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Speaker 5: Thanks for tuning in as we wind up our week
Speaker 5: here on America's Trucking Network. Start off quickly with a
Speaker 5: little bit of a weather report updating you on Tropical
Speaker 5: Storm Jerry, expected to be near the Northern Leeward Islands
Speaker 5: later tonight. Tropical storm warning issued for Barbuda. The way
Speaker 5: this is looking again, it doesn't look like it's going
Speaker 5: to be coming near the United States.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: The path of this thing looked like it was going
Speaker 5: to head towards the you know, Caribbean, Cuba, Haiti, those
Speaker 5: areas there, Dominican Republic. As it started approaching that, it
Speaker 5: seems to be taking a northerly turn. It's going to
Speaker 5: go across some of the islands itself, but the way
Speaker 5: it's projected, it's going to take an actual easterly, almost
Speaker 5: like a right turn the way the pattern is going,
Speaker 5: and it's more and more apparent that that's going to happen.
Speaker 5: We may see a little bit of storm surge on
Speaker 5: the east coast, and those people in North Carolina, low
Speaker 5: lying areas, South Carolina and so on may see some
Speaker 5: swells there, but not much, which is good news considering
Speaker 5: we have not had knock on Wood a direct hit
Speaker 5: and during this hurricane season. Yesterday morning, when we were
Speaker 5: on the air, it was started the news started to
Speaker 5: break about a possible signing of a peace treaty between
Speaker 5: Hamas and Israel. I didn't want to talk about it
Speaker 5: right away because so many times there has been well,
Speaker 5: it appears as though this is going to happen, and
Speaker 5: then it kind of fades away and somebody backs out
Speaker 5: at the last minute. But apparently there has been a
Speaker 5: deal struck between Israel and Hamas, broken by Donald Trump,
Speaker 5: I might add, which is interesting because once again something
Speaker 5: that people said couldn't be done is being done. The
Speaker 5: details need to be worked out now. Yesterday morning, when
Speaker 5: we were on the air, they talked about that the
Speaker 5: hostages could possibly be released as early as Monday. That
Speaker 5: has now been pushed up to as possibly as early
Speaker 5: as Saturday.
Speaker 4: And forty eight remaining hostages.
Speaker 5: They believe are still alive, and there are some twenty
Speaker 5: that are possibly dead, and they're going to be returning
Speaker 5: those bodies as well. But the fact that they actually
Speaker 5: got to this point is absolutely astounding, given the fact
Speaker 5: that how entrenched Hamas is and a lot.
Speaker 4: Of the.
Speaker 5: Surrounding Arab countries signed off on this and said, we
Speaker 5: think this is the path forward, this is what we
Speaker 5: think Hamas ought to do. Now, I'm taking this with
Speaker 5: a grain of salt, because as we've seen in the past,
Speaker 5: every time there's been some sort of a peace tree,
Speaker 5: it's been when the well, the Palestinians or whoever has
Speaker 5: attacked Israel has gotten their butt kicked so severely that they.
Speaker 4: Say, all right, we want to have peace.
Speaker 5: We want to have peace, you know, we want to
Speaker 5: establish a piece of cord. And all that does is
Speaker 5: the only thing that does is give them an opportunity
Speaker 5: to retool, re arm themselves so that they can come
Speaker 5: back and strike again. Hopefully this will annihilate or eliminate
Speaker 5: Hamas and keep them in check, and hopefully the other
Speaker 5: Arab countries will say enough is enough, let's stop this crap.
Speaker 4: But according to.
Speaker 5: What's come out, Israel Palestinian militant group Hamas signed an
Speaker 5: agreement on Thursday to cease file fire and free Israeli
Speaker 5: hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners in the first phase
Speaker 5: of the US Donald Trump. The first phase of US
Speaker 5: Donald Trump's attempt to end the war in Gaza under
Speaker 5: fighting under the let me see fighting will Under the agreement,
Speaker 5: fighting will cease, Israel will partially withdraw from Gaza, and
Speaker 5: Hamas will free all remaining hostages. It captured the attack
Speaker 5: that precipitated the war back on October seventh, twenty twenty three.
Speaker 5: Now again looking at this and seeing how this has
Speaker 5: unfolded and the way Hamas, the Palestinians, etc. Have treated
Speaker 5: their neighbor. You know, in the past, Israel has been
Speaker 5: willing to give up. I mean there was a time
Speaker 5: back in what was at the early two thousands, when
Speaker 5: you had the West Bank, you had Gaza, and you
Speaker 5: had the Goal on Heights. Israel made an effort to
Speaker 5: give away ninety eight percent of the territory that the
Speaker 5: Palestinians wanted, and they turned the offer down. And every
Speaker 5: time there has been an opportunity for peace, the Palestinians
Speaker 5: have chosen war. They have chosen to continue attacks, continue
Speaker 5: to fire rockets into Israel, and especially there after October
Speaker 5: the seventh, once they invaded, killed over twelve hundred and
Speaker 5: thirteen hundred Israelis.
Speaker 4: Israel had had enough. I have heard the Israelis say.
