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jon stewart sounding off on senate republicans after they blocked a bipartisan bill aimed at expanding health benefits to veterans exposed to toxins in war zones. the question is, why did 25 republicans who supported a previous version of the bill change their vote to know? stuart, an outspoken advocate for military veterans will join us later this morning. we are following new developments with the january 6th committee. top aides to former president donald trump testifying between cl...

Was literally off this chart. you can see that in every recession since 1957, you have had a material increase in on employment. all those black bars going up are essentially the amount by which unemployment went up in percentage points, as you can see on the left. then you look over on the right, and you see our little turquoise bar, which actually shows unemployment going down over the last two quarters. completely contrary to a recession. as you can see, 3.6 percent unemployment rate. just la...

Now acknowledging it is a more serious problems. the turquoise bar is what they think will be inflation at the end of next year, 4.3 percent. as recently as december, just three months ago, they were projecting 2.6%. the consequence of that is theyre now projecting substantially higher interest rates at the end of this year as well as next year, up 1.9% versus less than a percent, what they thought before. then have then therefore taken down their expectation for gdp, slowing the economy as you ...

Could be put on. and the reason for that is simply because russia is a major exporter of a lot of things that the west needs. obviously youve heard a lot about oil and gas. that is the turquoise bar, the turquoise pie chart to your left, but they also export a number of commodities that are central to things that get made outside of russia, for example, the worlds largest exporter of palladium, 40% comes from russia. you might say what is so important about palladium. its in the catalytic conver...