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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Economic Pulse | Allen Jackson Now | November 12, 2025

Well, good evening and welcome to nashville.
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I'm alan jackson.
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As you surely know by now,
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Facts are a difficult thing to come by these days.
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Even more so when you're talking about the economy.
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The white house talks about all the growth.
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And on the flip side,
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The democrats have nothing good
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To say about anything the president does.
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Then there's wall street rising, the business community
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Doing well, but pulling back from hiring
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And fear from the federal reserve about inflation coming
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Back.
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Well, all that said, the average american,
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They're looking at their household budget,
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Their credit card statements and what's left
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In their checking account when the month ends.
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To measure how the economy's doing.
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So where are we now and where are we headed?
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Well, it's time to bring in the experts.
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Doug holtz-eakin was once the director
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Of the congressional budget office.
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He's now the president of american action forum.
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And more than that, he's
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One of the most fair minded, respected experts we know
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When it comes to the economy.
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Welcome back, doug.
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Thanks for having me.
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You know, it seems clear that the country is in a stronger
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Financial state today than it was the past four years.
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Gas prices are down, the stock market's up,
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Foreign countries have made commitments
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To invest their money
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In businesses here, which will eventually mean more jobs.
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But there's an anxiety in some quarters about making ends meet.
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What i might mean and whether we're
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Just running in place rather than growing.
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What are your thoughts?
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Well, certainly the average american
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Is getting very mixed messages.
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And indeed,
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One of the problems right now is we're getting no message
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Out of the government because it's been shut down.
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We haven't seen the monthly
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Reports on unemployment
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And spending and prices that we might normally get.
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So it's a little hard to tell.
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Here's an example.
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It's it's pretty clear
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That the labor market is dead in the water.
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The private employer, adp, the payroll processor, guesses
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That we added about 40,000 jobs in the month of october.
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Not a big number.
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Before that would look like it was 20,000.
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But the unemployment rate remains relatively low.
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Go over to the atlanta fed, and they say, you know,
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You can't be going into 3.84% rate.
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That's a huge number.
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So that's a huge disconnect that the people are hearing
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Is growth craters are terrible.
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Well, it's great for some people as i think the bottom line
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Sinks. you're in the business sector.
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We have big numbers on the top line.
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How much firms are spending on software and on equipment?
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Really big, numbers driving those gdp numbers.
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But it's all ai.
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And if you're not investing in ai,
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You're not investing in anything.
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You're just standing looking around.
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And so we've got very mixed reports
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On the actual main street economy
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Who's prospering, who's retiring
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And and what are we going to get for our wages this year?
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On the inflation side, we have nothing but bad news.
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Inflation went down, got it down to about 2.5%.
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It's now reversed course is at three and rising.
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And that's a big concern for everybody
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Who would like to see interest rates lower, not higher.
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Well, let's see the housing market recover.
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So, you know, i think it's fair statement.
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People are concerned because there are real reasons
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To be concerned.
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You know, clearly no one
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President or party can completely change
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The direction of the country in less than a year.
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But i'd like to go through the big things
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That have been done and get your take on them.
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Start with the tariffs.
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Here's how the treasury secretary describes the mission.
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The real goal of the tariffs is to rebalance trade
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And make it more fair.
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You know, over time.
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And the president's goal is to bring back manufacturing
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To the u.s..
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You know, for the past two to 3 or 4 decades,
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We've seen our manufacturing sector gutted.
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We'll have two questions.
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Do you think they will help?
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And will voters see some of that help
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Before the midterms in the next presidential election?
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Well, i think the second question
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Is easy to answer, and that's probably not,
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The idea that you can get a pharmaceutical company
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To change the location of its manufacturing,
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In a couple of years is really hard, to buy.
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That's about a ten year start to finish proposition.
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Some firms may relocate to the us,
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But it will take a long time before we see that.
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The tariffs,
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Maybe intended to rebalance trade
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The way the secretary describes it.
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But, their first and most important impact is to,
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Take purchasing power from american firms and consumers.
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It's, $180 billion tax increase that has slowed growth of this.
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That's money that's not available to hire people.
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That's why it's not available to invest.
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And it's, money that you have to somehow get back
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By raising your prices.
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And so
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The tariffs have contributed to the rebound in inflation.
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But there is no real dispute about that.
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That they will continue to do that.
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And so the bad news comes first.
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You get slower growth, you get higher prices.
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And you hope that you get the manufacturing down the line.
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The president trump has floated the idea on giving taxpayers
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A $2,000 dividend payment for what's been brought in
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From the foreign tariff payments.
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It seems like a good plan if we can spare it.