Speaker 5: More often than not that they are willing to give
Speaker 5: up as much land as they can in exchange for peace.
Speaker 5: They are willing, and in this deal they're going to
Speaker 5: want the Palestinians are going to wind up with hundreds
Speaker 5: hundreds of prisoners return, people who've been captured during the war,
Speaker 5: people who are known terrorists, people who, if you had
Speaker 5: a trial, would probably.
Speaker 4: Get a death sentence.
Speaker 5: These people are terrorists, but they're going to release them
Speaker 5: because they value their citizens' lives more than the Palestinians do.
Speaker 5: So in order to get their hostages in Israel, Israel's
Speaker 5: hostages back, they will do anything they can. As a
Speaker 5: matter of fact, You've got the holiest city in the world, Jerusalem.
Speaker 5: Jerusalem is the is the birthplace of Judaism or the
Speaker 5: home of Judaism, the home of Catholicism, and has been
Speaker 5: one of the biggest homes for the Muslim world. Israel
Speaker 5: has been willing to split that city in half and
Speaker 5: give half of it to the Arabs in their own
Speaker 5: country in order to obtain peace, and every time the
Speaker 5: olive branches turned out there, it's been slapped away. Hopefully
Speaker 5: there is something in this deal that keeps Hamasid, keeps
Speaker 5: them under wraps, keeps them out of power, and forces
Speaker 5: the leadership into exile into other countries, and hopefully the
Speaker 5: other Arab countries will say enough is enough. We've had
Speaker 5: it with you people. We want peace in this area.
Speaker 5: So we'll see how this all turns out. In the
Speaker 5: matter of the government shutdown, it's amazing. We're now in
Speaker 5: the tenth day by the way of the government shutdown,
Speaker 5: and I would say for the average citizen, you probably
Speaker 5: don't even know that there is a government shutdown because
Speaker 5: some of the stuff that you do on a normal
Speaker 5: basis doesn't really rely on the federal government for any
Speaker 5: of this. Although that doesn't stop a lot of the
Speaker 5: stories that come out as to well, what's going to
Speaker 5: be affected and how's this going to be treated and
Speaker 5: what numbers are we going to have problems as far
Speaker 5: as payment's going out.
Speaker 4: Now, what I will say is that.
Speaker 5: There are a lot of federal workers that will have
Speaker 5: been furloughed that because there's not a funding mechanism that
Speaker 5: was put into place.
Speaker 1: Before the furlough or before.
Speaker 4: The shutdown, these people are not going to get paid.
Speaker 5: It outrages me that Congress is going to continue to
Speaker 5: get paid because they, quote unquote are considered essential workers.
Speaker 5: Which that's a story for another day, but the air
Speaker 5: traffic controllers are not considered well, they're considered essential.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Supposedly you've got the essential workers that get paid the
Speaker 5: non essential workers that don't get paid. Air traffic controllers
Speaker 5: must be some sort of a hybrid because they're they're
Speaker 5: essential workers, but they're not getting paid during this period
Speaker 5: of time. And we're starting to see a lot of airlines,
Speaker 5: a lot of air traffic being tied up because people
Speaker 5: have been calling in sick. There's a high turn there's
Speaker 5: a high incidence of people calling in sick. Now, this
Speaker 5: bothers me from the standpoint that first of all, there
Speaker 5: should be funding mechanism in there, that the air traffic
Speaker 5: controlers should be considered paid essential workers and they should
Speaker 5: not have to show up to work without getting a paycheck.
Speaker 5: The other thing is is that even though they're not
Speaker 5: getting a paycheck, I just can't imagine that my job
Speaker 5: is responsible for these air traffic safety in a particular airport.
Speaker 5: And I'm as a little protest. And we all know
Speaker 5: that this is one of those things where my wife
Speaker 5: always tells me that I'm in the process of a
Speaker 5: thought and I interrupt myself. But this is a situation
Speaker 5: where the people that are furloughed, they are going to
Speaker 5: get when they come back. Not only are they going
Speaker 5: to get paid, but they're going to get their back
Speaker 5: pay during the period that they were off. At this
Speaker 5: point in time, can collect unemployment insurance, and I would
Speaker 5: think that these air traffic controllers, if they're not getting paid,
Speaker 5: should be able to receive some compensation from unemployment.
Speaker 4: I'll finish my thought on this coming up.
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Speaker 7: something and you want a settlement with things that have
Speaker 7: nothing to do with what you sued for, it's hard
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Speaker 7: And I can tell you that listen, willing able, nobody
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Speaker 5: I'm Kevin Bran and Americastruck a network seven hundred WLW
Speaker 5: I was talking about out the government shutdown and how
Speaker 5: that's going to affect different workers and so on, and
Speaker 5: I kept interrupting myself with a different thought. I'd start
Speaker 5: a sentence and then interrupt myself and go off on
Speaker 5: a tangent. But the bottom line is is that one
Speaker 5: of the areas that is extremely important is air traffic controllers.
Speaker 5: The fact that they are considered essential workers and have
Speaker 5: to show up for work, but they're not going to
Speaker 5: get paid. While we've got Congress that never does anything,
Speaker 5: but they're considered an essential worker and they do get paid.
