Good evening. The show begins tonight with inflation.

Inflation is slowing. Is it slowing enough?

I speak with Liz Peek of Fox News and The Hill.

Consumer is also slowing and buying. That might lead to better outcomes for the statistics come

the new year, but the Federal Reserve meeting in these last hours is likely to hold interest

rates where they are, too high for the housing market, too high for

many of the prospects of profits in 2024.

Inflation is slowing, the consumer is slowing.

And then a conversation about Bidenomics which the president presses as an advantage,

despite the metrics that show it is not, despite the opinion of the people he's talking to who believe that things are not better, that Baidnomics has not helped them.

And then we turn to Berlin, Judy Dempsey, commenting on the new Polish government led by Donald

Tusk about to take command of the front line of the front line of NATO,

the same time a country that has worried the European Union with its

illiberalism these last years.

The courts, the way that people are treated there, especially minorities. However, there's a new day in

Poland, all positive. The Trade Agreement, agreement known as Mercosaur, is as Judy

Dempsey of the Carnegie Endowment tells me, on hold and a disappointment.

Blame around the table. No deal between South American countries and European countries.

It turns on agriculture. France and other countries, it turns on agriculture.

France and other countries are eager to protect their farmers,

especially because the farmers participate in opposition to say, Mr. McCrown.

Off to the New World Report with Av Ellis of the US Army War College.

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