhattan or in Brooklyn or in Queens. Harry worries that we're looking at |
| 1:14.0 | as the weather turns. We're going to have young people, families, not just single men, |
| 1:19.1 | sleeping on the street. I also speak to Jim McTay, former Washington editor of Barons, |
| 1:25.0 | about the economy and the markets. The markets are showing that there's good consumption. We boomers |
| 1:30.8 | are buying, but at the same time the big growth number of the third quarter not likely to be sustained. |
| 1:37.0 | We don't have a lot of layoffs. We don't have people not spending money. The retail number is |
| 1:41.3 | strong. The housing market is very weak. Jim estimates there is a recession possible. The |
| 1:46.8 | Federal Reserve will be obliged to raise once more, perhaps twice more in the next year. |
| 1:51.8 | There is an unwritten guideline that you don't raise rates in an election year. It would be |
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