Speaker 5: That I don't understand when during the government shutdown, Congress.
Speaker 4: Shouldn't get paid either.
Speaker 5: Maybe that would put them back to work a lot sooner,
Speaker 5: and maybe they'd be a little bit more interested in compromise,
Speaker 5: in coming up with some sort of an agreement to
Speaker 5: actually pass a budget and to balance the budget at
Speaker 5: some point in time.
Speaker 4: But that's the story for another day.
Speaker 5: But I can't imagine because we're hearing there's situations where
Speaker 5: air traffic controllers are calling in sick. It's disrupting a
Speaker 5: lot of the flights around the country. It's backing things up, delays, cancelations,
Speaker 5: and so on.
Speaker 4: I understand not wanting.
Speaker 5: You know, if you're not getting paid, then you know
Speaker 5: how happy you're going to be to go to work.
Speaker 5: But I can't imagine a situation where my job is
Speaker 5: to be an air traffic controller where I have hundreds
Speaker 5: of people, thousands of people per day whose lives depend
Speaker 5: on me watching the radar screen and getting them off
Speaker 5: the ground safely and return to the ground safely, and
Speaker 5: the fact that somebody would call in sick as kind
Speaker 5: of a protest because I'm not getting paid. So if
Speaker 5: I'm not getting paid, I don't care about my job.
Speaker 5: I don't know that I could rest easy or feel
Speaker 5: comfortable knowing that the possibility of my not being there
Speaker 5: could actually lead to an air crash or a plane crashing,
Speaker 5: something along those lines, two planes colliding or whatever. I
Speaker 5: just don't know how they do that and how they
Speaker 5: rationalize in their head they are going to get their
Speaker 5: pay when they come back. They're not losing anything. The
Speaker 5: way unemployment is set up, it's set up that if
Speaker 5: you're not getting a paycheck, if you're not getting cash
Speaker 5: that week, you can file for unemployment. So even though
Speaker 5: these guys are actually these people air traffic controllers are
Speaker 5: on the job, they're not getting paid, so they would
Speaker 5: qualify for unemployment insurance. It's not matching their salary, but
Speaker 5: it's something. It's not like they're going to not get anything.
Speaker 5: So that whole thing's going on. But when we see
Speaker 5: these stories about well, what's going to be affected? What's
Speaker 5: not going to be affected? And I love this headline
Speaker 5: because when I read it, you know, when you pull
Speaker 5: up a story, and especially on your phone, sometimes it'll
Speaker 5: only have a certain number of words and then there'll
Speaker 5: be that dot dot dot dot dot at the end
Speaker 5: that means there's something more to it. Now, could you
Speaker 5: have stretched this headline out far enough to make it
Speaker 5: seem like it's something that it's not?
Speaker 4: Here is the headline government shut down.
Speaker 5: Could delay Yearlysocial securitypayment dot dot dot. If you'd see
Speaker 5: that on your phone, what's what would to be missing
Speaker 5: is announcement. The whole headline is government shutdown could delay
Speaker 5: yearly Social Security payment announcement. So that's a very long headline,
Speaker 5: but it puts in your head that the shutdown could
Speaker 5: delay Social Security checks. And all this is saying is
Speaker 5: that one they determine, you know, every year that the
Speaker 5: Social Security. You know, when somebody's on Social Security. Every
Speaker 5: year they have what's a COLA. It's a cost of
Speaker 5: living index, cost of living allowance. So they calculate that
Speaker 5: during the year and usually in the third quarter by
Speaker 5: mid October thereabouts, whatever the inflation rate is at that
Speaker 5: point in time, that's what the number is in terms
Speaker 5: of what the cost the increase would be. And they
Speaker 5: make this out that this is a big deal, that
Speaker 5: the fact that this is being delayed is going to
Speaker 5: result going to halt this and going to delay when
Speaker 5: that goes into effect. All right, again, situation where the
Speaker 5: curtain gets pulled back on our federal government gets pulled
Speaker 5: back on how things are done. I mean, are they
Speaker 5: sitting there at their desk with just a pencil and
Speaker 5: an adding machine and then that's what they're doing, and
Speaker 5: then that's got to go over to this person, and
Speaker 5: then they've got to check the math, and then that's
Speaker 5: got to go to a supervisor and they have to
Speaker 5: check the math. Then it's got to go to somebody
Speaker 5: else before it's actually implemented.
Speaker 4: They don't have any computers that would do this.
Speaker 5: I'm sure you've seen when you make a credit card payment,
Speaker 5: I always find it interesting that when you make a
Speaker 5: credit card payment, you do that online and the money
Speaker 5: almost immediately comes out of your account, but the balance
Speaker 5: of when you've paid that doesn't get applied to your
Speaker 5: account until like the next day, comes out of my
Speaker 5: account real quick, but they don't credit it to my
Speaker 5: account with the utility or the subscription service, you know,
Speaker 5: the cable service or something like that. And what's interesting
Speaker 5: too is that on a credit card payment with the
Speaker 5: same bank, make the payment, and you can see the
Speaker 5: money coming out of your account, but not applied to
Speaker 5: the credit card which is sitting right next to it.
