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Put some water efficiency labels on appliances and we can tackle leakage on the consumer side of our water pipe system and their various things we can do that don't involve big infrastructural projects like building a new reservoir. the governments target under the new environment act is to reduce the water and supply by 20% by 2037. so, while all these savings can make individual he will go a long way to help, including the water companies reducing the leakage in the network. you mentioned infrastructure, is there more that can be done in a plate in a very unscientific way. try to capture and...

Paul: you know the way monetary policy has influence on inflation, what's your advice to the federal reserve after the latest inflation numbers? they have to speed up there rates to increase? >> they do. they are so far behind the curve, i'm not sure they even see it. the nile the last year with them i think in a pickle, unless they are just hoping for a recession that isn't too harsh or long but they will have to get more aggressive they are serious. last month, we look at inflation year-over-year but last month numbers translate if they hold, almost 17% inflation on the consumer side and clo...

>> so what is the problem on the consumer side? i imagine there are similar sly chain chain issues, but you don't need a license to set off a fireworks in the backyard in. >> the consumer industry is just fine, relative to the professional side. we have lots of supply. we fixed a lot of issues, we're using different ports around the country, places like mobile, savannah, georgia, galveston, texas, long view, washington. many of the ports have opened up to our goods. consumer fireworks inventories are very strong. the hardest thing to wrap all of our hands around is the massive increase in ship...

Spending. they're pulling back on haircuts, salon appointments, manicures, pedicures, buying cars, all sorts of things. and that spending is down not just on goods but on services. talk a little bit about how long, if you can predict the future, how long do you think consumers are going to have to pare back in order to deal with the inflation that's shooing up their wage increases? >> you know, partly, he never asked gonna condiments for prediction of the future. there are still arguing about trying to predict things that already happened. but if you think about the consumer side, it's importa...

Made here and they are use, proud of this, american products. so they're saying one of the problems is people go online and not sure. this came from another country, maybe from china, somewhere else. is this really an n95? here because they have fda supervision they can't do anything other than provide the product that they say they're providing. if you're looking for a mask and you want to get an n95 mask and then you want to make sure it's an american made, it's a lot of work on the consumer side to try to find the mask that you want to wear. this is form fitting. it's hot. you can hear my v...