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But rather than a one time handout,
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Wasn't the idea of tariffs to help american business grow,
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Rather than to be undermined
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By foreign countries with cheaper labor?
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I think you've got that exactly right.
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One time policies don't help you in the end.
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They they're they're for emergencies like the pandemic,
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The great recession, the financial crisis.
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But they aren't how you buy a house.
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They're not how you send a kid to college.
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So what we want is a
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It's a better functioning economy.
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I think the president will be
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Well served to to drop this idea.
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The tariffs right now are raising about $2,100
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Per household.
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So if you were to send out a $2,000 checks every household,
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That's all the tariff money.
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There's none left to pay down the national debt.
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There's none for any other purpose.
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If you send it out to every adult, it's way more than that.
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So you're borrowing to send it.
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This doesn't really add up.
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I think it's something that may have
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Had some near-term political appeal,
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But has no real lasting economic contribution.
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Well, republicans didn't budge on holding off on expanding
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Health care benefits to support obamacare,
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Which would have cost another trillion
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And a half dollars that we don't have.
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Nearly everyone seems to agree that cutting spending on health
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Care and through the dodge
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Committee is the right thing to do
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For the long term health of the economy.
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But does it benefit the party in power politically as well?
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It's very hard to enact, the spending cuts.
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We need to really get the debt under control.
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Over half of the spending in the next
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Ten years is going to be two programs,
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Social security and medicare.
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Touching. so screwed.
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Medicare has historically
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Been the third rail politics, so no party that is in power
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Wants to start there by any means.
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That's something you need to do
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Across party lines thoughtfully.
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Gradually over time, those those reforms have to happen.
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There's no way to control the debt without doing them,
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But they can't be done in the near term,
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And they can't be done by one party.
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Well, the president has pushed hard on the fed chairman
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For not lowering interest rates sooner and making deeper cuts
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Home sales especially first time homebuyers,
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Have slowed dramatically.
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In fact mortgage rates have gone up since mr.
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Powell said the fed may not cut any further this year.
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Now, the president's
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Suggesting that a 50 year mortgage might be a solution.
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Would that help get things started again?
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I don't think that 50 years is the solution here.
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You know, what you really need is to have a robustly
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Growing economy that puts, reliable income in someone's
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Pocket, makes them confident in making a big asset purchase.
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The financing,
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Whether it's done at the current mortgage
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Rates or one percentage point lower, that's really,
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The, area we're going to be in
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Doesn't make an enormous difference.
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The problem with the 50 year mortgage
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Is it sure, it sounds appealing, but on a $400,000 mortgage,
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You pay
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About $400,000 in interest over the life of a 30 year mortgage.
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You pay 860,000 over a 50 year mortgage.
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So you you don't get any more equity.
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You just give a lot more money in the bank.
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And i don't think that should be the goal in harmony.
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Amen.
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Well, doug, we need to take a short break.
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Can you stay for another segment?
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That'd be great.
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Yes. well,
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If you want to share your thoughts on
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What to do about the economy,
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You can log on to aj now.com and send me an email.
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We're producing an email only program later this month
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And would love to include your thoughts
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On all the economic issues ahead. i'll be right back.
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On all the economic issues ahead. i'll be right back.
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We're back now with the
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President of the american action forum, doug holtz-eakin.
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The upcoming midterm elections may well turn on affordability.
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And republicans are concerned
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That while president trump has taken some big steps
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To turn the economy in the right direction,
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Some of what he's accomplished may not show improvement
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In time for voters who want to keep republicans
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In office next november.
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The director of the white house economic council
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Has been trying to explain that
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Things are far better than the biden years.
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When you measure real spending power, listen to his comment.
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If you look at the real reduction in spending power
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For americans under joe biden,
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Then it went down about $3,000 because we had
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Up to 9% inflation.
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And then they went to the grocery store.
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They couldn't buy the things they're used to buying.
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The real spending power, adjusted for inflation.
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Under president trump
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Has gone up about $1,200 so far this year.
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$1,200 is not $3,000.
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And so people are right to feel stretched.
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But we're making progress.
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Doug, what's your sense on whether the improvements
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Might be felt in time for the president
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To keep the house and senate in republican hands?
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Well, i'm not sure that, all of the wage growth
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Will be there, in time for that, but there's going to be a big,
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Amount of cash that comes out of the tax system next spring.
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So when they did the one big beautiful bill,
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They backdated the tax,
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Bill to january 1st of 2025,
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But they didn't change withholding tables.
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So the people are going to get two years of refunds
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Come back next spring.
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But $130 billion in the household sector,
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That'll help a lot of people might
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Be a little happier when they head to the polls.
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Well, i want to pick up again on interest rates.