Speaker 5: That generally takes about eight hours or so to show up.
Speaker 5: But again, in the era of computers, I mean, we've
Speaker 5: had computers around since probably the early seventies, and now
Speaker 5: it seems like the government can't just flip a switch
Speaker 5: adjust this and it goes into the system. Is there
Speaker 5: some sort of major programming thing that has to be
Speaker 5: done anyway?
Speaker 4: Talking about the particular story.
Speaker 5: As the government shut down reaches day ten today, the
Speaker 5: agency that produces economic data may have to delay the
Speaker 5: release of its annual cost Living adjustment, or known as COLA,
Speaker 5: planned for the next Social Security payments generally. Solid Security
Speaker 5: Administration SSA released its COLA on the upcoming for the
Speaker 5: upcoming years sometime in mid October after it calculates the
Speaker 5: Consumer Price Index for urban wage earners measure of inflation
Speaker 5: for July au TI in September. Last year's announcement by
Speaker 5: SSA was on October the tenth for the twenty twenty
Speaker 5: five payments. However, Department of Labor said a shutdown contingency
Speaker 5: plan released indicates that this will be suspending all their operations.
Speaker 5: Any of the information, the numbers that they're going to
Speaker 5: be released are all on hold until they come back open.
Speaker 5: There is a delay in the CPI release during October
Speaker 5: of each year, might have an impact on the cost
Speaker 5: of living adjustments announced by the Social Security Administration. Labor
Speaker 5: Department also noted in their plan is this some sort
Speaker 5: of a scare tactic where they want to kind of
Speaker 5: get the idea that built well, you know, you're not
Speaker 5: going to get that pay raise, You're not going to
Speaker 5: get this, You're not going to get that as far
Speaker 5: as the Social Security check is concerned, and kind of
Speaker 5: laying the lines are not allowed, you know, not putting
Speaker 5: to rest that you know, you have to look into
Speaker 5: the story that no, that SOCI security checks will go out,
Speaker 5: but the adjustment may not be done. But again, if
Speaker 5: they do this in October, if the government is shown,
Speaker 5: I mean the longest government shutdown was like thirty days.
Speaker 5: So if it began on October, the first October thirty first,
Speaker 5: they got plenty of time for September, for November December
Speaker 5: to get this done for the checks to go out
Speaker 5: in January. I see no reason that this couldn't be
Speaker 5: done and done quickly.
Speaker 4: Again. But again, you know we're talking about the federal government,
Speaker 4: and we know how slowly they work.
Speaker 5: But I think it's just a scare tactic that they
Speaker 5: put out there and indicate that well, because of the
Speaker 5: government shutdown, these these adjustments may be delayed. Coming up
Speaker 5: normally on Thursday, we usually have during the Thursday, during
Speaker 5: the day they would have the initial jobless claims. We
Speaker 5: have those, but it's not from the federal government and
Speaker 5: it's probably a little bit more accurate than that we
Speaker 5: were talking about that coming up. I'm Kevin Gordon, America's
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Speaker 10: Public safety and police reforms marked the sharpest exchange of
Speaker 10: the night at Cincinnati's mayoral debate with your twelve thirty report,
Speaker 10: I'm Travis Laird breaking now mayor. Aftab Piaval and Challenger
Speaker 10: Corey Bowman went back and forth over the city's collaborative Agreement,
Speaker 10: the Police reporm Plan created after the two thousand and
Speaker 10: one unrest.
Speaker 11: When someone moves here four years ago has no idea
Speaker 11: about the history of this city and starts accusing the
Speaker 11: collaborative Agreement of making us less safe. I could not
Speaker 11: disagree more strongly.
Speaker 10: Pear of All said he's committed to upholding the agreement.
Speaker 10: Bowman argued the city needs to back its police more strongly.
Speaker 10: The election for Cincinnati mayor is November fourth, thirty minutes ago.
Speaker 10: I said it was November fifth. That was a mistake.
Speaker 10: Thank you for the correction, Lee maw And now let's
Speaker 10: take a look at the latest traffic and weather together.
Speaker 12: Going to be rather frosty for our morning. We've got
Speaker 12: a frost advisory out now north of Cincinnati. A tempts
Speaker 12: mid to upper thirties. Should be forty seven am downtown
Speaker 12: on our Friday. It's sunny and a high of seventy
Speaker 12: degrees at night clear not as cold a low of
Speaker 12: forty eight from your Severe Weather station, I'm nine First
Speaker 12: Warning Chief Meteorologist Steve Rawleig News Radio seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 10: Right now forty five degrees in Cincinnati. City of Cincinnati
Speaker 10: is warning drivers to expect major road closures this weekend
Speaker 10: around East Walnut Hills and downtown roads near Vice President JD.
Speaker 10: Vance's home will be closed starting Friday morning through Monday night.
Speaker 10: That includes parts of William Howard Taft Road, Collins Avenue,
Speaker 10: and several side streets. Sidewalks are also shut down. Residents
Speaker 10: and delivery trucks can still access the area, but only
Speaker 10: through three marked security checkpoints.
