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TONIGHT: The show begins on Wall Street fretting the Fed promise to cut rates in2024. Four times? Three?kr, When? By May? Then to the two major parties fretting the candidates. To Berlin, to Brussels, to Kyiv and Gaza.To Estonia where the Kremlin threa

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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TONIGHT: The show begins on Wall Street fretting the Fed promise to cut rates in2024. Four times? Three?kr, When? By May? Then to the two major parties fretting the candidates. To Berlin, to Brussels, to Kyiv and Gaza.To Estonia where the Kremlin threatens to arrest the PM. To DC where Ukraine aid is denied. To Fiji and Fax Oceania. To Buckingham Palace to wave cheer to the King.

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0:00.0

We all have a fire inside us. It gives us energy and spirit to do the things we love.

0:06.0

Every morning we get to feed that fire and set ourselves up for the day with a warming

0:10.8

and satisfying bowl of Quaker oats.

0:13.0

Because when we feed it right, when it's fully ablaze,

0:18.0

we can take on anything the day might bring.

0:20.0

Feed more than just your body.

0:24.6

Feed the fire inside.

0:27.6

Quaker oats.

0:29.6

Good evening, this is John Battler.. The show begins tonight in speculation about the Federal Reserve.

0:37.0

A new number and inflation number suggests there will be a delay of the three promised cuts beginning in May. I spoke with Liz Peek.

0:46.4

We agreed that anything after July would look very partisan, would be partisan, in favor of

0:51.8

the incumbent. therefore May, June July, that's the guess.

0:58.4

Off to the markets obsessing the two men running for president, both senior figures, both with unusual limitations.

1:09.6

And then to Berlin, where energy costs are draining the confidence of the German people in addition to pushing

1:16.3

businesses to leave Germany for less expensive energy and for more continuity. The energy story is at the end of the

1:26.8

second year of the war not going to cure itself. Germany is subsidized, it's lifting the subsidies. The farmers are

1:34.9

protesting. Used to be the engine, the manufacturer, the banker of the

1:40.3

European Union will again, but not right now and then how does Europe see

1:45.4

Mr Biden and Mr Trump I speak with duty Dempsey of the Carnegie Endowment for

1:50.5

international peace in Berlin about this.

1:53.3

They don't see them well at this point, they're worried.

1:56.8

Bradley Bowman joins to comment on Ukraine, on Gaza, not war, not peace for the U.S Kremlin threatening Estonia what is to be done and

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