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Steve moore is a regular guest
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On this show, and he's made the point
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That by delaying any further rate cuts, the fed chairman
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Is creating a higher direct cost to taxpayers.
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Since june, the higher rates have added
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Tens of billions of dollars to what is now a $38 trillion debt.
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To put it another way, that's $287,000 of debt per household.
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What would your advice be?
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Well, the first thing i noticed that,
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When the fed cut by 100 basis points over a year
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Ago, long rates went up 100 basis points.
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And so there is no guarantee
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That interest rate cuts translate
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Into lower direct costs or translate for a taxpayer.
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So, you know,
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I i'm a big fan of steve's,
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But i'm not guaranteed on that point.
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I think the biggest issue for the fed really
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Is this uncomfortable rise in inflation.
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They were trying to get it back to the 2% target.
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They got to two and a half or went back to three.
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Now they're faced
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With further upward
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Pressure from the remaining imposition of the tariffs.
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And you know, that's that's something
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They have to take seriously by law.
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They have a mandate to have price stability.
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And they call that price stability hitting the 2% target.
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They also have a mandate for full employment.
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And if you look at the employment
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Side, inflation has gone up but unemployment has not gone up.
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It's at about 4.3%.
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So the logic for some on the board is, look,
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We're not having a labor problem and inflation is a problem.
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So let's not cut anymore.
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On the other hand, you hear, vigorous arguments for,
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Preemptive cuts to make sure that the labor market
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Doesn't go further south.
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And the result is a deeply divided board that,
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Chairman powell has to somehow get on one page.
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It's a tough job right now.
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It's a really difficult, decision for the fed.
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Well, i'm here in nashville, and you're in washington,
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But not too far north of you.
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There's a socialist democrat who will soon be running
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The financial capital of the country.
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New york's
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Governor is already told
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Over on monday that he's not going to
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Be allowed to give out free bus rides,
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Because the state doesn't have the hundreds
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Of millions of dollars that would cost.
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But mom, donnie's young followers may not know
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Or might not even care,
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That the problem with socialism is that eventually
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You run out of other people's money.
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As margaret thatcher once said so famously,
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How do you see this playing out?
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Well,
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The ideas have been tried around the globe, most notably
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In the soviet union, with no success whatsoever.
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And, they're even less likely to be successful
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In a single city because it's just so easy
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To make your home in new jersey, if not florida.
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And so,
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The mayor is going to run
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Into a real problem if he wants to just
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Take the money from the rich and head off to implement
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Free food and free, groceries and free bus rides and the like.
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That's just not going to work.
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The reality in new york city as well is that
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The mayor has relatively little power,
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Because of all of its problems over the years.
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The state has a lot of control.
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There's an advisory board with a lot of control.
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The metro transit authority that controls a lot of the money.
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So, you know, we'll see
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When the rubber hits the road, what he actually tries to do,
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Given the authority that he actually has.
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Well, you're an economic expert.
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What would you recommend to the washington leadership
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That we haven't talked about yet?
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Well, i really would get serious about, the federal debt.
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You know,
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People talk about it
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Now, that's a step in the right direction,
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But they haven't really done anything about it.
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Under mr.
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Trump and, you know,
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The reality is we've been downgraded three times.
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And the most recent downgrade from moody's was real simple.
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They said you have too much debt,
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And interest rates are too much of your revenue.
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So it's time to to course correct and change that,
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As quickly as we can.
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How do we cultivate a will to do that
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Amongst the american people?
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Because if we're just focused as focused on getting elected,
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We'll never
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Cultivate the courage to make those sacrifices, will we?
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I think the key is social security,
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The trust on bankruptcy in seven years
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And in the absence of a reform,
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That means seniors get the checks cut by 25%
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Across the board while in retirement.
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That's unthinkably bad. we can't do that.
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Which means we are going to do social security reform.
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There's no way around it.
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And the parties need to accept that fact.
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Work together
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To, to put it on a financial footing
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That will last for the foreseeable future
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And in the process, make it fit into an entitlement state
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With medicare and medicaid and the for the rest of these,
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That actually adds up.
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And it doesn't right now. this is our opportunity
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Next seven years we can get this done.
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Well, i pray that you're a prophet.
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Doug holtz-eakin, thank you for joining us today.
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I hope to see you again in the new year.
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Look forward to it.
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I'll be back in a moment with a note of hope.
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I'll be back in a moment with a note of hope.
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You know, i would submit to you
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That for decades our nation was being looted.
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Our wealth, our strength, our opportunities,
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Our futures were being diminished on a daily basis.
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One example of the looting was the movement
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Of manufacturing away from our nation.
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It was a plundering of our nation.