Speaker 1: The city hasn't said why Vance is back in town.
Speaker 10: They never do, though His visit coincides with the America's
Speaker 10: River Roots Festival celebrating the country's upcoming two hundred and
Speaker 10: fiftieth birthday, and the Queen Bee Half Marathon also closes
Speaker 10: streets on Saturday morning, including parts of Eggleston Avenue, Reading Road,
Speaker 10: Gilbert Avenue, and Madison Road. The race begins at seven thirty.
Speaker 10: Streets will reopen by early afternoon. Riverside Drive is part
Speaker 10: of the course, but race organizers say it will not
Speaker 10: be affected by the security closures near Vance's home. Metro
Speaker 10: will keep the bus service running throughout the event, but
Speaker 10: expect some delays. Our next update is with Lee Mawan
Speaker 10: at the top of the hour, breaking news anytime. I'm
Speaker 10: Travis Laird News Radio seven hundred WLW.
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Speaker 5: Seven hundred wlw im Kevin Gordon is as America's struck
Speaker 5: In network on Thursday and then we report you know
Speaker 5: on our show Friday Mornings like we are today. The
Speaker 5: fact that initial job of claims are always reported on Thursday.
Speaker 5: This week again with the government shutdown, they said that
Speaker 5: the initial job of claims for the second week in
Speaker 5: a row is going to be delayed or not be
Speaker 5: released at all because because the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Speaker 5: is not in, they're not working, they're not doing any
Speaker 5: of their reporting, which means that grow domestic product, the
Speaker 5: consumer price index, producer price index, all these things that
Speaker 5: come in that would actually even affect the Federal Reserve
Speaker 5: because they're meeting that I think it's the twenty eighth
Speaker 5: and twenty ninth of this month, to determine where they're
Speaker 5: going as far as interest rates and their monetary policy
Speaker 5: and all that. But those evolve in delayed, and for
Speaker 5: some reason, I figured, well, all right, if they're not
Speaker 5: releasing it, there's probably not any thing. So I didn't
Speaker 5: do any you know, at first, I didn't even look
Speaker 5: at it because the chart that says, okay, here's what's
Speaker 5: going to be released this week, every one of the
Speaker 5: statistics said next to it delayed because of the shutdown.
Speaker 5: But I just threw in initial jobless claims just for
Speaker 5: the heck of it to see where it would pop up. Amazingly,
Speaker 5: and as I mentioned, I think it was Tuesday morning
Speaker 5: on the program that there are other agencies out there,
Speaker 5: there are job recruitment sites, there are companies that do outplacement.
Speaker 5: There is the ADP that the processing payroll processing because
Speaker 5: they have a number of clients that they process their
Speaker 5: payroll for. There's another company. There's several different companies that
Speaker 5: actually do payroll service. The payroll service is not usually
Speaker 5: done in house by the company themselves. It is farmed
Speaker 5: out because again all the rules and regulations. As a
Speaker 5: side note, when there is a change as far as
Speaker 5: how taxes are withheld or whether there's state, city, county
Speaker 5: taxes withheld, and there's certain compliance that has to be
Speaker 5: done as far as reporting FAIKA and all this sort
Speaker 5: of stuff. If those aren't implemented properly at the company level,
Speaker 5: there are huge finds that come out as a result
Speaker 5: of that. So a lot of companies farm that information
Speaker 5: out to other companies like ADP and some of these
Speaker 5: other companies. Well, Bengals Stadium used to be Paul Brown
Speaker 5: Stadium is now called pay Corps. Pay Core is a
Speaker 5: is a big company that actually does payroll processing and
Speaker 5: HR services. So they have data in terms of how
Speaker 5: many checks they're issuing this week versus how many jobs,
Speaker 5: how many they process previous week, last year, all that
Speaker 5: data they have that data. ADP does too. That's why
Speaker 5: on Tuesday, when we were talking that the normal jobs,
Speaker 5: the jobs report, how many jobs were created for a
Speaker 5: particular month, that number was reported by ADP and some
Speaker 5: other services Challenger, Gray and Christmas, which is a recruiting firm,
Speaker 5: and they actually recruit and they're an out they're recruiting
Speaker 5: firm and an outplacement firm. So if somebody loses their
Speaker 5: job in a well, they lose their job, they go
Speaker 5: to them and then they take care of outplacing that
Speaker 5: person and maybe finding them another job. So they see
Speaker 5: throughout the country how many jobs are being lost, how
Speaker 5: many people are being hired, and that so they reported
Speaker 5: that information, which is general. You know, their boots on
Speaker 5: the ground, they're right there where the rubber meets the
Speaker 5: road and they would have the information. Well, same thing
Speaker 5: with the jobless claims. On Thursday, Wall Street firms see
Speaker 5: hardly any increase in jobless claims during the government shutdown.
Speaker 5: The most and now they call this the most accurate
Speaker 5: tool to take to track job losses in the economy.
