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Speaker 1: Freedom Hunt Monday, July twenty fifth edition of the program.

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Speaker 1: So much to discuss today. When is a recession not

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Speaker 1: a recession? The White House has a new definition for you,

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Speaker 1: and it involves, well, is a Democrat president? And how

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Speaker 1: the Democrats in charge in Congress because that changes the

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Speaker 1: definition of recession. No, no, really it does according to them.

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Speaker 1: We will discuss plus a bunch of doctors to be

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Speaker 1: walk out of their med school graduation because the speaker

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Speaker 1: they found out is pro life not allowed. How much

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Speaker 1: more damage to its credibility can these institutions of medicine

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Speaker 1: do to their credibility? We shall discuss Steve Bannon held

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Speaker 1: in tempt on Friday, a little bit of the aftermath

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Speaker 1: of that, and maybe a five time today, some of

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Speaker 1: the climate change lunacy that is emerging because it's hot outside.

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Speaker 1: When it's hot, it's climate change. When it's called it's

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Speaker 1: climate change. If the climate stays the same, that's the

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Speaker 1: scariest of all, because it's supposed to change therefore it

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Speaker 1: is climate change. You see how that goes. It's remarkable,

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Speaker 1: So it was pretty remarkable to see this over the

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Speaker 1: weekend from Whitehouse dot gov. Okay, this is from the

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Speaker 1: White House website under the Biden administration. What is a recession?

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Speaker 1: They ask? This is a quarter? This is all quote. Okay.

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Speaker 1: While some maintain that two consecutive quarters are falling, real

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Speaker 1: GDP constitute a recession, that is neither the official definition

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Speaker 1: nor the way economists evaluate the state of the business cycle. Instead,

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Speaker 1: both official determinations of recessions and economists assessment of economic

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Speaker 1: activity are based on a holistic look at the data,

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Speaker 1: including the labor market, consumer and business spending, industrial production,

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Speaker 1: and incomes. Based on these data, it is unlikely that

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Speaker 1: the decline in GDP in the first quarter of this year,

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Speaker 1: even if followed by another GDP decline in the second quarter,

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Speaker 1: indicates a recession. Isn't that special? Two quarters in a

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Speaker 1: row of negative GDP? According to this why House is

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Speaker 1: no longer a recession, which is fascinating because for the

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Speaker 1: last six months, what has everybody been talking about. We

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Speaker 1: get two quarters of negative GDP, We're in a recession.

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Speaker 1: What do they say, Oh, no, that's not a recession.

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Speaker 1: Why are they saying this? Well, a few reasons. The

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Speaker 1: obvious thing is that on Thursday will find out what

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Speaker 1: the official GDP number is. And the broader why is

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Speaker 1: that they are going into a midterm election where unless

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Speaker 1: unless there are unless there are far more delusional people

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Speaker 1: in this country than I had anticipated. The Democrats will

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Speaker 1: be in their worst position in Congress in terms of

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Speaker 1: Republican seats held in the House, in the Senate in decades,

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Speaker 1: perhaps in Congress the worst position in generations. Now, wouldn't

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Speaker 1: that be fantastic? They are desperate, friends, They're so desperate

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Speaker 1: that instead of even trying to distract with good news here,

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Speaker 1: Instead of that, they have decided that they're just going

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Speaker 1: to change the definition. Up is down, down is up,

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Speaker 1: as bad. It's a very Soviet thing to do, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: It's not a recession. A recession doesn't mean what you

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Speaker 1: think it means. Remember, Princess Bride, you keep using that word.

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Speaker 1: I do not think it means what you think it means.

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Speaker 1: The guy in Nigo Montoya says, if memory serves, and

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Speaker 1: they're saying, well, that's exactly the situation that the word

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Speaker 1: pretty remarkable, isn't it. That's a pretty interesting situation. So,

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Speaker 1: my friends, this is the desperate times that they find

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Speaker 1: themselves in over the Democrat Party. Here is CNBC Economics

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Speaker 1: reporters Steve Leesman trying to do his best to say no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: we need to reset the clock here. Two quarters in

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Speaker 1: a row doesn't count for this year. It's got to

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Speaker 1: be a second quarter. Start. Seven little chipmunks sitting on

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Speaker 1: a branch eating a lot of eightcorns, something like that.

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Speaker 1: Play eight. The White Houses Council for Economic Advisors, in

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Speaker 1: we're in a recession, and notes they continue to grow

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Speaker 1: even when adjusted for inflation. Q one private domestic demand

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Speaker 1: that's consumer and business spending up three percent. Q two

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Speaker 1: payroll growth up three point four percent. So if you

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Speaker 1: use the common recession definition of two quarters of negative growth,

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Speaker 1: it's probably not right to count that first quarter, which

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Speaker 1: was brought down by inventories and trade. That said, several

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Speaker 1: of these indicators expecting the show weakness in the gdpupart

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Speaker 1: on Thursday, as consumers look to be easing back in

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Speaker 1: response to high prices. So you start counting in the

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Speaker 1: second quarter. Let's start counting in the second quarter. And

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Speaker 1: to that, I say, well, if the second quarter is

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Speaker 1: negative and then the third is negative two, which seems

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Speaker 1: very possible, why not just start in the third quarter

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Speaker 1: because that second quarter is clearly no good. In fact,

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Speaker 1: I think the rule should be that we can't consider

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Speaker 1: ourselves to be in a recession until we actually have

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Speaker 1: a quarter of growth, and then we'll say, oh, maybe

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Speaker 1: that was a recession, but now it's growing. We pulled

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Speaker 1: the car out of the ditch. See how they do this.

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Speaker 1: It's all turned around now forget about that. Forget about that.

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Speaker 1: Remember what Biden said he would shut down the virus,

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Speaker 1: he would not shut down the economy. He did not

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Speaker 1: shut down the virus, obviously, but the economy shut that

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Speaker 1: down pretty good, the exact reverse of what was promised.

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Speaker 1: He didn't get elected with the promise that he would

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Speaker 1: just manage to stay upright and only mumble unintelligent twenty

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Speaker 1: of the time. That wasn't the promise. It wasn't you

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Speaker 1: bringing economic economic growth. None of that has happened. In fact,

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Speaker 1: Biden did the most divisive thing during COVID of all

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Speaker 1: with his federal mandate all the vaccines that do not work,

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Speaker 1: not as a vaccine supposed to. I mean, you could say, well,

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Speaker 1: it reduces a percentage of the severe infection for a

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Speaker 1: sixty day window. Oh that's great, that's great, So you

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Speaker 1: better get those shots every two to three months for

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Speaker 1: like everyone's getting COVID. Do you think anybody, by the

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Speaker 1: way that was trash yours truly? Even last summer, for

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Speaker 1: I wasn't even saying they've actually don't work very well

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Speaker 1: I was just saying, look, something's going on here, something

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Speaker 1: little skeptically. You think any of the blue checks that

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Speaker 1: You're willingness to take a difficult position based upon emerging

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Speaker 1: the space of news, punditry analysis. No, of course not.

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Speaker 1: What we've we've turned into in this country, unfortunately, is

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Speaker 1: They'd rather just keep on doubling down and trippling down

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Speaker 1: not in fact a baby. But doctors have, unfortunately through COVID,

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Speaker 1: They're young, they're medical school students, they're at basically no

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Speaker 1: the medical community such as it is. World health organizations

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Speaker 1: a global health emergency unless you are in a high

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Speaker 1: But instead we have this idea that everybody is going

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Speaker 1: have time today for climate change lunacy. But the short

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Speaker 1: version is it's hot, so there's thing. It's climate change. No, no, no,

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