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It started in an intentional way in the 1970s,
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Moving manufacturing overseas.
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We called it offshoring.
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We don't make things anymore.
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We become too dependent on foreign governments.
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Some of them are hostile, like china.
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That's why i'm grateful for the fresh, bold ideas
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That have been put forward by the trump administration.
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It's an attempt to level the economic playing field
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And to bring revenue and jobs back to the us.
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I believe what was initiated by this administration
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Through tariffs and new trade deals
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Was an expression of support for the american people.
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Well, the administration is standing up for u.s.
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Citizens saying to foreign governments,
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You'll not take unfair advantage of us
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While hoping to motivate
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American corporations to bring manufacturing back into the us.
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Recently, the yale budget lab estimated that tariffs
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Could raise around $2.5 trillion over the next ten years,
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While the congressional budget
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Office predicts that tariffs could raise 3.3 trillion
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In revenue over the same time period.
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Meanwhile, the legacy media will.
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They're quick to push fear inducing headlines.
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It wasn't long ago when they said
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Tariffs will wipe out billions in retirement savings overnight,
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And that your retirement nest eggs are under great threat.
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Well, now as corporations are just too the changes,
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The repercussions may feel uncomfortable in the moment.
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We may get frightened and we may see fearful headlines,
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But we don't have to lead lives that are dominated by fear.
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We can't let the media frame our perspectives or our responses.
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I would point out that jesus didn't
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Lead a life free of conflict or challenge.
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We find jesus in boats during storms.
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He goes to his hometown and they tried to kill him.
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He faced all sorts of challenges.
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Yet we see in jesus that he's never panicked
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If he has to feed a multitude with a happy meal.
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He's completely confident there's enough for everybody.
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John 1427 is a favorite verse.
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Jesus said, peace i leave with you.
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My peace i give you.
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I don't give to you as the world gives.
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Don't let your hearts be troubled.
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Don't be afraid.
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In this time of uncertainty
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And change,
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Let's remember that jesus has promised to give us his peace
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And that we don't have to be driven by fear.
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We'll be back with your emails.
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We'll be back with your emails.
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Thank you for spending a few minutes with us today.
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Just a reminder, if you ever miss
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An episode live, you can always go to aj.
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Now.com.
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There's a full archive of the programs there.
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You can review them at your leisure.
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You can even share them with a friend.
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Thanks for your emails, katie commented on facebook.
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You know, pastor,
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I have to admit that i didn't really think about it
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Much until you started pointing it out.
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We all just go along with the culture
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Even when we don't believe in something.
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We just let the world make changes
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And do things none of us agree with.
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And we never speak up.
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Like you
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Say, it's up to us, the church, to stand up for what's right.
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I know your sermons have changed my life.
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I'm no longer going to sit on the sidelines.
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Thank you.
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Well, katie, you got it.
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We've got to be determined to shape the culture
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And not just be shaped by the culture.
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It starts one home at a time,
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One family of your time, one kitchen table at a time.
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If we'll do that, i believe we'll see washington change.
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Diane from massachusetts.
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I'd like to share a victory with you
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As you're partly responsible for this.
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You've inspired me greatly, and i'm now thrilled to say
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There's a scripture group at my high school,
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And it's attended already by 15 students.
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The scriptures are read and interpreted
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By student leadership.
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And i must say that from
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The mouth of babes come messages as powerful as yours.
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Well, i also found a church.
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It's a little weak culturally,
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But the word of god is preached and the people are welcoming.
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Thank you for your encouragement and inspiration
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Through your ministry, this show and podcast.
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Well, thank you diane.
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It's good to hear that in schools and churches,
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The word of god is being welcomed.
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If we can multiply that, i assure you
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There's more reasons for hope than despair.
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Finally,
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If you were on instagram commented deception.
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What a perfect word for the times we live in.
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Knowing the word of god is knowing the character of god.
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He tells us what he hates.
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He tells us what he loves.
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He tells us what an abomination is,
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And he tells us what evil is.
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He tells us what love is.
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He tells us what forgiveness is.
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A deep reverence and respect
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For god is the foundation for all true wisdom.
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Well, i don't have the name of that viewer on instagram,
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But i can tell you this they have out preached
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The preacher and i appreciate the reminder.
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I invite all of you to submit an email.
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You just go to aj now.com.
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There's a button there. it's easy to do.
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We're preparing an upcoming program
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That is entirely dedicated to your emails.
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We're going to answer your questions
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And process your comments on what's happening
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Your voice matters.
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Take a moment. send us your email.
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Allen Jackson: Economic Pulse | Allen Jackson Now

November 12, 2025 | 21:52

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