Speaker 5: Has been postponed for a second week in a row,
Speaker 5: but a little legwork finds that layoffs are still surprisingly low,
Speaker 5: even though these economically uncertain times. There has been two
Speaker 5: Wall Street firms, Goldman Sachs and Oxford Economics, that drew
Speaker 5: up their estimates after looking at publicly released data.
Speaker 4: Now, again, as I said before, what we're.
Speaker 5: Seeing unusually during Trump's second term is that stuff comes
Speaker 5: up and then people dig into it, pull the curtain
Speaker 5: back and say, why was this being done this way
Speaker 5: instead of this way? How is this available? Why is
Speaker 5: the government providing this information? If there's other agencies that
Speaker 5: can provide that, why duplicate the efforts. If you've got
Speaker 5: bureaucrats in Washington that are basically gathering the data from
Speaker 5: these different organizations, why can't these other companies do that
Speaker 5: as a service and outplace that. What Again, this is
Speaker 5: a situation when they're talking about the unemployment all the
Speaker 5: states individually compute what the unemployment because obviously the claims
Speaker 5: that the initial jobless claims that are filed that week,
Speaker 5: the state would have that information because they're having to
Speaker 5: process those claims and pay the checks out. So it's
Speaker 5: a simple situation. What making fifty phone calls or whatever
Speaker 5: to get to the different states to see, all right,
Speaker 5: how many people filed for unemployment? This week, how many
Speaker 5: people applied for this. You know, you can probably do
Speaker 5: that in the day. And what these Wall Street firms
Speaker 5: were doing, we're doing that. I don't know that that
Speaker 5: put a big workload on them. But if we've got
Speaker 5: the bureaucrats in Washington doing that and this is available
Speaker 5: through the individual states, maybe the individual states could get
Speaker 5: on a regular basis of reporting to a particular company.
Speaker 5: I don't care whether it's a bank, whether it's the
Speaker 5: Federal Reserve. I mean, after all, the Federal Reserve has
Speaker 5: twenty three thousand employees. I think one of those could
Speaker 5: be assigned to maybe collecting this data from all the
Speaker 5: fifty states and then reporting that instead of having this
Speaker 5: bureaucracy in Washington. But it's interesting Goldman Sachs and Oxford
Speaker 5: Economics drew from their estimates. Nearly all states publicly report
Speaker 5: the data, but not until after the US Labor Department
Speaker 5: releases the official report on Thursdays. So these other companies
Speaker 5: get a hold of this data on their own and
Speaker 5: compute it after the release is done. The states don't
Speaker 5: release their numbers after the federal after the Bureau of
Speaker 5: Labor Statistics reports that data. If that number is available
Speaker 5: on Wednesday or Tuesday, release the data to somebody so
Speaker 5: that they can have it.
Speaker 4: For thirty I don't you know, it's like once.
Speaker 5: They get into doing things a certain way, it's like
Speaker 5: trying to, I don't know, turn a aircraft carrier in
Speaker 5: the middle of the ocean as opposed to what should
Speaker 5: be being able to turn a speedboat anyway.
Speaker 4: Again, nearly all.
Speaker 5: States publicly report the data, but not until after the
Speaker 5: US Labor Department releases the official report on Thursday. So,
Speaker 5: in other words, all these states reports of the Labor Department.
Speaker 5: Oxford added that actual or unadjusted job as claims fell
Speaker 5: slightly in the seven days end in September twenty seventh,
Speaker 5: according to a.
Speaker 4: Rent around one hundred and eighty thousand.
Speaker 5: It's extremely low number which has only been matched by
Speaker 5: a smattering of time since nineteen sixties. Now there's another
Speaker 5: group that looked at this data and said that the
Speaker 5: unemployment had gone up to around the previous week had
Speaker 5: been two hundred and eighteen up to two hundred and
Speaker 5: twenty four thousand, and again this is important. You're probably
Speaker 5: asking Kevin Way, why are you dwelling on this and
Speaker 5: all this sort of thing, because This is the data
Speaker 5: that they use to determine whether or not how the
Speaker 5: economy is doing. If the economy is doing poorly, then
Speaker 5: you're not going to be going out. You're not going
Speaker 5: to be delivering as much good as if people are
Speaker 5: out of work. People are unemployed, they're not going to
Speaker 5: be buying stuff, which means that the companies aren't going
Speaker 5: to be ordering stuff, which means that you're not going
Speaker 5: to be delivering stuff. And the fact that we don't
Speaker 5: want to operate in a vacuum.
Speaker 4: I want to make sure that.
Speaker 5: Everybody is aware how strong this economy is, because you're
Speaker 5: not going to get it from the spoon fed regurgitators
Speaker 5: in the mainstream media. We here on America's struck A
Speaker 5: network have been more accurate than some of these so
Speaker 5: called economic experts have been. All along again, they kept
Speaker 5: talking about unemployment was going to go through the ceiling.
Speaker 5: They talked about that there was going to be a recession.
Speaker 5: At the beginning of the year, they started talking about
Speaker 5: that there was going to be rampant inflation.
Speaker 4: We haven't seen rampant inflation.
