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Workers see it very differently. Job security would be nice if they keep this place open. We dont really have a car. Its scheduled to close. I just need a future. I dont mind working hard to get it, either, but give us something. A lot of news to get to that hour including that important strike, but we begin with uncertainty after this weekends attack on Oil Facilities inside saudi arabia. We, of course, are watching oil prices. Crude oil prices spiking after they effectively were slashed in pri...

View. >> its what hes seeing that is right behind the corner. consumer spending has held up but it is slowing. business investment is slowing. inflation has just started to ease, but not nearly enough for the fed to feel confident that inflation is significantly moving in the right direction. to your point, we did get new inflation data today that showed that inflation is easing up. monthly inflation actually declined 0.1 of a percent. core inflation rose 0.1 of a percent so we are dealing with ...

>> greg, its clear the fed chair does not want to understate the economic environment. last year he mistakenly, he admitted himself, calling inflation transitory. that having been said, we all understand this is a very unusual economy right now. i guess the question is does he have the right tools at his disposal to deal with it? >> well, he made the point that not all this inflation is a result of excess demand, and excess demand is the only thing the fed can deal with by raising interest rates...

Yachts, and this is a nearly 300-foot ship seized in the south of france, and its valued at $120 million. right now the administration is debating whether to block russian energy imports. joining me now is greg ipp, chief economics commentator for the "wall street journal." greg, a big question here not just about whether sanctions can work against putin, but really do they work at all? this is probably the most significant effort to curtail a major nation, a major economy. do you think this wil...

John. >> nic robertson in saudi arabia. great to have you at the capital in this sensitive time. callie at wood, michael bender and greg ipp. the president says, i want to hear from the kingdom. what do they believe? the saudis are coming up with the same thing mike pompeo said, iran did this. if iran did this, what will the response be? >> thats what theyre talking about at the white house today. it is interesting to see there are a number of principals meetings happening at the white house. it...

They would not say how many flights or passengers were affected. one was christine romans. the star of "early start." stuck in washington, d.c. apparently completely unaware that things such as trains and cars and buses also exist. only flights from washington to new york apparently. she was down there to host a policy debate. economic debate with the trump campaign and the clinton campaign. she was joined by greg ipp and steven moore. the clinton economic adviser on behalf of the secretary of s...

Moderator. that is why she was in washington, d.c. she was joined at the moderators table by greg ipp from the wall street journal. trump economic advisor warren spurling. romans asked how a trump administration would achieve their goal of 4% economic growth. >> first of all, if trump wins, he will have a republican congress. we will be able to pass at least our business tax within the first 100 to 150 days. we will have a stack of executive orders he can sign that can undo a lot of the executiv...

Is a transatlantic sport. here to tell us about the governments stylings and strategies is greg ipp. thank you for putting up with that somewhat ridiculous intro. but your premise here is basically the dysfunction that sort of defined europe. manifesting itself in the united states. can you take us through what youre trying to argue there? >> sure. i mean anybody following the economic debate here in washington for a couple of years hearing the fed chairman or the treasury secretary and sometime...

Debt somewhat lower than americas. the share of gdp. its a distribution of the debt thats a problem. you have the counties in the south and northern countries that dont want to pick up the tab for it and the nexus of the problem, a dispute of how to get paid for. you know, if you think about it, thats a little bit of what we have going on here. neither democrats or republicans disagree theres a debt problem and nobody really disagrees that the problem is fixable as the numbers you quoted tell us...

Of the next election telling the elderly that their sacred programs are cut back so i think the next piece is harder than the last one that was about taxes. >> greg, i wasnt trying to make a point there. i thought you said republicans and meant democrats. i wasnt trying to sort of be a, you know, pushy there. i was trying to get it right. >> thats all right. >> okay. >> all right. we have cleared that up. greg, sorry to leave you hanging there. thank you. americas biggest problems are hurdling a...