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House. >> inflation under president biden's watch is the highest since the carter administration. >> travelers will use the highest fuel cost in almost a decade gas prices are averaging $3.40 nationwide up a dollar and 29 cents last year aaa expects to see 10% or road trips than airline passengers. despite my flexibility in schedules with more employees working from home experts suggest the busiest travel days will be tuesday and wednesday followed by sunday and monday after thanksgiving. mike: stay home those days, thank you very much. two texas parents were arrested for speaking out at a sch...

To get that. that's what the supply disruptions are like. if you go to a pump, it's $3.40 on average around the country. people think that's high. so they think inflation is moving faster than their wage increases are moving, even though they can now afford to be choosier about what jobs they have. i think there's sort of a broader sense, particularly on the part of democrats, that all this sense of malaise, i think part of it is that they really thought trump would be in the rearview mirror now, you know, and he's not. and he has all these accolades and these trumpsters who are making it clea...

Inflation to normalize by the second half of next year, so for thanksgiving this year your turkey may still be somewhat more expensive. but while inflation is expected to level off, bank of america predicts gas prices will continue to rise. a 7 year high in u.s. at 3.40 a gallon. bank of america warns brent crude oil which drives gas prices could soar to $120 a barrel by next june. that is a 45% higher increase, in fact, than current levels. another oil spike would further raise the cost of living for americans. still to come right here on the show, new allegations of deliberate sabotage o...

Unprecedented stimulus. and in a lot of ways, it was really successful. if anything, the economy has come back so strong that supply hasn't kept up with demand. we've seen price spikes on groceries. the fed kept its foot on the pedal buying $120 billion a month since march of 2020. what's happened today is they say, 19 months later, they're going to ease their foot off the accelerator just a bit. they're slowing these purchases. is the fed responding to inflation fast enough? they're still pumping in money every month, just not as much, but interest rates are still at zero. the wild card is en...

>> a significant reason why prices are up is because of covid affecting the supply chain. you look to this coming thanksgiving, we're in a situation where we find that we are in a very different circumstance. >> we know that price increases are top of mind for consumers. an ap poll finds just 35% of americans now call the national economy good. that's down from 45% in september, and you know it's similar to the beginning of the year before vaccines were widely available to most americans. 65% of americans said the economy is in poor shape. blame the weekly pinch in the pocketbook. inflation is...