Speaker 5: We have the story yesterday the chicken prices are coming
Speaker 5: down eighteen percent and if you look at some of
Speaker 5: the stuff, and it depends on when they do their survey.
Speaker 5: In terms of inflation, we were just to my wife
Speaker 5: and I were just talking the other day that we
Speaker 5: were looking at certain prices at the grocery store and said, well,
Speaker 5: wait a minute, this number last week was at this number,
Speaker 5: and this week it's up here, and then the following
Speaker 5: week it was back down to where it was. So
Speaker 5: if you're doing your gauge on inflation based on that
Speaker 5: middle week where the prices are up, you're going to
Speaker 5: get a bad number. And if you don't know what's
Speaker 5: causing these underlying things, like with meat prices, the fact
Speaker 5: that our cattle herds are down around the rate that
Speaker 5: they were back in the fifties and sixties, you're going
Speaker 5: to think inflation is going crazy because of some other
Speaker 5: factor other than the fact that it's a matter of
Speaker 5: we don't have enough supply. We have very little supply
Speaker 5: and the demand is still high. So again, I talk
Speaker 5: about these economic data so that your mind's at ease,
Speaker 5: so that you know that the economy is not falling
Speaker 5: apart the way people would like you to think. Coming up,
Speaker 5: we'll talk a little bit more about this. I'm Kevin Gordon.
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Speaker 5: And she got this discussion on the jobos claims. And
Speaker 5: again I find it amazing that, you know, everybody waits
Speaker 5: for the numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but
Speaker 5: when those aren't available, they somehow are able to get
Speaker 5: them on their own. And so I question what or
Speaker 5: not we actually need the Bureau of Labor Statistics putting
Speaker 5: this information together in the first place. If it's readily
Speaker 5: available and other people can tap into it, then let's
Speaker 5: do that. Having a massive bureaucracy in Washington doesn't do
Speaker 5: us any good.
Speaker 4: As as we've seen in the past. They go into the.
Speaker 5: Story and they talk about people file for job as
Speaker 5: claims when they lose a job. Really, I didn't know
Speaker 5: that number of people already collecting unemployment checks meanwhile, likely
Speaker 5: hovered around the four year high of one million or
Speaker 5: one point nine to three million, which is where it
Speaker 5: has been for the last year or so. The fact
Speaker 5: that unemployment is still in the range of one hundred
Speaker 5: and eighty thousand up to two hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 5: on a weekly basis indicates that the market is strong,
Speaker 5: that there's not been rampant unemployment, that there's not been
Speaker 5: massive layoffs, and that the doom and gloom that has
Speaker 5: been predicted as a result of tariffs and the economic
Speaker 5: policy the Trump administration, that this is going to lead
Speaker 5: to massive layoffs. But what's interesting is that they keep
Speaker 5: saying the same thing week after week after week. The
Speaker 5: fact that businesses are in a no hire, no fire position,
Speaker 5: and I keep stressing the fact that they're probably in
Speaker 5: that position because they are seeing that they have the
Speaker 5: number of employees that they need in order to keep
Speaker 5: their operations open. They may have, in some cases a
Speaker 5: little bit more employees than they need. But after having
Speaker 5: gone through the pandemic and had to fire everybody or
Speaker 5: terminate everybody because their businesses were shut down, they saw
Speaker 5: what it was like to rehire those people and bring
Speaker 5: them back to the point where their business has suffered.
Speaker 5: The first few months and even up to a year
Speaker 5: after the pandemic and businesses were back to normal or
Speaker 5: some semblance of order. So they saw all the lost
Speaker 5: business opportunities during that period of time, and they're thinking
Speaker 5: in terms of when things turn around. And it appears
Speaker 5: that every month it seems like we're getting closer and
Speaker 5: closer to things exploding in the US economy. For the good,
Speaker 5: they're holding onto their employees. They're not hiring and they're
Speaker 5: not firing. And I tie this all to interest rates.
Speaker 5: People in the consumer level, if we're paying higher interest
Speaker 5: rates on our credit cards, on our cars, the monthly
Speaker 5: payments on our cars, monthly payments on your trucks, Companies
Speaker 5: paying interest on their fleet, any of the new trucks
Speaker 5: that they purchase. Also in terms of any expansion, all
Speaker 5: that's being held back because of high interest rates, if
Speaker 5: those interest rates were down, And I can't stress this enough,
Speaker 5: the fact that the borrowing rate established by the Fed
Speaker 5: at four percent, compared to the rest of the industrial
Speaker 5: world around two percent. We are putting ourselves at a disadvantage.
Speaker 5: These other countries are not doing great, but their problems
Speaker 5: over there are different than ours. Ours, in my opinion,
Speaker 5: is the higher interest rates you free that capital up.
Speaker 5: Because every time, let me just we're not going to
Speaker 5: get to the story here, but as far as the
Speaker 5: oil and gas prices, every time they talk about oil
Speaker 5: and gas prices, the one news service agency, Reuters, talks
Speaker 5: about that. Okay, With the Federal Reserve dealing with interest rates,
Speaker 5: they always say, there's always.
Speaker 4: The sentence in there.
