TONIGHT: The show starts in Maui's firestorm and ranges to the nuclear fire deteriorating at ZNPP. Looking in on Lancaster County, PA and Pisa, Italy. Talk about the new Omicron variant moving quickly ahead of a vaccine.And more on the 17th Century revo
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 12 August 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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TONIGHT: The show starts in Maui's firestorm and ranges to the nuclear fire deteriorating at ZNPP. Looking in on Lancaster County, PA and Pisa, Italy. Talk about the new Omicron variant moving quickly ahead of a vaccine.And more on the 17th Century revolutions in Mother Britain.
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| 0:00.0 | At TFL, we're making journeys safer for everyone, and that includes improving safety on London's roads. |
| 0:07.4 | That's why we and London boroughs are lowering more speed limits to 20 miles per hour, |
| 0:12.3 | because 20 miles per hour roads have already reduced collisions resulting in deaths or |
| 0:16.8 | serious injuries by 24%. That is how we're making journeys in London safer and brighter for everyone. |
| 0:24.8 | Such TFL improvement plan to the Mayor of London and TFL every journey matters. |
| 0:30.0 | Good evening. Tonight on the show I speak with my colleague Jean Marks, a small business columnist |
| 0:36.0 | for a number of distinguished publications. About the state of the economy in the United States, |
| 0:41.8 | the Federal Reserve says no recession. Federal Reserve does not meet again till September, |
| 0:47.0 | to adjust the interest rates in order to cool inflation, which may be cooling right now, however. |
| 0:52.9 | Jean brings forward a couple of facts that are difficult to explain if we're booming or growing |
| 1:01.6 | or okay. One is a sharp decline, profound decline, catastrophe, |
| 1:08.0 | decline in sales of RVs, recreation vehicles, 49% decline. America not feeling confident. |
| 1:17.8 | It's been hundreds of thousands of dollars on a dream machine and drive back and forth across |
| 1:23.6 | America. Also a statistic. Right now what we have from the economy is a growth story from the |
| 1:33.4 | Atlanta Federal Reserve, saying more than four point, more than four percent growth in the |
| 1:38.7 | third quarter. And yet small businessmen, when pulled, small business people, when pulled, |
| 1:45.2 | believed the future is not bright and their costs are even gloomy and pessimistic. |
| 1:51.6 | Jean asks them why and the explanation is cost, i.e. inflation. So there's a mixed picture |
| 1:59.6 | about the future. Federal Reserve says no recession. Small business, say, be careful. I also speak with |
| 2:08.6 | Josh Rogan, the Washington Post, about his conversation with Chris Christie, former governor of |
| 2:15.4 | New Jersey who just returned from Keefe where he visited with President Zelensky. Chris Christie |
| 2:21.3 | makes the excellent point that the Republican parties candidates have not been vivid about what |
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