Speaker 5: Lower interest rates means there's more money available for consumers.
Speaker 5: Consumers spend more and they buy more gas because they're
Speaker 5: consuming more energy. Again, they recognize that, they put that
Speaker 5: in their story day after day after day, and yet
Speaker 5: the knuckleheads at the Federal Reserve can't get that into
Speaker 5: their thick skulls, that lowering interest rates actually spurs the economy.
Speaker 5: Do they think that by sitting on the sidelines and
Speaker 5: doing nothing that something is going to happen. If you
Speaker 5: sit on the side and don't do anything, nothing is
Speaker 5: going to happen. So anyway, unemployment numbers are all you know.
Speaker 5: They talked about that it may have gone up slightly
Speaker 5: from two hundred and eighteen thousand to two hundred and
Speaker 5: twenty four thousand. There's a report that it could possibly
Speaker 5: the jobs claims be below two hundred thousand for the week,
Speaker 5: and we'll see we're not In other words, what the
Speaker 5: economists and what people have been predicting from the beginning
Speaker 5: of the year, there'd be high unemployment, high inflation, and
Speaker 5: a recession, none of which are even on the radar
Speaker 5: screen at this point. And so the fact that they
Speaker 5: continue to talk about this and keep pushing it forward,
Speaker 5: I think is remarkably stupid in my opinion.
Speaker 4: This was interesting. I saw this the other day.
Speaker 5: States we saw that situation week or a couple of
Speaker 5: weeks ago where Sean Duffy indicated that the Department of
Speaker 5: Transportation was going to take a look at these non
Speaker 5: domiciled driver's licenses that have been issued in California and Washington,
Speaker 5: and I think in New York also during the time,
Speaker 5: there was a story that came out that talked about
Speaker 5: that there were actually people that had been pulled over
Speaker 5: and they were making what hit the news that the
Speaker 5: driver's license said no name given on it. Now, a
Speaker 5: lot of that has been looked at and determined that
Speaker 5: in some cultures, and honestly, I don't know many cultures
Speaker 5: where they just use one name. So if they put
Speaker 5: that name on the driver's license by itself, then the
Speaker 5: other slot, whether it's the given name or the surname
Speaker 5: or whatever, that name is going to show as no
Speaker 5: name given rather than as opposed to just leaving it blank.
Speaker 5: But a lot of these driver's license had been issued. Also,
Speaker 5: Sean Duffy at when we go back to May, remember well,
Speaker 5: first of all, in August we had that tragic accident
Speaker 5: down in Florida where that illegal alien from India who
Speaker 5: who couldn't pass the English Language proficiency exam, made that
Speaker 5: illegal u turn and killed three people in Florida. And
Speaker 5: that shined a light on how many of these people
Speaker 5: have not had English language proficiency, and they started clamping
Speaker 5: down on that again that Sean Duffy made the announcement
Speaker 5: back in May that they were going to look at this,
Speaker 5: that the implementation had to be done by June twenty fifth.
Speaker 5: This guy had been pulled over in July in New
Speaker 5: Mexico and wasn't pulled out of service and then in
Speaker 5: August killed that family down in Florida. Since then, state's
Speaker 5: commercial vehicle dragnets snag ELP and CDL violations. Three states
Speaker 5: recently ramped up enforcement of federal English Language proficiency rules
Speaker 5: and roadside x of immigration status in response to renewed
Speaker 5: US Department of Transportation attention to these issues. In a
Speaker 5: joint drag net operation, the Colorado State Patrol and Wyoming
Speaker 5: Highway Patrol on September thirtieth place sixteen drivers and twenty
Speaker 5: four vehicles out of service for a variety of violations
Speaker 5: of Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration rules. In addition, four
Speaker 5: arrests were made. Wyoming troopers arrested two commercial drivers vehicle
Speaker 5: drivers for repeated offensive driving without a CDL and one
Speaker 5: for repeated violations of ELP rules. Colorado troopers arrested one
Speaker 5: commercial driver who was on subject.
Speaker 4: Of a statewide warrant.
Speaker 5: In addition, so you've got these people that have been
Speaker 5: issued a citation for violation of ELP or not having
Speaker 5: a valid driver's license, and that is reported, That is
Speaker 5: public information and is reported back to the company.
Speaker 4: How in the hell.
Speaker 5: Are these companies allow allowing these people to go out
Speaker 5: and drive. Are these independent truckers that have their truck.
Speaker 5: If somebody has been issued a violation for CDL and
Speaker 5: their truck has been pulled out of service, that truck
Speaker 5: should be pulled out of service parked somewhere so that
Speaker 5: they don't have access to it. And why this is
Speaker 5: continuing to go on, and if this is done by
Speaker 5: a company that has hired these people, that needs to
Speaker 5: be done. We'll probably have to pick up a little
Speaker 5: bit about this next week when we talk because there's
Speaker 5: been some other things that have happened in terms of
Speaker 5: things that have happened as far as non domiciled workers
Speaker 5: and how that's being treated and where these things are
Speaker 5: popping up in different states around the country. But in
Speaker 5: the meantime, folks, that does it for us this week.
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